Coffee Echoes Home In Indiana Tale By James Whitcomb Riley
A stranger named Jim, born in Indiana over forty years ago, travels and recalls meals from many restaurants as a memory of home. Uncle Jake and the family welcome him with coffee and a tearful reunion with a motherly figure. The scene blends nostalgia and warm hospitality in Riley’s rural voice.
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Jank
Slim
Jake
Indiany
Santy
Jaksha
Jim
Te§Porter
No. 27
Marysville
Nuffziger
Boss Wright and the Nevada County ambush tragedy
In a rain soaked California tale a stage ride from Nevada City to Grass Valley leads to the fatal ambush that kills Sheriff Boss Wright and wounds rival Hank Plumer. The account traces Wright’s harsh justice, Webster the outlaw, and the tense pursuit by vigilantes ending in Wright’s death and a city mournful for a regional hero.
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Nevada City
Grass Valley
Deer Creek
Central Pacific
Colfax
California
Tairly
Boss Wright
Werank
Jim Webster
Wright
Nevada County
W. W. Wright
Nevada
George Lewis
Lewis
Sheriff
Boss
Nilés Searls
Searls
Webster
Jim Y
Timbuctoo
Jim
Calaboose
Smartsville
Hank Plumer
Bruce Garvey
Idaho
Plumer
Tom Bell
Gold Run
Soha
Gold Flat
L. W. Williams
J. B. Byrne
Wallace Williams
Tomas Baldwin
G. H. Armstrong
R. 5. Wigham
Thomas Lockhart
David Johnson
William Butterfield
Lewis Teal
Whales and battle in the deep sea exhibit
The London Telegraph notes an upcoming Natural History Museum display on whales, contrasting toothless giants with swift killer Orca varieties. It imagines epic sea clashes and carnage, praising the fierce beauty and vast battles of rorquals and leviathans while noting how life beneath the waves inspires awe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
Natural History Museum of London
Methodist minister supports cremation at New York Society
Roy P. Howard Henderson of Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church Jersey City says in a paper before the New York Cremation Society that cremation will soon replace traditional burial. He attacks high costs of caskets flowers and funeral rites, calling them a mockery.
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Roy
Pe Howard Henderson
Simpson Methodist Episcopal Church
Jersey City
New York
N. ¥. Tribune
Mixed early 1900s clippings reflect public health and social notes
Scribbled items report malarial poison experiments in animals, legal rhetoric on indictments, fashion losses for hand-bags, Judge Fane’s inheritance ruling on plural wives, and a Leavenworth man’s fatal day ending with a sheriff’s arrest warrant for highway robbery.
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Chicago Herald
N. Y
Chicago Tribune
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J. R. N. Bell
J. Jaskulek
Orrice
Postoffice
Roseburg
Oregon
Langenberg
Boot and Shoe Store
Roseburg, Oregon
Jackson Street
Post Office
San Francisco
Warran
Louis Langenberg
BE. Stephens & Co
Douglas County
Clark & Baker
L. F. Lane
John Lane
Attorneys AT Law
Main Street
Charley Hadley
John Fraser
Wilbur, Oregon
Portland
Oakland
Richard Thomas
I Ppn
H. C. Stanton
Porthead
Macheny & Beng
Posey County
James Witcomb Riley
Sierra and
Cascade Mountains
Concord
Blue Tent
Outlaw
Armstrong
Bossogan
Nooice
Williams
Judge Searls
J. N. Rolfe
Thomas H. Caswell
Masonic Temple
Yuba County
San Quentin
Coast Range
CIA
Dr. Carver
Empire Ranch
Tom M
Harry L. Wells
Upper Broadway
Gen'leman
Delmon‘co’s
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