Legend of the Ugly Elves haunts Catskills tale
A Catskill Mountains legend tells of ugly dwarfs living behind Grand Hotel station who brew a magic wine that ages bodies and swells heads. Hendrick Hudson and his men allegedly drank it and became dwarfed, wandering the region and rumored to appear every twenty years, last seen in 1909 and due again in 1929.
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Hendrick Hudson
Catskill Mountains
Grand Hotel Station
Catskill
Hudson
Alice Phebe Eldridge
New York World
Exquisite Pain and the Joy of Pockets in 19th Century Curiosities
A collection excerpt discusses pain sensitivity with notes on tips and tongue being highly sensitive, then digresses to the Joy of Pockets describing a pocketless costume and the urge to keep hands in pockets. It ends with a warning about a canned green pea bomb linked to a Paris hotel and the St Petersburg police incident.
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Pearson's Weekly
London Chronicle
St. Petersburg
Chicago Tribune
Understanding in its wider acceptation
The quotation defines understanding as perceiving and conceiving beyond sensation, organizing impressions into wholes by unity, and, in its broad sense, includes even simple apprehension. A Baltimore American piece mocks a breach of promise suit, noting a juror’s sympathy for Miss Gummage’s loss and deriding her former partner as contemptible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coleridge
An Opportunity Lost in the Alleyway
Fragmentary dialogue on a confrontation about trapping or harming someone on Wolf Street. The speakers discuss how to react, with slang and names suggesting a rough street scene and possible criminal plotting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy
Wolf Street
Puck
Foiling the Pickpocket in a Crowded Crowd
A guide on safe pocket placement and crowd awareness. It warns that pickpockets use screens and jostling to distract victims, noting the breast pocket under the waistcoat and left trousers pocket as safer options, and advising vigilance if a hat is tipped.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Race Gov’s
The Little Cameo That Made a Rich Woman Smile
A duchess gives a tiny cameo as a present to a wealthy friend. The gift leads to delight and later reveals the cameo's true value, an ancient Trajan era piece worth 200,000 francs, discovered after a visit with the couple at their home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mile. de R
Jim
Elow
B.'s
The
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles Lettres
Mme, la Duchess
Trajan
Col de Paris
Proclamation for Lancaster Court Sessions 1911
Lancaster court proclamation announces the jail delivery and general quarter sessions will begin on the second Monday in September 1911 at the Lancaster Court House. It orders city and county officials to appear with rolls records and examinations to prosecute as needed. Also an application will be made September 12 1911 for a Kissel Manor Corporation charter to produce and sell farm and dairy products and related goods.
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HMR
Charhls I
Landis
Aargn &. Hassler
Court of Common Pleas
County of Lancaster
Court House
City of
Lancaster
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
County of
Noor
Heraby
Foremont
W. Math
Theron McCampbell
Ww. Hithier Fasnacht
Act of Assembly
Kissel Manor
W.hmuth
Lititz
Owl Hill
Warwick Township
Lyan Bushong
Kissel Hill
Disston
Pennsylvania
Senate
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Philadelphia
Obert McAfer
Pennsylvania proposes to unify Allegheny County courts
The General Assembly proposes constitutional amendments to consolidate Allegheny County courts into a single common pleas court with all judges in commission. Philadelphia would create five court of common pleas divisions with independent jurisdiction. The amendments set how judges are chosen and how venue may change. The measure becomes effective January 1 following adoption.
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Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Courts of Common Pleas
Allegheny County
Senate
House of Representatives
General Assembly
Pensylvania
County of
Philadelphia
Common Pleas
Court of Commer Pleas
Allegheny
Robert Macafed
The
Commonwealth
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Catskill Gnomes
Alho
Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Greene
Johnny Greene
Pearson’s Weekly
Baltimore
Victor Hugo
Aaroy B. Landis
Waat
Lebanon Valley
Womelstorf Station
Filbert’s
Wormelsdorf
Annie
George Filbert
Womelsdorf, Pa
Henry Michael
Lititz, Pa
W. H. Bollinger
East Main Street
Schleibh
John F. Schleith
Spruce St
Ind
General Assembly of the
Secretary of the Commonwealth
Habecker
Habecker the Baker
INO
Troutwine E.frontst
Furniure
A.G. Hershey
Old Mill
Front Street
Jartt
John H. Tshudy
John ¥. Schleith
Hopper
Ideal and
Hershey’s
H. D. Bollinger
S. Broad St. Lititz
A. H. Kreider
W. Vine ST
C. N. Derr
Joseph Dreifus
Penna
Graul’s
Tye
D. D. Graul
Anys
OUR
Ramus Erastes
Crystal Spring Farm
Keller
Emporium
G. D. Keller
Broad Street
Luite
Oxfords
W. M. Grube
Square Deal
Main Street
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