The Pears of Frederick a quilted sisterhood remembered
A recalled sketch of five elderly sisters known as The Pears, Miss Becky Polly Phabs Chrissy and Sally, who lived in Frederick in a two story brick house. They farmed a quiet life of sewing knitting and reading in their Alsace relic workshop for sixty years.
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Hkugenta Drossp Potts
Lexington
Kentucky
Frederick
Getring
Slaters
Barbara Frietchie
Peyre
Hannah Moore
Peare
Becky
Polly
Miss Phabs
Kipe
Mies
Misa Phosbe
Aide
Saffy
Phobde
Chrisay
Sally
Little Jotun
Gambling and the trust duty of wealth
A literary reflection on gambling in a clerical struggle. The writer argues wealth is a trust and cannot be risked for profit. It contrasts gamblers with speculators and urges readers to consider trusteeship, citing social unrest and conscience.
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Hin
Life Insurance Popularity Surges in United States
The text notes Americans hold twice as much life insurance per capita as Britons, five times Germans, and eight times French. It explains this dominance by policies serving purposes beyond family provision, with a new development being large grants of life insurance to Protestant ministers payable to their churches at death.
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United States
New York World
Worded tribute stalled by a royal silver wedding debate
At the Prince and Princess of Wales silver wedding a town debated an address. Initial lines, including Conscious as we are of our own unworthiness, faced universal condemnation until a proposal altered wording to Conscious as we are of each other's untworthiness, meeting general agreement.
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Prince and Princess of Wales
Five Negro Outlaws Hanged For Cowardly Murder in Georgia
The five men Arnold Augustus Andrew Davis Richard Sanders William Hudson and Sam Baldwin were executed by hanging in the yard of the Screven county jail at Sylvania Georgia. The group known as the Knights of Archer or Archer gang terrorized Screven county robbing and murderizing until lawmen halted their reach. Andrew Mekhiney led the gang and evaded capture after the killings of Constable Mitton Mears and others. Wade Herrington and the Sanders clan were pivotal in the ambush that sparked the manhunt and subsequent trials.
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Sylvania
Screven County
Andrew Aic- Kinney
Screven
Knights of Archer
Comnpen
Andrew MeIkhiney
Savannah
Mekhingey
Georgia
South Carolina
Mitton Mears
Joe Sanders
Archer
Young Sanders
Jesse
Sande
Connession
Tronbis
Ase Wade
Sereven
Kilmore Herrington
Sanders
Mears
Jesse Sanders
Old Sanders
Captain Wade
Herrington
Wade
Werrington
Arnold Augustus
Andrew Davis
Richard Sanders
William Hudson
Sam Baldwin
Ate Kinney
Flemington and
Lins Wertacria
Gnuge
Nan
Cleveland
Braving Spion Kop The Long, Deadly Tugela Ridge Fight
An eyewitness recounts seven days of brutal siege atop Spion Kop during the Tugela campaign. British forces clawed their way along crest lines from Jan 20 to Jan 27, suffering heavy losses as Boer fire raked the slopes and heavy artillery roared. The narrative highlights relentless fighting, night retreats, mud, and heroism amid a costly pullback toward the pontoon crossings.
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Kilmer
Pion Kop
Tugela
Spion Kop
Buller
Ingela
Ladysmith
Spionkop
Bern
Hart
Two Gorges
Baker
Hilyard
Queen's
Yorkshire
Bleedhwood
Televe
The Way to Quit Is to Quit
A humorous anecdote describes a portly gent who decided to finish smoking by quitting at midnight on New Year’s Eve. He hid cigars in his pocket, but his wife doubted his resolve, and he clarified he would not want to smoke again though he might. He never smoked after that moment.
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Splenkop
Woodgate
Té& Gela
Ladysmith
Blackwood
CHECKERS ON THE FARM IN WINTER NIGHTS
A rustic verse recalls evenings around a worn checkerboard with old man and farmhands watching a game. The poem notes the quiet crowd, the steady move of Cynthy and Reuben, and the social draw of checkers amid gossip and humor. Also mentions celery varieties and a note on the Dog Star’s name in ancient Egypt.
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Cynthy
Rewben
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Sugenia Dunlap Potts
Sophie
Mies Chrissy
Miss Chrissy
Misa Chriasy
John
Hunt
Lou
Senator Jones
Chrissy
Johan
Brena Vista
Alde
Asylum
Alf Luther
John Hunt
Obrissy
Os Wall
Washington
Monros
Evan Tanor
New England
Alsace
Nice
Napoleon
Mafia of
Catalde
Secon
Sith
Grance L. Kirner
Checkers
Young Heuben
Hile
Arthur E. Locke
Boston
Hedwell
Gelien Saf
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