Sweet Cicely Reilly and I. A Gael ballad fragment
In verse, Cicely Reilly and I vow to marry despite Cicely's father, Anthony Reilly. The speaker recalls shared moments on an old oak, the breeze, and the urgency of parental consent or a secret marriage, as they face family opposition and hope for blessing.
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Cicely
Anthony
Anthony Reilly
Quesa
Cicely Reilly
J. —W. J. Crosby
The
Gael
Indiana
A Close Shave Lessons In Pocket Discipline
Henry Topping recalls a train mishap where a Southwestern manager for a big firm loses his cash traveling to Topeka. He pleads passengers, a stubborn conductor, and Sheriff McCook impersonators for a loan, finally borrowing ten dollars from a stranger after a tense ride. The tale ends with a vow to never let his money vanish again.
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Henry Topping
Southwestern
Ori Bie
Sidener
St. Louis
Chicago
Topeka
Prent
Osage
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Arkansas City
Valley Center
Sheriff McCook
Vailey Centre
McCook
Greer County
T. and
T. Company
Jay
John H. Raftery
Chicago Record-Herald
Crow Ringing Experiment Aims to Track Migrations
At Tossitten Western Prussia crows and rocks are netted during migrations. The Vogelwarte Rossitten director plans to tag birds with numbered rings, release them, and collect returned feet when shot. Records will track release dates and return localities to draw migration insights.
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Tossitten
Prussia
German Ornithological Society
Rossitten
Germany
Vogelwarte
Great Britain
Practical Dairy and Poultry Care From Old Farm Notes
Agricultural columns offer harness cleaning steps, wintering poultry strategy, breeding tips, and humane milking guidance. It stresses proper harness repair, cockerel management, humane nesting methods, careful feed, and gentle cow handling to improve butter quality and milk yield. France minted far more gold than Britain in the last four decades.
Late sowing wheat praised for Hessian fly resistance
Those with most experience fighting the Hessian fly advocate late sowing of wheat wherever possible. The guide highlights varieties suited for late sowing, including the beardress Clawson Long berry noted for strong growth, prolific stooling, and long heads with brown, beardless chaff and true long grain.
Longberry Red Wheat Described as Finest Quality Variety
The passage extols berry type Longberry Red wheat as dark amber, large, and of top quality. It notes bearded Sheat Longberry Red among competing heads, praises its hardiness, late sowing suitability, strong straw, thin chaff, and dark flinty grain nearly the size of rye kernels, highlighting it as a prized fancy milling variety.
Hen resolves to lead chicks despite farmer's protests
A determined hen pursues a mission to guide a brood of ducky chicks across the garden. Despite the farmer's strong objections she persists, abandoning nests and even setting on inedible objects until confronted by exasperation.
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Harnees
British Heights Rise and Global Inquiries of 1902
A survey notes average British male height up by an inch in fifty years. Reports cover powdered milk, cremation figures, army measurements, Greenland ice melt, and glacier retreat. New German match material, a large Chinese alum mountain, and unique ice formation cases also appear. A Whitcomb dialogue explores social notions, while a history of the British Museum’s lottery funding recalls 1753 Parliament acts and the Leheup case.
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Greenland
Jacobshaven
Schenck
Eton
British Museum
Canterbury
Sloane
Farbian
Peter Leheup
Lobeup
Harper’s Weekly
Appule to Charitabies at Italian cathedral door
Harper's Weekly notes a call from the Brothers of Mercy asking for alms for the Hospital at a northern Italian cathedral door. The brief mentions "They harbour all kinds of diseases" and shows religious prejudice. A separate report states seven Kentucky feuds have produced 250 murders and only two hangings.
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Italy
Mercy
Harper’s Weekly
Kentucky
Ennsylvania Railroad Schedule Notice for November
Schedule details list routes from Blakeville Blairsville Pittsburg and Samburg to Alleghany with weekly and Sunday times. Mentions agents, call for tickets, and Western District offices in Pittsburgh. Names Thos. Bh Wail and George W Oy d as officials.
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Blatevue
Samburg
Kiskhuiuetas
Mreepur
Alleghany
Olupilaye
Gao A
Blakeville
Buber
Buuirr
Wail
Western District
Fifth Avenue
Pitteuurg
Atterbury
Woop
Dpuue
George W.oyd
Gene
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Arabella
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Mrs. Whitcomb
Deacon Reynolds
Mr. Whitcomb
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Elmira
Democrat
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American Farmer
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New York Triune-Farmer and Democrat
Commoner
New York Daily World
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World
Pittabure Daily Post and Democrat
Philadelphia Daily North American and Democrat
Bombner’s Magazine
Cosmopolitan
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Vance
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Oil City
Weston
Brady
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Kittanning
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Enilonto
Tsunday
Red Bank
Sligo
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Brookville
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