Thacoveny Note on Milk Quality and Irish Emigration Tale
In Farmers Library January issue Jobe S. Skinner discusses a French claim that external marks on cows indicate milk quality, promising a future translation. A separate anecdote recounts five Irishmen planning to emigrate to America, with a comic arithmetic-based lot casting ending in Teague remaining aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmers’ Library
Jan- Weer Trent
Jobe S. Skinner
New Turk
Tribune
Ansear Htarwet
France
Pillau Heroine Katherine Kleinfeldt saves shipwrecked souls
The Baltic town of Pillau honors Katherine Kleinfeldt a seaman widow who for over twenty years has sailed to aid shipwreck victims. At forty seven she is credited with rescuing more than three hundred people, earning medals from Prussia and other governments and widespread respect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pillau
Baltic
Katherine Kleinfeldt
Palau
Katherine
Boraparte House at Longwood as a Barn Remains
A fragmentary piece notes that Boraparte’s Longwood house at St. Helena now serves as a barn with the room where he died used as a stable and the imperial corpse laid there. The piece reflects on pious beauty in the sentiment To God I commit you. It also cites Ezra 7 and a decree by Artaxerxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berek
Knickerbocker
Land's End
Mount
Ararat
Chimboriza
Himalaya
Mountains
Moon
Pyramid of
Cheops
Praster Jones
Mozam Bique
Zochabee
Givao
Bangora Choaner
Bildaraxa
Jix
Rundowo
Proce Pompadello
Bimbaz
Oliver Cromwell
Olver
Lim
Sam
Unie
Hoston Carr
Worcester
Virginia House of Delegates
United States
Judiciary
Executive
Hoon Os
Evern Brothers
Amerika
Murphy
Dennin
Toagos
Teague
Pat
Paddy
Dennis
Boraparte
Longwood
St. Helena
Quibbling Writer Reflects on War and Power
A quaint lament traces how princes aroused war while church power waned. The narrator notes a shift from the princes to religious authorities, hinting at a world steered by worldly rulers before spiritual forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leaanep Warren
Peter
Phrase origin of you don’t know beans in Ipswich vote
In Ipswich in 1773 voters faced a bean test where knowing a white bean from a black one determined eligibility. The phrase you don’t know beans originated from this practice, as those lacking bean knowledge were barred from voting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ipswich
Interestina Experiment and a Local Conflagration
An incendiary device was set in a confectionary shop near a city market on Sunday. Fire damaged the floor as smoke drew bystanders, and the arsonist, named wooden half peck measure, was found near the blaze half consumed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farington
Low
Bangor
Reflections of a Rumseller
A fragment portrays a debt driven rumseller boasting of foreclosures and profit while predicting a drunken, ruined future for Tompkins and his wife. The speaker brags of lawful trade and cash, cites Gibson’s alleged murder of his child, and dismisses blame as locals groan. An interjected request asks a doctor for gout cure with the blunt provincial reply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gibson
Tezard
Prisoners exchange odd greetings with magistrate on Now Street
A prison inmate is escorted up Now Street where he exchanges odd phrases with the sitting magistrate. The exchange includes unclear banter about meals and bread, reflecting a terse interaction during the process.
The Regulator Wars in Shelby County Texas Frontier
In Shelby County Texas, Regulators terrorize settlers to purge outlaws. Jack Lang, a quiet hunter with a loyal wife, confronts Hinch the Regulator captain in a public shooting duel after taunts. Lang’s restraint fades as threats to his family mount, foreshadowing a violent clash in a lawless frontier county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack
Hineh
Jack Lang
Minch
Jack Long-Shanks
Hinch
Lward
Long
Lis
Faola
Jack Long
The Hunt for Jack Long and Civil Turmoil
A planter faction led by Hinch pursues Jack Long amid horse theft accusations and lynch risk. Rumors of a staged trial, local violence, and a whipping order threaten Long while Jack remains undeterred, continuing to hunt as unrest spreads through the frontier community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nhings
Tae Long
Jack
Hinch
Loig
Long's
Long
Lung
Hineh
Jack Long
Gould
Himell
Wewilery
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bayley
Dearney
Levin Pruates
Henry Elliot
Cambridge
Wee Peeeens
Baltimura
Euler Wight Woot Vo Hove
Esra
Artaxerxen
Ezra
Tompkin
Zaunder
Stalin
The
Democratic Review
Wilkins Elim
Teibente
Texas
Routier
Houston
Shelby County
Ying
Red Lands
Mej Burs
Rahul
Hin
Wi Ceria
Honest Brotherhood
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!