Early Bird Wins or Loses in Harter County Courtship
In Prairie City a Pendleton kinship tale unfolds as Miss Enla Pendleton weighs suitors led by Nort Willis and others from Harter County. A Roundup at the Bar 6 catalogues rival advances while the suitors read the social scene and the odds tilt toward marriage or departure with the era’s gossip and desire for advantage.
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Fain Pendleton
Pendleton
Prairie City
Miss
Nort
Willie
Harter County
Nort Lever
Enla
Hays
Texas
Prarie City
Eorste
Misa Enla
Eula
Indiana
Harner Goung
Clothes-pole Men and a New Orleans Childhood Memory
A nostalgic Harper's Young People fragment recalls a New Orleans routine of old colored men selling slender clothes-poles. A child’s memory centers on a bent, white-haired man with a song, a tiny gray squirrel seen in the pole’s crotch, and a red rose plucked from a vine. The piece sketches cisterns, drinking water on roofs, and odd local details like cats living in shed rooms beneath tanks.
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New Orleans
Uptown
Inamma
Harpers
The Kola Nut: Marvelous Powers and Global Spread
A historical overview of kola nut use from Africa to Europe and the Americas. It details endurance boosts, military interest, Alpine club adoption, medical claims, and the plant’s cultivation from West Africa to the Caribbean and beyond, noting imports, experiments, and agricultural practices.
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Esides Ger Oz
Emin Pasha
Germany
Itaninei
Austria
Italy
Russia
Europe
United States
New York Post
Kela
Re Heckel
Tropics
Africa
Miles
Mount Canigon
Heckel
Kole
Coull
Jamaica
West Africa
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EUVE
Stanetty
Strouse
Cotonea
Stoes
Lore Bruthtede
Weaither Fame
Arnie
Half Moon
Capital Tech
Floyd Verdleton
Miss Pendleton
Raning
Witter Swls
le Roaazed
New Reali
Hank Pearsall
Hall
Misa Enin
Mi- Enla
Tia NM Witais
Aesop
Mebby
Washington Star
Odea
Gators
Promptin
Dujardin
Kola
Chartmen
Invest
Catory
Sierra Leone
Guinea
Mauritus
Indies
Mexico
Brace
Nealregu
Uercan
Iniitration
Paate
San Frances
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!