A Harvest of Wild Oats a Western North Carolina Tale
Hugh Caravan schemes to marry his adopted sister Maline to gain her dying father’s wealth. Maline misleads him while deranged, the wedding occurs as the father dies, and a chilling scream reveals a fatal twist as the dying man curses the act before collapsing. The tale ends with a cliffhanger.
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Hugh
Rose
Hugh Caravan
Maline
Mr. Clankton
Vilian
Father
Papa
Sis
Charlie
Letters in a Bible and money during 1865 68 debate
An 1860s exchange parodies currency and letters in a Bible. It cites a Bible containing 2 728 000 letters and notes currency contraction from 1865 to 1868 totaling 1 251 000 000 dollars. The writer imagines per capita money, comparing France’s 64 dollars per person, and ends with a quip about coinage and a coinage question to Bryan and Sherman.
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France
Bryan Tyson
Poate
Household Recipes And Light Verse Fragments From A Regional Page
This item compiles several kitchen notes including steps for potato pastry sand tarts onions in cream and roast beef hash with ready quotes about deviled duck and blackberry sponge. It also contains brief humorous vignettes about a Kentucky connection a nurse and twins bath time and a child’s twelve recess joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edna
Edith
Johnny
Mamma
Pomona Hill Nurseries Adv 1888 illustration free catalogue
J Van Lindley proprietor invites agents for Pomona Hill Nurseries Pomona North Carolina two miles west of Greensboro on the Southern Railway known for thirty years offering new Japan fruits and other fruit and flowers with a free illustrated catalogue covering trade from Maine to Texas.
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Pomona Hill
Pomona
N. C
Greensboro
Southern Railway
Maine
Texas
Japan
J. van Lindley
Young Folks Letter From Union County Seeks Publication
A 15 year old girl asks for space in the paper to share a letter to the editor. She notes her father reads the publication and she enjoys the young folks column. She asks where Christ was transfigured the number of prophetic books and which king held an impious feast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union County
Ila HarKky
Young Folks Sends Questions and Personal Notes from NC
From Franklin County and Nash County letters to The Progressive Farmer. Sopara Witper cites historical queries about Sir Walter Raleigh and Mississippi discovery and Carolina’s naming. Beatie J Hunt writes about family, age twelve, chores, and wishing the paper success.
Letter from a young reader praises The Progressive Farmer
A 13 year old Nash County girl writes to thank the paper and praise its young folks column and State News. She offers to answer questions, raises a few trivia prompts about Alexander Pope, Martha Washington, Noah, and the sewing machine, and ends with best wishes for the paper’s continued success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rocky Mount
N. C
State News
Annie R. Gilbert
Alexander Pope
Hettie Ray
Also Mentioned on This Page
Silver Dick
Silver Quick
McKinley
Siver Dick
Billy Bryan
Hiurrag
Silver Bill
Goldings
Etiver
Joseph R. Bosprit
North Carolina
Walter Lee Womble
Nell
Hall
A . J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
John Sherman
Meadville
Kentucky
John Barleycorn
Je Stock
E. M. Andrews
West Trade Sts
Charlotte
Carolinas
Franklin County
Carolina
Charles the
Sopara H. Witper
Nash County
Hunts
Mama
Beatie J. Hunt
Frey
Rey
Baltimore
Chas. M. N. Killen
Filbert Street
Philadelphia
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