Amusing Midwestern Courtships Amid Farm Life
Reminiscences contrast country bachelors attempts at marriage with patient rural women. A New England farmer Enos proclaims “Hi Selina” across a fence, then abandons the idea after Selina’s cautious reply. Another suitor, Joseph, tries to pop the question mid pig washing, only to hurry the moment along for chores.
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Howells
Henen
New England
Enos
Selina
Jan
Gesus
Rosie
Joseph
Susannah
Joe
Sue
Brooklyn Moonshine Still Discovered In Cellar Raid
Internal Revenue agents raided a Brooklyn cellar finding a highly complete distillery claimed to be the East’s most complete. The still purportedly can produce fifty to sixty gallons daily and eastern moonshiners earned four to five hundred dollars daily. Eighteen barrels of mash fifty barrels of sugar syrup corn sugar yeast and fifty gallons of spirits were seized from the small frame house cellar.
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East
Brooklyn
N. Y
Internal Revenue
Youth and pigs mark fleeting happiness in unlikely union
Fragmentary line describes Joe able to wed Susannah despite an unconventional setting. Pigs were fed and the buffered sense of early bliss persists though mingled with the pigpen atmosphere. The passage hints at a memoir tone from Years of My Youth.
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Joe
Susannah
Premier Wilson and World Leaders at Paris Peace Talks
The Paris conference brings premier after premier to discuss Syria and other issues as Orlando and Clemenceau seek shifts in policy while Wilson’s flexible stance anchors the talks. Hughes joins the long distance influence as the San Diego bond loss case prompts congressional action.
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Wilson
New York Evening Post
Paris
Orlando
Rome
Jugo- Slavia
Clemenceau
Syria
Lloyd George
Premier Wilson
Washington
Hughes
San Diego
N. Y
United States
Fire Island
Congress
Treasury
Pacific Coast
German Delegates at Berne to Admit War Responsibility
A Zurich dispatch, citing German papers, reports Berlin will acknowledge Germany’s responsibility for the war at the Berne socialist conference. The German delegation’s resolutions purport to blame Prussia and Ludendorff, with the Ebert government said to have prepared and approved them.
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Germany
Washington Star
Zurich
Berne
Ebert
Hind
Wilhelmstrasse
Efforts to Counsel the Truth Highlighted
A fragment notes ongoing attempts to counsel or educate about truth within an unspecified context. The text emphasizes guidance, honesty, and the aim to illuminate factual understanding amid broader discussions.
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Eee
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Prussia
Kautsky
Section F Foreign Office
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Merly
Dolmans
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Conn
New Britain
Middlesex County
Sale
Bostonion
Ralston
Packard
Douglas
Buckle
Storm King
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