Old-Time Black Prose and Local Calamities Collide in Tales
A collection of rambling dialect sketches features an aging Black narrator lamenting prosperity and marital troubles with a preacher, a lakeside drowning tale from Littie Rock area, and a Detroit Public Press interview about Hancock vs Garfield. The piece blends humor, tragedy, and local color, concluding with a Sahara atmosphere electricity note and a Denig's Cough Balsam plug.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodend Avenue
Oswego
John
Straneger
George
Old John
Hancock
Garfield
Detroit Free Press
Not Particular Woman Stirs Train Car With Baby
A strolling anecdote recounts a woman who is not particular seating herself and child in a crowded car. Her husband guides her to a half seat as she ignores bystander discomfort and unwashed infant touches. The scene underscores her indifference to others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry
First Water Clocks and Early Watches Chronicle
A fragment recounts ancient timekeeping heirlooms from a water clock about desert plate size to early watches. It notes iron cases in 1552 for Edward VI, 14th century apes Beighis, and the evolution of dials, grades, and costs with silver and brass cases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward VI
Bitters Prominently Marketed As Popular Medicine
A garbled 19th century advertisement extols a bitter tonic known as Bitters as a widespread remedy. It claims toning, building up strength, pleasant taste, and notes it is not a whisky drink, likened to tea in effect and virtue.
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Bates & Y
Madison Street
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the. Tilkrald
Mala Fates
Anderson
Oman
Faber
Atkinson
New Jerusalem
Litthe Rock Gazette
M. Amat
French Academy
Sahara
Goed
Daniel F. Beatty
Washington, N. J
Horace Waters
Broadway
New York
Boston
Mana
Mason
Hamlin
Bext
Mason & Hamlin Organ Co
Tremont At
Benton
East Léth St
Union Square
Wa Avenue
Chicago
Physi
Triiumph
MALL
Bashua
the Herald
Democratic
W. Wy, Clough & Co
Merchant Tailors
The
Herald
Madison, Ind
John Adams
East Main Cross St
WM. Resor
C.O
Cincinnati
Craig & Brother
Anderson County
Weisky
the Great Central
Thas
Madison
Indiana
John C. Roberts
Roberts
WM. B. Roberts
Grocers
East Main Cross
1St National Bank
Mulry Street
John Braun
C. T. Branham
Igi Brower
KDR
Ind
Carde
Natery
Bates & Hanley
N.siersdorfer &Son
Headquarters For Boots and Shoes
Palace Boot and Shor
Palace Boot and Shoe House
Nwo
Dleast Main Cross
John Wenrle
Frank Wederle
Wehrle & Brother
W. F. Bruning
Dealera
West Main Cross
Joan W. Lincx
Western
Attorneys At Law
Henry Niesse
Hunt
Masonic Temple
West and
Ohio Streets
Central Hotel
Mulberry Streets
H. B. Mabrey
Main Street
John. Kraut
Proestaton
Main Cross
Third Streete
John Jager
Ez. B. Wilson
Boonde
Dad
Rijes
Mosonte Temple
Morocco
Russia
Universal Kxochengz
Edinburgh
Chamber
Efnbs
Standard Books
Library of Universal Knowledge
Milman
Gibbon
T Cung
Acthe
Geel
Cary
Virgil
Aew
Mohamwed
Sale
Ornte
Don Quixote
Mlus
Bunyeb
Pig’ Fregeees
Bunzet
Pigrin
Gulliver
EK. T. Alden
Ilus
Acme Library of Modern Classics
Teine
Cecil
Hendy Lexiers
Ig Yi
Phi Silat
Kitte
Flavius J Comale
Ae Taylor
Geo. H. Taylor
Heigher
American Book Exchange
Jon B. Apex
Tribune Building
Nobby
Ferd
Klein's
Superior
Currie
ATA
Walter Scott
C. Vail
M. L. Pfeifer
Praler
Occa
Mets
Dove
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