Indiana Progress and World Notes From Wennespa
A compendium of brief items spans global and domestic topics. It notes Washington relics and a vast museum-like inventory, hardships in North Dakota, Tasmania’s population and octogenarians, James D. Reid as Father of the Telegraph, Eiffel Town shareholders’ final payment, Prince George of Wales on a torpedo boat, a women-manned schooner at Provincetown, and Malay and Indian medical and industrial observations alongside tobacco production and Africa’s changing geography.
The Stranger Becomes a Page Turned to Terror in Louisiana
A young woman recalls a night years ago at her riverbank home in Louisiana when a masked robber infiltrated the house while her father was away. A dramatic struggle ensues as she hides a pocketbook and uses a brick oven to outwit the thief. her fiancé returns with a sheriff to arrest the villain, who is later sentenced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessie
Frank Fenton
Lousiana
Frank
Fiams
Falker
Megs
Yursls
Dinah
Aunt Dinah
Carlel
Terie
Iase
Egg Plant as a Housewife’s Roast and Beef Dish
A Victorian style recipe for eggplant prepared in shells with milk and breadcrumbs, baked to a roast in a meat pan. Includes making drawn butter, frying onions, and layering slices of cold beef with brown sauce and breadcrumbs, then baking and garnishing with vegetables.
Nine Mile Bedford to Bulle View Railway Noted as Toy
A tiny nine mile railroad linking Bedford and Bulle View Mississippi features ten inch gauge, twenty pound rails, and engines and cars near ground level for safety. It crosses eleven streams with bridges 5 to 35 feet high, and runs at about twenty miles per hour though described as an expensive toy by a wealthy landowner in a Pennsylvania county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bedford
Bulleview
Miss
Moussouri
Ilinois
County
Pann
Teade
None Righteous Except Whitbread in Dorsetshire Tale
A Dorsetshire woman visits ill Joe A Whitbread and reads Romans iii 9 to him. The passage repeatedly changes to except Joe Whitbread. He protests but soon experiences repentance and joy after accepting Jesus as savior. He dies days later praising the Lord. Evangeliæ.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jor Whitbread
Dorsetshire
England
Joe A Whitbread
Joe Whitbread
Jon Whitbread
God
Jesus Christ
Jesus
Sones Bos Ibe
Evamgeliae
Fragmentary Dialogue with Odd Spellings in German Accent
A salvageable fragment depicts two speakers, one noting a good supper and pleasant smells from cabbage while the other admits dropping a match in a combing basket, explaining the scent. The lines reveal a humorous miscommunication and domestic setting with German-influenced spellings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johann
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Kermsa
Goonty
Wennespa
Washington
National Museum
Noth Dakota
Tasmania
James D. Reid
United States
Dunfermline
Beotland
Eiffel Town Company
Prince George of Wales
Mind B. Witherell
Cantaen McDonad
Provincetown
Mei
Lahore
India
London
KcRtomat
Francis
Economiste Fransais
Kacowlelse
Africa
Central Africa
Americ
Mature
C. 4
Jones
Kanes
Mx Armour
Chicago
St. Louie
Totel
Union Elevator Company
Louis St
Hacis St Elevators
Boashta
Myand Cay
Heavenly Land
Biocom
Garden of God
Kidder
the Stranger
Georgie
Earth
Mibroes
Christ
Shiorbin
Christian
Ipecac
Mr. Trombolt
Bossekop
Pierce
Dobbins
New Orleans
Hali
Bradfield
Oregon
Oregon Imigrat’n Board
Portland
Ore
Isaac Thone Zon
Hood
Bood & CO
Apothecarias
Lowell
Mam
O10 Normal University
Aba
Anuar
Ates
al Sia
Toledo
Lerer
Loner
Boer Gatti
Vienna
Tanei'l
Unsors Stave Sand
Daveamrs
Charles
Vageler CO
Gellar
CWILD
Catarre
Abe
Prom
Mandi
Siete
EL Warren Steret
LS Lee
Frazer Ris
Hineleasil
Sais
Ade
Cole Shrek
Esate Ad
Seis
Dei Stall
Medea Wainer Mor
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!