Christmas Dream Among Flower-Fairies and a Little Girl
A child named Tots recalls a dreamlike Christmas journey in which a green frog guides a fairy-touched ride through a flower-bed to a Christ-child celebration. She wakes to a warm hearth and a mother’s kiss, while memory blends summer pets, winter flowers, and lessons of kindness. Mary E. Lambe rt.
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Tots
Papa
Ots
Thomas
Jack Frost
Tottie
Mamma
Dancer
Prancer
Santa Claus
Sol
Christ-child
Green Frog
Christchild
Mary E. Lammbeert
The Fly Proboscis Examined by Princeton Scientist
Prof George Macloskie of Princeton College described at the New York Academy of Sciences how the house fly uses a file like proboscis to prepare and consume food. He showed a fly jaw under a microscope proving back teeth while noting flies do not bite but file flesh.
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George Macloskie
Princeton College
New York Academy of Sciences
Mucloskie
New Jersey
New York World
Drummer Complains of Bedbugs in Hotel
A traveling salesman enters a hotel, checks luggage, and while signing the register a bedbug crawls across the page. The drummer exclaims that, after travels from coast to coast, he has never seen a house where pests come downstairs to learn his room number.
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United States
Brooklyn Eagle
Some Day Fright the Hopes We Mortal Weave
Poem of hopeful faith amid grief. Reflects on dreams that crumble and rise again with a future promised by divine guidance. Describes a living fairy heir to treasure and fame, and the comforting image of brighter tomorrows beyond present sorrows. Bloomers, Wis.
Smudget’s Washing-Machine Ends in Illusions and Trial
In Kalamazoo Mich, Thomas Smudget’s patentwashing machine scheme spirals into delusion. He pitches a crank machine to Hulda and neighbors, faces detection by a bull dog and a wary farmer, and ends in asylum after a final failed sale. The tale closes with a will requesting a washing machine at his grave.
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Hulda
Thomas
Smudget
Betsy
Bix
Demale
Mr. Smudget
Saya
Hayes
Rutherford
Jane
Household Economy Recipes and Cooking Tips
A roundup of kitchen instructions covers baking cakes such as Waite Mountain and Sunny pound cake, plus coconut and fruit flavored cookies. It also details savory dishes like Savory Rice Pudding, Lemon Riccose, and tips for repotting plants and growing rice-based puddings with broth.
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Concord
An Involved Epistle to a College Son
A father writes to his college son detailing frugal gifts two pairs of breeches for a new coat and socks, noting his wife sent ten dollars but he kept five, and mentioning the sister's measles while urging the son to honor his parents and avoid dishonor.
Heirloom Flintlock Gun Linked to Healy Family History
A Rehoboth Massachusetts gun traces lineage from a 1680 voyage to the country and service in the French wars. Joseph Healy added a 22 new stock in 1731, with a silver plate initial J H 1761. John's Revolution use, Stafford Healy’s War of 1812 pension, 1820 restock, and current family ownership. The gun’s barrel remains original and active as a fowling piece. The note ends with a claim about vast gold in New York banks.
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Nando Healy
Rehoboth
Mass
Jo Ogseph
J. H
Joseph
John
Stafford Healy
Ohio merchant recalls risqué stagecoach tale
A man recounts a childhood trip from Xenia to Cleveland on a four-horse stagecoach. He describes meeting a striking young woman, a flirtatious Manoeuvre, and a revealing exchange as the journey continued, ending with a Bjourn remark from a fellow passenger.
Original Cincinnati site price in Continental certificates
Burnet notes show Denman bought about 800 acres at 5 shillings an acre in Continental certificates worth 31 cents on the pound. Calculated specie cost equals 240 dollars for the site of Cincinnati.
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Burnet
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Punisnens
Nebraska
Lili
Paps
Tam
Dean Swift
Jenniez- Jones
Uys
Alway
Banka of Verdure
Bloomer, Wis
MUX Vomica
Thomas Jackson
Hulda Smudget
Mr. Grimes
Europe
Warner
Grant
Chicago
Amanda Higgins
Iwon
York
Ohio
Xenia Court House
Cleveland
Mount Vernon
LEGO
ThesSite of
Cincinnati
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