Gettin' Shet of Mary Mason in Nebraka Town
In Bubble Nebraska a farm couple Eliza and Tom Robinson endure Mary Mason who intrudes daily with meals and chores. Mary borrows and pilfers goods, stays long hours, and refuses to leave despite repeated hints to keep to herself. The burden grows as jars empty and patience thins until they plan to move back to the farm to regain privacy.
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Nebraska
Bubble
Tom
Eliza
Samuel
Gatehilly Pelite
Mary Mason
Rob
Ineon
Tom Allus
Pam
Riz
Ono
Chicago Tribune
Canaries Touristic Notes and a Canine View of Canaries
A Canary Islands postcard column recalls cheerful exchanges with locals and travelers, recounting a diligence driver who proved to be a village butcher. The writer notes surnames suppressed and reflects on class and manners echoing old Spanish days, with a humorous aside about a German ambassador's credentials.
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Canary Islands
Orotava
Santa Cruz
Don Pablo
Don Pedro
Don Nicholas
Puerto
Peninsula
Lope de Vega
Lassoed a Mountain Lion in California Hills
Two men from Green Valleys and Mrs Hobbs on Griffin ranch road encounter a mighy mountain lion in the San Diego mountains. Griffin lassos the beast while Hobbs drives it with a rope, delivering a captive in a rough trek across cactus and rocks. The scene includes a perilous capture and onlookers.
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Green Valles
San Diego
Griffin Ranch
Mrs. Hobbs
Hobbs
Griffin
Battle of Wounded Knee remembered in readers’ minds
A historic account recalls the 1890 Wounded Knee clash between Sioux and U.S. troops. The piece notes the dance that sparked distrust, the disbanding order for Big Foot’s band, a massacre in the ravine, and a severe blizzard that left the dead and a captured lion in a stark aftermath.
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Wounded Knee
Custer i
Big Foot
United States
Custer
Col
Forsythe
Lifeboat Redesign Aims To End Tragedy At Sea
An old lifeboat may be replaced by a three-cylinder craft with a central boiler and no rudder. The outer cylinders provide stability while a central pump shoots water to control openings for propulsion. The design promises safer rescues in rough weather. In Beatrice Nebraska a baby saved on battlefield by Native and foster care.
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Zintka Lanuni
Col. Colby
United States
Zintka
Tion
Little Lost Bird
Beatrice
Pin making machines revolutionize pin production in mills
The article notes pins previously handmade before 1824 were costly. Modern pin-making machines cut wire to lengths form heads and points polish pins gather rows fold paper and push pins through rollers into clamps creating multiple rows. Machines allegedly produce 500 pins per minute with bronze parts measuring about three quarters of an inch in diameter.
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Robert I. Carter
Alden’s Rock
Charles Bartlett
Bartlett
Portland
Boston Herald
Gu Cuers
Waie
Famoune Sioux
Pina
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