The Last Journey: Calves, Crops and a Train Tragedy
A 19th century miscellany covers farm tech tips on shelling corn for calves and millet feeding, plus comments on farm education. A travel tale ends in a mother's murder by her son in a third class carriage, witnessed at Rennes with a grim verdict.
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Goodby
Versailles
Rennes
Gold-headed cane to Dr Hopkins in Bay City tale
An amusing Bay City clipping blends a tribute to Rev Dr Hopkins with a macabre hog killing machine tale. Friends visit the preacher and present a gold headed butcher knife as the hog is slaughtered and turned into sausage, prompting mixed reflections on mercy and culinary craft.
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Clyde Fitch
Bay City
John Hopkins
D. D
Thiopskins
Eer
Eazy
Blue Jeans Debut at Fourteenth Street Theater in 1890
Production of Blue Jeans premiered at the Fourteenth Street Theater on October 6, 1890. Cast included Perry Bascom, Robert Tisliard, Colonel Henry Clay Risener, George Chaplin, Ben Boone, George Wawecott, Jacob Tutewiler, J. J. Willace, Jimmes Wiler, Jacques Kruger, Isaac Hankin, W. J. Wheeler, Seth Igee, Ben Deed June, Jennie Yeameans, Sue Eudaiy, Judith Berolde, Cindy Tutewiler, Alice Leigh, Samantha Hawkins, Marion Strickland, Nell Tutewiler and Beleena Sticker. Supplementary players included the Columbia quartet and others such as F. B. Berrian, Albert L. Coldwell Jr., S. Winthrop, George L. Leeds, J. Walker, J. J. Marcy, Anna Williams, Ada Chester, Bertha Dowling, Edith Bode, Ida Wagner and Ada Francis.
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Blue Jeans
Fourteenth Street Theater
Perry Bascom
Robert Tisliard
Henry Clay Risener
George D. Chaplin
Ben Boone
George Wawecott
Jacob Tutewiler
J. J. Willace
Jimmeswiler
Jacques Kruger
Isaac Hankin
W. J. Wheeler
Seth Igee
Ben Deed June
Jennie Yeameans
Sue Eudaiy
Jedith Berolde
Cindy Tutewiler
Heathen in Our Midst and the Mission Crusade
A New York clergyman advocates converting urban heathen at home rather than distant targets. He mocks social pretensions, notes immigrants and the wealthy misuse meetings, and urges Christians to aid the fallen, uplift the poor, and illuminate society with practical faith.
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Alfred Taylor
New York
New Y
Fiji Islands
John Chinaman
Belleville
North Adams
N. A. Bobb
Spreadfungus
Pigs
Gripiuss
Pigg
Patagonia
God
Christ
Too Big a Field
Harper's Weekly recounts Rev Shandatoupe during seminary days selling fire extinguishers. He faced rebuffs yet kept selling while charming access to an office. A surly broker angrily curses the extinguisher and Shandalope responds about its true virtue.
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Harper's Weekly
Shandatoupe
Shandalope
The Ladybild by Grete Fiahn A tale of love and power in a quarrel ending in forgiveness
A married couple in a restless quarrel learns the balance of serving and being served. The wife recognizes her tyrannies and with gestures of tenderness seeks to reconcile with George. A lingering close shows both rethinking pride and the value of partnership.
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George
Strange Work for Women in Wisconsin Factories
August Kaems, deputy state factory inspector of Sheboygan, notes women work in varnish rooms of chair factories, enamel kitchen utensils in foundries, and in brewery bottling departments. He also cites women employed in tanneries chrome departments and in saw mills in northern Wisconsin, describing the shift as surprising yet increasingly common.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
Kaems
Sheboygan
Wis
Wisconsin
Not His Fault Yet A Family Tale Of Honor And Irony
The passage recalls Blisg Perry praising bravery and nobility while noting people act from impulse. A tailor of fate appears as a young husband whose father-in-law, a wealthy man, bursts in lamenting ruin. The son-in-law answers with a wry line about having married for love.
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Hersel
Kate
Awell
Jem
Fate
Finn
Bosoiee
Ways
George
Grorge
Min
George Deginning
Wleet Street
Kolborn
Devel
Blisg Perry
Harvard
Two Miles a Minute A Meteor Like Blur Across Trees
Readable fragment describes a fast moving event in Newark with a blur seen in trees and a sudden rush of wind. The text conveys a chaotic scene with a shout and a horselike screech, urging to stay on course and promising a show. The source is a playful newspaper snippet from Newark News.
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Octave Mirbeau
Chicago
Adele
Grete Fiahn
Grenson
Bergen
Uae
Ahonkanda
Newark News