The Cottrell Streak Finds Oil on the Blot
Dan Cottrell wins a stake on Uncle Peters rocky fifty acre blot by drilling oil on the property. He proves his worth to Sally Young and earns a share in a Cottrell oil venture, naming the field The Cottrell Streak as the couple plan a nearby home.
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Dan Cottrell
Peter Cook
Rosebush
Dan'l
Peter
Dan
Hoth
Mary
Uncle Peter
Cottrell
Mr. Cook
Daniel
Cook Farm
Don
Sally Young
Hiram Young
Bailsby
Ihrain Young
Sally
Hhin
Attorney Talliby
Mr Talliby
Lis
Mr. Halliby
Mrs. Cook
Sam Gillet
Gillet
Lena
Cook
Sammy
Dan'l Cottrer
Pater
Sam
Feaw
Cottrell OH Company
Women Soldiers in German History Highlight Courage and Irony
A London Tatler piece surveys German women who served in war, naming Eleonore Prochaska who died charging under fire after earning wages as a cook, Anna Lubring who refused dismissal, Sophia Kruger who fashioned her own uniform and won the Iron Cross, and Maria Werder promoted to sergeant. It contrasts their valor with Johanna Stegen who blundered into battle apron first, blinding wounded and mistakenly carrying cartridges, earning hero status and royal praise.
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England
France
Germany
Eleonore Prochaska
Anna Lubring
Sophia Kruger
Maria Werder
Johanna Stegen
Caroline Berger
Battle of
Luneberg
Caroline
Johann
Berlin
London
Tatler
Early Books Lacked Title Pages Then Emerged
The text notes that early books began with Incipit phrases and omitted author or publisher names. A Cologne printer Therhoernen first proposed a title page around 1470, but broad adoption took about fifty years. Early punctuation was simple, using an oblique mark and a period, with one of the first uses of colon and question or exclamation marks in Lictantius printed near Itome in 1465.
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Cologne
Therhoernen
Itome
Rise and Fall of Sawbill Mine Town
Robert B Pinkerton recounts Sawbill Ontario once a bustling gold mining town. The boom built mills hotels and a power plant but high costs and depleted veins ended the venture by 1904. machinery and buildings lie idle as forest encroaches.
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Ontario
Canada
Sawbil
Sawbill
Mil Nndts
Sawhill
Robert B Pinkerton
Ontario Globe
A City in a Gorge La Paz Arrival Described by Bryre
James Bryre in his South America volume offers a vivid scene of approaching La Paz from Lake Titicaca via a high 1000 foot pass where two railways meet at Viuna. The traveler moves toward the Cordillera to find a gray city at the gorge bottom, with streets and squares laid out like a map and vehicles clinging to stone pavements.
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James Bryre
Hts
South America
la Paz
Bollyvin
Lake Titlenca
Bea
Guayaquil
Antofagasta
Cordillera
Incellin
Laaz
Phcidents
Ulin
How to Make Vinegar From Apple Parings
Instructions from National Magazine describe saving apple parings and cores, placing them in warm water in a jar, covering with a cloth, keeping warm for several days, straining, then adding one pint of molasses to the water, and letting sit for a few weeks to produce vinegar.
Different Proposition Sparks Debate on Gambling
A Louisville Courier-Journal quip questions a society’s aim to curb gambling among women. The exchange turns on wordplay as a critic doubts feasibility while another insists gambling can be stopped, highlighting witty public discourse.
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Louisvile Courier-Journal
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Denton Journal
Nee
Howard Melvin
UW. Johnson Melvin & Johnson
NoewspaperhAbhlyc
Women Warriors
GC. M
Glasgow News
Dr. Bull
Frances E. Loane
Bridgeville
Del
Baltimore
Best Store
Howard and
Lexington Streets
Opera House
Denton
Whaples & Hilbert
Eagle Ranch
Smith & Walls
Den-Mar Mobile Co
Denton Auto Co
Duas
A. Davison
Goodrich
Federal
Court House
Maryland
Franklin Street
Z. Potter Steele
Clara Deakyne
Thomas H. Wyatt
Caroline County
Bethel Brethren Church
Thawley’s Chapel Road
Soulson
Lawrence B. Towers
J. B. Colguin
Denton National Bank
Henry R. Lewis
Joan W. Clark
Federalsburg
Covey & Williams
Preston
J. A. Cox's
Hillsboro
Thompson
Henderson
Clark’s
Greensboro
Caroline CO
BA Ank Ridgely
Temple’s Dept
Joseph H. Carroll
Cole
Nuttle Hardware Co
Denton, Maryland
Nisi
T. Alan Goldsborough
W. Brewter Detssignees
Alfred Cartes
J. Kemp Stevens
True Co
al Kemp Stevens
Orphans’ Court
Mary E. Griffith
Allersons
William A. Johnson
Henry Wise
Tuckahoe Neck
Saulsbury
Samuel Colgain
Tuckahoek Neck
Sixth ST
Depot
Denton, MD
J. H. Beer
Rafe Told
Box
The
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Fobaggge
Edward J. Woods
sAacan
New York, N.V
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