Seven Mountains Hollow Echoes in December Butchering Day
In Pennsylvania's Seven Mountains region Dan Tressler and neighbors gather for a thrifty Dutch butchering on December 5. Rumors swirl about ghostly noises and a black ring at the old Heller place while Allen Farthing’s quiet family unsettles the Bottom.
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Pennsylvania
Heller's Run
Hell Bottom
Dan Tréssler
Squire Hartswick
Jake Kisterbeck
Dan Tressier
Baer
Nance Mountain
Dan ‘Tressler
Jakey
Wal
Maria
Dan
Lem
Rig
Lem Fisher
Amos Hardin
Han
al Farthing
Heller
Tom Fisher
Square
Dan Tressler
Ira Hartswick
Yessuh
Allen Farthing
Heller Farm
Balloon Tales Inspire a Flight Down Memory Lane
A Natural Error recounts aeronauts in a Chicago hotel smoking room recalling Captain H. E. Honeywell and the Fielding Antonia balloon. Elyot’s Charleston ascent amid storm, grapnel anchor, and a terrified plantation funeral witness a ghostly grapnel lift. An elderly man aboard shouts I’se not de cawse. MDick’s in the house.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
Chicago
H. E. Honeywell
Fielding-Antonia
Elyot
Charleston
Wagner Comic Song Auctioned in Berlin 1871
A Journal des Debats notice states a 13 verse comic song with words and music by Richard Wagner will be auctioned in Berlin with other manuscripts. The ditty is dedicated to the Leipzig hotel host who hosted him en route to Berlin to discuss Bayreuth opera house plans. Dated April 23 1871.
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Journal Des Debats
Paris
Richard Wagner
Berlin
Leipsic
Bayreuth Opera House
The Land of Joy and Christmas Gossip Exchange
Dialogue snippets reveal social gossip about engagements skating plans and a boastful boast about mistletoe and a failed burglar attempt. Characters include Howard Daisy Grace Caroline Helen Marion Myrtle and Harry. The tone recalls a light humorous scene with interruptions and banter.
Giants of California Sequoias and Kaweah Colony Legacy
The article surveys the giant sequoias in the Sierra Nevada, detailing their near-mythic size, longevity, and slim chance of loss. It recounts the Kaweah Colony’s 1885 plan to harvest timber, its abrupt end with the Giant Forest National Park creation in 1891, and notes the General Sherman tree at 280 feet tall with a 103 foot girth.
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California
Sierras
Hume-Pennett Lumber Company
Europe
Asian
America
Coast Ranges
Sierra Nevada Mountains
T. W. Brahany
Milwaukee Sentinel
John Muir
Tulare
Visalia
High Sierras
Kaweah
Congress
United States
Forest National Park
Muir
Mr. Muir
General Sherman
Abe Lincoln
Bailey Laments Gaiety of the National Capitol
Senator Bailey of Texas denounces Washington society as a drift from simple rural ideals. He argues capital functions and millionaire presence erode plain living, requests fewer public entertainments, and credits diplomats with elegance while praising Talleyrand’s quip. Yet he doubts Congress bears social responsibility for the town’s distractions.
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Washington
Texas
Congress
Pulpits Rally for Red Cross Christmas Stamp Drive
From Brooklyn pulpits a broad call went out for Red Cross Christmas stamps to battle tuberculosis. Philadelphia leads in the effort to spread the stamps, urging every church and Sunday school to display and distribute them, each stamp costing a penny and carried in all mail.
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Red Cross
Philadelphia North America
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Gilead
At Which Two Can Play on a Washing Day
A lively tramcar scene shows two young ladies boarding a crowded tram. One picks a seat from a sedate man, calling him Mr Green though a total stranger. He rises politely with a quip about washing day, letting her sit.
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Mr. Green
Jane
Beet Sugar Surpasses Cane Sugar Output in 1907
The 1907 beet sugar production reached 967 million pounds, topping cane sugar at 644 million pounds for the year, marking the first time beets produced more sugar than cane.
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F. L. Pattee
The
House of the Black
Chapter
Tressler
Poppy
Nance
Ulie
Ulle
Alie Dribelbis
Heller House
Alie
the Land OF Joy
Howard
Sweet
Daisy
Harry
Grace Caroline
Helen
Grace
Marion
Myrtle
Mororock
Theodore Roose- Voelt
Bailey
National Capitol
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