Escorting the Court in Colonial York Maine
In old York Maine officials paraded in pomp as judges arrived with a sheriff’s escort. Records from 1774 note gold hats swords robes and ceremonial gowns. Cannons fired to announce arrivals and drummers beat to summon the court before bells.
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York
New Anatpshire
Massachusetts
Maine
Emma Huutineten Nasen
John Adamos
Piscataqua River
Thadges
Ehire
National and local traits surface in exam scene
A London Irish class repeats Macaulay Horatius as a subinspector tests if three soldiers could hold a bridge against an army. He asks Would three Englishmen, Scotsmen, or Irishmen do it. The excitable student replies One Irishman would do it, underscoring vivid stereotypes in a serious exam setting.
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London
Macaulay
Horatius
Remarkable Pioneer Woman Clerk Disguised as Man
Mary East, England’s early woman officeholder, reportedly won posts while living as a man. For 36 years she ran the White House inn at L’op Inn, served on juries and parish offices, was head borough in 1744 and overseer of the poor in 1752 before her sex was revealed and she retired with her earnings.
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Mary East
England
White House
L’op- Inn
Head
Ife
Accomplice Suggests Accessory After the Fact
A patient urges the doctor to summon Dr Gooking, lamenting delays. The doctor apologizes, saying it’s scarcely worth bringing him now, while the patient quips about using him as an accessory after the fact.
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Dr. Gooking
Cleveland
Cause For Haste in Dusty Town Footrace Tale
A shoemaker is run out of town after a heated dispute causing a brisk mile long chase. Local tension rises as residents debate justice and quick punishment for the offender.
How to Cook Bananas and Household Tips
A practical guide presents methods for cooking ripe firm bananas with meats and as a breakfast option, plus tips for making cleaning balls, washing delicate fabrics, and removing ink stains. It covers boiling, frying, and baking bananas, creating cleaning balls from fuller's earth, washing silk and pongee, and using alcohol to remove ink stains.
How to Keep Shirt Waists Trim
Practical advice on using a small elastic belt with a hook and eye to secure shirt waists under a skirt band. Includes a humorous aside about George Washington and a cherry tree myth via a Washington Star quote.
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George Washington
Farmer Corntessel
Washington Star
Fragmentary OCR Note Sparks Curious Quotation Fragments
A garbled OCR passage shows fragmented quotes and stray phrases about kisses and lattes. Names and context are unclear, leaving only scattered terms like francs and 160k. No coherent event or subject emerges from the readable text.
Martinsville editor Jerry Isher obituary note
An obituary notice for editor Jerry Isher of Martinsville appears in the local column. The brief item credits Isher with long service to the Martinsville press and notes community impact and editorial tenure.
Untidy Local Notes Include Transfers and Tracts
Community items list farm changes, visits, and illnesses from Westfield, Casey, Salem, and nearby areas. Mentions of repairs, a dry well, furnace of a paper mill crew in Oregon, and a wave casualty in Galveston. Funeral for Asa I Rogers noted. civic remarks on soldiers and land distribution follow.
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Church of God
Waterloo
Iowa
Phillip Shaffner
Our Place
Asa I Rogers
Phoebe Rogers Low
Kansan
Ohio
Willis Chapel
C. T. Ishler
Sam
Montana
Idaho
Washington
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