Laughing Owl Haunts Missouri Night Journey
A traveler in eastern Missouri recalls sunset struggles finding lodging among German settlers and seeking shelter after nightfall. He encounters two emigrant wagons, shares a campfire, and endures a terrifying hyena like laughter from a maniac before finding safe refuge at a farmhouse. The piece also includes colonial era recollections and recipes for lemon custard and cough candy from period magazines.
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Missouri
Osage
Aistance
Laughing Owl
Kansas City Times
Hood's Sarsaparilla Gains Public Confidence
A compact note touts Hood's Sarsaparilla for waking the system and gaining trust with families. It suggests using Hood's Pills as a dinner pill and general tonic, while mentioning hives can result from sud den perspiration or indigestion and offering home remedies like castor oil or vinegar for itching.
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Karper
James Pyle
N.Y
Poultice dispute ends with wrong foot gagged
A Canadian boy in Ontario resisted a poultice for a foot sliver. His mother and grandmother forced the treatment with a switch in a bedside showdown. As they bragged the poultice was in place, the boy’s voice from under the covers shouted that it was the wrong foot.
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Ontario
Eddie
Woman reading on fashion and manners in 19th century periodicals
The snippet discusses fashion guidance stressing warm tinted gowns over pale complexions, minimal black use, and button garniture from French modistes. It notes Paris styles favor extreme simplicity with plain gold embroidery and modest trimming, plus a humorous exchange about apple dumplings between Lebelia and Mr McSwat.
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Davis
Atchison Globe
Paris
Lebelia
Mr. McSwat
Mrs. McSw
Quips and oddities from old newspapers spark playful proverbs
A stitched collage of humorous lines from Boston Commercial Bulletin and New York World highlights cheeky maxims about boats, mosquitos, thirst, and foolhardy judges. It notes a New Mexico jail as a live oak with a chain and perfect ventilation. A French centenarian story jokes about kings. An ear of corn key rack offers a quirky DIY tip.
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Boston Commercial Bulletin
New Mexico
New York World
M. Chevruel
France
N. Y. News
News in Brief From Loonlake Washington to Dexter Kansas
The item reports Mrs Harrison leaving Loonlake for Washington, over 15 000 marchers in Portland, a bank robbery in Dexter Kansas for 3900 dollars with a pistol, editor Joseph B. Rucker killed in Somerset Kentucky, a divorce with alimony in Kentucky, speeches by Patrick O Donnell in Chicago, a custody bid in a divorce case, a knife fight between John Boggett and Thomas Cain, a subsequent gunfire attempt, and a hotel anecdote about a boy named Hal and a rain joke.
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Harrison
Loonlake
Washington
Wriday
Portland
Ore
Dexter
Kas
Joseph B. Rucker
Somerset, Ky
John Miller
Alice
Kittie
John Boggett
Thomas Cain
Maryland St
Boggett
Cain
Buskirk
City Markets TUESDAY Sept 4 prices and produce list
The market opened active with advances on apples peaches and various produce. Prices cover meats canned goods dairy seeds fruits and vegetables with ranges for green coffee lard oil salt fish and poultry plus grains and hay noted by merchants Morgan & Gray and Central Packing Company among others.
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Hyyes
Searce
Indiana
California
Morgan & Gray
Central Pacing Company
Tye
Sania
Phaeno
New York
Young Americas
Lanburg
Columbia River
Dento River
Tront
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Anybods
Briialo News
Boston
Ladies’ Home Journal
BNW
Hood
Mey
Doote Fierce
Sunrose
Dr. Pierce
Business University
Tg Hees
City
Little Hal
Val
Frank
Mamma
Weare Sarsaparila
Long
Wiegeare
Prapaid
Pamputet
Nizer
Eala
South-st
Indiera Pairt & Rogfing
Walker
Rousehold Gods
Icnie
Circle Street
O. Scherghns
JG Welera
East
Washington Street
FA Apapolis
Mickets PI
Enaeylyia
Nerve Bennscu
Browning & Fon
Evans Chemical Go
Cincinnati
O. U.S, AY
Nao
Roy T
Popular Column
Lanna
Tasch Baduch
Cil
Yulschner
Sap
Pennsylvania
Tar Sun
Perr Hguis
Wade Ste
Ernay
Mr. N Goodwin
Joseph Arthur
Blue Jeans
Dor Davidson
Ramle Austin
Pouwar Pricas
Ampire
Wabash
Delaware
Ceagles McCarthy
Travelers’ Register
Wil Saa
Dylon
South Elinois Streat
Medianavclis Union Metion
Diet
Berper Laois
Comming
Ind
Lossetty Philadelphis
Nows
Baltimore
Gsgion
Springfield
Martinsville
Vincennes
Madisen
Solumbus
Pratiadalus
Knightstown
Richmond
Columbus
Souisville
Ida Yifta
Madison
Pittsmitby
Mast Pyton
Logansport
Obicago
Wen
Iba
Louis
Irdianapolis Union Station
St. Louis
Terra Hat
Evansville
Greencastle
Terre Hiamte Ace
Atm
Iodianapolis
Isle
Duteauf Szla
Louie Tatz
Wileava
North Bay
Biz Four
Jackson Place
Union Station
A. Bronson
Chicago
ONN Cinnati
Onin Station
Detroit
Aptain
Alps
Sreept
Ative Il
Bea
Spice
Hay
Indianapolis
Pallosa Vvastibuloa
Parer
Gloing
Arcvive
Chicaroa
Chieneo
Pol UW
Monon
Feationied Blonod
Unico
Dali Eaoe
South Illinois
Unicon
Ceree
Charles F. Meyer & CO
Washington Stret
Fonah
Bava Basa
L'Envoy
Mator Taylor
North
Illinois
North Pennsylvania
W. W. Bennett
Organized Labor
Marion County
Dalton's
Bates House
Frank L. Gates
Typographics’ Union
James H. Deery
Paper Hangers’ Union
Henry Gale
Carpenters’ Union
Wm. Johnston
T. A. Gallagher
Machinists’ Union
Dalton
Hatter
Bates
Jamison Co
South Meridian Street
Telephone
Parrott & Taggart
Chevalier & Lawson
Bryoreandayssl GY
Browning & Son
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