Call a Man and the Burglar Shadow
A long tale mixes a bashful farmer John Jackson who flees from a girl named Nancy Clark after a snake event, ending with Nancy's intervention at the barn and John’s marriage, followed by a comic London burglary account about a would‑be thief guiding a reluctant witness through a mock crime and near‑capture at Covent Garden.
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John Jackson
John
Nancy Clark
Jackson
Nancy
Tomill
Jobn
Tadiza
Joan
Clark
Calla
Covent Garden Theatre
Iamel Tian
Theo
Moorgate Street
London
Brighton
South Coast
London Bridge
Sat
Tom
Hun
Tudgute Hill
Ciller’s
Pasvei
Rome
Lde
Tsiliac
Thief's treacle plot and Wallace's Fort history
A digressive tale recounts a burglary with a treacle smeared cloth to breach a skylight then a chase ending with a police capture. It shifts to Wallace's Fort in Westmoreland County, describing Fort Wallace on a bluff above McGee's Run, its early settlers, and Peter Wallace who built the first grist mill in western Pennsylvania.
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Wallace's Fort
Wallace
Fort Washice
Fort Wallace
McGee’s Run
Westmoreland County
Blairsville
Ting Point
Westmhoreland County
Peter Wallace
Pennsylvania
Allegheny
Puede i
Howa Bride and Bridegroom Appeared in 1770
A vivid 1770 wedding description details the bride with an elevated pomade crowned hair tower and white powder, a bosom pin, hooped gown, white kid shoes, spangles, and a long-heeled silhouette. The groom wears sky blue silk coat and vest embroidered in gold, pink ribbon knee ties, white silk stockings, laced pumps, lace cuffs, frill, and a miniature of his beloved.
Essay on Tobacco My sister Nancy and a tale of cigars
A quirky rustic reminiscence on tobacco ideas and habits. The narrator jokes about cabbage like tobacco, notes wooden tobacco stores and shopkeepers fooling children, mentions Walter Raleigh, and recounts a girl named Nancy and a suitor Leroy. the tale ends with a humorous remark about a pipe and a harsh reaction from Nancy.
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Walter Raleigh
Nancy
Leroy
Tom
Funny Bird Doctor Performs In Australia
A traveler recalls a tame cockatoo nicknamed the doctor. The bird feigns a toothache and beaks twists in agony, croaks that remedies are useless, and requests whisky. It pretends to sew with a cloth, slips on a perch, and later soars aloft as a hawk’s cry echoes above the supper scene.
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Australia
Fragmented historical notes on rights, war tales, and figures
Fragmentary OCR reads of varied topics including Emmi, London rights, Clearfield population doubling, a Boston-Washington connection, jail purchases for criminals, Todgings at Bridgeport, Roanoke lineage, Wise, West Point, and Confederate officers. Anecdotes cite Gen Sherman, Prussian events, and a Varennes-like chateau tale.
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Emmi
A. Randolph
Bridgeport
Cunns
Ion
John, Randolph
Roanoke
Wise
West Point
Philadelphia
Apple &c
Shermand
Calfornia
Sherman
de Reumorit
Grand Veispartsuita
Varennes
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Indiana
A Progress
Possizsed
Taursday
Philadelfna
Indiana, Indiana County
Professionat
Amuel A. Douglass
ATO AT -Law
Unice
A. Raterston
Fen
Clysost Street
GTP
A. Wilson
Lore
Gavan & Clark
Arronvets-s7-Lasy
India
Eerie Wittam
Juin N. Banks
Puthidetts
Gompers & Co
Ty ‘Law
Udiceun Puiladelpnisatreet
Uditlaey Attounet-At Law
Init
Hank Builling Sppost Courk House
Anne
Samael Lyon
Attornes-at-Law
Imans
Gdrefrilly
Palladelphia
Mahoning Streets
Als
Seanny Waitt
Rotle White & Boyle
Hildvbranis Deng
Clairsville Marble Works
Dianaco
Palmer & Runyan
William T. Birk
Arch Street
Front
Second Sige Funavenenta
Ansley, Wirth Snyder, Harris, Bassett & Co
Ftamnes Cgc Rolver
Fustres & Gazdis
Imporpers Ann General
Nurth Hss
PTA Delphia 39
Gwomaa
Avlued
Wholesale Clothiers
Chota
Catatoerer Centings
Otha
Cassineres
McCamas
Allen
ML Parham
Cwipis
Jas.Mitenels Widlipaees
A. Pre
Lorsliner Parham
Linpencott & Co
Whulestle
Mirket Street
B.cunsingitas
John B. Glemn
Joan M. Lewats
Cuanlasham, Greim & Co
Wroresabée Dialens Ly
Omracco
Shgars
Noaa North
BEN
Smedley Brothers
Manufacterera
Paladelehia
Gerf
Tage
TLESR
Prambers
Rogers, Boble
Suru
Gconrad
Miess
Rogers & Chambers
Comaterce Street
FPA
S. Kelly
Selexburg
IP Compson Dowson
Latrobe
Pisoni Street
Latrobe, Pa
Hira
Anil
Broad Street
Thad
Phe
Funny Bird
Colgan
McMahon
Steff
Turk
Colson
Wellias
Victoria
Jentan
Sian
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