At Evening Time It Shall Be Light
Hazel Chu and Lawrence Gray cherish a long waited love at Lake Jonia during a church encampment. After decades apart they reunite when Hazel travels to bring Gray home and marry him, then care for him as they await the evening time when light returns.
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Lake Jonia
Tovers
Lawrence Gray
Sweet Hazel Chu
Drm
Lawrence
Ife
Hazel
Qabernacle
Great Tabernacle
Tabernacle
Zachariah
New York
China
Hazel Chu
Hazel Dhu
Lake Lonia
Will
Robert
Missionary News
Orient
Daily Papers
John
Prince
Nora
The
Irather
City
Ellsworth
Chicago News
Bird Like Beasts Ornithodelphia Duck Mole and Porcupine Ant Eater
In Australia live two family members Ornithodelphia the duck mole and the porcupine ant eater. The duck mole swims dives burrows with a spoon bill and five toed claws while the porcupine ant eater lacks teeth uses a long tongue with spines to crush insects. Both burrow have powerful forearms and threaten extinction due to native and modern pressures.
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Animal Kingdom
Covington Twins
Australia
Mamma
Papa Playtypus
Trapping Coons Expands Along Gulf Coast
A New Orleans dispatch reports that levee-driven land reclamation along the Mississippi has pushed raccoons into Gulf marshes and bayous of southern Louisiana. Hunters in Lafourche and Terrebonne parishes say raccoon numbers have surged, creating a profitable winter fur trade with pelts selling for 15 to 50 cents and skinned bodies to locals, while alligators near extinction have given way to coon hunting as a major livelihood.
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Mississippi
New Orleans
Gulf
Sippi
Gulf of Mexico
Brules
Lafourche
Terrebonne
Louisiana
Philadelphia Bulletin
Moon Superstitions in America and a No-To-Bac Cure
Moon superstition talk by W W Howell notes lunar beliefs persist as ancient impulses shaping growth and decay ideas. Philadelphia Letter cites moon worship motif linking crescent to growth and Venusian imagery with Virgin Mary. Unadilla piece reports Fred J Joyce cured of tobacco by No To Bac, 500 value turned into health gains after two boxes.
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American Folklore Society
W. W. Howell
America
Fanny D. Bergen
Venice
Philadelphia
Unadilla
N. Y
Fred J. Joy
Joyce
Superstitions on Newborns Across Cultures
The piece surveys infant rites from Yorkshire to Manx traditions, noting beliefs such as binding the infant’s right hand to seek wealth, carrying the baby upstairs, and giving gifts like bread and salt at first outings. It cites Hall Caine on fairy protection before baptism and the idea that early spoon use or falls may shape luck.
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Yorkshire
England
France
Germany
Hall Caine
The Letter R in Boston Mispronunciation Compared
A Providence Journal chides Boston speech criticizing dropping or misplacing the letter r. It contrasts Boston habits with English norms, noting terms like Puah watah and flowah, and cites examples from Back Bay speech and regional mispronunciations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Harvard
Cape Cod
Back Bay
Providence Journal
Electric shocks spark mock seriousness at public buildings meeting
The public buildings committee reflected levity over Judge Sulzberger's note on replacing conductors with non conductors amid chronic shocks from metal knobs. Members debated rubber shoes insulation and pocket horse chestnuts, while a plan to post rules and jokes about shocking ended with a referral to the superintendent and architect.
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Public Buildings Committee
Sulzberger
Miles
Perkins
Davis
Harris
Stevens
Philadelphia Record
The Colonel and Miss Flighty Speak of Engagements
In a witty exchange the Colonel and Miss Flighty remark on shared experience in many engagements. Their banter underscores a humorous clash of personalities and mutual recognition of past adventures as reported by the Pittsburg Dispatch.
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Flighty
Pittsburg Dispatch
Pennsylvania Farmer Sets Record With Salters Oats
A farmer from East Troy Pennsylvania grew 207 bushels of Salter's Silver Mine Oats on one acre. Over 30,000 farmers plan to beat this in 1896 for a $200 gold prize. Salter's Seed Co offers a mammoth catalogue plus free grains and grasses for 10 cents postage.
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Pennsylvania
M. M. Luther
East Troy
Salter
America
John A. Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Parker's Ginger Tonic Endorsed For Soothing Sleepless Women
The tonic is praised as popular for its perceived benefits in easing suffering and fatigue among nervous and sleepless women, offering soothing revival.
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Parker
Fat Parisian Man Eats Five Times Normal Amounts
A man in Paris named M. Canon-Berg is described as consuming about five times as much food as a typical person. His weight is reported at 560 pounds.
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Paris
M. Canon-Berg
No More Coins Relief In Hindercarts Removal
A reader notes relief at having no more coins and mentions Hindercarts removing them. The message adds comfort about the situation and criticizes Coomassie as a wretched, dirty, and unhealthy town.
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Hindercarts
Coomassie
Frosty winds bring chill and cold across plains
The piece describes harsh frost filled winds over frozen ponds and snow fields, noting their penetrating chill. It mentions remedies warming the surface to dispel the cold and hints at several unrelated notes including a Copenhagen tale of an eighty two year old retired officer celebrating a second silver wedding with a fifty two year old wife.
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Sung
Copenhagen
Camphor Ice Advertises Cures for Chapped Hands
C. G. Clark Co. of New Haven promotes Fiegeman’s Camphor Ice with Glycerine as a remedy for chapped hands and face and tender feet. A Portland man reports a cherry tree bearing a pear this year beside a pear tree nearby.
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Fiegeman
C. C. G. Clark Co
New Haven
George F. McQuillan
Portland
Bright Boston student lists Arctic animals
A Boston schoolboy confidently named six Arctic animals after a prompt. He answered Three polar bears and three seals with the assurance of a professor, illustrating quick recall of familiar wildlife.
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Boston
Arctic Zone
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Lucy Wal‘won
Marquette, Kans
Massachusetts
Great Barrington
Haverhill
Pittsfield
R. E. Rider
Gilfillan Elk
St. Paul
Anderson
Ill
Hood
Hoods
Sarsaparilla
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