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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Jan 27, 1910
Page
2
A collage of humorous asides and curios from a 19th or early 20th century page. Notes span fashion, sports, royalty, inventions, and local quirks, mentioning Portugal, Berlin, Newport, and Amsterdam with playful remarks on deer season, dolls, and the Zeppelins.
The narrator describes entering a ruined gateside building with a monkly host, sharing bread and coffee before braving the heat and rack railway to Diakop, then by Kalavryta rail to Zachlorou and a pony ride to the monastery. The journey features crosses in rock, a gate porter, and local guide Stephanos.
The Somers Village tale recalls Hurlyburly days with three hotels three stores a museum and the Elephant hotel built by Hackaliah Bailey. Old Bet the first elephant in America stands on a granite shaft as the Cranes Baileys Jones Angevenes and Tituses kept a growing menagerie. Luther Kinnicut the eccentric figure faced court after sawing off a turnpike post. a famed lawyer quarreled with him over prison terms. The Presbyterian church recalls Dr Ebenezer White tried for heresy seventy five years ago as ecclesiastical and civil authorities clashed.
A London correspondent describes strict discipline among Spanish soldiers, a cavern monastery in Greece with relics of St Luke, and the monks living under three wardens. The narrative covers monastery life, caverns, ossuary bones, and a mix of warcraft and religious devotion amid unsettled times.
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