Journey to Oakland West Virginia from Parkersburg
The author travels by train from Parkersburg through Kanawha to Oakland in the Allegheny mountains. He describes Oakland as a small town of 900 residents with a seasonal influx of visitors, a largely poor economy, and a climate praised for cool air. He notes the air quality, limited immediate sights, and locals’ modest offerings while sharing humorous anecdotes and daily routines.
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Contented Hours of a Quiet Day
A reflective note on slow days with no trouble or strife. The speaker values cool, pleasant hours and long contentment as the source of happiness. Ends with a farewell to D. Z.
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Ancient cave bones found in Missouri iron ore vein
Reports from the St. Louis Republican describe a spring discovery in Franklin County Missouri by Dr. R W Booth near Dry Branch station showing a buried human skeleton at depth of eighteen feet, with ribs vertebrae a skull and flint arrow heads and charcoal. later bones found at twenty four feet, all within a iron ore chamber likely a cave bed with fibrous matting and bedded by loam and ore layers.
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Workingmen Vote for Democrats Endangered Industries
A campaign message declares that Workingmen who back Democratic candidates will vote to extinguish fires of every furnace foundry and factory nationwide, framing the policy as a threat to industry and labor.
Same Old Story and Odd Notices From a Clinic
A Oxford graduate tale ends with an old guest revealing the same old story about the sister in a college room. Also mentions Dr Bull’s Baby Care medicine and a German mirror photography claim. A passing stranger asks who is dead near a churchyard and learns nobody is unhappy.
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