Out After Blackbirds Encounters on Thornapple Hill
Clara a young landscape artist on Thornapple hill meets Burt Delevan a real estate junior partner who comically critiques her cow painting. After a brief quarrel they meet again by a brook and end with a rescue from quicksand and a family romance brewing with grandma predicting a wedding and a potential artistic fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Pagent
Marcet
America
Martara
Thornapple Hill
Red Farm House
Thia
Denker Hill
Burt Delaven
Oabe
Hart
Clara
Grandma
Villian
Port
Neega
Jose
Burt Delevan
Mr. Delevan
Delevan
Satire on Bishop of London Over Baby Crop Shortage
The London Opinion by James Douglas mocks a bachelor bishop railing about a supposed baby crop famine. It contrasts his panic with nature and eternity, noting Canute’s limits and that neither church nor crown can alter birth rates. The piece lampoons futile anxieties and calls for perspective.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
James Douglas
Samuel Johnson
St. Paul
Canute
Done and Undone Watermelon Sale Report
A brief note states the watermelon I sold you mostly served the whole family while the doctor is calling yet. The exchange references a customer and a seller, with implied concern about health and receipt status.
Mystery of Hair and Nails in Ancient Oak Unsolved Hoo Doo Claim
Lexington Dispatch reports Mr L J Peacock found an eight inch auger hole carved into a 150 year old oak block. In the heart lay a cloth bag containing a hair lock and nail clippings wrapped in paper. The bag, likely 80 to 100 years old, prompts speculation of witchcraft or hoodoo and seeks an explanation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lexington Dispatch
L. J. Peacock
Peacock
Dr King’s New Discovery Promises Quick Cough Cure
An ad extols Dr King’s New Discovery for coughs and colds claiming rapid relief and harm prevention. It offers a money back guarantee and bottles for sale at druggists. A separate Gaston County item reports the mysterious killing of Charles Deal near Gastonia with Erasmus Wall arrested on bond as the rifleman present at the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Gaston Couaty
the Gazette
Charles Deal
Loray
Gastonia
Deal
Erasmus Wall
Wall
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Fy Department
Heath Hardware
McCall
Fashion Publications
Pattern Department
LEE & Lee CO
Monroe, N. C
Ady
Joe Person
Blackbirds
John Philip Orth
Associated Literary Press
Health Bulletin
Bown
Sanatorium
North Carolina
Uncle Sam
Ore Sand Ridge
Hoke County
Sand Hill
Varand Tidees
Bishop of
H. B. Havely, C. E
Monroe, N, DC
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