Tribulations of Elizabeth and a Prairie Matchmaking
A former settler recounts how Betsy Bramwell's love for Hugh Browning led to a tangle of schemes by two families to steer betrothals. Betsy wed Hugh after Dan'l Webster married Bramwell's other daughter, Benny, and Dan'l Webster later acquired the land their circle shares. The tale ends with mutual happiness as Betsy and Hugh reconcile and Dan'l Webster's family roots deepen on the prairie.
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Bramwell
Benny
Sho
Jed
Dan'l Webster
Bramowell
Betsy
Jenre
Sary Camp
Lucy Baker
Gay
Remumbarthagite
Times
Feller
Betsy Bramwell
Jud Bramwell
Bramwell’x
Johnny
Retay
Hugh
Tords
Benny Bramwell
Jud
Young Browning
Providence
Hugh Browning
Ifugh
Slater
Abe
Dan’t Webster
Dowd
Hugh Wan
Bravewell
Alsua
Jud’s
Tam
Dan't Webster
Chicago
Ards
Izzard
Jud's
Webster
Betay
Dan’l Webster
Netay
Hetsy
Elizabeth Browning
Columbia Avenue
Nupper
Jingle and Jangle for Young People
Poem fragment contrasts Nagte and Jangle two bells with joyful jingle and gloomy tones. It references Susie Hinge, accents, May promises, and warns of darkness, foreboding and harm while urging kindness and merriment for youths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nagte
Jangle
John
Nagle
Jangie
Deadly Bird Bolas Used by Falkland Island Youths
A fragment describes birds on a Falkland Islands lake and the use of bird bolas made from cattle knuckle bones. It recounts a young hunter stalking white geese, launching three balls on cords to entangle or strike birds, and notes bolas as a traditional weapon among Spanish South Americans and Falkland youths.
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Falkland Islands
Taki
Rendy
Viehany
Beotch
Ean Li
Chicago
Ateseeeasmae
Willoughby Girl Drives Milk Wagon in Westfield
In Westfield New Jersey Lizzie Willoughby a year old girl drives a milk wagon before sunrise delivering milk from 13 cows. She balances her route with high school and dreams of becoming a teacher while defending her work as practical and admirable despite jealousy from some neighbors.
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Westfield
N. J
Lizzie
Willoughby
Snys
New York Journal
Willoughbys
Weatfield
Father
Talwaya
Seeds Shoot From Exploding Pod In Water Display
A brown cigar shaped seed pod from a semi tropical junthia plant bursts when dropped in water, sending seeds skyward with a loud crack. The outer coat soaks and splits, while mucilage helps seeds cling to objects, a noted natural dispersal method. A Sheep and lamb reunion tale follows, where a farmer tracks a family of sheep driven apart by dogs to a rock by a river.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Parisians at Opera and Texas Agriculture Featured
A Paris correspondent notes late opera arrivals with Empress Dowager telegrams praising seventeenth and eighteenth-century dress. Texas agricultural growth shines with cotton, corn, cereals, sorghum, and fruit crops. home seekers urged to farm for earlier seasons and greater variety. Advertisements promote travel, homes, and health remedies amid a collage of other notices and snippets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Texas
Gulf Coast
Perth
Insouri, Kansan & Texas Railway
Kor
Srd
Irth
Dessh Bod
Uaeisi
Ae Cerknien
Lorabere
Marquette Building
Chicago
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Elizabeth
Miller Purvis
Amy
Mantua
Earth
William
Lend
Nicholas
Dent
Margery
Ansex
Ganley
Anson
Perate
Wasninge
Beachy
Jacobe Olt
Californis Service
Mil
Minneapolis
Paul
Cal
Kansas City
M. Folk Lowing
Isamere
Atak. Gee
Ourtt
Dugald ‘Stewart
Draggisia
Arian
Psbawi
Ont
Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Boutheas
Pasa
St Paul
Minn
Florita
H.W. Beane
Nee Nat Oy
Ieee
Erve Lorer
Pree Treatian
du. Kure
Arcist
Palla
Sa A
Merthan
Botton
Sons
Sim
Oes Jacobs Oil
Steen
Iemasa
Ps Fan
Sda
Hood
Hood's
Piliss
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