Uncle Abel and Aunt Huldy Bury a Barnyard Tale in Laughs
A narrated tale from Greenville Pennsylvania recounts Uncle Abel the cheerful widower and Aunt Huldy in a comic feud over a piece of rope. The yarn includes a scrunched ram, Ben Runnels pond mishaps, and a drunken tansy remedy as the pair spar and laugh.
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NCEFE
Greenville
Pennsylvania ‘Herubock — Belt
John Gilbert
Abel
Hardy
Aunt Hardy
Hiitdy
Ben Runnels
Ben
Sollice
Thaldy
Tuldy
Muldy
Tiv
Hhe
Uncle Abel
Aunt Phily
Joe Bevan
Joe Kep
Ted
Huldy
Fluldy
Jone
Lero Widderer
Pola
Hukly
Jess
Puzzle of early power use and distant anecdotes
AFrom Ontario mill history to river hydraulics and old ethnographic theories. A scattered mix cites Niagara power, Chinese farming, a Cherokee form of marriage, and projections about US divorce rates, with disparate notes on August Porter and Portage canals. The style resembles late 19th century miscellany.
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Alionte
Ontario
Daring
Australia
China
Niagara
Augustus Porter
Dn Isoft
Bizarre Early 20th Century Observations and Inventions
A collection of curious notes describes icebergs melting to power, birth survival rates, a lunar metal test for gold and silver, electric hair curling by a barber device, and Major new power plants. Also details reindeer introductions to Alaska, and New York City’s Metropolitan Street Railway power plant claiming 72 600 horsepower.
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W. Very
Ladd Observatory
Providence
Alaska
Congress
Ladd
Yukoun
Elarris
Abaskia
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
New York City
Selentide American
Catopant
Lucania
New York Power Horse
The Nationality of Mont Blanc Agitation in Haute Savoie
In Haute Savoie a wave of protest seeks to rename the department from its current designation to Mont Blanc. Annecy’s municipal council discussed the issue in a lively session and then approved a unanimous move affecting other municipalities and departmental representatives.
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Mont Blanco
Haute Savoie
Mont Blanc
Annecy
Arso
France Seeks to Rename Mont Blanc to Assert National Ties
A London Globe note claims Haut Savoy residents and Chamounix supporters want Mont Blanc identified as French not Swiss. Annecy officials allegedly push to prove Mont Blanc Chamounix and Annecy belong to France, though some say the area is Italian.
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Hauts-Savoyards
Chamounix
Mont Blancs
France
Switzerland
Albion
Mont Blane
Mont Blanc
Annecy
The
Alps
Italy
India's Ancient Crafts and Hunger Myths Across Regions
A historic overview notes long established cotton production over two millennia and a vast Indian post system handling hundreds of millions of items annually. It highlights hunger in 20 to 40 million people, shifting gender roles, and evolving customs such as nose rings and royal ties to wedding ornaments, reflecting socio economic and cultural currents of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Bombay
Hableton Mine
Vistuvu
The Quaker Oak Sale and the Kearsarge Warship Oak
Whittier tells of a New Hampshire Quaker farmer whose timber supply drew government interest for Civil War shipbuilding. He warned that any timber sold to the United States should be sound, as his oak aided the Kearsarge in its fight with the Alabama.
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Whittier
Hittipshire
Wohitutler
United States
Kearsarge
Alabama
Cherokee Marriage Form Joins Bands Over Rural Stream
A concise note describes the Cherokee marriage ceremony as a symbolic joining of bands over a stream, reflecting couples’ hopes for a shared future. The text reflects on notions of rural life and imagined urban futures.
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Abel, Holdy
Vnele Abel
New York Sun
Alfred Coolidge
Second National Bank of
Colfax, Wash
Labor Niedelve
Prague
Brudder Jones
Methuselah
Indian Post Office
Orissa
Bensal Presidency
Queen Victoria
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