Old Nasty Particular and the Garden War
A village tale centering on Captain Doubleday, nicknamed Old Nasty Particular, who polices a precise garden with military zeal. His clash with gardener Gubbins and Miss Priscilla unfolds through entangled rivalries, bees, toads, and a plan to tame a disruptive chicken, ending in a tense tea moment and looming marriage proposal.
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Doubleday
Gubbins
Miss Priscilla
Gubbina
England
Herselt
Poulter
Priscilla
Thyrza
Thyraza
Gen
Crook
Miles Priscilla
Gen. Cook
Owit
Misa Priscilla
Gen. Crook
Gabbina
Mias Priscilla
Miss Priscillas
Madame
Priccalla
Garden quarrel over a rose and a half for ever
In a comical exchange, a captain and Gubbins argue over sharing garden space and a rose as duties change. The captain orders six days of obedience and hints at Crook, while the general grows weary. The general dies after the wedding, a heartache Gubbins attributes to the strain.
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Priscilla
Gubbins
Gormed
Crook
Fowlyard
Pillsbury’s
Pillsbury
Pillsbury Washburn Flour Mills Co., Limited
Elopers Flee on Tandem Wheel Sparks Rural Chase
Anxious parents in a Chicago Post style tale pursue Maria and Bill Jones who have eloped by bicycle. The rendezvous point aims toward town as the couple’s ride prompts a plan to fetch them with a tandem wheel and a wary but hopeful chase.
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Maria
Bill Jones
Hannah
Martha
A Bold Escape Attempt Involving BM Jones And a Maid
The narrative describes BM Jones’s longing gaze at a maid confined in a room and his realization that a single wheel cannot escape a tandem. He mutters that future attempts will involve a sextuplet fully manned with an auxiliary gas engine, implying another, more forceful escape plan.
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BM Jones
Sumner's Fateful Night Stays Courageous in Memoir
Ex Senator Dawes recalls Charles Sumner's night in Washington after the Brooks assault. Sumner, warned of possible death, prepared to die with composure as a delegate group stayed by his side through a tense vigil. The episode ends with a humorous hotel joke clarifying no real threat.
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Dawes
Massachusetts
Charles Sumner
Preston Brooks
Sumner
Europe
Senate
Mr. Sumner
Brooks
Washington
Mr. Dawes
Summer
Mr. Bumner
F Street
Fourteenth
Fifteenth
Treasury
Massachussetts
Rome
Caius
Tiberius Gracchus
Willard
Germs in Condensed Milk and Sterilization Standards
Dr. Sargent warns that sterilized condensed milk is not reliably safe and microbes may persist in products from various manufacturers. Slimy or cheesy condensed milk shows active germs from contamination sources, necessitating sterilization by the same methods used for fresh milk, though condensed milk often has fewer microbes overall.
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Sargent
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George B. Burgin
Four Corners
Part
Miss Greene
The
Chicago Post
Petrty
Cestoria
Castoria
Tgutmnet
Pitcher’s Castoria
Ricker
General Dealer
Pennsylvania
New Telephone Exchange
Adams Ave
Scranton
Lis
C. P
Matthews Sons & Co
Penna
Scranton, PA
Third National Bank
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