Widow Coxe's Wig Sparks Midnight Teasing in Witherley
Ella and Josie plot to attend lessons in New York while Mrs. Coxe, a feared gossip, bakes pies. A gooseberry jam accident reveals Mrs. Coxe’s missing wig, blamed on the squire’s peach trees. The widow defects after a night of chaos and accusations.
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Yeu
Mila Withertey
Coxe
Ella
Josie Hall
Josie
Grandpapa
Billy
Moses
Witherley Mansion
Squire Witherley
New York News
Prominent Women’s Work and Domestic Leadership
Newport society discusses Mrs. Willie K. Vanderbilt Jr noting she shops daily in cash for groceries challenging local habits. The piece cites Mrs. Grover Cleveland and Mrs. George Gould as hands-on mothers guiding domestic life amid social gossip. It also reports drought harming insect-eating toads, threatening garden pests and vegetation.
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Willie K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Newport
Rhode Island
Willie K., Jr
Grover Cleveland
George Gould
Ruined by a Storm A farmer's resilience and sugar beet lesson
A West farmer plants beets that grow lush and red but a tornado destroys the crop. He contemplates selling and leaving, yet new shoots emerge and renew hope. The harvested beets prove sweeter and more valuable, inspiring beet farmers to prune tops to boost saccharine content.
His Foible in Sign Reading and Lette Rer Faith
A quirky note highlights a first class letter writer who mistrusts hidden lines yet places strong faith in signs. The text playfully nods to misreadings and a peculiar habit of interpreting marks.
Novel temperance scheme ends with dry Three Oaks vote
A Three Oaks Indiana manufacturer offered to fund the village treasury with annual liquor license payments if saloons closed. After a special election the town voted dry, saloons shut, funds secured, and the factory stayed put. The move aims to boost sober, productive work and demonstrates practical temperance.
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Three Oaks
Ind
Cleveland
Early Names of Texas and French-Spanish struggles
The Indianapolis Journal notes Texas was once called the New Philippines. French settlers first arrived in 1685, sparking decades of Franco-Spanish rivalry. By 1814 the land carried the New Philippines name in Spanish records before Texas name usage emerged from a native tribe.
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Texas
Indianapolis Journal
Philippines
New
Falls Inquotations Echo Aerial Drift In Niagara Reference
Fragment reads a dialect exchange about a flying shoe striking someone in midair and mentions Niagara with Horse Shoe Rapids as the seen portion. It preserves a Chicago News voice and local color framed around a dramatic encounter.
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Noiagara
Horseshoe Rapids
Chicago News
Just Like Them Says Husband on Wife’s Cooking
A Philadelphia Bulletin quip notes a husband claims his wife cannot cook even a little while she insists on cooking a lot, highlighting a humorous domestic clash.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
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Pete Pickinson
George Goauld
Indiana
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