Marriage by capture among the Seminoles persists
The Seminoles maintain traditional practices including wife capture as a union ritual. After parental consent, a suitor may place food at the door and win his bride by fair race during a corn dance or festive event. The ceremony makes him part of the bride’s family for life, while Seminoles continue homesteading near the Everglades and trading with Fort Myers.
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Everglades
Florida
Fort Myers
Edie
Taking the Proverb Buns Race Opens Story
Tommy wins a race and earns first choice of three shiny buns. The donor proclaims the early bird proverb urging quick decision as Tommy, hesitating, studies the buns before choosing. The scene shifts to Tommy asking his uncle for guidance.
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Tommy
Early Bird
Decline of Deep Waters Threatens Hudson Bay Navigation
Report notes shallow waters in areas once deep enough for ships along Hudson Bay. Investigation finds shores of the great body of water eroding as if water is draining toward the sea. The bay Henry Hudson wintered in 1610 may no longer be identifiable despite some data remaining.
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Hudson Bay Company
Henry Hudson
Frederick the Great and the placard on the wall
A crowd stares at a wall placard aimed at Frederick the Great. He orders it lowered to readable height and declares a compromise: the people may read what they please while he also does as he pleases.
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Frederick the Great
Frederick
Mathews
Theatrical Banter at Bagtens Pageant
In a playful exchange at a Boston event the host jokes about age and suitability for a role. A young and proper woman is insisted upon, while a performer argues she has proven fit for the part. The banter reflects the era’s social expectations and theatrical circles.
Line Between Suitors at a Colored Baptism
Sam Jones tried to monopolize Eliza Williams during a colored baptism where she spoke with Jim Lewis. Eliza, Sam’s so called best girl, replied she was otherwise engaged and could not be interrupted.
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Sam Jones
Eliza Williams
Jim Lewis
Eliza
Sam
National Magazine
Jack Tar in Command on His Quarterdeck
A historical naval anecdote recounts a boastful jack who asserts control aboard ship and defies a lieutenant when a coachman refuses to let only two sailors ride. The scene contrasts rank discipline with personal ego aboard the Magnificent during prize money era.
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Jack
W. H. Long
Rodney
London
Goodwin
Don
Two Months for Stealing One Chicken
An elderly man stands trial in a southern town for stealing a chicken. The judge offers two months in the work house and asks for justification. The defendant protests the sentence noting the small theft and comparing it to harsher punishment for each chicken stolen. The anecdote appears in Human Life.
Bismarck Demands Chicory For Coffee In France
In a London Chronicle story, Bismarck ranks among top coffee drinkers. While in France with the Prussian army he asked a innkeeper for chicory and, after learning that was all, ordered the man to make him coffee with every grain of it.
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Bismarck
France
London Chronicle
Coal gift to Prince of Wales voyage remembered
A wagon carrying a ton of coal from Loughborough to London arrived January 10 as a gift to the Prince of Wales. The cellar clerk paid four guineas, the prince sent twenty guineas and beer for each man. The thirteen men completed the 111 mile journey in eleven days without relief.
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Loughborough
Leicestershire
London
Prince of Wales
Falls Five Stories In Elevator Shaft Mystery
Olaf Larson, working in a millinery warehouse, backed into an elevator shaft and plunged five stories with a load of boxes. Co workers found him alive and able to whisper a puzzling remark about someone named Ay and needs for nails before rescue.
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Olaf Larson
Neils
Success Magazine
Young Nebraska native dies at nineteen after late discovery
Russell Carlyle Jones born September 5 1891 in Cumberland Gap Tennessee moved to Nebraska as a child. He graduated Wood River High School Nebraska 1910 and recently moved to Newberg. Funeral held at Presbyterian church Harvard Nebraska with Rev John F Lyons officiating. interment Woodlawn cemetery. His loss is mourned by parents sisters and many friends.
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Russell Carlyle Jones
Cumberland Gap
Tennessee
Nebraska
Newberg
Wood River
Congregational Church
Harvard
Presbyterian Church
John F. Lyons
Woodlawn Cemetery
Had Money Left From Shopping Tour Delight
A woman returns from a shopping spree with dresses and samples, visibly tired but delighted. The scene contrasts her fatigue with the glow of the clothes she has gathered. A man, tired from work, reflects a similar weariness as events unfold.
The Same Old Children Elbow Room from 1260
A 1260 account by Bartholo mew Anglicue humorously critiques children of his era. He notes they fear beating yet crave apples, reveal all they hear, shift from laughter to tears, and disrupt with restless energy from infancy to wash and dress.
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Bartholomew Anglicue
Realistic Star Demands Real Food and Poison in Death Scene
A fragment shows a conversation about stage authenticity on set. The Realistic Star insists on real food in the oenvil and, if denied, demands real poison for a death scene.
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Mr. Stager
Anager
Gold Discovery at Witwatersrand Transvaal Lands Attention
The Sheffield Telegraph notes that up to 1884 gold was unseen in Transvaal a farmer Geldenhuies sold his farm to Struben brothers who found rich ore. News spread to Cape Town London and brought in adventurers. Boers hesitated but leaders claimed vast reefs of dry powdery conglomerate in the Witwatersrand-White Water range yielding world rare easy to mine gold.
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Transvaal
Sheffield Telegraph
Arnold
Geldenhuies
Geldenhuis
Struben
Nine Farms
Ense
Witwatersrand
Cape Town
London
White Water
Engish
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DR. A. M. Davis
Littlefield & Romig
Physicians & Surgeons
Nat’! Bank
Rankin & Doolittle
Physicians and Surgeons
U. S. National Bank
G. E. Stuart
Ferguson
Alice C. Bowers
H. D. Bowers
Bowers & Bowers Osteopathic
Kirksville
Cali
de Ieane Postoffice
W. W. Hollingsworth & Son
Beth
Clarence Butt
A. Attention Pipers
Seana Pua Oregon
Bank of Newberg Building
Robt, W. Jones
Herbert J. Flagg
Municipal Way Engineering
Peonieetaen
Una H
Tiene
Telephone
McMinnville National Bank
McMinnville, Oregon
William M. Ramsey
Mcminnville
Oregon
Elsia Wright Building
Third Street
E. A. Ellis
General
Yamhill County Abstract Co
J. H. Gibson
Mer
Yamhill County
Chase & Linton
R. B. Linnville
Dunlap Bros
Main Street
Jack Tar
India
Ating Frome
Cabse
J.C. Porter & Company
MO. N. Crosby & Company
First Street
Black
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