Dr Zeke Sykes and the mountain romance
Ezekiel Obadiah Sykes, called Dr Zeke, leaves his worn valley home to seek Sal Boler after misfortune darkens the Sykes clan. On the road he meets a worldly craftsman who pretends friendship, later reveals he is Sal’s new husband. Ezekiel’s pride shatters in a comic crash of pride, romance, and rough mountain justice.
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Ezekiel Obadiah Sykes
Sykes
Lering
Ezekiel
Zeke
Gaeaquountain
Esekiel
Dorinda
Esse
Vin
Dorinda Maddox
Sal
Polly
Coe
Ezekiel Sykes
Sal Boler
Zack
Tom Smyers
Natu
Rabun County
Water
Largy
Zeko
Widder
Martin
Red Crick
Dr. Sykes
Sal's
Widder Martin
Worrall
Klein
Evocative reminiscence with a hard farewell
A speaker, bearing a fresh wound and tears, reflects on a failed marriage and a life altered by loss. He recalls Mistress Ezekiel Sykes in Raccoon Holler and laments a broken heart as he ends with a calm, sorrowful assessment and promises to resume next week.
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Widder Martin
Ezekiel Sykes
The Cat In Ancient Times And Better Seedings
A clipping mixes tales of cats in ancient Egypt and Welsh law with farming notes on seed depth and plant spacing. It contrasts feline reverence with mummy rituals,then shifts to soil health, seed rates, and crop outcomes on rich and poor land, discussing potato hills and grain heads.
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England
Princes of Wales
Cambyses
Pelasis
St. Louis Post- Dispatch
Juneau's Midnight Sun On the Alaska Excursion Route
Cor responds from the San Francisco Bulletin noting Juneau as the northern stop on the Alaska excursion route where summer daylight lasts long. The correspondent describes the persistent sun, the late bedtimes, and the ease of reading at 11 o'clock while aboard ship watching shadows on water and distant snowcapped peaks, with San Francisco time used aboard.
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Juneau
Alaska
Pole
San Francisco
San Francisco Bulletin
Tail Cutting Cents And A Mock Payment Tale
A woman sold a pig to a butcher and the pig was killed on the premises. A superstition in some butcher shops holds that cutting a pig’s tail ensures preservation. The tail was cut off and the woman kept it to weigh for payment, claiming she paid for the whole pig. The butcher settled for a half cent by splitting a cent on the block, a playful act to settle the account.
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Portland Daily Press
Body inked will proved in court in Mexico
A Mexican tale describes a man who tattooed his will on his chest with red pigment rather than writing it. Relatives resisted burial until the court ordered the tattooed will copied and attested in the presence of witnesses, ruling the “human document” genuine.
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Litely
Mexico
Monecke
St. Louis Republic
The Seer of Charing Cross and Paris Exposition
The piece notes the seer of Charing Cross Road frequented by Prince Consort and notable writers, with predictions about the queen's jubilee and anarchists. It mentions a Coventry-like reference to sword hilts and the Columbian Liberty bell. It also reports a tiny complete translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy exhibited at a Paris exhibition, containing 14 323 verses in 600 pages.
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Charing Cross
Charing Cross Road
London
Prince Consort
Lord Lytton
Charles Dickens
George Eliot
Lord Beaconsfield
Kings Cross
Marquis of Lorna
Edgar Lee
Arena
Don Mensipe
Philadelphia Ledger
Paris
Colley Cibber Plays Cards at Tom's Coffee House
Colley Cibber, amid a Covent Garden card game, taunts indifference with a sharp reply to a general’s gibe about spades. The poet laureate, famed for coolness and swearing, retorts that he could play ten times worse if he chose, provoking a peevish remark.
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Colley Cibber
Tom
Russell Street
Covent Garden
London
Colley
Temple Bar
Improving Grass Land for Restoring Productiveness
Several methods to renew worn grass land are outlined. Best may be plowing the field, pulverizing the sod, adding manure and ashes. Alternatives include surface scratching with a harrow, reseeding, rolling, and top dressing with barn manure. Effectiveness depends on land character and proper dressing.
Transporting Tale of a C and O Passenger Scam
A Detroit Free Press anecdote recounts Charlie Ryan of the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad in Cincinnati handling passenger business with Napoleonic flair. A slick con man asks for transportation to White Sulphur. Ryan politely directs him to the downstairs ticket office where the man buys a ticket, unknowingly falling for the ruse.
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Charlie Ryan
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad
Cincinnati
Ryan
Mr. Ryan
Charles
Detroit Free Press
Convolutions of Soup Creek in McDowall County
A strange stream in McDowall county West Virginia meanders by the hamlet of Vivian and then circles a land tract before rejoining itself. The serpentine flow is blamed on the landscape that sinks in a spiral pattern as described by the Exchange.
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Boup -Creek
McDowall_ county
W. Va
Vivian
The Coaching Party Heads Across Africa to Chinatown
A lively busking verse describes a coaching party marching through Africa to Chinatown. Horses race ahead as travelers meet locals and clear the road to avoid being run down.
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Africa
Chinatown
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W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber Company
Tunis Mills
H. S. Fountain
W. W. Tunis & Bro. Lumber CO
J.M. Beavien
Hidesboro, MD
J. ML. Reaven
Hillsboro
J. A. Smere & Bro
Ridgely, MB
Engiety
T. C. Hackett
Queen Anne, Md
Baltimore Coal Tar and Manufacturing Company
W. Caspen Stieet
Baltimore
Niewspa Perrhshive
Sir Boutin
Harry Stillwell Edwards
The
Century Company
Sorthern
Jennie
Oregon
Criver
Missouri
Newstart
rEpPe
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