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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 03, 1869
Page
1
Leonora Brown Faces Sioux Threat and Averts Fate
Walter Brown and his daughter Leonora live at the St. Croix headwaters as emigration swells. During a Sioux raid, Leonora uses her revolver rifle to ambush and kill four attackers, then captures the remaining warrior, saving her father and Watson from slaughter.
Leonora Slays Attacker and Returns Home as Bride
In a dramatic sequence Leonora shoots a treacherous assailant at the lake, frees two bound men, and escapes with Harry Watson to Minneapolis where they wed. Waiter Brown aids, the expedition ends with the couple returning to Green Lake to run a large stock farm, Leonora keeping her revolving rifle for practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leonora
Carry Watson
Minneapolis
Harry Watson
Waiter Brown
Green Lake
Prosperity of the Wicked Short-Lived and a Noted Poisoner
A Pittsburg shoemaker Louis Lane who poisoned six wives is executed after a career of suspicious deaths. The piece recounts his births, marriages, and suspected killings from Waterford Virginia to Brownsville and Washington. A moral on integrity follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Louis Lane
New York
Waterford
Loudon County
Virginia
Rachel Lane
Washington Pa
Rachel
Lane
Wheeling
McKee
Ife
Washington
Keign
Ellen Bovier
Wpitssburg
Ellen
Louis
Mma Lewis
Emma
Mmma
Brownsville
Penn
Quips and Quirks from a Bygone Page
A collage of witty asides and social vignettes features critics, editors, and correspondents noting remarks on money women and manners. It lists pithy lines about lovers, editors, and painters, plus humorous exchanges about vowels taxation bachelorhood and fashion missteps.
Remarkable case of husbatt in Schrier family on Talbot street
A ten year old girl in the Schrier laborer family on Talbot street near Fullerton is described as wasting with almost no flesh yet showing sharp intellect. She cannot speak or move easily and is constantly attended by family members. Medical men allege her emaciation stems from prenatal causes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Beecher
Husbatt
Charles Schrier
Talbot Street
Fullerton
Two Puzzles and Odd Street Conversation
A man buys copper for twenty seven cents a pound loses two percent in moulding then sells the rest at forty seven percent gain to recoup cost. A math brainteaser asks how much he paid. A tongue twister about cats catching rats leads to a trick question. A street conversation features two young girls discussing a buried woman and racial identities with halting assumptions.
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