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Newspaper
Troy Herald
Location
Troy, Missouri, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1874
Page
3
A collage of late 19th century anecdotes and anecdotes from a rural gathering. The narrator recalls hunting days, a comic love mishap with Squire Smith and Benny Jane, a misadventure with a corset and a coroner, plus ghostly pilot lore, English seafaring suspensions, a cat chasing tale, and a tavern ale tapping misadventure ending in a muddy, comic finale.
A Washington letter reports Bertha Gerolt, daughter of the late Prussian Minister to the United States, entered the Visitation monastery in the District of Columbia and took final vows. The same day a nun who had been there twenty five years died within the convent walls. Within the enclosure are a daughter of the Emperor Tur bide and a daughter of General Scott, plus a few weeks earlier a daughter of Admiral Sands joined the white wall. her father is Maryland born and a lieutenant at the Naval Observatory.
A Buffalo Cour es customer and a clerk in a Main Street hardware store clash over small low-priced shears. The exchange escalates into a dispute about language and ownership as the customer demands exactly what was said. A specimen article is opened but the outcome remains unclear in the fragmentary text.
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