The Magic Pantaloons of Nineveh Creek Tale
A tall Indiana yarn recounts Ananias Potter narrating Jim Dixon and Bill Malvin’s rivalry for Sarah Bostwick. Jim’s pants antics, a Washington’s Birthday greased pole contest, and a comic courtship unfold amid local newspaper jokes and tall tales in Nineveh Creek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarah Bostwick
Nineveh Creek
Democrat
Bill Malvin
Jim Dixon
Jim
Jim Allers
Supreme Court
Fle
Prince Albert
Bill
Sarah
Bostwick’s
Indianapolis
Jim Y
the Democrat
James Dixon
Alfred Jinkins
Dixon
Prof. Jinkins
Jinkins
Blake
Hubbard
Sam
Washington
California
Dobbin
In Bohemia with Du Maurier Reminiscences
Du Maurier and Felix Moscheles were art students and friends in the 1850s. Moscheles writes in the May Century about artist life in Bohemia with Du Maurier, illustrated by seventeen sketches and including letters and poems. Du Maurier faced near blindness early in his studies, yet their friendship endured, and the piece recalls his first real heroine at Mechlin.
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Bohemia
du Maurier
Felix Moscheles
Moscheles
Peeiey
Tchaqsoues
Mechlin
First House in Greensburg and its founder Thomas Hendricks
Greensburg’s oldest standing house on East Street, moved after purchase by Charles Porter, ties to early Indiana settlement. Built by Thomas Hendricks, first settler and influential leader, the structure served as meeting house, store, school, and court, while Hendricks later held roles as militia commander, state representative, senator, and related to Indiana governors and the ex-postmaster of Greensburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greensburg
Indianapolis
Indiana
Charles Porter
Decatur County
Thomas Hendricks
Hendricks
Westmoreland County
Pennsylvania
Mr. Hendricks
Mecca
Samuel Houston
Indiana Tvarristers
William Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks
Household Hints From an Old Column on Practical Care
A collection of thrifty home tips covers rat bait with sun flower seeds for catching vermin, airing and drying an eiderdown, making croutons for soup, washable mattress coverings, softening rain-worn shoes with vaseline, turpentine for paint on fabrics, saving white cotton rags for bath rugs, rug weaving by strip weaving and woollen burlap tapestries used as library or dining room screen coverings resembling costly tapestries.
Rossini’s Independence and Life Beyond the Stage
A birthday note highlights Gioachino Rossini’s career arc. In 1829 at age 37 he wrote Guillaume Tell, then paused theatrical composition for nearly four decades, living in Paris in luxury while forfeiting French author rights to charity and neglecting English rights.
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Rossini
Paris
France
England
The Unsanctified Cat in the Pittsburg Dispatch
The article discusses the cat’s absence from biblical and Assyrian records, noting Max Muller’s quote on its recent recognition as a domestic animal in India. It mentions the Sanskrit marjara meaning to cleanse from the creature’s habit and references familiarities of ancient civilizations with feline behavior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
India
Max Muller
Oldest Man in the World and a Moonlit Confession
A starry Chicago scene unfolds with Daphne and Bertie sharing love beneath ancient oaks while Daphne fears a knot on her bloomers. Bertie leaves to fetch help as oysters appear a tempting afterthought and the Milky Way shines above their hush. The tale shifts to Quo-ka-num, a Puget Sound elder claimed oldest by tribes, living on clams, blind yet vocal, recalling pre iron weapons and ships on the lakes. A Bangor dentist joke closes, with Pat tricked into opening his mouth to pull a tooth.
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Chicago
Daphne McCarthy
Bertie Cecil
Bertie
Sweatheart
Daphne
Quo-ka-num
Puget Sound
Upper Lakes
Diamond Pointed Saw Mill Test In Montpelier
A Diamond Pointed Saw Mill is being tested in Montpelier Vermont. The machine, designed to saw granite, could revolutionize the granite industry and may integrate with the cotton gin. It holds a cache of diamonds and costs about $10,000 to build.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Carolina
Charleston
Montpelier
Aurgus and Patriot
Liverpool chimney sweep finds forgotten £40 in oven flue
A chimney sweep in Liverpool recovered a £40 coin bag hidden in an oven flue. When told to the lady of the house she fainted and cried, realizing she had hidden the money years ago and wrongly accused her son, who left home in anger and never returned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
Also Mentioned on This Page
Magic Pantaloons
Warden Allan Curtis
Texas Siftings
Brothers Grimm
Coon’s Hour
Ananias Potter
Athanasius
Wybird & Hawkes
Scott
Screechowl County
Isaac Newton
London Court Journal
Santa Fita
Genoa
Vienna
Santa Zita
New York
Millie Guschness
William Cohen
Victoria Hall
Em Atten
Matabeleland
Kruger
Haggard
Gagool
Pat
Bangor
Erin
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