House on the hill and Mecca Meants unrests
In Mecca Summit a small yard tale unfolds around Miss Mehitable Winthrop and neighbors as the Peasley family moves into a yellow house. Accusations, locks, and a missing crock of pork spark village gossip until Mehitable exposes the truth, revealing the newcomers are a respectable Patchunk City family with missing furniture but ample outdoors.
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Mecca
Summit
Mehitable Winthrop
Mehitable
Yellow House
Billy Loss
D. C. Peasley
Miss Mehitable
Edward Heiner
Patchunk City
Anger
Heiner
Peasleys
Mrs. Cramer
Luke Cary
Peasley
Uncle Billy
Billy
Hetty
Howard Heiner
Hank
Pick Up Pins Becomes Josh Bosh's Occupation
In the Brooklyn Eagle, the topic turns to Josh who works at a bowling alley and spends his time picking up pins. The piece notes this as his employed occupation rather than a superstition.
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Bosh
Josh
Brooklyn Eagle
Skeptical Bible Reading Girl Seeks Birth Date Record
A Bible reading girl questions the date of her birth as she studies a page recording her birth details. The fragment notes curiosity about the date and its recording in the family or church archive.
Farming and Garden Notes on Sheep and Crops
An article covers sheep husbandry advantages and costs, noting sheep eat mostly weeds, profits from fence-row living, and quick payback through wool and lamb sales. It advises on lamb weight for market, health checks, and netting cherries. It also includes farm notes on ash fertilizer, spacing for apples, and breeding swine selection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minnesota
Livingston County
Illittola
Winter
Illinois
Marble quarrying remains hard work ancient method reused
The article notes blasting marble is impracticable as quarry workers must split blocks by hand using the same ancient technique from Parthenon times. It also reports Russia’s death rate as the highest in Europe at 41 per 1000 people annually.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trax
Europe
Plymouth Rocks
Rhode Island
Indianapolis News
Parthenon
Russia
Timeline of notable events from 1635 to 1908
A dense listing traces yearly milestones across politics, war, exploration, and invention. It highlights colonial governors, earthquakes, monetary shifts, legislative acts, battles, disasters, inaugurations, and milestones from Adams to Roosevelt with scattered dates and places. The fragment also notes a 1905 exhibition, a balloon record, a grand auto race started by New York officials, and a Guggenheim prize.
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New York
Seattle
M. R. Guggenheim
Ford
Acme
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Miss Mehifable
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Henry Bull
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Massachusetts
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Rhode Island Assembly
Port Au Prince
San Domingo
Connecticut Committee of Correspondence
Congress
Richard Henry Lee
United Colonies
Charleston
S. C
South
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England
United States
Tripoli
Mexico
Philadelphia
Zachary Taylor
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Fort Pillow
Tenn
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Morgan
Burbridge
Lexington
Ottawa
Grant
Wilson
House of Representatives
Colorado
Union
Charlotte Cushman
Easton
Haiti
Hippolyte
Itata
Gettysburg
Mississippi
Fargo
N. D
Field Columbian Museum
Chicago
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Lieut. Hobson
Merrimac
Santiago de Cuba
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
United States Senate
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Tacoma
San Francisco
Portland
Ore
Sweden
Roosevelt
National Commission On the Conservation of National Resources
Tennessee
Caleb Powers
Goebel
Kentucky
Quincy
Clear Lake
N. C
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