Trickster Bad Man Outwits Sheriff Nye in Wyoming Cabin Escape
The tale recounts Sheriff Bill Nye of Laramie County pursuing a mountain fugitive who hid with his wife in a miner's cabin. Nye bursts in but is blindsided as the criminal leverages two rolled blankets, fleeing on a pony into the darkness. The deputy pursues, but the outlaw vanishes.
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Bill Nye
Wyoming
Laramie County
Sheriff Nye
Nye
Nya
Sabiuiyeenoay
Artillery Fire in Modern Warfare and Observation Posts
The article explains rapid fire techniques such as mowing and sweeping fields with eight rounds per gun, and three round bursts per gun. It describes advanced coordination where an artillery officer directs from a distance via telephone, using ruins, trees, or craters as observation posts and adjusting ranges to hit moving targets.
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Presnan
Community notes from Acton Centre and surrounding towns
Sunday sermons at Acton Centre were led by Rev Ay My Plum of Oakham. Numerous residents and visitors were mentioned visiting relatives and vacationing in nearby towns including Webster Malden Gloucester Weymouth West Dennis and Auburn. High school enrollment transportation arrangements were requested for Concord pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ay My
Oakham
Ebba Frederickson
Olson
Quincy
Pennall
Webster
William Edwards
Natick
Misa Ella Fredrickson
Florence Morse
Malden
John Edwards
Gloucester
Henry L. Phiest Tits
C. B. Flagg
Harold B. Andrews
Ellen Harding
Auburn
Willis Holden
Albert Smith
Charles B. Smith
Metropolitan Water Works
Wachusett
Millan
West Dennis
Marie
Marjorie
Charlotte Davis
Weymouth
A. I. Noyes
Concord
Kingly Queens Elizabeth Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great
The piece surveys royal nicknames for Elizabeth I Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great. Elizabeth earns many titles from Virgin Queen to King Elizabeth, with James I as a contrasting feeble monarch. The article notes Maria Theresa and Catherine the Great earning wartime and loyalist chants and public affection during crises.
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Elizabeth of England
Maria Theresa and
Catherine the Great
Elizabeth
Glotiana
Bess
James I
James
Southey
Sir Francis Drake
Old England
Drakes
Maria Theresa
Uene
Marie
Suvaroff
Catharine
Community News Highlights From West Acton And Nearby
Local residents report visits and vacations across Maine Connecticut and New Hampshire. Notes include Miss Jennie Durkee visiting Maine and families staying at Provincetown Lake Champlain and Boxboro. A new steam boiler at C H Mead's home and oil roadwork by A H Perkins are also recorded with social events and church talks.
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Maine
Geo. Bresth
Lowell
Frank Woodward
Providence
Pauline Mead
Lake Champlain
C. L. Pierce
Essex
Frank Mansir
Norwell
C. B. Robbins
Boxboro
Provincetown
Gene Berry
Waltham
L. W. Richardson
Fannie Wetherbee
Stow
Lester Moore
Littleton
Clinton
F.S. Rice
William Chisholm
Concord
Fred Dickerman
Wakefield R
Dickerman
James Richardson
Isaac Grimes
Cambridge
Baptist Church
Myrtle Smith
Katherine Richardson
Hazel Coolidge
A. H. Perkins
Acton
Joseph Furbush
Hall Bros
Lake Nagog
Ralph Furbush
Box
Ruth Titcomb Dies of Infantile Paralysis in Littleton
The community mourns the sudden death of Ruth Titcomb seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs Walter Titcomb of Littleton from infantile paralysis.
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Walter Titcomb
Littleton
Ruth
Will Hold Social Dancing Party at Action Hall
The Action lodge I O F 203 will host another social dance at the hall Thursday evening. The Colonial Orchestra will provide the music for the event.
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Acton Lodge
Colonial Orchestra
The Firet Cradle and Early Infant Care
A London Globe note cites tablets from Nineveh suggesting cradles existed about 4000 years before Christ. It argues the Pharaoh's cradle of 1400 B C is comparatively recent, proposing early cradles protected infants from wild animals by hanging in bulrush arks.
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Bulrushes
British Museum
Nineveh
London Globe
Ancient War Automobiles in Fifteenth Century Blitz
In Saar Bohemia on the Eger river a picture shows an attack on Glatz fortress in Silesia using armored war automobiles. Flat vehicles bear large frontal shields with soldiers turning cranks that drive cog wheels to road wheels. The chauffeurs reportedly reached four miles an hour.
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Bohemian
Saar
Eger
Glatz
Silesia
Globe-like stone map marks English eccentric’s Swanage estate
An ornate stone globe sits atop an Englishman’s Swanage estate overlooking the sea. Walkers may study its planes oceans lakes and deserts inscribed with scripture tied to their locality.
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Swanage
Carlyle and His Pipe
Carlyle smoked often and complained of dyspepsia. A friend suggested smoking might injure him. He said he left off and was worse, then returned to smoking and remained miserable but preferred smoking to life without it.
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Carlyle
Cennubial Contempt
A quip from a Baltimore American column shows a suburban wife deriding her husband for poor skills at simple tasks. The remark questions his ability to drive a car, then insists he cannot even drive a nail.
Higsby Cousin Reveals Family Ties in Boston Globe Note
In a Boston Globe snippet Mabel asks about Tom Higsby and Arthur confirms he is her first cousin. The exchange probes family connections and wellbeing in a concise dialogue fragment.
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Mabel
Tom Higsby
Arthur
Higsby
Boston Globe
Sorrow as a School of Virtue Quoting Atterbury
A short aphorism attributed to Atterbury asserts that sorrow trains virtue by correcting levity and interrupting the confidence of sin. The line reflects moral instruction in a religious ethical register.
Twins and a wedding as two brothers wed a shared wife
In Anstruther Thomsons reminiscences two Ivybridge twin brothers seventy two seek a final companionship. After hunting one decides to marry the hotel manageress at Okehampton who accepts. All three live together and care for the brothers in their final illness, leaving her their money.
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Colonel Anstruther Thomson
Anstruther Thomson
Okehampton
The Three Scutaris and Their Different Origins
The three places named Scutari appear in Albania opposite Constantinople and in southern Greece. Each name derives from a distinct original form: the Greek Scutari is Scutari, the Albanian form from Scodra, and the Asiatic site from Chrysopolis meaning City of Gold.
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Scutari
Albania
Constantinople
Greece
City of
Gold
How He Got the Moon
John Henry Maechler, an astronomer, pursued Frau Witte and her family for years. He wed her daughter after her death, inheriting the coveted moon through the matrilineal line, while her husband remained alive.
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John Henry Maechler
Frau Witte
Ektaster
Little Henrietta Questions the Cook Over Findings
A four year old named Henrietta watches a cook prepare a chicken. She looks up and asks Nora if she found what she was looking for, capturing a child’s curious moment in Harper's Magazine.
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Henrietta
Nora
Harper’s Magazine
Evidence of Insight Laughs at Misjudged Skills
An amused speaker reflects on the irony of a man who overestimates his own knowledge, noting the humor in watching such self assurance falter. The fragment hints at a scene of dialogue and characterization without full context.
Sincere Gratitude For Mutual Aid
A reflection on saving a fellow man as the noblest act. Gratitude follows such selfless aid, seen as the finest demonstration of character and communal duty.
Local News Roundup From South Sudbury and Nearby Towns
L. P. Goulding visited his brother in Connecticut. Mr and Mrs A B Rogers entertained out of town friends Sunday. Co O Parmenter bought the C F Buzzell house lot on the State highway in Waltham. G S Smith will move into the parsonage with Clifford Burr purchasing the vacated house and Howard Burr, his brother, leasing the other property.
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L. P. Goulding
Connecticut
Rogers
Co. O. Parmenter
C. F. Buzzell
Waltham
G. S. Smith
Clifford B. Burr
Howard C. Burr
Reverend Sadler Plans Return to England
Reverend R. T. Sadler of Montreal, who lived here briefly last summer and fall, visits his wife at her mother's home, Mrs. Jones. He intends to return to England soon where he had charge of a church at the outbreak of the war.
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R. T. Sadler
Montreal
Gasoline Pump Installed Near State Road
O Parmenter installed a gasoline pump at the end of his private way connected to the elevator office. By pressing a button, a attendant from Gulf Refining Co. comes to furnish gasoline to automobiles.
Societies Join To Improve Goodman Village And Wadsworth
The Goodman Village Improvement society invites the Wadsworth society to cooperate in beautifying both areas. Officials note the state is improving roads and central village areas, while local efforts aim to enhance streets and the town square.
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Goodman Village Improvement Society
Wadsworth Society
Infant Ervine Lester Sanborn Dies of Cholera Infantum
Four month old Ervine Lester Sanborn died Thursday from cholera infantum. Son of Mr and Mrs Shirley Sanborn he was buried Saturday in Mount Wadsworth Cemetery with Rev George H Clark officiating at the home and grave.
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Ervine Lester
Shirley Sanborn
Mt. Wadsworth
George H. Clark
Road Closed To Traffic For Sudbury Centre Detour
State road closed between Concord Road and Wayland with traffic diverted via Sudbury Centre. Heavy daily traffic slowed progress on reconstruction by contractor Hudson, prompting the closure to allow necessary work.
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Concord Rd
Wayland
Sudbury Centre
Hudson
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Torrey & Vialle, Inc
Dodge, Overland
Ford
West Acton
Jennie Durkee
Maxwell
United States
Agit
McCone Bros
Concord, Mass
South
Sudbury
England
Ria le Bran Breac
FOOD
Blewett
New Delivery Service
Concord Dealers
Walcott & Company
Wm. C. Bass
L. Anderson & Son
C. M. Byron
F. E. Cutler
Concord Junction
Bridd
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