Bees Object to Being Kept by Same Families
A London Standard inspired look at superstition around bees. Beliefs claim quarrelsome households lose honey, bees refuse to work for slave owners, and bees foretell death by swarming on dead wood or a cottage. Death in a family reportedly prompts bees to receive funeral notices and even partake in rites. UK rural tales place bees at the center of fate, honor, and ritual.
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London Standard
Hampshire
Sussex
England
Custon
Poo
Rick
Devon
What She Feared. I Man Made Every Hight
A Pittsburgh Dispatch excerpt darkly recalls a midnight excursion train home from an exposition. Buckeye lovers fill the car as lamps fail one by one leaving a lone spark near the rear. A bachelor recalls love while a lantern dies and a young wife whispers fear that the lamp would go out.
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Pittsburgh
Ohio
Adam
Eve
Alleghany
George
Gentle Philadelphia Lady Seeks Dog Burial Company
A mild mannered widow in Philadelphia plans a National Dog Burial Company and wants donations to create a dog cemetery in New York City. Isabella Dean Brack, staying in Brooklyn, calls for sympathetic ladies to help fund and organize the venture to honor pet dogs with tombstones and capital assistance.
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National
Mia
Isabella Dean Brack
Brooklyn
New York
Philadelphia
Worf
Andrew
Pony Saloon Ad Promises Wide Whisky Selection
Notice lists Ju WaT PU and Mo brands as centerpiece offerings at the Pony saloon. It touts imported and domesticated wines and various liquors as well as cigars and Seacointey rums. Mentions Anheuser Busch lager on draft and advertises Conyers J. P. Smaugh?rsby.
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George West
Ballyton
N. Y
Commodore Vanderbilt
Tro
Billiard Hall
Tombstone, A. T
Yonge’s Drug Store
Ries
Key West
Arizona
St Louis
Conyers
Itckids
Premunt sitRenl
Houyot
Baink
Tombstone
George Berrott
Geo, H. Carrel
R. W. Wood
Wil
MING
A. Guhn
BRO
Merschaum and
Amber
Guili
Solo Agsats
A. Cohn & Br
Allen Street
Bet
Boston
A. R. Meyer
Treas
N. Witherell
Towne 2d
el Paso
Capital
Louie
D. Potter
Goustal
B. A. True
Cochise Haeware and
Tyetine Ct
Allen St. Bet
Tonbstone
Levi
Aline
Joseph Hoefler
Ubaler
General Merchandise
Buckeye
Fifth and Fremon
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