Nervous Gnu Finds Self in Antelope Family on Broad Plain
The Nervous Gnu fears he is a misfit with mixed animal traits until Cheerups the parrot housekeeper helps him identify as an antelope. He learns his cousins Swift the Antelope and Springy Gazelle and returns to his flock wiser, with reassurance from Cheerups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Gow
Mrs. Ostrich
Great Plain
Mr. Gnu
Cheerups
Gnu
Mr.Gnu
Werat
Arbich
McClure
Hinman and Buck Families in Early Colonial America
Genealogical notes trace Hinman variants to Inman and Hindman, with Sergeant Edward Hinman recorded in Stratford between 1650 and 1852. He may have served as sergeant-at-arms to King Charles II. married Handah, died 1681, leaving eight children. Buck family, founder Emanuel Buck arriving after Plymouth, settled at Wethersfield in 1647, linked to Winthrop and Dudley Buck. Dudley Buck’s forebears include Nathaniel Adams and the Winthrop line. English origin likely from a land animal association.
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Burke
Inman
Hindman
Hyndman
Edward
Stratford
Conn
Cherles T
Handah
Francis
Sarah Stiles
Windsor
Titus
Samuel
Benjamin
Buck
Dudley Buck
Musician
Emanuel
Massachusetts
Plymouth
Wethersfield
Winthrow
Saltonstall
Dudley
Nathaniel Adams
New Hampshire
Webster
The
Masons
Winthrop Familly
McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Pilex
John Bunyan’s Life and Pilgrim's Progress Origin
John Bunyan born near Bedford in 1628, a tinker’s son, joins the Baptists after civil war service. His religious awakening leads to persecution and 12 years in prison where he writes part of Pilgrim's Progress. Released, he becomes a pastor, gains followers, and dies in 1688 during a London visit.
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Flese
John Bunyan
Bunyan
Bedford
England
John Banyan
Banyan
Ite
Society of Anabaptists
London
George Matthew
Raspberry Trail N Great Agitation
Beautiful detective Waxine Beans investigates a stains stained ransom note and a missing child case. She traces the boy hiding behind a barrel, learns the flavor of a lollipop, and dismisses the ransom as trivial while solving the peculiar abduction attempt with comic bravado.
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Miss Beans
Sonny
Wompers
George
A Line o' Cheer From a Loud Mouth Is Now Barely Heard
A quip from a bygone moment notes how a once constant heckler fell silent. The tale hints at fame fading and the crowd’s memory altering perceptions of sound and presence.
Hidden spider warns readers of daily entrapments
A dramatic 1920s style warning essay describes a cunning spider weaving a silken web to entangle and frighten people in everyday life. It urges vigilance against small, worded traps and urges the reader to resist manipulation and preserve personal strength against social entrapment.
Melinda Hough Name Origins and Southern Popularity
A brief, scattered history of the given name Melinda, tracing roots from Spanish ballads and legends through Princess Melisenda to Jerusalam’s house of Anjou. Notes its overabundance of syllables, modern simplification, and a folkloric claim of Melinda as a talisman against sorrow with a lucky number.
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Hough
Melinda
Jore
Don
Gayferos
Domi .Quisote
Melsenda
Melisenda
Jérusalem
House of Anjou
Melinda A
Fisher
Wheeler Syndicate
The Fraternity of Grief Poem Fragment
Fragment of a McClure Newspaper Syndicate poem about shared sorrow. The speaker notes grief over lost loved ones and imagines a celestial gathering where the living and the dead connect. The tone reflects consolatory religious imagery and mutual shared pain among mourners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celestal
Halloween Superstitions and All Saints Feast History
The piece discusses Halloween as a time of magic, divinations, and ghostly displays, noting enduring customs like youths seeking future partners and people dressing as ghosts. It traces Halloween to pagan rites and the church’s effort to replace it with All Saints Day on November 2, describing Gregory II’s establishment of the feast and the church’s push to curb older dead rites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gregory II
Young Lady Across the Way Reports German Synthetic Gold Claim
A reader across the way notes a sensational claim that Germany has perfected synthetic gold, produced in vast quantities. The assertion suggests it would devalue real gold and render paper money more convenient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McClurs Newspaper Syndicate
Shadows on the hillside and summer fading away
A blended recipe page mix of poetry and home cooking notes. It discusses seasonal imagery about May and summer fading, then shifts to practical kitchen tips and recipes. It covers vegetable savers, a chilled drink idea for mineral salts, a pumpkin custard pie with nutmeg, cranberry ice, a custard hot pie with minced nuts, coconut soup, and a spinach savory mold fried in bacon fat with cheese and eggs.
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la Tre
Cheerios
Quixies
Grace Dass Stewart
Charles de Roche
Theaz
Seus
Port- Vendres
Pyrenees
France
Sautow
Hinman
MicClare Newspaper Syndicate
Eiffel Tower
By John Kendrick-Bangs
Omething
Uf. A. Walker
Syndicate
Mildred Marshall
the Fraternity OF Grief
Leata
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