Ginger Butts and Kate Devere A Southern Love Story
In Newborn North Carolina Ginger Butts earns his nickname from a ginger preference at a bar. He falls for Kate Devere, but her sharp temper ends their budding wedding plans. Ginger leaves for New Hampshire, later seen in Massachusetts, aged and melancholic, never marrying.
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Newborn
N. C
Harry Butts
Times
Harry Gunts
Harry
Gaston House
Pol Icock Street
Ginger Butts
Ginger
Kate Devere
Kate
Dixie
Manuel
Hove
Vineclad
Miss Revere
Tom Moore
Columbia
Maryland
Ginger Rose
Ball Run
Chancellorsville
Gettysburg
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Indians Divorces Raise Legal Clash Over Tribal Marriages
The article reports that traditional tribal divorce in Indian communities is swift and informal at dances, with men ending marriages by ceremony and gifts. It notes courts now recognize tribal marriages as legal for citizens, complicating alimony and custody for white men and red men alike.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dakotas
Oklahoma
Ajtaw
Wille
Michigan Idols Found Near Newberry In Ancient Relic Find
Hunters near Newberry Michigan unearthed a six inch thick stone tablet eight by twenty five inches with 140 square etched figures and three accompanying statues a man woman and child facing east. Scientists note sun worship cues and parallels to Aztec Toltec and Egyptian symbolism with extended eye featuresechoing Central American motifs.
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Great Lakes
Newberry
Mich
New York Journal
Mexico
Michigan
Uxmal
A Reputation For Onions Land By Egypt
A writer in Chatwickers Journal notes Egyptian onions now dominate imports, with four lines of steamers from Alexandria to Liverpool Hull and London. The baali variety is favored for long sea voyages, while misknowl is moisture prone and rarely shipped abroad. Egyptian seed reportedly inspires efforts to grow similar onions elsewhere.
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Egypt
Chatwickers' Journal
Pyramid of
Cheops
Strange Borkal Customs Reported by Greenlanders
A description of Greenlander beliefs claims a dog can guide a dead child in the afterlife, with a living canine buried alongside. Australians are said to remove a corpse’s finger nails and tie the hands to stop grave digging for vampiric purposes. Russians allegedly place a character certificate in the dead hand to secure entry to heaven.
Judge in Decatur sentences thief to thirty days hard labor
A Decatur police court trial witnessed by a reporter recounts a case where a Black defendant is arraigned for stealing chickens. The judge states there are no mitigating circumstances, notes the defendant's education, and sentences him to thirty days at hard labor.
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Decatur
Ala
Chicago
Brief European epitaphs and odd grave markers
A survey of curious epitaphs across Europe notes terse inscriptions such as a Worcester slab simply reading Gone for a departed auctioneer and in Sussex a death date followed by He was. The Cane Hill Belfast stone reads Left till called for, while the Charles the Great marker uses Caralo Magno. The piece ends with an ad for Speer Wines and Brandy from Wiss Co Passaic New Jersey.
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Worcester
England
Sussex
Charles the Great
Germany
Caralo Magno
Cane Hill
Belfast
Ireland
Speer
N.J
Wiss Co
Passaic
Mis Conviction Appeals Sparked by Quebec Judge
A report notes Sir Francis Johnson’s ruling was appealed to the court of appeals and sustained, with a quip from Judge M- about a recent confirmation of a judgment. The column then digresses into a sensational claim about seed yields and a paid promotional notice from Salzer seeds, ending with a brief remark on a railway ironworks project in Asia Minor built by Germans, describing iron rails bridges ties and telegraph poles.
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Francis Johnson
Superior Court of Province of Quebec
Court of Appeals
Argonaut
Sinty Mies
Soli
Asia Minor
Smid
Constantinople
Angora
Hall's Catarrh Cure and testimonials advertise in 19th century ad
One hundred dollars reward for catarrh cures. Testimonials available. Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills are marketed by J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio. Partners Wan Meruax Walling Kinnan Marvin Wholesale Druggists Toledo. Home secretary pressed by Belfast glove and collar makers to exempt home work from factory act. London papers oppose. India's famine affects exports and imports.
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Hall
FR. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Cage Ld
Wan Meruax
Toedo
O. Walling, Kinnan & Marvin
Belfast
London
A Very Popular Calendar of 1597 from Aven-Sox
A noisy mixed patter of calendar ads and brief notes: a 1597 desk calendar from N W Aven Sox, the Keeping Ever’astingly At Newspaper Advertising Agents of Philadelphia, with 45 cent price, large legible figures, and secure mail order. Also snippets on Edinburgh hospital training for deacons, cures for colds, and stray anecdotes.
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N. W. Aven Sox
Philadelphia
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Eng
John Breliter
Mishicott, Wis
Salzer
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
W.w
India
Edinburgh
Church of Scotland
Balenman
Maine
Drugvista
Street Railway
J. G. Mulmer
Seattle
Wash
Maceo
Sassenaershe
N. Main
St.Lou
L Beate
Irin
Deane & Weaver
McGill
Ashi
Kay
Woollat
Atlanta, Ga
Steeling Remedy
Chicsem
Montreal
Idandy
Farmer Waterbury
O'Farrell &On
Washington, D. C
Thompson
Eye Water
Bellabie
Vick
Galle
Cies
James Vick
Rochester
N. Y
Vicks Illustrated
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