The Mystery Pirair and the Downing Case Puzzling
A long fragment covers Phair’s possible innocence tied to Providence events in 1874, with Downing’s corroboration and penmanship expert testimony. The piece links similar wrongful execution cases, noting historic parallels and questions of circumstantial evidence, delay, and mercy.
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Phair
Bay Downing
Boston
Freeze
Providence
Veaders
Downing
Daak
Ike
New City Mall
Whair
I. F F. Smith
Adams House
Heston
Phar
Ee Colvin
Jesse
Stephen Boorn
Russell Colvin
Manchester
Colvin
Rutland Hered
Post
Dover
N. J
United States
Margaret Loughling
Columbia County
Margaret
Mobile
Charles Boyington
Nathaniel Frost
Frost
Boyington
Sage
Middletown
Conn
Nugent
Gensou
Negent
Tan Practice in the Mount ains
In Supremis Court Montana Territory January 1876 Anstrin Suvres plaintiff and respondent vs Jos G Saern defendant and appellant Respondent presses motion to dismiss appeal for lack of final judgment in lower court The defendant fled to Indian country after sale of whiskey to Indians and escape from jail. court urged return of the wanderer to proceed with the case and dismiss the appeal, sending the case back to district court for continuation.
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Monetana
Montana Territory
Anstrin Suvres
Jos G. Saern
Red District
United States
Appellant
Smith
Doarites Forty Years Since From Zoar Community Letter
A Cleveland sterald summary of a Zoar Ohio community circa 1817 describes German settlers forming a cooperative town on the Ohio Canal eighty-two miles from Cleveland. Trustees governed land and moral life, with shared property, wine from grapevines, two furnaces, and strict probation for new members. Men and women labored jointly, sons and daughters may leave at twenty one with only essential clothing, and the village had about two hundred residents with abundant gardens and domestic manufactures.
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IBR
Svienea
Ale
Nngen
Egypt
Nile
Old
Memphis
Rameses
al- Juyium
Asia
Tle
Cheops
Babylonia
Mariotte Bey
Babylon
Ils
Euphratus
Moses
Onra
Busina
Karnak
Walla
Diivender
Zoar
Tuscanwan County
Zoartes
Ohio Canal
Cleveland
Tuccarawan River
Germany
Philadelphia
J. M. Imeler
Lota
Bimeler
Cleva
Cleveland Sterald
Witty Snippets From a Bygone Era of Jests and Gossip
A collage of humorous lines and anecdotes from a rural paper, featuring social foibles, romance missteps, editorials on editors, and odd exchanges. It includes quips about weddings, mothers pies, fraternal idols, misquoted proverbs, and a Texas farmer’s boast, all framed in a lighthearted period voice.
Women as Ladies and the Virtue of Delicacy
A quotation attributed to Gat Hamilton argues that women must remain dignified and self-possessed, valuing delicacy, etiquette, and restraint. It insists that a woman's role is to be a lady, venerable in conduct, influencing society through graceful demeanor and mutual respect between genders.
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Dmgater
Aties Abertion
Regis Jaton Phos
Perford
Ian Phyaicians
Llane Padernig
Schlad
Bing bin
Rgden
Kurtis
Cieculubing
Rome
Dean Howrilly
Mon
Rue Park
H. R. Stevens
Boston
Mass
W. C. Prime
Asia
Primo
Tyndall
Belfast
Plate
Gat Hamilton
Curious county exam failings and early marriage notes
A county teacher exam reveals candidates with scant schooling mispronouncing words like catechise and parliament. A related anecdote recalls Isaiah Thomas’s weather joke and a Virginia woman Mrs Bachelder who married at thirteen and became a grandmother by twenty.
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Chopin
Cambridge
Hahety
Nore
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Mardware & Varn
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Dente
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Teter
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Ambridge
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Speerdy Hens
Cambridge, Ohio
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Voluna
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BARES
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D. D. Williamson
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West Main
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Cassbredge
Ohio
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Mie of Choice Family Groceries
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Kate Herbertz
A.J. Lutchison
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Chemicals and Nations
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Thad
Mystery Pilair
New York
Ithaca
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Sheridan Hogan
Blessed
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Mary J. Happy
Cortland
Tam
Oglethorpe Ga
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