Kentucky Hermit once a local leader in Bardstown area
Born Basil Hayden ten miles east of Bardstown in Nelson county he is in his mid seventies and has not set foot on the ground in over thirty years living in a large rural estate. A wealthy farmer he descends from a notable pioneer family. His brother Raymond Hayden founded a famous whisky brand and once controlled a major distillery. The hermit was a social leader in youth and later joined the Confederate Army where he proved a capable soldier.
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Bardstown
Nelson County
Basil Hayden
Raymond Hayden
United States
The
Herbert
Willis Simpson
Wichita
B. L. Matthews
Rice County
Joseph New
Eureka
Greenwood County
James Cobb
W. P. Freeman
Kansas Penitentiary
Simmons
Sedgwick County
SNEEZED FORTY DAYS AND THE GIRL WITH A RECORD
A Washington schoolgirl begun sneezing at nine in October and produced about 1500 sneezes in the first hour. Doctors tried sedatives and chloroform without relief until a deep nasal growth was removed by electric needle surgery. After multiple operations the sneezing subsided and finally stopped.
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Walter A. Wells
Reclusive magnate bewails emancipation and plots seclusion
The article depicts a powerful, elderly landowner living in isolation after emancipation. He denounces divine justice, vows never to tread his lord's ground again, and restricts contact to a few, while his vast estate operates under a silent overseer. A Bardstown banker conducts needed finances. His outward appearance is described and a recent mule sale noted.
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Bardstown
Hayden
Keep Love Secure in Home and Courtship
A Ladies' Home Journal excerpt advises that early marriage thrives on steady moral qualities. Love should endure through trials by practicing honesty, sincerity, magnanimity, and mutual respect, staying on a high plane together.
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Helen Watterson Moody
Ladies’ Home Journal
Levi Ubeos
Iest
Electric rain idea gains fleeting attention in history
The text discusses attempts to create electrical rain by charging moisture to trigger rainfall. It notes repeated efforts without practical success and mentions a hypothetical capture or control of fog and moisture to produce a beneficial agricultural effect across a state, though no workable method is achieved.
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Tara
Women Who Earn Constantly on Their Feet
A reader letter from Nancie Suro of Florence Colorado describes chronic womb trouble caused by standing and backaches. She credits Lydia E Pinkham’s Medicine with relieving pain, improving health, and ending long periods of weakness after trying many remedies. A second note from Potty Peaws Kansas reports relief from headaches and fatigue after using the medicine.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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