White Chapel Graveyard Haunts and a Practical Joke
In a rural tale a dreary White Chapel Graveyard near a new church hosts old tales and a hollow monument. Sally, a kindly derelict, hides in a tomb while Timmy McJimpsey plans a prank on two sisters. a staged haunting escalates until the sisters flee, Timmy is terrified, and the incident ends with a harsh moral.
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White Chapel
Sally
Lilly
Timmy McJimpsey
Timmy
Lal
McJimpsey
Rey Sally Wellesieep
Father Jandlow
Timmy Mu Jiiupany
Woutkalupe
Old White Chapel
Ludlow
Ris
Iler Hibs
Ilere
McJimpecy
Ilo
Thamy McJimpsey
Licking the Wrong Man in Arkansas Jail Mixup
In Arkansas a Vermont peddler Ike Jowell arrives as a man accused of negro theft escapes. An earnest sheriff mistakes him for the fugitive, arrests the innocent peddler, and orders him taken away while both men resemble each other closely, revealing a comic case of mistaken identity.
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Ike Jowell
Vermont
Slelema
Arkansas
Jones
Titty Lushea
Jack Sheppard
Ebenezer
Sherif
Bherlif
Racape
Luke
Louisville Boy Faces Pie and Pen Cap Peril
A Louisville boy, unhappy with two dinner pieces, swallowed several pen caps but survived. A man named Alan posted a misread sign about Cheap Ladies, prompting mocking notes about how women prefer to be called “or.” The obituary for Jim Darret recalls his snow shoveling and a fever that led to death, with a local paper noting he won’t shovel again in the country he’s gone to.
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Louisville
Alan
Ile
Jims Darret
Tower
Jim
Lawyer in Bucyrne recounts temperance vow after father's death
A Bucyrne lawyer told a temperance meeting he swore never to drink after his father was killed by a drunken driver. He added that since then he has not kept the oath perfectly but has never broken it much.
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Bucyrne
Ohio
School uses kiss-based spelling punishment in Illinois
A DeWitt County Illinois school adopts a novel punishment where a boy who spells a word incorrectly receives a kiss from a girl who misses a word. The policy reportedly causes girls to become reticent about spelling while boys show rapid improvement in spelling skills.
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DeWitt County
Illinois
Clinton Public
Cleaning Season Reflections From A Sparse Western Page
A fragment from a Western newspaper describes domestic life during a cleaning season with musings on divine women's control and a man’s ritual over a four barrel, noting calm meditation and an interval between rooms as a moment of repose.
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Timmy McJimpsan
Lash
Jash
Yuukuo
Beeclers
Prince of Wales
Isilis
America
New Slaven
Kentucky
Troy
Zetier
Bill Heads
St. Louis
Malin Street
Gauss, Hunicke & CO
N. Matinat
Bot
Olive
Washington Avenue
Missouri
Vena Samuel Virden & CO
Ornbrat
IV. Louis
Anodus & Co, Commission “Merchants
T. M. Rogers & CO
General Commission
Commercial Street
Alkire & Ere
Goddard & Co
Valley National Bank
Chas. Moritz
Main Street
N. FE
Cor
Venusy
Barton & Grant
Alvent Houston
Grant & Co
Napon
Dartholow & Co
GRANT
Houston
Merchts
N. Commercial
Cs Louis
Giegel & Bobb
Dean's
North Fifth Street
Éth
Tenon. Louis
Jehu Sylvester
Korth
Pine Streets
Louis
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