Mrs Pope and the Bear in Kirby Vermont 1811
In Kirby Vermont in 1811 Mrs. Pope defends her sheep from a full grown bear with a pitchfork while her husband is away at the mill. She dares the animal, strikes its nose, and pierces the heart with a fork tine, saving the flock and her baby. The tale makes her famous in the region.
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Mr. Pope
Bubs
Pope
Kirby
Vermont
Will
Jesse Pope
Kirby Mountains
Sean
Mra. Pope
Ashe
Tom
James Morris
K.q
St. Julnabury
Mra Pope
Mra
Harete
Hev
Timothy Lacko
Moarete
Mrs. Pope
Vanished Alukean Lower California and dyed horses
A fragment notes that Alukean Lower California once spanned 140 square miles in 1873 but is now nearly gone leaving a large deposit of waste. It mentions the dyeing of animals as a common dyer’s practice and recalls a French woman who dyed four gray horses magenta in Paris, a notoriety seeking act.
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Alukean
California
Drylig
Walt
Ln Pari
Warm four rooms with one stove through clever piping
A 19th century guide explains heating multiple rooms using a single stove with an oval ceiling drum and controllable registers. It describes pipe routing through partitions to overhead drums, then to the chimney, and notes larger first-room pipes for efficiency, plus Canadian and coal-burning variations and an anecdote about severe winter warmth.
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Scannet
Lramvie Fariner
Disgusted Widow Pies For Captain W Linester
A 19th century style scene unfolds with Captain W linester, a widower, at the spring where a widow courts him. She presses about his daughters, asks to see a picture, and he deflects with a jibe about marrying a very elderly wife, while she grows increasingly chilly.
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W —Linester
Tindam
Tiadam
A Power Magnet Lecture and Far Flung News Items
A quirky narration covers Professor Smythe lecturing on Hatiral philosophy and experiments with a powerful magnetic contrivance. It cites a mysterious voice, a crypto exchange, and a claim of a natural magnet. The piece then shifts to a Constantinople population estimate, railway plans, and a burnt district in 2870. It notes a Chicago woman resisting a birth year change and a Mongolian intoxicant reference.
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Smythe
Carrington
Heda
Seth Wimlet
Tna
Nateral
Jd Kabiker
Noel Climla
Deisy Diane
Shaw
Chicago
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Vou Aerald
Mrs. Pope and the Bear
Jack Baldwin
Dahdwin County
Jack
Iris
Heroof
Neal Willis
Heroe
Neal
Dall
Soleh
Duck
Saul
Sven
Lim
New Dlumpton
Feartal
New York State
Neilon
Welther Hayes
Constantinople
Rochnelion Ratleond
Europe
Riesehuk-Varia
Danube
Gurgieva
Gurgieva, To Forin
Pera
Dritheh
Mongolia
South Africa
Horace
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