The Lady of the Novel in a Century Time Warp
A satirical tale follows a fashionable twentieth century heroine racing through a medieval fantasy. She and a knight clash over language, a dragon, and a royal court as a tournament unfolds with modern attitudes colliding with old manners.
Boy Attacked by Angry Swan in Cemetery Lake
Seven year old Joseph Good Jr was attacked by a male swan at Spring Grove Cemetery. The bird battered him with wings and bill causing serious head and facial injuries. Gatekeeper Thompson carried the boy to his parents. doctors fear possible loss of sight. The swan’s aggression is linked to its guarding nearby swanlets.
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St. George and the Dragon
Spring Grove
Joseph Good, Jr
Young Good
Papa
Thompson
Hubbard
Chicago
Bill Hinckley
N' York
Bill
Hughie Dunkey
Hi. Johnson
Hughie
Ruthern
Bruk
Sumbody
Bill Welsh
Eddie
Sim. Perkins
Bud Smith
Main Street
Soldier survives deadly lance-head snake in Martinique tale
Paris based Eclair recounts a sergeant waking a prisoner to find a six foot Latinensis lance-head coiled on the chest. Milk and a whistle lure the serpent to a bowl, then cudgels kill it. Private Durand collapses, later recovers in France with snow white hair.
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Paris
Martinique
Legrand
Durand
France
Ghost in the Graveyard at New York Store
Police investigate a reported ghost sighting near a Sixth Avenue store on Eighteenth Street. A loose vault slab and a found crutch point to a human trespasser using the graveyard vault as night cover. a detective and officers verified the legend after witnesses described a decrepit figure escaping the vault wall.
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New York
New West Twentieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Eighteenth Street
Lieut. Carey
West Twentieth Street
Bertha Howard
Melon Picking and Grading for Market Quality
It discusses picking at the right ripeness for flavor and firmness, grading by dense netting, and packing to protect uniform appearance. It explains three marketable grades, the value of proper sheds, and branding to improve prices. It notes culls for poor netting or overripe fruit and the benefit of disciplined packing.
Town Tales and Loper Jabs in Vernacular Scribbles
A collection of clipped humorous vignettes and village gossip from a small town. Palmful of dialect sketches feature a Loper as town marshal, jokes about dogs and weddings, barbershop chatter, and wry lines on pride, honor, and progress amid caustic, lighthearted jests. The pieces capture local color and character.
Wise Horse Kills Mad Dog in Pittsburg Suburb
Jolio Darlington of Sharpsburg owns a horse that intervened as children played in the road. The horse, already wounded from the dog’s bite, charged the mad dog and crushed it after the animal sank its teeth into the horse’s neck. The horse’s injuries will be fatal regardless of further events.
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Pittsburg
Jolio Darlington
Sharpsburg
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