A Texas Climate Debate and Prairie Life Reflections
A long reader letter critiques J B Me for praising Texas climate as delightful. It contrasts Collin county weather and prairie farming, detailing cold snaps, heat, hail, and water woes while defending Texas agriculture, timber, and education. It notes varied experiences and argues climate alone doesn’t define a good life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minegora
Sawtell
J. B
Lone Star
Texas
Cullin County
J. B. Mc
Collin County
Union
Weather Department
Wood County
Prairies
Georgia
J. B. Me
Telegraph and Messenger
Pyramus and Thisbe Endure a Feuding Farm Family Love
Kathie Bowen longs for Phil Somers across a stone wall that keeps them apart due to a feud between their fathers. After a covert note and hidden conversations at the mulberry tree, they reveal their love and the families agree to marry, tearing down the wall. A cabinet treasure recalls their tale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Farmer Bownen
Towser
Grandma
Kathie Bowen
Bes
Kathie
Grandpa
Phil Somers
Bowenville Beaux
Phil
James Somers
John Brown
Egypt
Kathie Darling
Grandma Bowen
Bowen
Somers
Philip Somers
Babylon
Mr. Somers
Pyramus
Thisbe
Good Temper and a California Sewing Machine Invention
A piece extols good temper as the primary lubricant of life and warns that irritation harms health and progress. It notes a California inventor patenting a clockwork sewing machine drive using springs and a lever, capable of a sustained hour and a quarter per wind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Skeleton in Italian Vault Returns to Haunt Husband
In a Northern Italian city the wife of a prominent jurist died during epileptic fits. Her coffin was placed in a marble lined niche in a family vault, where a year later her skeleton fell into her husband’s arms when he opened the vault to place another coffin. The skull and body showed she had somehow remained conscious while the door was sealed. A man had to inspect a vaulted space and confirm the eerie return of the deceased. The text then abruptly shifts to a stale arithmetic riddle about calculating profit and loss with a raisins example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
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Jon
Masonic
Ah Cuthbert
J.J. Hauper
H. P
de Parkerson
Washington Lodge
A. M
A. Frewenren
W. M. Gay F. Hatt
Colegiate Board
Board of Instruction
Wellen
Ry. Porter
Aka
EO Williams
A.H Flewellen
W. B. Tackett
Cuthbert
GAI
Chastain
All Cuthbert
Col. Douglass
Appeal
H. Fielder
L. Fielder H
J. L. Fielder
Randolph
Stewart
Quitman
Clay Early
Calhoun
Terrell
Supreme Court of Georgia
U.S
Southern District of Ga
Geplitt i
Jas. H. Guerry
Dawson, Ga
8. G. Robertson
Re Ho Krennon
Soattorney
Gaines
Biseste Eurt
Ueited States District Court
Mayldly
2. S. Powell
Brant Bookseller
Ebery
Dar
Eve
Adam
Angel
Shore
Bradder Johnson
Irwin Ruszell
Scribner’s Monthly
Prac
Amsterdam
N. Y
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