Rabbit pest drives North Carolina landowners to legible farm change
The piece notes that permissive hunting laws may harm landowners by boosting the rabbit crop, while farmers in Western North Carolina rely on hunters as rabbits devastate wheat fields. It describes practical rural tips on pulling posts with chains and constructing a chicken coop, plus agricultural notes on potatoes, hens, flavor in eggs, cottonseed oil, bees, and poultry production.
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North Carolina
Charlotte
N. C
Twin babies killed by native belief in witchcraft in West Africa
Miss Slessor of the United Presbyterian mission in Old Calabar voyaged on the Oron with four rescued twins, part of a harsh practice where twins were believed to be witchcraft. She has saved fifty-one twins over twenty-two years and aims to establish a home for them with Miss McIntosh, protesting the brutal tradition without opposing governors.
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Miss Slessor
United Presbyterian Mission
Old Calabar
Elde Dempster
Oron
Liverpool
Niger Coast
Miss’ Slessor
Miss McIntosh
London Chronicle
Lucky Deuce of Spades Superstition Run Ends
A London Mail item recounts a whist player who repeatedly drew the two of spades as bottom cards in two packs and again as the turn up. Despite the triple omen, the dealer then lost six rubbers in a row, illustrating superstition versus luck.
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Tie
London Mail
Mr Gladstone Nose Cleared by Nose Joke
In 1868 during Liberal defections, Mr Gladstone resigned after a slim five vote majority on a state question. Lord Sherbrooke and Mr Lowe spoke with clear, biting rhetoric. Lowe replied to a confidence vote by saying you cannot unpull a man's nose, ending the proposal.
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Mr. Gladstone
Lord Sherbrooke
Mr. Lowe
Justice Declares Limits On Lynching In Rural Court
A rural judge remarks that a sentence of lynching cannot be carried out, notes no rope in town, and a defense lawyer concedes the point while discussing a noted historical ballet attribute. The piece cites the Duchess of Maine credit for inventing the ballet in Paris.
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Atlanta Constitution
Grant era recollections amuse and reveal Civil War camp life
W L Ryder of Monticello recalls 1851 at Sackett Harbor and a Winter Dexter schooling with Captain Grant's horse. He recounts September 1862 near McPherson and Logan's bold view on emancipation, Grant's quiet command, and rivalries among corps as Sherman and Howard move. A humor piece on Jake the mounted trooper and a tale of the big horse saving him.
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W. TL. Ryder
Monticello
A.S. Grant
Sacket Harbor
Jefferson County
New York
Dexter
McPherson
Seventeenth Army Corps
Second Illinois Cavalry
Grant
Mississippi
Lincoln
John A. Logan
Seventeenth Corps
Logan
Dickey
HTS
Chattanooga
Gen. Thomas
Hooker
Bridgeport
Lookout Valley
Sherman
Memphis
Bragg
Rosecrans
McCook
Crittenden
Thomas
Gordon Granger
van Cleve
Negley
Rousseau
Nashville
Reynolds
Brannan
Palmer
Granger
Chas. A. Dana
Schurz
Army of
Letter From the Dead Man Sent to Kentucky Widow
A Civil War letter from Captain Thomas M. Coombs, written Aug. 14, 1863 while a prisoner in the Ohio penitentiary with John Morgan, was intercepted in an underground escape attempt. Detected by Warden Nathan Myron, the letter later surfaced in the warden’s papers, addressed to Mrs. Louise Coombs of Erlanger, Ky., who has since read it. The widow’s location is Erlanger, Kenton County, Ky. The case is described with moralizing commentary.
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Columbus
Ohio
Louise Coombs
Srlanger
Thomas M. Coombs
John Morgan
Coombs
Nathan Myron
Lou
Erlanger
Kenton County
Ixy
Kindness to Hobson's Men in Merrimac Capture
Lieutenant Nobsen recounts the reception of his crew aboard the Reina Mercedes. The senior officer greeted them politely, offered warmth and stimulants for the shivering, and ordered care for the wounded. Despite injuries from the blast and vortex, all sailors received washing, dry clothing, and medical attention as they disembarked.
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Jake
Johnnies
Merrimac
Nobsen
Ile Teina Mercedes
Reina Mercedes
Mercedes
Kelly
Murphy
Literary and Theatre News From Europe and Kipling Controversy
Richard Harding Davis plans a dramatization of The King's Jackal. James Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy appears in Swedish. A Paris literary review will feature dramatists who work with Sarah Bernhardt, with Sardou Rostand and Catulle Mendes among early pledges. Olive Schreiner denounces interviews as shallow. Kipling suppressions draw interest. A First Administration copies few exist. The Recessional was born from long effort and the Times jubilee poem test.
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Richard Harding Davis
James Barrie
Margaret Ogilvy
Paris
Maurice Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Sardou
Rostand
Catulle Mendes
Olive Schreiner
Kipling
Rudyard Kipling
the Times
Times
Energy and excitement in Manila as Americans play ball
The piece notes how Amer icans keep stores open at noon and highlights baseball as a gripping mystery to Filipinos in Manila. It contrasts American energy with local expectations and hints at a stage drama without political investigations.
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Manila
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Lucky Deuce OF Spades
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Iin
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Howard
Missionary Ridge
Burnside
Wood
Davis
Sheridan
Knoxville
Chicago
Inter Ocean
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Fl Wal
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