The Green Country Girl Writes Her First Letter
A Fayet te county Hoosier girl signs as The One Bonnet and says she writes to join the county paper. She describes rural duties from dairy work to horse riding, insists on country girl dignity, and laments urban stereotypes while declaring independence and honesty in her future notices.
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Eptror
Tam
Fayette County
Ireland
Dds
Hoosierdam
Tamara Lost
Bonner
The Selma Temperance Pact Treasure Tale
In Selma Alabama a January first 1871 temperance pledge led eleven of twelve men to slip from faith. The treasurer planned monthly ten dollar deposits totaling fourteen forty on year end. A mistaken clock caused one man to miss the rendezvous and drink then others found the money lost to poker with a church trustee. Efforts seek to suppress the tale.
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Selma
Alabama
Ife
Man prepares coffin in life in North Carolina tale
The Point Person story recalls Richard Harris who cut a sassafras tree years ago to make his coffin and later had it fashioned in Roxboro. He sometimes lies in it to show neighbors and paid the coffin maker with wheat. An earlier Murfreesboro tale tells of a man who kept an iron coffin in a brick tomb, alive in 1863.
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Point Person
North Carolina
Richard Harris
Bradshere
Roxborough
Murfretboro
N. C
The Fashions Eyebrows Noses and Teeth in Print
A vintage style guide notes eyes worn beside the nose, center facial features, and a preference for grecian profiles. It cites nose shape, lip color, tooth hue, ear placement, and hair styling as markers of proper appearance in home, nursery, tea, and social gatherings.
Woman Courts Fourth Husband on Third Husband’s Grave
A local tale describes a woman courting her fourth husband on the grave of her third husband, amid frosty weather, as a striking slice of vengeful romance.
Bernie Gives White Chicken to Help New York Orphans
Bernie Gray, a poor village girl, grapples with giving her only possession the white chicken to support a missionary plea for orphans in New York. She finalizes the sale by presenting the hen to her Sunday school superintendent Mr. Richards at the factory, hoping to aid the charity.
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Bernie
Little Wanderers
Charlie
New York
Frank
Martin
Joly S
Nettie
Nettie Martin
Mrs. Gray
Mrs. Stone
Kitty
Bernice
Gray
Br. Richards
Jameson
Mr. Richards
Bernie Gray
Lilly Wells
Mr. Richard
John
Richards
Charlie Gray
Beath and the Gravoe A Fable On Dissipation
A dark fable in verse about Death and the Grave warning against alcohol and tavern life. The minister of destruction, JT, accompanies misfortune as families suffer violence and poverty. The piece ends with a moral echoing Shakespeare’s laborer ideal.
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Death
Tie
Colfaxing fuels playful nods from Western parents
A humorous note out West shows a changing parental tone as mothers and fathers tell children it is time to bed, joking that a Colfaxing style retreat is now the new gentle cue. The piece highlights a light political cultural moment around the nation.
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Christaan Statesman
The Harm of Profanity and Bad Habits
A moral brief condemns swearing as useless and degrading. It argues profanity harms impression, influences youths, and leads to ruin, urging immediate cessation as the habit strengthens daily.
Silver-Haired Brothers Farm Faces the Franklin County Land
Two Franklin County Massachusetts brothers own and run a large dairy and timber operation. Their 1000 plus acres include fertile pastures with 75 to 80 Durhams and extensive woodlands. They share profits and duties, care for sick family members, and expect to pass the farm intact to their sons, maintaining a harmonious family enterprise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin County
Massachusetts
New England
Boston
Hovses
The Size of London Census Figures and Comparisons
London population stands at 3,883,092, surpassing the combined total of numerous U S and other cities. The city requires 777,000 dwellings and consumes vast quantities of food, drink, and fuel, with a massive daily water and gas system and a sprawling street network. Other cities cited include Berlin Paris and Constantinople with their respective census figures.
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London
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Chicago
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Boston
New Orleans
San Francisco
Buffalo
Allegheny City
Pennsylvania
Berlin
Paris
Constantinople
Origin of the kiss tied to wine and sly husbands
A fragmentary tale traces kissing to wine tasting habits in ancient Rome. A shrewd husband caught his wife counterfeit sipping through a bung hole with a straw, inspiring a general practice for husbands to kiss their wives to test fidelity and the quality of stolen libations.
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Jonnersville E
Xaminer
John M. Higgs
Piobegue
Onnersville Business Directly
C Olam
Attorneys AT Law
William C. Forrey
Caldwell's Block
Connersville
Indiana
Physicians and Surgeons
Geo. W. Garver
City
Claypool’s
Central Avenue
First Presbyterian Church
Hotels
Miller
Broooktipaix, Ind
GEO. W. Maxwell Proprietor
Davis
Tecker
Walnut Street House
Corsiz Walnut and
Gass
Davis & Tucker
OFLIO
Prop's
Virginia House
Coxnersville
Wirs
P. H. Cookus
Propr's
Albert O. Law
Uryson
Connersville, Indiana
Reise
Iarrison Street
Branchank
Ofice
A. W
O'Emek
Kilgore
Atily
John H. Bowman
Ease Conersyelle
IAD
Faria
Fourth Street
May
L. A. Whisler
Smith & Young
Jewess Old Stand
E. Wesster
Janey
Medicina
Comnereville
Lad
Sto Il A
Westside
Court House
Doll’s Restaurant
Alestaurant
Fifth Street
Bar
Css.szsstsars
Ind
Frank Dolk
WM. Newrikrk
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Lafayette Railroad
Indianapolis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
St. Louia
I Noble
O. T. Moor
Bonne
Fayette Co
the Fashions
Mrs
Isabel Alden
Beath and the
Shakspeare
Miew Fwo Silver-Haired Brothers Farm
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