Murder on Second Head in Satuit Reveals Family Webs
Mary Avery recounts the Second Head murder in Satuit Massachusetts from her family estate. She describes the close circle of neighbors including the Stows Gearys Brays Marden Eames and the Fair Weather sisters and sets the scene around her Old Place and the Merry Mere pond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edith
Brays
Gearys
Doctor Geary
Sarah Darbe
Ocean Side
Doctor Marden
Myron Marden
Paris
Caro Prentiss
France
America
Caro
Howard
Eames
Stows
Eameses
Paul
Lora Eames
Molly
Lora
Molly Eames
Satan
Satuit
Walter Treadway
Walter
Mark Avery
Connecticut
Mad River
Merry Mere
Bessie Williams
Niiece
Sylvia Sard
Nancy Burton
Sylvia
Stow
Inez Haynes Irwin
New England
Mary Avery
Patrick O’brien
Stow masquerade a yearly town social delight
The Stow mas querade is an annual fete begun twenty five years ago by Peter and Mattie after a successful masked party. Invited guests relish dressing up and keep strict secrecy, with families arriving at different times to maintain the playful ruse.
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Stow
Peter
Mattie
Stow Place
Gambling in the Army Ends in Tent Gunfire Incident
Lieutenant Tommy Griffin recalls a 1922 Fort Bragg episode where a drunken sergeant pulled a .45 during a dice game. A struggle for the weapon left John wounded in the hip while Joe fled and was captured, ending a chaotic night that unsettled the camp.
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Saratoga
Calliope
Denver
Tommy Griffin
Eighteenth Infantry
Fort Wadsworth
N. Y
Tommy
One-Hundred and Seventeenth Field Artillery
National Guard
Goldsboro
N. C
Fort Bragg
Pal
Seventh Regiment
Big Dick
Little Joe
Joe
Bill
John
Sergeant
Johnny
Pygmy Hippopotamus And Early Dutch Ovens
The pygmy hippopotamus lives only in Liberia and nearby waters in West Africa. Its eyes sit beside its head and its limbs are longer than the giant hippo, with a larger brain and greater jungle time. Early Dutch ovens in Colonial America came in round square or oblong shapes with open fronts and were often tin.
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Liberia
Negro Republic
Africa
Europe
Mediterranean
Hippo
Doan
Spirited Kittens and Cross Stitch Towels Pattern
Seven playful motifs for tea towels using cross stitch and outline stitches. Includes transfer pattern 5572 with seven 5 by 8 inch motifs, color suggestions, stitch illustrations, and material list. Send 15 cents to The Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept. in New York for pattern 5572 with name and address.
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Sewing Circle Household Arts Dept
Fourteenth St
New York
N. Y
Foreign Phrases and Their Meanings in Historical Gloss
A compact glossary lists phrases with origins and translations. It includes French and Latin terms such as Bagatelle meaning a trifle Cela sante aux yeux meaning that is self evident Id genus omne meaning all that class Jacta est alea meaning the die is cast En regle meaning according to rules Fides Punica meaning Carthaginian faith Gasconnade meaning a boastful bragging speech.
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Bagatelle
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Little Harbor
Massachusetts
Second Head
Avery
Patrick
Massachusetts Bay
First Head
Indian River
Second
Third Head
Peter Stow
Mattie Stow
Satun
Geary
Boston
Ocean
Alfred Bray
Asa Blaikie
Yu -Club
Wey
Floyd Gibbons
UU Ciu
MCMC
Ahmels
Melia Amenes
Doans
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