The Wild Plum Sauce and the Last Will
Leah Decker and her father, Friend Decker, confront family envy over the Lennox farm and a contested will from Miss Anastasia Akerly. A jar of wild plum sauce becomes the hinge of late mercy as Anastasia’s will transfers the farm to Father Decker, revealing tardy reconciliation in a moral tale of envy, kinship, and restitution.
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Dicker
Anastasia
Laas
Decker
Jacob Joyce
Leah
Mary Moore
Trillea
Adida
Meats Sawyer
Lennox
Thae
Dross
Thes
Lyah
Abe
Wathor
Anastasia Averly
Lynnox
Anastasia Akerly
Anastessa
Foxe
Liah
Nana Tospare
DeoWsi
Miss Akerly
Moses Saroyer
Walcome
Wisconsin
Willie
Akerly
Sean
Vin and Decker
Thia
Mosea Sawyer
Johnson
Dleza
Hapa
Moses
Judge Johnson
Pather
Jetranos
Miss.Akerly
Sleep and Death Intertwined in Trance and Hibernation
Discussion outlines how sleep, trance, and hibernation relate in physiology. It links nervous arousal, vascular nutrition, and cold as triggers, notes cases like George Calder’s near-death trance, and warns that proving death can be difficult when signs of life blur during deep stupor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mather
Anaymia
Ayidenes
Cass
George Cailder
Bridgewater
The Hotel Clerks Tickets Speculators Tale
A New York Herald piece portrays a hotel clerk theatrically lamenting low wages and new check systems, hinting at theatre tips and speculators. The clerk muses about stage work, the theater scene, and making commissions from unsuspecting patrons seeking tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zou Bar
Senda
Speculators and theater tickets in a cold world
A man details selling theater tickets at inflated prices via speculators, noting daily income, risks, and the fear of checks on the racket. He describes obtaining complimentary seats, advance payments, and the ease of selling deadhead tickets before shows. The tale ends with a shopkeeper’s obliging silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sol Rend
Peat
Post Office Kisses Delight Rural Maiden
A village post office scene unfolds as a bashful 16 year old cashes a money order and asks the postmaster to read the margin. He reveals three and a dozen kisses, prompting her to claim any kisses sent and leave with the cash and smiles. The mother later notes the post office eye catching feature growing yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Staten
Jimmy
Lighting the Fire by Clockwork in New York
The piece profiles Covislanus Hughes a Ninth Avenue boilermaker and inventor of a clock powered ignition and wake-up device. It also notes Santa Barbara rock paintings, Philadelphia fire alarm boxes, a Berliner boy who tracks fire data, and a New York Central Labor Union boycott of Fifth Avenue Hotel over labor practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Herald
New York
Tsibume
Covislanus Hughes
Ninth Avenue
Santa Barbara
County
Cal
Philadelphia
Berliner
Central Labor Union
York City
Fifth Avenue
Aha ‘Care Yaone
Governors and other officials die suddenly reading letters
The article notes multiple New York figures including Governors Clinton Wright and Fanton and Chief Justice Church dying of heart disease under similar circumstances while reading letters, then discusses kidney disease, uric acid, and promotes Warner's Safe Cure as a remedy amid criticism of medical bigotry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowper
Bert
Brighia
Warner
B. E
Larrabee
Bastom
Bright
Lesa
Special delivery stamp causes domestic surprise tale
A printery tale from a city describes how a post office use of special delivery stamps leads a wife to intercept a letter and misdirect it. The incident ends with the husband unaware of a letter delivery and a foiled plan to return home, while a Frenchman’s scheme for collecting grease and perfume is also noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prussia
Bey
Jadieu
Tan
Pont Offica
Anol Perry
Boston
Mare
Lisa
Rheumatic cure claims and strange patient tales from Milwaukee
A garbled column recounts tales of rheumatism and a panoply of remedies including Athlophores, with anecdotes from Milwaukee figures like Mr Chatfield and Dimock. The piece blends medical claims, physician interactions, and curious side notes about unrelated incidents, all in a period newspaper voice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tristram
Beiatica
Naubus
T. E. Chatford
Milwaukes
Wis
Chatfield
Eleventh Avenue
Milwaukee
Auilopteros
L. Dimock
Dimock & Haagner
East Milwaukeeatrect
Juncaville
Yhava
Wall Streets
New York
Fragmentary OCR note on railroads and medical claims in a law library
A garbled OCR fragment references York railroad, a dam a company, Lucky Wan, and a list of disjoint terms includingblood, Ciena, Teager, Golden Medical Discovery, and a claim about a top law library under state authority in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iver
Teager
United States
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Latora
Lng
Chad Croeest
Dyata
Leah Decker
Frankzesa
Erie
Brandon
Mitss
Tyrer
Chad Roth
Constantinople
Askacce
Dimock & Vaynar
Jamesville
Methodist Church
Pompeii
White House
Washington
Dscinec
Bock Iifust Eateay
IV ‘Bing Sing
Ward
Shatter
Michigan
Baku
New Fork City
Ars Wood
Logan
Wee Airane
Westmoreland “Gant
Nimrod
Visversia
Mts
Poe
Ud & Co
Store Lee
Famaie University
St. Petarsburg
Russia
Claves
Wieibee
RDA Dealers
Lyan'e
Pane
Tm Rai
York
Company
Peter
Vinegar Bitters Assim
Lowel
Aoenel
Nogar Bitters
Srinhout Ft
Indieg
Durmues
Merchanty
Pkova
McDonald Douglas
Washington St
Lideed Bupt
Theo Xvaluanle
Fantase
Cha
Montgomery Ward
Wabash Lvanet
Abiou S. de L.page
Hyer
Pat Ivory
Ili
Allitens
AWA
All
She Miair
Murray
Sires
Cassell & Limited
Threadway
Wba
Sas
Etnias
Bamplae
Moran & Co
Belem
Ecva Ray
Simama
Elaweuc Thom
Sears
Lakeaito Mtg. Co
W.vauures St
Chicago
Pino
Webster
GEC
Merriam
Ryan
Ida
Eelle
Brice
Iday
Srontollese
Best
Mommie Lee
Ley Mall Erally
al Cate
Pauling Sicen
Cpa
Tao
Aa “Iwiogbamce Lyets BA Ks
Pias
Panoat
Ali
Bel
Bait Walters
Mase
Farmingcas
Girre
Br Raabe
Dea
Ilelogner
Feunier Eligilren
Poboole
Bune
Tema
Romper
Flores
iMairice
Sines
Florida
de Spre Bu
Iusae
Satiere Ant Investors
Kuparloy Sneut
Hindu Rate
Wade Tavaed
Yeas
Xed Arte
Frovea A
Eg Park
Twearaat
E. Spencer
Facksonvills
Ir. J. H. Schenck & Hon
Namothie
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