Confederate Spy Wyatt Escapes in Green Briar County Tale
In a Civil War era vignette Wyatt, a Confederate sergeant posing as Lieutenant Raymond, plots marriage to Noreen Harwood to quiet a land dispute. After tricking a preacher, he and Noreen attempt to flee a courthouse with Federal troops in pursuit, planning a quick exit through a back route.
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Wyatt
Jem Taylor
Springs
Major Harwood
Taylor
Harwood
U. S
Noreen Harwood
Lieuenant Raymond
Parson Nichols
Anse Cowan
Noreen
Cowans
Nable
Wwyatt
Cowan
Cowen
Raymond
Lewisburgh
Captain Fox
Ele
A Night Ride Toward Refuge With Noreen
Tom and Noreen slip from a wary hide in a shadowed yard to flee by horse toward a Confederate frontier. She reveals she aided Tom and insists on joining him, choosing danger over capture, as pursuit and peril loom in the mountains.
The Night Escape From Ramsay's Camp
I evade two guards with Noreen guiding through the camp after paddling a musket and using a countersign Kanerina. I impersonate a Ramsay staff lieutenant to pass the sentries and exit the grounds toward West Point.
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Jack
Noreen
Coridor
Dlaer
Ramsay
Pickney
Kanerina
West Dboint
Fox
Dentrance Hall
Furth
Grylder
Mann
Gieneral Ramsay
Kanahatra
Town Council Buys Piano for Hall
Scotchburg council members appoint three to inspect the purchase. A joiner notes the piano looks solid, saying I’m nae judge o’ music but I’ll warrant ye a’ the boards are plumb.
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Scotchburg
Frugality Promotes Romance and Stability in Everyday Life
The piece argues frugality refutes ostentation and waste. It contrasts thrift with vanity, noting saving strengthens modesty, industry, and sympathy. It warns that wasteful spending erodes value, while frugality adds calm, cleaner meaning to daily living and preserves gentility.
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Minneapolis Journal
Uncle Eben Advises Patience in Hunt for Help
A fragment shows Uncle Eben urging Eben to lose patience and seek counsel from the man who hunts him up, sharing an old advice motif in dialect.
Street Lost to History in Arras After War Destruction
Arnold Bennett recalls a vanished Arras street photographed near the town hall. The curved brick and refuse mounds marked a once busy commercial lane famed for jewelers and ornate shops. German bombardment erased its name and form, leaving a lost, historic thoroughfare.
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Arras
Pleasures and Pains of Power Debate
A reflective piece contrasts the pains and pleasures of power by exploring who seeks it and who bears its burdens. The prose suggests understanding power from both the seekers and the reluctant.
Prepare House for Winter for a Chicken Flock
Guidance for winterizing a hen house with cleaning disinfection and insulation. Advice covers removing clutter sweeping, whitewashing with lime and kerosene, sealing cracks, insulating with paper, adding a storm door, ensuring ventilation, warming the floor, and stocking grit and dust for bathing. Encourages preparing birds for laying after molting to avoid setbacks.
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Paris
Chickens in Limited Space Poultry House for Dense Egg Production
A compact poultry house design maximizes egg birds in limited space. It features outer shed and inner nonconducting roof, vermin proof perches, raised feeding platform, and open ventilation. The 323 square foot floor allows easy extension and winter use with a warm nest area.
Runaway Lad Tells Astonishing Tales
Yonkers, N Y. The Children's society traced a twelve year old Japanese runaway to Clifton Adachi son of author Kennesuke Adachi. The boy claimed vanished royal lineage and other feats while entertaining officials with tall stories. His father will take him home quietly as he has done many times before.
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Yonkers
N. Y
Children’s Society
Clifton Adachi
Kennesuke Adachi
Clifton
John Clifton Epperson
Kansas
Ill
New York
Adachi
Aladdin
Causes of Poor Road Maintenance in Counties
A study of multiple counties finds county boards failing to grant legal effect to road actions, lacking accounting control of road funds, and permitting irregular fund use. Local labor discontent, weak supervision, and opposition to prepaying materials hinder sustained maintenance and raise costs.
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Countieg
Green bone feeding for poultry in cold weather
Beef scrap is widely used as poultry protein but fresh cut green bone given every day or two can be profitable when weather is cold and decay risk is lower. It stimulates eye production but should not be continued long. Best for confined flocks with little insect food.
Prepare for Cold Weather for Poultry
The arrival of autumn brings new duties for poultry farmers. Gather scattered broods and house them before winter. Store vegetables gravel sand and dust bath materials. Provide litter for scratching to keep hens busy. Idle hens do not lay. Leaves may aid insulation and enrichment.
Shelter Ducks In Winter and Summer Housing Choices
Ducks avoid staying in their runs all night in winter but benefit from well ventilated sheds or houses during the summer season to stay protected and comfortable.
One Kiss Rule Shuts Wedding Officiant Alton
In Alton Illinois Police Magistrate Patrick Maguire bans extra kisses after a bridegroom repeatedly kissed his bride Goldie A. Van Hoy of Terre Haute Indiana beyond a single kiss during a ceremony for J. F. Koshensperger. The judge ordered the man to stop as the ceremony dragged on.
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Alton
Ill
Patrick Maguire
J. F. Koshensperger
Goldie A. van Hoy
Terre Haute
Ind
Enraged Buck Fights Hard In Wisconsin Zoo Enclosure
Felix Lagard seventy a keeper at Irving Park Zoo Chippewa Falls Wisconsin was seriously injured when a large buck deer attacked him as he entered the enclosure Rescuers Eli Nelson Anseline Paquette had no weapons and grappled with the animal A 20 minute battle drew in five men who forced the deer down after scaling the fence The deer snapped its neck and died Lagard was hospitalized for injuries
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Felix Lagard
Irving Park
Mr. Lagard
Eli Nelson
Ansiine Paquette
Lagard
Wolf chased into Kansas home by pursuing dogs
In Centralia near Summerfield a wolf fleeing dogs entered Joe Jackson’s yard and then hid under a bed inside the house. Mrs Jackson opened the door and the wolf slipped in. Neighbors moved the bed, the animal raised its head, and the bed was pushed back to trap it until an ax could be found to kill the wolf. Three children slept in the bed during the incident.
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Centralia
Kan
Joe Jackson
Summerfield
Wide Tires Show Benefit For Roads and Fields
Extension News Service from the University of Nebraska reports wide tires reduce road and field labor compared with narrow tires. Tests show wide-tired wagons pull easier in deep mud and dry fields, though narrow tires perform better on dusty or smooth surfaces.
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Extension News Service
University of Nebraska
Department of Agricultural Engineering
University Farm
Fruit Trees Along Roadside Suggested by J H Taylor
J H Taylor urges planting fruit trees or shade along country roads to benefit travelers. He notes maple rows yield no fruit and recommends interplanting fruit trees to provide apples and pears to passersby, though local vandals may threaten young stock on roadsides.
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J. H. Taylor
Weeds Along the Road and Snow Drift Issues
Weeds along roads cause drifting snow to block paths and fences suffer. The text notes heavy snow that makes roads impassable and suggests removing weeds to reduce snow accumulation. It warns drivers to watch roads next winter and implies measures to prevent drift problems.
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