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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1893
Page
6
An 19th century account details ASS MOONEE backing a claim to Maomarain Dew without official sanction. Officials from WAE WITS REVENUE hover to intervene as the narrative traverses Cherokee country from Dalton to Dahlonega, noting primitive locals and the era’s frontier practices.
In Georgia and surrounding mountain regions moonshine suppression draws in Uncle Sam’s raiders, with Miss Hattie Hart of Pikeville gaining fame as a fearless ally and Bob Clay lauded as a skilled negro deputy. The piece details raids, hill country dangers, and local economics driving illicit distilling amid a rugged landscape.
Fashionable accessory described with brocade pockets and antique ruching, presented as a birthday gift cape. The piece is noted for center embroidery and monogram details, with a casual mention of seeing it in The News.
In Port Lea a telegraph office operator Liszie Doyle braved tides to deliver a crucial message to Vice Admiral Sir John Hopkins aboard the Blake after her father James Doyle’s boat was wrecked by a sailing weasel. She later repeated the feat delivering a telegram to the Chicago despite a boating accident.
Abe Buzzard once known as the Terror of Welsh Mountain is released from the eastern Pennsylvania penitentiary on grounds of wrongful conviction and a religious conversion. He narrates a troubled life from birth in 1852 to outlaw years, reform, and plans to preach the gospel in the Welsh mountains.
A group forced entry into a factory office in Roubax established a 300 pound iron gate and seized 12 000 francs in silver. They loaded the loot onto a cart after moving along a railway embankment and rolling the gate to a distant side.
A San Francisco paper recounts Slug 3's tale of Kirby, a hard drinking printer who vowed to return after dinner to finish a job. Kirby was killed in a saloon brawl, his head smashed by a beer bottle, yet the foreman and crew remember his pledge as they carry on with the work.
Amid a tense factory briefing a sick Jimmy Maxwell exits and foreman densifies. Matthews reads Jimmy’s tale while Kirby’s case lingers. Suddenly a ghostly sight appears in the last alley before the shift ends, leaving workers spooked and the foreman puzzled by an eerie, unanswered summons.
A historical account traces the exploits of Dr. Bliss a Cincinnati Medical College graduate once a respected physician who later led a string of thefts across the East. With partners including Mrs Sarah Byrnes he stole silverware lades and sealskin coats, endured multiple prison terms and pardons, and was repeatedly captured in New York and Boston before a recent seizure and arrest.
A Brooklyn court detains Philip ONeill for trying to join a traveling circus without consent. He describes a rambling journey from Sacramento to Ogden, Montana, Omaha, Arizona, Chicago, Jersey City, and New York, living by odd jobs and theft. He recalls rough times, hunger, and sleeping in barns, aided by strangers, before reaching Chicago and New York. The piece notes a Vatican cardinals fee tale and the pope's household income.
A Croatian immigrant Matto Modric, accused of planning to swindle in the United States, is arrested on Ellis Island after a friend’s letter exposed his begging schemes. The tale traces Modric’s use of acids to scare money from New Yorkers, his prior stays in Kriz, and the fate of his associate Bralic who faced six months to a year in prison. The piece also warns against foreign beggars with disfigured hands and discusses effects of hashish and the idea of smokeless cigarettes.
A family plans a party with music and drawing for friends, mother supporting and children taking roles. Also a nature note on birds nesting and loss, plus a brief tale of a Bitterroot avalanche, a bedtime routine guide for facial care, and a Ramblers riders column vignette.
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