Old Gillis Girl and the Reckless Undertaking
A detachment from Fort Bethune is trapped by a cliff siege in a frontier tale. Hamp ton, lying near a dead trader, forms a wary alliance with Gillis’s daughter Miss Gillis as he plans a perilous escape using a treacherous rock ledge and improvised ascent. He resolves to risk his life to save her.
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Fort Bethtne
Atmang Chen
Hampion
Alsin Gilli
Gillis
Post- Goa
Hampton
Jim Wicberty
Mr. Hillwyton
Eberly
Hamiton
Maer
Ingler
Gils
Bob Hampton
Fort Bethune
Mr. Hampton
Frontier Holdouts Struggle to Escape as Night Tightens
Amid dwindling rations and advancing danger, Frontiersmen cling to duty while a wounded infantryman fades. Hampton urges a perilous cliff escape with a reluctant Kid as darkness and Sioux threats loom. A threatening ultimatum tests trust before the tale continues.
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Wyman
Hampton
Kid
Bob Hampton
Testing White Lead for Pure Paint Materials Advice
A old period note explains how to test White Lead for purity by burning a small sample with charcoal to see metallic lead droplets form. It warns against adulterated leads and cites National Lead Company offering a free blowpipe test and a booklet with the Dutch Log Painter as proof of purity.
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Lenat Fost
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
Important to Mothers Castoria Advertisement and Baby Scene
In an old newspaper excerpt a Castoria sales pitch urges mothers to examine every bottle for the signature Le in use for over thirty years. The scene shows a nurse singing to a nearly asleep baby as a young boy asks the nurse not to sing so loudly or it will wake the infant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur
Siister
Clergymen Essay Delights Bishop Potter at New York Dinner
At a New York ecclesiastical dinner Bishop Potter read a Coopers town schoolboy essay on Clergymen. The piece jokes about three kinds of clergymen bishops rectors and curates. It notes the bishop tells the rector to work while the curate does it and ends with a spoof about a curate becoming a fuller rector and a good man.
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Potter
New York
Cooperstown
The Thunder Cloud Sermon That Shaped Delivery
Rt. Rev Chauncey EE Brewster recalls a clergyman who spoke in thunder to compensate for a lack of lightning in sermons. The bishop suggested softer delivery, but the minister replied that his thunder was needed to make up for the missing lightning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chauncey EE
Brewster
D. BD
Connecticut
Harper’s Weekly
Coffee Eyes Show Slow Poisoning Link to Eye Disease
A Oswego Montana woman reports slow onset eye weakness and shooting pains, with vivid light lines, tied to coffee use. She switched to Postum Food Coffee, prepared at higher altitude, and eight months later her eyes are clear and pain-free. A friend with coffee fears also improves after replacing it with Postum, suggesting a health link.
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Oswego
Mont
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
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Bob Hanpion
Norway
Lydia M. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Canada
Saskitchewan
Allevta
Best West
E. T. Holmes
Jackson St
St. Paul, Mian
W.w.dennett
New York Life Bidg
Omaha, Neb
Carters
SMA
THE
OLD Dut Bros
Gardent
Cantom
Wation
Coleman, Patos
Attar P NT Bey
Wackingunns Deg Aas Free
Lermulow
Highvan Ees
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