The Corn Banner And A Stagecoach Romance
An 18th or 19th century tale blends colonial symbolry with a rural love plot. A coachman Sam reveals a plan to marry Miss Gertrude thwarted by Major Juggleford who plots to wed her to Doctor Darwin. A staged escape with a lay figure leads to Miss Gertrude marrying Frank Warrington instead, while Trippy orchestrates, and all end with mixed fates for the household.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Ree
Toronto
Sam
Trippy
Jugaleforé
Gertrude
Darwin
Mr. Warrington
Miss Gertrude
Major Juggleford
Doctor Darwin
Frank Warrington
Granny Magilton
Jay
Mr. Frank
Saratoga
Mobbs
Nagain
Prippy
I, With My Mouth Wide Open. ‘Is It Mrs. Mobbs
Mr. Doty
Juggleford
Whiats
Callentown
Allance
Marvinio
Florida
Almor
Catia
Ann
Lenin
Atiae
Abe
Glias
Lng
Children as an institution inspire invention and progress
A long personal letter extols children as a great institution and blessing, arguing they drive enterprise, learning, and moral progress. The writer cites industry, railways, printing, and machinery as products of families, notes mixed views on boys and girls, and recounts family scenes, schooling, and a humorously observed train encounter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Bacon
Chidren
Ita
Iwaa
Fiorida
Florida
Mia
Janveen
Coleridge
Countless Buffaloes in the Old Days Described
An elderly narrator recalls vast buffalo herds across North America, from Arctic slopes to Mexico, saying numbers once seemed endless. He notes explorers’ astonishment, regales of massed herds on the plains, and travels through the Plains, Republican and Missouri regions, to Northern Montana, with Scribner's as a reference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
Mexico
Virginia
Oregon
Europe
Mississippi
Plade
Republican
Montana
Buffalo
Scribner’s
History of Tableware Through Centuries
The Chicago Times notes spoons by Euryptians in the seventeenth century bc and finds at Pompeii. Forks appear in the middle ages after Henry VI. Ginases rise in the fifteenth century while tin cups stay common. Sancellara and the caster emerge later. the first napkins appear at Rheims during Charles VII's era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Euryptians
Christ
Pompeii
France
Henry SI
Rheims
Charles VII
Chicago Times
Unclaimed 1820 Newburyport Deposit Grows to 598
A deposit of 29 dollars made in the Newburyport Institution for Savings in 1820 remains unclaimed. No further deposits or withdrawals have occurred and interest has accumulated to 598 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport
Mass
Institution For Savings
Love's spider threads seek thee through every breeze
Poem fragment by Anna C Brackett appears in Scribner's addressing thoughts as thoughts travel like spider threads cast into air to reach a beloved across all directions. It uses grand space and fate imagery to claim love as lord of space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
Superior
Chile
Anna C. Brackett
Scribner's
Jugson
Elmira Gazette
Germantown
Philadelphia
West Point
Dottie
Philadelphia Record
Chicago News-Record
Egypt
Aun
Zanzibar
Fliegende Blachter
Signora Bontalba
Politeama
la Epoca
PITH AND POINT Jokes and quips from various papers collected
A collage of humorous lines and witticisms from multiple periodicals. Snippets range from sailors and weather to family exchanges and social anecdotes. The passages showcase light social satire with named lines and cartoonish exchanges.
Houses of Russian Peasants Describe One Room Huts
Prank Carpenter notes most Russian peasant homes are single story huts about twenty feet square with a thatched roof and thick straw. The front door opens into a vestibule and the sole room serves as living, sleeping, cooking, and heating space, dominated by a large central chimney that also functions as a bed in winter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prank G. Carpenter
Russia
Petrofiskoi
Great Black Plain
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North Georgia
Dahlonega
College
City Drug Store
Sutton & Pitchford
Cleveland, Ceorcia
Cleveland Realstate Agency
Georgia
Piedmont
F. B. Sutton
Clark, Bell & CO
Clark, Bell & C O
Gainesville, Ga
Montezuma
England
Ireland
Scotland
Republic
Maryland
Wide Republic
Wdna Dean
Thad
Billarps
Fle
Walker
Episcopal
North Dakota
Bismarck
Missouri
Uncle Jerry
Jerry
Moston News
Jupiter Pluvius
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