Journeys and scenery from New York to Alma in 1858
A long letter from Daan Eprron dated July 16 1858 recounts travel from Asia to Detriot River the Niagara Falls Saratoga and back to Alma with vivid descriptions of farms cities and natural wonders. It includes local meeting notes and civic agendas from Alma Michigan and references to countryside landmarks and a humorous anecdote about moving house and spring cleaning.
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Cruesven
Daan Eprron
Promine
Asia
Owosso
Detyort
Straits
Detroit River
Lake St. Clair
Tally
Niagara River
Webb
St. Lawrences Fall
Buffalo
Saratoga
Grand Union
Congress
Columbia Springs
Buet
Alma
New York
Isral Firmni
Pharaoh
Canada
Ants Build Boats and Defend Against Snakes
A historic note describes driver ants that construct waterborne boats from their bodies and boilees. They launch these living rafts to survive floods, kill predators like snakes, and protect nests by arches of grass or their own bodies. When danger nears they fuse into a solid floating mass, drift with floods, then disperse once safe.
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Western
Africa
Unta
Pasa
Anta
Mockin s Bird and the Sparrow Observed in City
An observant local notes fewer Souti singers and warbling birds, attributing the decline to the hogish sparrows invading the area. He suggests these turbulent sparrows drive other birds away from favored retreats, risking the south s favorite birds being forced out or exterminated by the English sparrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mockin
Nalolyis
Rerat
Child Lost With Bear Tale Stuns Catskills Town
A two year old girl from Holcevilly in the Catskills vanished for a night and, found two miles from home, claimed she slept in the woods with a big bear. Parents and locals debated the improbable tale while authorities and searchers pieced together the strange account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Millard Davis
Holcevilly
Catskill Mountains
Littie
Boscoville
Mr. Davis
Trials of the Rich Mrs Portly Pompons Hoekeny Weeds
Fragmentary OCR yields an odd exchange with names like Patrick Bridget and phrases suggesting a colloquial scene. The readable bits imply a domestic or social vignette rather than a clear news item. No verifiable event, date, or organization is established.
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Ft. Edward
Whitehall
Rutland
Smith
Tee House
Switzerland
America
Iim
Green Mountains
D. L. Abasts
Dada
Mich
Aleve
Green
Palfrey
Chinkina Smith
Monc Tigel
Tinker
Hagley
Chadwick
Jacob Abbott
W. Rollin
J. F. Suydam
John W. Morton
St. Com
Abraham
J. W. Morton
BOR
Lane
Ohm
Chadwing
Tinker & Lancashim
Lancashire
J.W. Morton
Turney Cook
Committee On Streets
Tulbert
Committee On
TM. 2
Alunit
Wright
Schneider
Sturtz
Elyton
M. E. Ely
W.S. Tarek
Lincoln and
Meshinie Streets
W. Hoyt
Ed. Fleming
M. Montigel
W. A. Basilke
Act
Hawkins Smith
Montigel
Bagley
Truster
Comberl
W. A. Huhlke
Alme
Tenstees Hawke
Albsent
Teastees Palfig
Presiente
Sevan Mites
Harts of Us
Sethera
McCollowed & Button
B. W. Ellison
James Moore
Wason
Michigan
Trae
Das
Pri
Capel & Hall
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