The Mysterious Visitor Warns a Des Moines Farmer
Robinson, a trusted Des Moines area farmer, learns suddenly of danger to his family from a spectral warning by a small old woman. He races home with armed men, catching three robbers in time to save wife and children, while the mysterious visitor vanishes as suddenly as she appeared.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omy
Sam
Livers
Robinson
Des Moines
James
Charles
Leon
The
Alameda
Rard
Apoiward
Chicago Tribune
Amity
Allegany County
Homer Riley
A. Granby
Riley
Cleveland
Mary
Troy
Benedict
Buffalo
Frances C. Folsom
Ten Cents for a Letter in Rondout Post Office
A group of Tralians entered the Rondout Post-office and sought letters. One recipient paid ten cents due, then remarked Teuna Centa Want another letter, prompting a brief note on local postal quirks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kingston
Freeman
Tralians
Rondout Post-office
Texan Generosity in a Knife Sharpening Encounter
A man in a hat sharpens a villainous four blade knife for ten cents while recounting Texas killings and stories. After hours of work the traveler pays with two silver dollars and departs, leaving the worker unsettled but relieved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boothlack
Texas
Spain
Unique Mermaid Costume At A New York Fish Dinner
A fashionable New York fish dinner featured not only an inventive menu but a striking costume worthy of a mermaid. A social belle wore pink satin, sea grass hair decor, pearl and coral jewelry, and a taillike beaded train by a famed dressmaker, earning social credit for the idea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
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Pare Robinson
Fish and Mermaid
Lon U
David Klanbey
Avorite
RLM
James Andrews
Marshal St. da Hill
Kenney
Davids Keanwids
Rondoni
N. Y
R. R
Jane Ene
Chicago
St. Louis
Minnesota
Dakota
Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
F. H. Garfield
Jamestown
J.M. Ferris
E. Clare
Pasa
Ohio
Co. Co. Emmons
Pittsburgh
Western
Pennsylvania
Western Marsland
Ea Toro
Warren
Islan Warren
Avlitt
G. Kuebley
Kxapp & Caste
J. H. Mitchell & Co
Warren, Pa
Beaty Rick
A.A. Davis’ Store
M. Rounds
Weat
D. Shear’s
Gusteune Pein
New Gouns
Evens Department
D. Shear
Schellhammer & Lesser
Johnson & Siegfried
Beecher& Copeland
Penn’s
Walter A. Wood
W. Anson Wood
A. Wood
Renington
Pittsburg
Buford
Buckeye
Jackson Farm
Paria
NEW Hartford
Beecher & Copeland
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