Three Days Married and a Honeymoon Misadventure
A bride on a three day honeymoon recounts a chaotic train misadventure and a barroom mishap, followed by a penniless arrival at Baltimore and an aid from a kind stranger. Her Aunt Tabby’s rigid breakfast table welcomes her until a daring rescue by Fred brings a joyous reunion after a tense, tearful ordeal.
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Fred
Baltimore
City
Hackman
Tabby
Aunt Tabby
Tred
Saratoga
Trousseaus
Aunt
Henry
Tabitha Tinstitch
Mary
Crector
Mary Jane
Scalding prank and Civil War pigeons in old chronicle
A prank where a doctor was doused through a speaking pipe by a Swartz imitator is recounted alongside a Paris siege note. Paris used carrier pigeons, with 363 supplied and 73 returning, while Mn Thiers and Jules Favre kept two birds. Also cited are brief clips from MacBride, Miss Scott, a New Hampshire infant, a petrified Bay City baby, Modoc era army appointment trends, and a Hamburg Iowa rat tale.
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Swartz
Tartarus
Hsculapius
Swarty
Lena
San Francisco Chronicle
Paris
Mme. Thiers
Jules Favre
Various Home Remedies and Odd Anecdotes Circulate
A mix of folk cures for earache and felons, kitchen tips, and recipes share pages with quirky tales. Items include pepper oil for ears, a wind barrel vent trick, a felon poultice with onions, waterproofing paraffin, pickled grapes, and a peach egg recipe. World news notes postage stamps for the President, British customs, and colorful stories from Cleveland, Georgia, and Berlin style satire.
Old Shoes and Oaken Tales of England’s Giants
A curious fragment discusses old shoes held to have multiple existences and how reused leather can become buttons and combs. It then shifts to historical oaks in England, noting monuments like the Parliament Oak and Welbeck Abbey curiosities with measurements, legends, and price anecdotes from the 1810s.
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Elizabeth Coombs
Brunswick
Miss Sawyer
Eliza Letiz Coombs
Fisi
Newport
Monmouthshire
England
Clipstone Park
Edward J
Welbeck Abbey
Greendale
Calthorpe
Yorkshire
To Cotton To: The origin of the phrase to cotton to and its link to kowtow in China relations
The article traces how the term to cotton to emerged from the kowtow ritual required of ambassadors in 1783. It notes English and American disdain for such homage, linking the shift from kowtow to cotton to a broader sentiment of submission and cultural adaptation in early U.S. usage.
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China
St. James
Britain
England
United States
Cotton
Apple Tree Pruning Study Shows Best Healing Timing
During a tour of the East Pennsylvan ia Experimental Farm, researchers demonstrated how pruning limbs at different months affects stump healing. Wounds healed most thoroughly when pruning occurred in the sixth month, aligning with theory that spring vigor and circulation boost recovery.
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East Pennsylvania
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San
Anil Y
C. Sawyer
L. M. Robbins
Rockland
Ma Ray
Orleans
Choice Navy
St. Louis
Tansill's Choice
Thralel & Mumpford's
Thrall & Mumford's
Dolly Varden
Tural
Thrall & Mumports
Thrall & Mumford
City Drug Store
Oto Titrall & Mumford's
Babbitt
Dr. Price
Mrls Thrall& Mumford's
Mrl5
Therall & Mumford
the Register
Co. Ww. Slater
Sereereaereeeee
Traniston
Massachusetts
John A. Andrew
Honest Statesman
New York Sun
Thurlow
Arnheim
Totland
Eion
MacBride
The
Washington Chronicle
D Street
Rev. G. A. Ball
Mac
Scott
Timber Township
Peruria County
New Hampshire
Bay City
Michigan
Hamburg
Iowa
Great Britain
Organ County Gazette
Gay
Capt
Tall
Cleveland Herald
Sam Macon
Georgia
Lincoln Guards
Gor
Freeh Indy
Berlin
Paria
Alsace and Lorraine
Livia
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