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Newspaper
Democratic Northwest
Location
Napoleon, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1891
Page
8
A brief item outlines a 91,500 cottage plan and development description focusing on four affordable linear living units. The notice notes construction scope, budgeting, and target timelines for planned housing project.
The front wall is prettily broken with carved columns and a railing. An open timber roof supports a wide barge and a dome window lights a room with a teleana and chimney top forming the overall Shela effect. The cellar spans the building with leveled rammed bottom and stone walls dressed to line with lime mortar.
Interior notes describe plastered first and second stories with bronze mortar and lime finishes. Kitchens feature rutibed plate hearths and open coal grates with sheet iron blowers and brass fenders. Windows have tinted, colored cathedral glass. floors vary by story and wood is ash and yellow pine.
The embedded text is garbled and lacks clear names, places, or events. It mentions an author D. J. mpheay and references Ts0-17 Pa year with odd phrasing about animats and lotion, but no verifiable actions or outcomes are discernible.
An uncanny performance unfolds in a courtyard circle where a tall devil with a crocodile head leads a drum driven dance. Women chant and clap as youths in long robes follow, creating a trance like frenzy under moonlit skies near Sierra Leone.
A country farmer Abner Dungrass travels from the White Mountains to Boston with relatives. While dining at a hotel he hesitates at an ice cream plate, then jokes in astonishment that the cool treat seems to be frozen cream. The incident captures a humorous frontier visitor learning city manners during his first trip to town.
Westchester fashion revives the old time buggy amid a New York World note. Yellow wheels, large bodies, and light red horses mark the new style for pleasure driving. Women drivers remain rare before 11 in the morning while bright turnouts enhance Riverside Drive and Morris Park spectators. The Morris Park race crowd’s carriages have become a noted feature of the day’s sight seeing.
A famed Africa missionary recounts a harrowing near capture by a lion. The man, unable to move his gun arm, faced repeated roars as the beast guarded the rocky path. Days passed with the lion near the water, the missionary finally aided by a native, but his toes were burned and he was crippled for life.
Ex Governor Bunn of Idaho, a Philadelphia editor and Clover Club wit, is famed for a novel reed bird potpie. He braises two young chickens, two dozen reed birds, two dozen frogs legs, clams, bacon, and potatoes in a deep pan with a light crust, simmering until done, then bakes a top crust to brown. Serve with champagne. a dish fit for kings at Christendom.
A Brown County Ohio tale recounts a mother saving her baby from a seven foot two inch black racer snake. The infant survived with a blistered arm. The article also discusses women’s higher education, Johns Hopkins medical school admission for women, and southern efforts in reform.
A garbled OCR page mixes quotations from speakers in Philadelphia, testimonials for Electric Bitters, a riddle about guns and a lesson about value of quality over quantity. Includes a Monte Carlo suicide note and a call to subscribe for the newspaper.
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