Ike's OXEN How He Trained Them Nautically and What Happened
Ike, a Maine boy raised by his Yankee uncle Job Haines in southern Kansas, trains a pair of yearling oxen using sea phrases. The deacon buys Ike’s cattle for $400, but the plan backfires as the oxen pull a cart full speed. Ike preserves the pair, while Job and the deacon clash, and Ike returns the cattle home with his uncle choosing to keep them.
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Job Haines
Kansas
New Hampshire
Job
Ike
New England
Maine
Haines
Merwin
Deacon
Poultry House
Brother Haines
Jack
Billy
Isaac
Carlyle and Bores
The essayist notes Carlyle’s intolerance of bores and his savage wit toward them. He recalls Carlyle’s habit of detesting boredom among contemporaries and exalts his sharp humor while lamenting Coleridge and Lamb as bores in his view.
Genius Clerk Causes Comedy in Hardware Store Encounter
A city hardware store hired a cler k described as an eighteen carat genius though unaware of it at first. A country customer bought blasting powder for a hunting trip but received the wrong item. The next day the customer returned the powder for exchange and the clerk attempted to sell him a coffee grinder instead.
Rural and town properties for sale with varied prices
Listing describes several parcels near Allen Academy and town limits. One and a quarter acre lot by the schoolhouse with a cottage, tenant house, and well priced around 550. A six room house with two lots on the west side near Main Street at 1000. A six room house with two lots four blocks from Main Street priced at 1250 featuring a brick cistern.
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Allen Academy
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Carlyle and Bores
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Scott
Memphis
Birmingham
Montgomery
Mobile
Atlanta
Savannah
Florida
Frisco System
the Southeastern Limited
Alex. Hilton
Bryan Snyder
Manar
Saint Louis
City Market
Messrs. Smith & Adams
John W. Hicks
J. W. Batts
Brazos County
J.D. Franklin
Brogdon
J. D. Franklin
W. A. Watkins
Bryan
Texas
J. Astin & Bethea
Astin
Main Street
Batavia
Batavia Rolly Polly Cherries
Sicily
Brazil
Srey
Wolo
Dozier Bakery
London
Cox’s
Knox’s
Nelson
Heinz’s
Dodson & Braun
Mrs. Kidd
Cross & Blackweds Pickled Wal
Dunkley
Franklin
Blanke & Brothers
Lyons
California
Golden Eagle
Missouri
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