A Quaint Proposal
Martha Dun can and Paul Dorsey meet at Willow Brook Farm where Mrs Duncan welcomes the young man, Lucinda’s son, as a guest. Paul and Martha fall in love during weeks of farm life and work, while a favorable match with her cousin Joe’s engagement shapes the happy ending.
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Willow Brook Farm
Gtea
Marthy
Tim
Martha
Paul Dorsey
Luciady
Lucinda
Mrs. Duncan
Paul
Mr. Dorsey
Joe
Dapleston
Miss Duncan
Doxey
Tam
The Sharp Witness at the Ohio Promises Case
An unusual witness a country schoolmarm Elizabeth Martin defies a bully lawyer in a breach of promise trial. She calmly answers questions with wit noting the defendant Joseph Hill asked plaintiff Mary Jackson to marry him. The court keeps order while the witness sits relaxed in the chair awaiting further questions.
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Ohio
Elizabeth Martin
Joseph Hill
Mary Jackson
Mosquitoes Flood the Marsh in Boy and Mother Exchange
Johnny says there were countless millions of mosquitoes on the marsh, while his mother urges restraint. The boy insists he and Jim Brown counted them, highlighting a playful rural exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Jimmy Brown
Tornado Devastates Washington Court House Ohio
A tornado last evening leveled Washington Court House, destroying nearly all of Central Square’s forty stores and most homes. Forty to fifty business blocks, four churches, and depots were wrecked. residents fled as gas works and wires failed. At least five people died, several others injured, and losses exceed 1 million dollars. Relief and militia were deployed amid widespread devastation.
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Wasutheron, C. Jr
Central Square
Court Street
Midland Railroad
Rankin
Cincinnati
Washington Court House
Mollie Jones
Edith Floyd
Ella Forsha
Jennie Forsha
Flora Carr
Herbert Taggart
James Jackson
John C. van Pelt
Ouly
Washington D. U
Circleville
Ohio
The Strongest Cigar Ever Smoked in a Civil War Story
A Chicago Herald tale recalls a Civil War picket night in 1865 near Richmond. The narrator’s cigar ash saved two teeth when a sharpshooter’s bullet struck his cheek, ending with the claim that the cigar was exceptionally strong.
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Army of the Potomac
Lee
Richmond
Johnny Red
Chicago Herald
City man keeps menagerie in family shanty
In Polacktown West End a Polish immigrant, Stanislaus Mirzowski, his wife, daughter, and mother live with a cow, heifer, bull, four dogs, eleven cats, poultry, a pony, and a calf. He runs a furniture moving business while his family tends the animals and milks cows. The wife complains, but the family finds happiness and income from milk eggs and transport services.
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Stanislaus Mirzowskiy
Mirzowski
Miss Mirzowski
West End
Polacktown
Newie
Purg
Stanislaus
Marzowski
General Washington Catching Trout and the Lie
The excerpt recalls George Washington claiming a seven and a half pound trout weighed seventeen and a half pounds after angling at least once and catching a trout four inches long. At a corner grocery in the evening he was asked the weight and famously said I cannot tell a lie.
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General Washington
Quote on a woman's thinking strength and independence
A saying contrasts a woman who thinks for herself as weak with one who thinks for another as decidedly strong. It frames independence as a sign of strength depending on whom she considers.
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Millheim, Pa
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Millie PA
Millhet
Ads Geo
Frank
Rebersburg, PA
Ww. P. Ard, M. D
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Penn St
J. Springer
West Millheim Banking House
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Millheim
Jno
H. Orvis
M. Bower
Ellis L. Orvis
RVS
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Orvis
Attorneys-at-Law
Bellefonte, PA
Woodings Building
D. H. Hastings
W. F. Reeders
Tastings & Reeder
Gocumetbury Street
The
Offings
Yocum
J .C. Meyer
W. C. Heinle
Centre County
A. Beaver
J. W. Gephartoe
Gephart
Alleghany Street
High Street
Seer
Allegheny St
C. G. McMillen
Caan
Bishop Street
Emanuel Brown
Mrs. Dorsey
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Martin
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