Wild Peach and Frontier Dreams in Pennsylvania Family Tale
A humorous family saga traces Susan Mahaly known as Wild Peach from a Cambridge frontier county to a Westward move. It follows Rufus and Susan’s rugged life with kin and neighbors, a clock gift, and Jennie’s later marriage and musical ambitions amid 19th century rural, social, and transportation changes.
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Susan Mahaly
Heroa
Andy Jackson
Cambridge
Mass
Swizzett County
Pennsylvania
Susan
Turnverein
Rufus
Yender
Trinity
Jennie
Hiram
Kansas
Red Fox
Kenesaw Mountain
Jennia
Juanita
Chicago
Frances
The Western Metropolis Love Story of Frances and Willoughby
A sprawling tale follows Frances, a social climber in a bustling city, and her bond with Willoughby, a cautious heir. Through lavish homes on State Street, era wardrobes, and a marriage of convenience, the couple navigates status, money, and the lure of a new life.
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Hiram
Institution of Learning
Chicago
Joe Weber
Frances
First National Bank
Peoria
Decatur
Jennie
Susan
Frank Chance
Willoughby
State Street
van Duren Street
Switzer County
Pennsylvania
Reno
Nevada
Liberty Street
Hope Avenue
Ethel Louise
Ethel’s Turbulent Romance and the Hubberts Wild Divorce
Ethel recounts a turbulent affair with Hubert including travel by yacht through the Mediterranean, debts in Paris, and an expensive necklace theft in Vienna. After repeated betrayals and a bitter estrangement, she seeks divorce as a moral lesson on reckless wooing and impossible matches.
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Miss Sniffie
Hhudson
Europe
Hubert
Chesapeake Bay
Mediterranean
Paris
Monte Carlo
Cairo
Egypt
Skidoogan
Bilarty
Ethel
Pyramids
Precious
Vienna
Earth
Taw
Amslopagus
Tyrol
Rufus
Tales and quirks from nature and leisure in old papers
A collage of curiosities and anecdotes. It describes camels tempted by cigars, explains nightingale singing dropping after hatch, and parodies labor drills and a self powered ski craft. Humorous observations weave through periods of natural science and leisure trends from Outing and Cincinnati Commercial Tribune style.
Inventions We Need and the Could Be Edisons
A meditation on hidden inventors and unrealized ideas. The essay notes silk stocking frames, commercializing weeds, durable paints, rust resistant iron, and coatings that resist weather. It imagines sea cities and urges readers to seek usable innovations in everyday observation and nature’s patterns.
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Edison
Nature
A Good Word for the Crow From Harper's Magazine
The piece argues for the crow as a valuable insect eater despite its reputation. It notes the crow scavenges and helps control white grubs cutworms and grasshoppers while lamenting the void its absence would leave in landscapes. The prose recalls summer songs and mountain skylines as the crow calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eeields
Harper’s Magazine
Art and Nature in Human Craft Reflect In Creative Waste
Quote by Sheldon Cheney on art as nature shaped by man and the dangers of two waste poles. The first waste occurs when the artist forgets interpretation and produces only a photographic image. The second waste arises when form is perfected without igniting passion or fire.
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London Strauad
Sheldon Cheney
Outdoor Life and Sporting Page Reading Habit
An ornery quip from the Washington Star notes a doctor advising more outdoor interest and jokes about reading every word on the sporting page to profit from the suggestion. The exchange highlights leisure literacy and a columnist tone in early 20th century newspapers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weiling
Washhizton Star
Orator Declares Surface Tenacity Masks Deceptions
In a wry London Tit Bits exchange the crowd questions a governor about buying a barrel of apples. The quip highlights surface bravado masking deeper deception among people.
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Guvinor
London
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O. M. Hignutt
Williston, Md
Tom Barron
Barron Wyckoff
Candee Mammoth
Cedar Mount Farm
Denton
I. H. Hirs
J. Virgil Moor HF
Hdonton
Wrarylands
Hillsboro
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Philadelphia Silos
Lansing
Hocking Valley
S. Longnecker, Q
Denton, MD
E. Finley Clark
M.L. Veasey
Pocomoke City, Md
Oscar Clark Denton
McAllister
F. W. McAllister Co
N. Charles St
Baltimore, Md
DU Four
F Street
Washington, D. C
Enclose Inc
Family Story Paper
Vandewater St
New York
Harry L. Scott
Maryland
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