Getting Shet of Mary Mason in Bubble Nebraska
A Nebraska town tale recalls Eliza Robinson and Tom who endure Mary Mason’s constant visits. After years of borrowing groceries and peering into daily life, they declare they’ve got shot of Mary Mason and seek peace at home. The question lingers will she return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nebraska
Bubble
Tom
Mra. Mason
Eliza
Allus
Ashe Allus
Samuel
Mary Mason
Mrs. Rub
Tomallus
Mendin
Wwe
Pam
Chicago Tribune
Canaries Travel Notes Mention Warm Local Welcomes
A Canary Islands visitor praises the easy friendliness of locals from beggars to villagers. He recalls meeting a stylish yet unknowable diligence driver turned butcher and notes suppressed surnames among residents while recounting other travel curiosities and a shipwreck salvage tale.
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Canary Islands
Orotava
Santa Cruz
Don Pablo
Don Pedro
Don Nicholas
Puerto
Lope de Vega
Mountain Lion Captured After Lively Chase East of San Diego
Two men riding toward Griffin ranch in Green Valley chased a mountain lion that leaped onto a horse. Griffin roped the beast after Hobbs lured it from a cactus thicket and dragged the captive to a cage. Mrs. Hobbs and the party survived the dramatic encounter.
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Green Valley
San Diego
Griffin Ranch
Mrs. Hobbs
Hobbs
Griffin
New Three Cylinder Lifeboat Proposed For Safer Recue
A novel lifeboat design replaces paddles and rudder with three linked iron cylinders and a central pump. The largest cylinder houses boiler and machinery, two smaller ones provide stability, and water jets control movements to aid rescues in rough seas.
The Battle of Wounded Knee Remembered in Letters
Readers recall the 1890 clash at Wounded Knee Creek between Sioux fighters and U S troops led by Col Forsythe. The confrontation followed Big Foot’s disbandment order and a medicine man earth signal, ending in heavy Indian casualties and a four day blizzard exposing the dead.
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Col. Colby
United States
Zintka
Tion
Little Lost Bird
Beatrice
Neb
Wounded Knee Creek
Custer
Big Foot
Custers Old Regiment
Col. Forsythe
Pin making machines transform handwork in pin industry
The article notes that before 1824 pins were handmade and costly. It describes a machine that receives wire, cuts it, forms heads and points, polishes pins, gathers a fiber, folds paper, and feeds pins through a roller. A single machine is claimed to produce 500 pins per minute with a bronze component measuring three quarters of an inch.
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Canaries
Robert I. Carter
Alden’s Rock
Charles Bartlett
Bartlett
Sue
Portland
Boston Herald
Ey Ylow
Wounded Knee
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