Drake Worker of Miracles and Elizabeth Drake Tale
The article compares Elizabeth Sydenham wife of Sir Francis Drake to Penelope awaiting Ulysses. After ten years with no word Elizabeth yields to a suitor, then a miraculous message from Drake’s spirit arrives just as the wedding would begin, declaring he is alive and halting the match.
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Elizabeth Sydenham
Sir Drake
Penelope
Ulysses
Sir Francis
Elzabeth
Drake
Itle
Wrancis
Koluit
Sir Francia
Eligzabeth
Denke
Australia’s New Clancy Musters Sheep by Airplane
North Queensland explorer Mr. Love uses an aircraft to muster two large flocks in six weeks. The plane gathers scattered sheep around the paddock and drives them to the right corner, finishing before traditional stockmen. He boasts the feat could have been done by driving them through his own gate.
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Australia
Clancy
Banjo” Patterson
Queensland
Love
A Messenger Boy Aims for Quick Delivery
A fragmentary dialogue shows a messenger boy urged to hurry and deliver a message, with rough dialogue about effort and speed, including the phrases Gezxo and a garbled line about an intense journey. The scene hints at street life and urgent communication in an urban setting.
Kitchen Cabinet Recipes and Teas for Comfort Foods
A compact collection of home kitchen instructions lists desserts soups and fruit dishes. It covers pineapple pie apple fillings baked apples with quince and a simple coal of beverages including a Chinese tea blend said to drive away sorrow.
Tanlac advertised as child health tonic proofed by cases
A newspaper advertisement touts Tanlac as a safe vegetable remedy for delicate children. It cites three cases: Blanche Ebina aged 14 gaining pounds, Gina McCabe aged 9 gaining 15 pounds, and Richard Leary Jr. from Philadelphia improving from frail to robust. Parents praise Tanlac for improved appetite, color, and energy, claiming drastic weight gains and recovery from illness.
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Aks Blanche Parse Ebina
Gina McCabe
Scranton
Richard Leary, Jr
Philadelphia
A. M. Biair
Atwood Street
Providence
Kt. T
Tantac
Taniae
Catherine McCabe
Dickene Ave
Heginn
Tanluc
Tanlac
Febard Lefiy
Palethorpe St
Tanne
Peter Perkins Prominent Pepper Profiteer in Pittsburgh
Peter Perkins of Venton amassed 120 pecks of peppers, proving his prowess as a pepper propagator and a non piker in pepper picking. A Boston Transcript note urges parents to lead by example and not push children toward paths they avoid themselves.
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Pittsburgh
Peter Perkins
Venton
Peter
Boston Transcript
To Avoid the Rush and a Peculiar Barroom Exchange
Last evening a man asks a puzzled father to explain his daughter seated on another man’s lap. The reply claims arrival early before the others. A fragment notes a buyer paying on installments with a castle in the ale.
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Carolina Tor Buby
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