The Picnic and the Stray Pin Fable
Lily Place attends a rural picnic with Jessie and Lottie Carle. She ignores a pin test and loses her overskirt to a cow but learns Fannie Morris's motto about picking up stray pins. Her mother uses the mishap to teach caution and responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fannie Morris
Cousin Fan
Lily Place
Lily
Kitty
Aunt
Lessie Carle
Jessie
Lottie Carle
Fannie
Karl
Belle Clayton
Mr. Carle
Belle
Vaunie
Ping
Caught Coyote Turns Dangerous for Local Boys
A schoolmaster frees the class for play to catch a coyote after snow on Coon Creek. Ben Bell and companions use dogs and pitchforks, trap the den, but the coyote bites Ben, throwing him into ice, and he lies home sick for over a week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Green
Johnny
Coon Creek
Ben Bell
Bill Hicks
Ben
Robert Haley
Fashionably dressed visitors fill Jefferson Mansion ball
The Jefferson City Tribune recalls a governor’s reception where Mrs Woodson wore gaslight green silk en train, trimmed with pale pink silk, with many guests noted for elaborate outfits. Miss Morrison of St. Louis styled in a white swiss dress and blond beauty, while Miss Beaty from Boonville drew praise for rose silk and lace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Tribune
Laird
Miss Morrison
St. Louis
Bowman
Danville
Mary Woodson
Manning
Matson
Miss Beaty
Boonville
Miss Bell Branch
Miss McDonald
St. Joseph
Lillie’ Crawford
Gussie Thompson
Mrs. Pratt
Harrison
Miss Lizzie Long
Miss Longan
Mrs. Salmon
Mrs. Wells
Siegel
Alice Sebree
Minnie Christie
Miss Mansfield
Sadie Bolton
Sallie Bolton
John Heinrichs
Mary Noland
Dr. Jackson
Bates County
Mamie Dunscomb
Lou Davison
Mitchell
Kansas City
N. E. Miller
Fannie’ Moore
Nellie Uorning
Mollie Weiss
Walter Young
Sallie Moore
Botsford
Mollie Lingo
Custom Milling Services Offered at Yellow Creek Flour Mill
The proprietor announces readiness to perform all kinds of milling related custom work with guaranteed satisfaction. The notice is dated 1843 to 1844 and cites Yellow Creek Flour Milling Mills as the source.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nanny
Justice of the Peace
Eich
Little River County
Rocky Comfort
Jaamon
William Lane
Baileyville
Ogie Co
Ill
I. H. Miller
Exchange and
Bridge Streets
Freeport
J. Kline
Tf Potts & Davis
W. W. Robey
Geo
Thompson
Frank Miller
Stephenson St
Robey, Thompson & Co
William Russell
Deasers
Wim. Russell
Stephenson County
Court House
Young
Elias N. D. Sanborn
Cies H. D. Sanborn
Said
Charles G. Sanborn
Elizabeth M. Sanborn
P. L. Unangst
Peter L. Unangst
Sarah Mangst
WM. A. Mangst
Michael Stoskopf
Health
Elizabeth Dodds
E. B. Shumway
E.h.shumway
Norris Ward
E. H.shumway
Henry Fox
Stephenson
Tllinois
See & Aspinwall
Compl
Circuit Court
Illinois
Aurelia Mayer
Almina Mayer
Reptharr
Liberty Mill
Township
Twenty-Seven
Liberty Mills
John PF. Mayer
Saed Ib. Smith
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Hilde
Dublin
Aeridan
Tom
Bobby
Beau
Hig Sister
Mary
Jenkins
Sergant Warne
Duke of Northwland
Douglas
John Phillips
James
Tyd
Sarah
Rine
Faour
California
Wall
Guss
Jim
Joney
Lily’s Lessor
Bva Bichey
Athantel Parker Willis
Yellow Creek
Ing Mills
Joseph Baylore, Miller
Olive
Neam
Broad
A. F. Broad
Blue
L. Lautenbach
Col
Chicago and
Galena
H. M. Timms
P.O
Stephenson Co
Peard’s Patent
Messrs
Hettinger & Williams
Minonk Coal
Chicago & Minonk Coal CO
Minonk
Ills
Blossburg
Commission ‘Stable
Armer’ss
St Gray
D. Blanchard
Gray
C. D
BLAN
Woolen Mills
W. W
Robey Geo, Mompson
Chard, D. H, Sunderland, Gray, Blanchard & Co
Cassimeres Tweede
Douskinse
Bega
Ag the Fresh
Whittier, Howard, Warner, Owen
Sins Upon
Longfellow
Agassiz
Idyich
Parton
Art and Science
W. D. Howells
J. G. Whittler
Entral Persod
Holmes
Bayard Taylor
Walls, Eggleston
Rent Literature
Tates
Charles Dudley Warner
Robert Dale Owen
United States
David A. Wells
Atlantic
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