Delinquent Tax Records for Bryan City July 24 19XX
Tax collector spells out dozens of parcels in Bryan's addition and other blocks with lot numbers and ac counts. Values range from 25 to 1250, with totals per parcel and grand sums, showing owner names such as Ward Henderson Wilson Cora Wells Lewis Gatford Maria and many others.
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Ward Henderson
Bryan
Wilson Cora
Wells Lewis
Mitchell
Gatford Maria
Bryan’s
Green Jim
Guiffre
Mason Adaline
Hall
Moore Whit
Adams Bell
Agent Richard
Adams Low
Banner Mary
Burrell Jane
Butler Jona
Brown Edgar
Boebmwe Otto
N. W
Kell Tom
Banks
Albert
Childress Andy
Cramer Ellen
Ellis Minnie
C. M. Spel
Beyan
Beazos
Pexwa
du Bervoy
Erly Council
Pexas
M. Spell
BOBBING ON BEEMER'S BEND
In Vermont Madge Turner and Kate Crozer visit over Thanksgiving. Madge enlists Tom Turner's friend Charley Brome for a be Bee mer’s bend coasting trip. Brome, thought a prig, saves the sled ride from disaster, revealing quiet courage and devotion to his mother’s sacrifices for his college education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madge Turner
Tom
Katherne Crozer
Madge
Vermont
Kit
Harry
Katherine
Beemer
Krome
Milneis
Brome
Harry Martin
Charley Brome
Illinois
Beemer’s Hill
Beemer's
Wiseacres
Mr. Beemer
Tom Turner
Maravige
Basilisk in medieval folklore and cockatrice lore
The basilisk described as a cockatrice offspring hatched from a toad egg, pictured as an eight legged serpent or dragon with a crown-like head markings. Ancient writers claim its deadly bite and breath, with legends of its lair keeping plants from growth and its body hung in church towers to deter swallows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Play
Bascho
The Franklin Stove and its Inventor
The article traces Benjamin Franklin as the inventor of the Franklin stove a portable iron fireplace that began the shift from open fires to more efficient heating. It notes Franklin’s Boston birth and Pennsylvania association and explains the stove as the connector between crude fireplaces and modern stoves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benjamin Franklin
Boston
Pennsylvania
William Penn
England
Franklin
Philadelphia
United States
Diamonds From Volcanoes or a Product of Fire
The article notes that nature’s most destructive forces can also yield gifts to humanity. It discusses the diamond and posits that volcanic activity may be responsible for the gem’s existence, highlighting the paradox of beauty arising from destructive power.
Ike's OXEN and the Deacon's Bold Purchase in Kansas
In southern Kansas, Ike the Maine youth trains two yearling oxen named Jack and Billy with ship talk to recall his seafaring dreams. Deacon Merwin buys them for 400 dollars, provoking a wild road escape led by stubborn oxen and a clash of church and family values that ends with Ike retaining the herd.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Job Haines
Kansas
New Hampshire
Job
Ike
New England
Maine
Jack
Billy
Haines
Merwin
Deacon
Jeb
Brother Haines
Isaac
Carlyle and Bores and the Art of Enduring Bores
The essay argues Carlyle despised boredom and bores, deeming many immortals and contemporaries such as Lamb Coleridge and especially the talkative Coleridge as tedious. It critiques Carlyle’s savage wit and endless chastisements of those he found dull.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle
Scott
Charles Lamb
Coleridge
Revere
Thomas
Genius That Will Win At Hardware Store Misstep
A city hardware store clerk, praised as a genius, incorrectly sold blasting powder to a country customer. The customer returned with the powder. the clerk tried to swap it for a coffee grinder to grind the powder, but failed. The anecdote, from the Syracuse Herald, reflects on the clerk’s supposed brilliance and the mishap.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bever
Syracuse Herald
Also Mentioned on This Page
Woods Nancy
Clapp
G. W
Cooper Frank
Campiza M
Davis W. M
Dorsey P
Derden S. M
S. F. Austin
Austin
Davenport General
F. Austin
Denson Ben
Denson Viney
Dickson Robert
Daniels Gus
Ford W. R
Griffin Jake
Hall & Oliver
Hall’s
Heffin Martha
Lyere D. J. & S
Bryan's
Locgusie T. L
Shivers D. H
Mason Mac
McCall
Nicholas Wilson
Nash Isaac
Oliver Ellen
Pollard Noah
Parr J. E
Pillow Noon
Robinson Wm
Roman W
Smith J. G
Smothers Lucy
Tatum Richard
Trevino Lizale
Warner L.P
Thompson T. T
West Part
Versen C. L
Grigsby Jerry
Hearne Gee
Mollie
Haynes W. H
A. H
Harris W. E
Illinois Glass Co
Johnson S. B
Jeter Win
Hiltips
Johnson Henry
Jones Cam
Jackson Maggie
Lacre
Johpson J. H
Knox E. W
Kelly D. E
Lights Estell
Lindsey Eva
Lightfoot Arthur
Lodge G. U. QO. O. F
Minkert W. H
Mike J. M
Ellis Annie
Eaves
James Allison
A.S. Richardson
Leth
The
Fabulous
Basilisk
Carlyle and Bores
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