Assignee Sale of Valuable Farm Land in Denton Maryland
By virtue of a mortgage assignment chain from James Carey to Abraham R. Wright and through several successors, the property is to be offered at public sale in front of the courthouse door in Denton Caroline County Maryland. The sale follows a January 15 1894 mortgage, recorded in Liber E. C. F. No. 60 folio 146 and later assignments culminating with Willard E. West as assignee.
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Pennsylvania
West
Charles E. Stevens
Denton
Maryland
James Carey
Abraham R. Wright
Caroline County
Henry T Nuttle
Henry T. Nuttle
Patrick W. Carey
Henry BR. Lewis
Willard E. West
Court House
Andersontown
Bloomery
Wim. H. Deen
Philip W. Downes
Frustin M. Wright
Anna E. Stalknech
Willard
John R. Griffin
Iharmeony
Gilpin’s Point
Levi D. Ree
Ste
T. Pliny Fisher
J. W. Chark, JR
Willian
Cannon
Ernest Downes
James
Fragmentary verse hints at romance and a ring episode
A fragment speaks of better giving than receiving, a smitten heart, and a diamond ring. It mentions a mitten gesture and a coy youth or girl, hinting at a playful courtship scene. The lines read like stray stanza bits from a rural newspaper column or poem.
Postponed Christmas in Kemoka Folks Hush Melchisedec Tale
A Canadian frontier tale recalls Henry Preston the postmaster at Kemoka 1820s who meets Melchisedec the ram in a snowbound forest. A farmer invites him to Christmas dinner delayed by winter and a baby, proving Christmas arrives when the baby’s socks hang. Preston joins in the rustic feast and returns to his lonely post office.
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Preston
Henry Preston
Kemoka
Colonel Talbot
Lake Erie
Great Britain
New World
Amery
Levarnl Lim
Scotland
Kemeka
Longwoods
Pioneers
Public Service
Melchisedec
Fleman
Ontario
St. Lawrence River
Thiz
Jane
Melchisedeo
Santa Claus
Peace on earth echoed in Crusty household dispute
"'¢Peace on earth, eh?' growled old Crusty to his wife the day after Christmas. 'Peace on earth, eh? And you bought that boy a dram!' The fragment hints at domestic tension and holiday drinking customs in a home scene. No further context provided.
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BOQ
Alius Hines
EA Lrinodk Ap Oger Ae
Old Crusty
Up to Date Santa Delivers In Iceberg Scene
A Chicago Post item humorously places Santa Claus aboard an iceberg, railing at misdated tech, promising Grizzly to curb toy uproar, and testing a motor sleigh and electric airship amid playful banter about love and travel mishaps. A stop-off joke from a New York Daily follows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Claus
Grizzly
Ehl
Santa
Christmas in China and the return of the sun
The piece compares ancient Yule customs with Chinese and Japanese solstice celebrations. It notes two December festivals marking the return of light, the angel of light and the genius of the north, and describes how Chinese households honor these with tea, pig, garlands, altars, incense, and temple rituals.
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Solomon
Europe
Mongolia
Siberia
Chang Lin
John Chinaman
Angel of Light
Wiriiau E. S. Fates
Oxford Boar Head Christmas Rite With New Testament
In Oxford's Queen's College a Christmas day ceremony features a large boar's head carried into the hall. Choir boys sing a Latin hymn while the head is dressed with greens and later given to the poor. The head is always shown with a New Testament in its mouth, tied to a 16th century legend of a student using the book to fend off a boar.
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England
Oxford
Shakespeare
Queen’s College, Oxford
Queen’s College
Shotover Hill
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Easton
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Stormer
Ideal
Longman & Martinez
John Lucas
Shannahan & Wrightson Hardware CO
W EH. Golt
N. Smith, JR
W. F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch
W.H. Anderson
H. C. Hobbs
W.R. Peters
M.L. Blanchard
Lord
J. Culver
Custis Burton
BE. W.ingram
Wryce Station
Greenwood
Ellendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
William M. Conn
Queenstown, MD
WM. Hopps & CO
Baltimore, MD
Sturmer
Bastion
R. M. Collins
Everngam’s
John L. Everngam
London
Everngam
Delaware and
Chesapeake
NOR’ Mail A.M
P.M
Trappe
Chapel
Cordova
Queen Anne
Ridgely
Greensboro
Goldsboro
Henderson
Marydel
Slaughters
Hartley
Kenton
Clayton
D. D.S
Uhler & Hughes
Fluorine
Smithville
KR. G. Anklam
Andi
Orphans’ Court For
Denton National Bank
F. Howard Griffin
James H. Cannon
J. W Crank, Jr
Ireland
Kezan
Riberia
Chicago Post
New York
China
Far East
Christman
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