The town fool plots revenge in a small Illinois town
Jimmy Landon once mocked as town fool grows curious about Colonel Bliss a crippled lecturer. After trapping the colonel for theft he seeks revenge as a wave of robberies hits the town including a widow post office and a dry goods store, with the colonel guiding investigations and the boy absorbing rumors to act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colonel Bliss
Jimmy Landon
Coloniel
Jimmy
Reading
Bliss
Town Fool Traps Colonel in Bank Robbery Tale
A town tale centers on a clever lad named Jimmy Landon and a wheelchair-bound colonel. After a spree of robberies including a hardware store and a bank, the colonel is exposed when the bear trap and pursuit reveal his fraud. He goes to prison for ten years, while the town fool remains in local lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jimmy
Colonel Bliss
Jimmy Landon
Coronel
Colonel Buss
Brief Names Across Regions Mentioned by O Author
In the Zuider Zee and Amsterdam a river share the brief name Y while a Chinese town, a French river, and a Swedish town also bear similar short names. The piece recalls Theresa O in Brussels and a Mme O in Paris tied to an amusing military service incident where a illiterate son signed without a cross, not realizing his need to sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zuider Zee
Amsterdam
China
Tionan
France
Sweden
Toston Peet
Golf Tales Turnless Tales into Odd Sporting Lore
A collection of whimsical snippets and anecdotes from a London style column. Golf features alongside fish, birds, detectives, and ghostly jokes. Notable items include a fish killed on a Totteridge course, a trout struck by a golf ball at Newark, and Hawick where a gull and a weasel were killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herts
Totteridge
Newark
Fos Truth
Hawick
London
A. P
Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for uterine disease
The piece argues many female ailments are symptoms of uterine disease and promotes Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prescription as a safe, tonic remedy. It praises its origins, claims it strengthens the system, aids nervous symptoms, and adds Pleasant Pellets for digestion, urging use by overworked and frail women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
St. Vitus
Daily and Sunday subscription terms listed
The fragment shows pricing lines for daily and Sunday editions across multiple durations including one month three months six months and one year. Additional notes mention Kaneaeenee Daily with Sunday edition priced at one year and a Sunday edition at one year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee
Kaneaeenee
TRUSTEES' SALE OF VALUABLE FEDERALSburg PROPERTY
Trustees will sell at Federalsburg two tracts with canning house and a shirt factory site. Tract 1 lies along Main Street near the Nanticoke river, 7700 square feet, with canning facilities. Tract 2 includes Lot A and Lot B parcels totaling 1308 square feet with drainage rights and an operational shirt factory. Sale by cash, title at purchaser expense. Deen and Deen trustees.
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Caroline County
Federalsburg
F.G. Dorsey
Nanticoke
Dorsey
A. R. Messick
James H. Morris
William SJ. Alburger
Willian Brewster Deen
Elmer W. Deen
William Brewster Deen
J. Edward Douglass
Court House
Denton
Bell Mount
Huntington
Hunting Creek Neck
Maryland
Choptank River
James C. McCarter
Wood
Hind
D. 5. Waldron
Mary E. Douglass
Martha A. Medford
Orphans’ Court
Doan's Kidney Pills Endorsement Ad From Dover Reader
Daniel Farrow Sr of Dover Delaware praises Doan's Kidney Pills, detailing relief from sedimented urine and backache after five years free of kidney trouble. The Foster Milburn Co Buffalo is listed as U S sole agents with a 51 cent price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dean
Bright
Doan
Daniel Farrow
Kirkwood Street
Dover
Del
Fruit Growers urged to fight San Jose Scale with lime and sulfur
A Maryland grower letter urges fruit farmers to spray with Orchard Brand Lime and Sulphur Wash to control San Jose Scale, noting changes in modern farming. The note praises J Spencer Lapham for seven prizewinning fruit at a Baltimore society meeting and cites a Goldsboro example. It offers guidance, asks orders, and promises tips for first timers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Jose
Prince George County
Thompson Chemical Co
J Spencer Lapham
Horticultural Society
Baltimore
Alg
Gelletly
P.S
Laphant
Goldshoro
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Denton Journal
Edward Melvin Benji
B. JO
Melvin & Johnson, Publishers
MAF
the Town Fool
T. C. McClure
Graham
Stringer
Bills
Illinois
Ife
Bad Deen
Srree
Stephen Adams
Amptom
Dublin
Dudgeon
London News
England
America
United States
Government of
A. Lawrence Lowell
Cocka
Kansas City Journal
Virtue
The
Baltimore American
the Daily American
Felix Agnus
Chas. C. Fulton & CO
J. M. Haymaker
Dian
Ridgely, Maryland
G. T. Keddlen & CO
T. Fred Garey
Bailifi
Battorm
Parnell Johnson
Pensions and Claims
Criginal
Increase
P.O. Bos
Greensboro
C. E. Lister
P.O
Anthony's Mill
Anthony
James A. Hastings
Thomas H. Jones
Lillsboro
F. Garey
Attorney-at-Law
E. Lexington ST
Baltimore, Md
Maine
Wilbur E. Jacobs
Burrsville
Plymouth Rock
Plymouth
F. B, Russell
Denton, Md
Allen
Federalsburg Property
Arnold R. Messick
Thomas O. Jeferson
Elmer W. & Wm
Brewster Deen
Attorneys At Law
Harvey L. Cooper
John W. Clark
Aud’r. Trustee
Nisi
Harvey L. Scone
Edward Mtonglass
Circuit Court
Equity
Thomas L. Day
J. Frank Wright
Robert B. Gray
Carrie Gray
Caroling County
Wyoming
Delaware
James E. Graham
Gospel of the Methodise Episcopal Church
Hazlettville
Kent County
W. Brewster Deen
Lipper
Nevius & Framptox
Easton, Md
Gullin
Wilmington
Bradley
W. D. Bradley
P. O. Box
Your Magazine Man
Preston, MD
Scrapple
Willard. Thawley
D. C
Wits Oulie
Accnnstessens
Nesnne
D. S. Brockway
Greensboro, Md
H. Whitby
Henderson’s Wharf
Fell St
Mad
Jack
Brown
Tuckalice Neck
James Neighbors
Whiteleynsburg
Jack Price
Chark
T the
Dors Farm
Price Farm
WM. H. Lord
Thomas, Groom
Post & Schleisner
Lexington Street
Howard Street
BRWRR
Lexington St
W. H. T. Wilson
Howard St
Wilton
Axminster
Brussels
W. H. T. Wilson Furniture Co
N. Howard Bst
Fiulberry Street
Geo
Dearborn
Kelley's
Henry Gastelberg
Lexington and Eutaw Sts
Lexington
Tain
Europe
Tam
Wade & Butcher
Guananteco
Hopson Supply Co
West
Stecer
New York City
Call Journal
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