A Love Song And A Courtship Tale From An Old Page
A fragmentary piece combines a romantic lyric about enduring love with a playful dialogue between Miss Pinkerly and Miss Summit. The scene shifts to a humorous tale of Tutter and Miss Pinkerly recounting honeymoon misadventures and a teasing exchange about a proposed kiss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Pinkerly
Tutter
Totter
Mr. Totter
Chi Singerly
Daisy Yellowgold
Tool Tutter Seaney
Pinkerly Copsey
Tiom Masson
Snakes of the Interior Lands Impress Hunters
A century of large pythons sited in the interior with reports from native guides and European explorers. Capt. Coles and Lieut. Ayres pursued giant snakes along Dowan River from swamp edge to coast, noting thirty five to forty one foot specimens and a ninety foot long total, with遭多 fevers, and a dramatic tail strike sinking a raft. The tale ends with the head preserved and a three foot thick body hauled ashore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tait
Coles
Lieut
Ayres
If You Would Win a Woman Propose While Dancing
A ballroom tale recounts a woman who accepts a marriage proposal during a waltz after a flirtation sparked by a thread snagged on a coat. Sheila young woman recalls being drawn into a trap of social expectations and chaperonings as dancing leads to pressure to marry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth of
Austria
Lintz
Windlingen
Tribune
Wian
Glaw
Sheffield Telegraph
Delraitree Press
Grim visitor arrives as dying man jokes with nurse
A brief comic exchange unfolds at a bedside where a minister asks if a dying man is ready for death. The man resists, mentions the angel of death, and then misinterprets a comment about interviewing his father, prompting a quip about attire from a clothier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Angel of Death
Tinkins
Finn
Voidh
Chariois
Opticians
Texas ants and their leaf cutting ways in Fort Bend
A Gulf region note describes Texas ants, including the Hypocrines shepherd ant and leaf cutting species, their crop like honeydew feeding on aphids, road networks between leaf beds, and a claim of ancient rice cultivation. It contrasts umbrella ants in Mexico and Central America and notes the industrious leaf cutters along with odd nests and misinformed notions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Turkey
Louisville
Egypt
Texas
Mexico
Central America
Fort Bend
Galveston
Justice Grady Surprises Lawyer In Yorkville Court
Justice Grady, stern on the bench, nearly breaks into laughter when a criminal lawyer in Yorkville asks to make a speech in a case of alleged theft. The judge interrupts with wit, then suddenly frees the defendant, prompting gasps and a chuckle from the bench.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Representative Bynum
Indiana
Congress
Washington Times
York PI
Yorkville
Grady
Mr. Blank
Blank
Also Mentioned on This Page
Trunks
Valises
Peter Flath
Ravenna, O
Dawson’s
Ideal Oil
Portage County
C. A. Beckley
Phenix
Ravenna
Willimantic Star
Willimantic Thread CO
Willimantic
Ogether
Onn
Impression Sale
Smith & Brigham’s
Creanine
Frank L
Embrella
Kina
Bynum
Jo Bates
Yaas
Waas
Jim Haskins
Rae
Bill Brown
Bill
Jim
Waal
Java
Dr. C
United States
Missouri
Bridget
Harlem
Dee
N. F. Heralit
Justice Tom Grady
Epec
Justice Grady
Jaspar
Drld
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