Land dispute over eight inch fence line from long past
A Detroiter who bought land in the county discovers a fence eight inches over his boundary. The neighboring farmer recounts decades of disputes and partial relocations ending with the fence at the present line. A tale of lingering land tension and threats during settlement era. Also includes a wartime anecdote about Chaplain Billy Wilson baptizing troops before battle.
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Boyard
Stevenson
Tie
Bate
Gen. Stevenson
Billy
Wilson
Tad
Billy Avas
The
Silas the handyworker finds a new wife in town
A country character Silas who mends fences and tinkers at odd jobs receives wedding news from a patron in a suburban village. He grins through the encounter insisting his wife can help him support themselves, arguing that she should contribute rather than pity him for being born tired.
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Silas
OL Dwight
Mr. Blank
C. T
Bennie
Ohio
Colonel Mooney
Tate
Abron
Gedroa
Mrs. Melter
Onlg
Mary
Tea and Coffee Dyspepsia Observations and Charms
The article notes how tea taken with or after starchy foods can retard digestion and cause dyspepsia especially when meals are large or stress is present. It cites Roberts and urges spacing tea from meals and avoiding tea during worry. It contrasts coffee's digestion impact after large meals and mentions poverty related dyspepsia.
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Bit
Bix W. Roberts
Inneh
Dininer
Paralyzed Court Burlesque In Suit Over Breach Promise
A comedy of courtroom misreadings and risqué testimony in a breach of promise case. A young woman testifies about intimate advances by her ex lover with shifting decorum and the judge collapsing from laughter before being removed to recover.
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Canger
French Visitor Learns Poker in New World Farce
A French traveler, new to American life, dives into poker and loses big, mispronouncing the game as pokaire and demanding breakfast. In another scene on a crowded train, a busybody passenger provokes flirtatious bets and a serenade of mischief. Colonel Zell rails against critics while praising Grant with wild rhetoric.
Praying In A Hurricane Flashback Tale
A Kansas City gentleman fleeing a west hurricane ends up in a house full of Indies during the storm. Distress and chaos rise as the building sways and windows blow. The frantic women urge him to pray and he recites a recalled family grace, provoking laughter as windows and chimneys collapse around them.
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Kansas City
Secret 1844 treaty draft linked Napoleon III to Duke of Brunswick
Swiss reader uncovers a five article mutual assistance draft dated June 25 1844 in Geneva library. Signed Louis Napoleon Bonaparte it reveals a plan to fund escape from Ham and restore the duchy and fuse Germany toward a Napoleonic constitution. A July 22 1870 reply memo denies compliance. The piece ends with the Duke fleeing after the Brunswick revolution.
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Ham
Duke of Brunswick
Napoleon III
Sas
Tle
Napoleon
Geneva
Tiger hunt tale and Irish sun myth in one
A writer recalls three men on a tiger hunting expedition where a tent curtain is torn by an elephant and a lamp scalds its trunk. The piece also discusses early Celtic worship of the Dawn and a theory that Ireland’s green may derive from the sun’s likeness in Irish.
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England
America
Baby Cork
Treland
Darwin
Genius and madness linked in moral and social order
The piece argues genius and madness are closely allied within sane families, noting a constitutional dissatisfaction drives originality. It likens people to automata, repeating the same acts daily, and suggests humans may not justify their high reason against the mechanistic life of animals and insects.
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Gonius
Harily
London
The Rose of Sharon and the Narcissus Debate
A discussion on the Rose of Sharon title in biblical text, the Narcissus claim in Sharon, and related botanical notes. It covers Hebrew terms, translations, and scholars like Delitzsch, plus a brief remark on Darwinism and the dangers of zealotry.
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Sharon
Tristram
Gaza
Lebanon
Si Chichester Tart
Yebdua
Jaffr
Plain of Sharon
Palestine Exploration Fund
C. Hart
Sinai
Petra
Palestine
I’. Delitzseh
British Museum
Western Asia
LF. Delitzsch
Witty Fragments and Social Snatches from a City Page
A collage of humorous vignettes and stray conversations. Jests about courting, manners, fashion, and daily life weave through odd quotes, mistaken telegrams, and a light, satirical take on contemporary social foibles.
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Cranpury
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Forman St
Hightstown
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Cranbury
Penetico
U. S
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H. Bergen
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Justice OF the Peace
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D. O. Lewis
Dona O Factory
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Monroe
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Cranbury, N. J
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Juan
Hay and Straw
D. Perrine
Station N.J
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ORD
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Jersey
Furno
Newfoundland
St. John's
France
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Iberty
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Migory
United States
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Thane
St-Paul
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Strate
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Zell
Grant
Comstock
Hellia
Jesse
Aviland Ice Srchief
Alepiant
the Rose OF Sharon
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Sunbeams
Taiey
Foundling Asylum
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Heaven
New York
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Jerry Norris
Jerry
Moraes
Mgr. Sungzs
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Topor
Tipsy
Lone Star
Cleveland
Sarah
Poppy
Sartin
Thomas
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