Old Sow at Sacketts Harbor in 1812 Battle Tale
The piece recounts the July 12 1812 fight at Sacketts Harbor Lake Ontario where the British Royal George and three other ships attacked a shore defended by Colonel Bellinger. A local gunner crew used improvised cannon balls wrapped in elk hide to fire a thirty two pounder dubbed Old Sow and struck a Royal George deck gunner group, after which the British fleet withdrew. The tale notes local pride and that historians should refrain from writing it.
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John Oliver la Goer
New York
Sacketts Harbor
Lake Ontario
St. Lawrence
Royal George
Bellinger
Sacketta Harbor
Memorials and memories on Sucketts Harbor reflect changing times
A reflective piece notes forgotten memorials at Sucketts Harbor and urges a proper road and lawn for old soldiers. It celebrates George Gershwin as a golfer who broke 100 and then 85 on Lakeville, and comments on 1920s stock crashes pushing enlistments as a slogan to join the navy for meals.
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Burdbeir Ruthie
Sucketts Harbor
Monera
George Gershwin
Mr. Gershwin
Lakeville
Gershwin
Army
Service
Navy
Tel Aviv the first all Jewish city in Palestine
Tel Aviv shows rapid growth from 908 inhabitants in 1913 to over 40 000 today. The city's Hebrew language is official, with Jews from about 40 countries and a history of direct voting for council and full women's franchise. The article frames Tel Aviv as a modern Jewish cultural revival center, highlighting its development, architecture, and the restoration of Hebrew as a living language.
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Tel Aviv
Palestine
Mediterranean
California
Jaffa
Near East
England
Following the Goat Following the Sheep in Montana
In Montana during sheep shearing season a narrator notes sheep follow leaders like a goat trained to move them. The piece parallels human behavior and comments on social habits including Flora smoking and the Glenns’ shift to cocktails amid Volstead era norms. Lawton, cautious with investments, is drawn into stock market risk and gets financially sheared.
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Montana
Gallatin Valley
Flora
Della
Mara
Glenns
Lawton
Corral
Wastern Newspaper Union
Pony Pushes Baby Carriage in Busy Yard
In Buckinghamshire a pony named Post Boy, owned by a farmer, pushed a perambulator carrying a baby while the parents were occupied with chores. The incident occurred in a busy yard involving the animal and household routine.
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Buckinghamshire
Postcard Travel Time Delays Reach Lewisham
A postcard sent from Folkestone traveled 70 miles to Lewisham over twenty years before arriving, illustrating long postal lags in mid century England.
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Lewisham
England
Tolkestone
Woman seeks divorce after golden 50th anniversary
Mrs Francis M Burney files for divorce in Provo Utah thirteen days after a golden wedding party. She accuses her husband of returning home drunk choking her and threatening to kill her, with fourteen married children as part of the family.
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Provo
Utah
Francis M. Burney
Four New National Flags Flung to Breeze
Geneva reports four nations add estado banners to sovereign flags on state occasions. Lebanon adopts a French tricolor with a green cedar, Syria headlines green white black with three red stars, Latakia’s flag features a golden sun with 11 rays and French tricolor in corners, and Jebel Drize displays a red white blue rectangle with five vertical stripes in green red yellow blue white.
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Geneva
Switzerland
France
Levant Tnt
League of Nations
Bach
Republic of Lebanon
Lebanon
Syria
Latakia
Amouities
Japan
Jebel Drize
Holman ONeill Joins Race In Dry Wave For Senate Seat
Mrs Lottie Holman O Neill of Downer Grove enters the Illinois Senate contest as the bone dry candidate amid Ruth Hanna McCormick the regular Republican nominee and James Hamilton Lewis the Democratic wet opponent.
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Lottie Holman O'Neill
Downera Grove
Finais
Ruth Hanna McCormick
James Hamilton Lewis
Executed Man Observes His 89th Anniversary
Kingston Missouri article recounts B. G. Wallace famed for surviving a Civil War guerrilla execution attempt. Wallace, captured with three others, was sentenced to die but survived when bullets shattered his hat and grazed his skull. He later celebrated his eighty ninth birthday.
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Kingston
B. G. Wallace
Wallace
Pat
Shoe making details from early 20th century notes
A fragmented note outlines shoe construction with many leather and hardware counts and mentions 1930 processes like tanning. The text references the Western Newspaper Union and mixes incomplete phrases about leather, cloth, nails, and stitching steps.
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Western Newapawer Union
California Fig Syrup touted for relief of children's ailments
Carolyn Babush of Milwaukee credits California Fig Syrup with easing her daughter’s constipation and supporting health. The advertisement claims long use by mothers for biliousness, headaches, fevers, and colds, noting doctors recommend it to aid bowel movements and improve energy in children. The genuine product bears the California name and is sold in all drugstores.
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Carolyn Babush
Downer Ave
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
California
Caroly
Doctor's 3 Rules Big Help to Bowels
A retro advertisement extols daily bowel motion aided by Dr Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. It recommends a morning water drink, outdoor exercise, and fixed daily timing, claiming thorough cleansing without weakening the intestines and promising better health, sleep, and breath. Big bottles at drugstores.
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Dr. Caldwel
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