General Miles and the Wild Wagon Trail
General Miles faced a perilous follow along a twenty mile rough road in an old prairie schooner. The obstinate teamster avoided bowlders, finally narrowly missing a huge rock to keep the general safe. The driver’s fear and Miles’s sharp command ended the perilous run. Then a Maine coast tale describes fishermen seeing a seal chase by a swordfish, the seal leaping into a boat to escape, and becoming a pet.
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General Miles
Geronimo
Miles
Milez
Yolee
Chicago Tribune
Aarbor
Maine
Paderewski’s Minuet Triumph Sparks Celebrity Jest
A lively tale from Paderewski’s Conservatoire era ends with a host’s boast that a Mozart minuet was actually his own composition. A Louisville Times snippet adds a local quip about Irish wit and a story of a drunken arrest turning humorous. Kentucky bird hunting on horseback notes riders dismounting to retrieve coveys while the owner fires from the saddle.
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Paderewski
Conservatoire of Warsaw
Swiertochowski
Mozart
Yez
Louisville
Blue Grass Region
Fishing Down Chimneys And Honest Morning
A New York Sun item describes chimney fishing where a man lowers a brush and sinker to pull soot through the flue. He notes chimneys shrink with coal, making top cleaning necessary, and compares a sinker’s use to sea fishing for dislodging soot. A Boston Courier vignette follows, about a Vermont train stop where a stern old woman tests a boy’s honesty with prayers and a five cent apple errand.
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New York Sun
Vermont
Sonny
Boston Courier
Humorous Irish wit and odd tadpole tales recounted
A collection of brief anecdotes on Irish wit and repartee in court, a comical description of a husband and wife assault case, a murder witness detailing stairs, and a furniture loan suit explanation. It also includes notes on street greetings in Japan and a primer on frog metamorphosis from tadpoles to land animals.
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Emerald Isle
O’toole
Baltimore Sun
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Melvin
Steele & Johnson
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Venton Flour Mills
Purons
Denton
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Cale
William Il
Mowbray, Frenerick Paisley
Miller
Pierce
Cannon Sense
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
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Orange
Mass
Union &Q. N. Y
Chicago
Ill
Atlanta
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W.J. Blackiston
G.K. Ebling
Ridgely, Wid
Cluraco
New York
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Frick
Peerles
Ubon
Noico
Frick Company
Mechinery
Nevius & Frampton
Fasten
Likes
Berwanger & Co
J. Harry Rose
Berwanger
Cec
Balti
Battimeres Ma
TV. Smith
Ridgely
Tamaverafurer Blink
Kolstorn
R. J. Colston
Denton, MD
Murderhill River
Philadelphia
Frederica
Nathan H. Maxson
Webb's Landing
Bowers
Schem
Pier
Ieve Chester
Philadelpha
Fredirica & Phila Nay. CO
Frenfrica
A. T. Reichman
A.T. Reichman
Denton, Mad
Denton Bridge
Z. T. Hutchinson
Coulbourn & Noble
J.H. Coulbourn
Cotaitfission Merchante
Market Etreats
Charles H. Shields
Feed & Exchange
GEO. K. McGaw & CO
M. Charles Steer
Baltimore
D. H. Mauisdale
McGaw & Co
Ylena Denton
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad
Delaware & Chesapeake Railway
Pasa
P. Mia. M
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Kiladelphia
Tilmington Clayton
Kenton
Hardy
Elaughter
Marydel
Henderson
Goldsboro
Gteensboro
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Cordoys
Easton
Trappe
Oxford
North
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J. B. Hutchinson
R. Wood
Standard
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Tnny Chambers
Lubin's
Lesington St
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Cc. H. Bullock
WM. Nichols
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Vox
the Grangers
Mutual Insurance
Middletown, Md
Pate
Oscar Clark
Stora
Julia Pare
J. H.spence’s
L. Tribb’s
D. C
James Swann
The
Best Life & Fire Insurance
Danton
Maryland
G. Percy Dunning
Denton, Martland
Perparnais
Omeara
S. Nowell & Son
Preston
Federaleburg
New Market
Gaz Adrinistor
Pepe PR
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M. M. Price
W. F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch
D. F. King
W.H. Anderson, W. C. Hobbs
W. R. Peters
M. L. Blanchard
Lord
I. T. Baker
J. Culver, E. W. Ingram
Wye Station
Willoughby
Queen Anne
Hillsboro
Tuckahoe
Q. A.B. RB
Milton
Lewes
William Bopps
Grain and Hay CO
Baltimore, MD
Bair
Hughes Lumber and Coal CO
H. Towers & Pro
Williston, Mde
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