Brief Bits From An Old Ledger Of Local Lore
A New York map is jailed for stealing cannonballs, likely half-shot. On Saturday Mary A. Gillelan and Eugene L. Rowe sold Jacob W. Gillelan’s Emmitsburg farm of about 41 acres to Jesse Naussear for 4111. Hagerstown girls form a bird protection society, first targeting local lads. Western Union replaces telegraph poles as summer yields to autumn. Bass and eel captured by Solt Stall and Rothenhaefer on a short trip. Students apply themselves to study while a joking note counts 172 species of birds. Sophocles skull quarrels draw archaeologists, Virchow to weigh claims. Martinsburg reports 1033 public school pupils. New York street dept seeks 5 million for next year. Junior Hall hosts clever singing and dancing with its own orchestra on Monday night. W Leroy Strasberger and Thomas Eyler chase game today. Monocacy river shows rise.
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Bright
New York
Mary A. Gillelan
Eugene L. Rowe
Jacob W. Gilelan
Emmitsburg
Jesse Naussear
Hagerstown
Western Union Telegraph Company
Loas
Messrs
J.B Solt
Calvin Stall
FL Rothenhaefer
Thoreday
Sophocles
Saniquiry
Virchow
Junior Hall
W. Leroy Strasberger
Thomas Eyler
Byattstown notes World’s Fair trip and local prospects
County correspondence from Byattstown reports G A Darby N Smith and Bessie Zeigler leaving for the World’s Fair on September 12. Mrs Laura Wolfe and children visit relatives in Poolesville. J Soper dies September 6 after typhoid. burial by Dudrow. his wife ill with the same illness. A protracted Christian Church meeting begins September 17 led by Rev H J Cooke and Rev Richard Bagley. Prof C W Barton mining assays near Byattstown show paying bars on land owned by local citizens and attest to rich ore with gold and silver values.
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Byattstown
G. A. Darby
N. Smith
Bessie Zeigler
Laura Wolfe
Poolesville
J. Soper
Philip ©. Dudrow
Barton
A.J. Gabler
Price
Liz
Williams
Vulgar Women Provoke Public Scorn in New York World’s Notion
A New York World critique labels vulgar women as loud dressers and talkers who attract attention with bright outfits and perfumes. It argues such behavior erodes respect, denouncing gossip and public discussion of private matters while warning of social disruption and moral decline.
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New York
L” Resd
Summer Hotel Plaza
Broadway
A Saffron Colored Index and Biliousness Remedies
A fragment describes bilious symptoms from bile in the blood with yellow skin and eyes, headaches, liver pain, and dizziness on rising. It promotes Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as a sovereign remedy and mentions Karl’s Clover Root and other patent medicines for blood purification and digestion.
Wedding in Kentucky Recalls Warfield Family History
A Louisville Kentucky notice details the September wedding at Casky in Christian County Mary Churchill Warfield to Phil Gaither a prominent Hopkinsville merchant with a long Warfield lineage tracing to 1657. The piece outlines ancestors including Walter Warfeld a Revolutionary War surgeon and notable relatives across Maryland and Kentucky.
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Kentucky
Louisville
Casky
Christian County
Mary Churchill Warfield
Phil Gaither
Bopkinsville
Gaither
Richard Warfield
Wales
Black Horse Tavern
Annapolis
Maryland
Alexander
Dinsh Davidge
Azel
Sarah Griffith
Snowden’s Manor
Anne Arundel County
Walter Warfeld
Virginia
Wm. Christian
Sarah Winston Christian
Patrick Benty
Lexington
Annie Henry
Judge Blair
Charles Alexander Warfield
William Christisan Warfeld
Princeton
Rachel Edwards
Benjamin Edwards
Montgomery County
Congress
Ninisa Edwards
Ilinois
United States
Walter Edwards Warfeid
Hopkinsville
Caroline Wallace
Sarah Elizabeth Nelson
Hech Nelson
Colonel Nelson
Zeroonsey Fame
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Bull House
Everett Glass Works
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Paibey
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