Witchcraft Trial Sparks Panic in Pennsylvania Court
In Pottsville Pennsylvania Mrs Michalina Zemanowski accuses Mrs Katie Short of a witch spell after Short loses her voice Following self styled witchcraft cures Zemanowski’s husband is fined one dollar and Zemanowski discharged The report details further tall tales of witchcraft beliefs and public superstition in the same era with no lasting remedy to the spell.
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Mrs. Zemanowski
Mrs. Short
Rome
Turkey Run
Short
Zemanowski
Pennsylvania
The Deserted Wife Tale Of A Prodigal Return
Chad Leeks flees into the United States after a staged burial of his wife and child, returns to his youth on Chihuahua sands, and discovers his son is the valedictorian at the same college his father attended. The elder Chad abandons the dream to protect the boy from disillusionment and leaves for home.
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Chihuahua
Scott
Hfa
Chad Leeks
Chad
Elisabeth
Chihuahua Sands
Leeks
States
Making the 18 inch gun A giant steel ingot forged into a weapon
A detailed description of constructing an 18 inch artillery gun from a fifty foot, one hundred ton steel ingot. It covers forging, cooling, hydraulic pressing, trepanning, bore lifting, oil quenching, wire winding with 120 miles of steel ribbon, and a yearlong production process.
Quite a New Dance and the Walrus Glide Incident
An elderly man, Uncle Flopwit, slips from a moving bus onto muddy pavement, slides ten yards face down, and is helped by a passerby. He quips the fall was part of a new dance, the walrus glide, sliding off ice into the sea, displaying stubborn resilience.
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Flopwit
Uncle Flopwit
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Melisabeth Barth
Landaman
Manne
Topsy
West Side Square
Glenwood, Iowa
Tribune
A. Hospe CO
W. Broadway
Council Bluffs
Tanjo
Vietrola
Council Blais
Iowa
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