A hardworking woman in a Kansas City tale
The poem portrays a diligent wife named Miss Smith who always hurries through her chores from morning to night. She questions sleep yet keeps stitching, and as years pass she nears rest with quiet resolve, the aging couple awaiting the angel's call in a Kansas City Journal feature.
The Gloucester Witch of Louisburg Legend
A March 1745 tale from Gloucester recounts Peggy Wesson who warns three youths after a coin trick, a Louisburg expedition, and a witch’s curse. Martin Sanders shots fail to kill a crow, later proven linked to silver sleeve buttons from Peggy, leading to her leg injury and eventual death.
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Tom
Job
Job Ayers
Tom Goodwin
Goody Wesson
Ayers
Goodwin
Peg
Mart Sanders
Mari Sanders
Sanders
Peg Wesson
Martin Saders
Uimpeneralle
Peg Wesgon
Sarah G. Daley
Boston Transcript
Digestibility of Foods in a Brooklyn Eagle Note
Digestibility of foods spans calf foot jelly tripe and rice as most easily digested, with digestion times from thirty minutes to an hour. Fish like whiting and eels digest less quickly, while rice forms the staple diet for a third of humanity though less nutritious than wheat, being mostly starch and water and yielding more fat than muscle. Digestive efficiency is affected by care and health. overall digestion takes two to three hours.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Napoleon's Talisman and the Seal of Doom
Napoleon the exile Louis Napoleon clung to superstition in a will promising his son a talisman seal worn with his watch. The talisman proved powerless against fate as the young Napoleon faced a sorrowful end, a fate feared by his father.
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Napoleon
Louis Napoleon
Detroit Free Presa
Queen of the Sword Reina Jaguarilla Bannered as World’s Best
A profile of Reina Jaguarilla born in Ohio to a Spanish mother and English father, hailed as the greatest swordswoman, with claims of battles in San Francisco San TACUTINA and exploits against cavalry officers including Sergeant Davis and Captain K N Jennings. It notes her training from age nine, fashion of dress, gear, and a notable facial scar from combat.
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Ohio
Hahwareena
Ferna Della Spada
Toa
the Globe
Boston
Ule
Bam
Davis
United States Army
Miles
Wei
Jaguarima
Owen Devis
Mechanics’ Pavilion
San
Tacurtina
Francisco
K.N. Jennings
Irish Hussars
New York Truck Driver Fined for Animal Cruelty
William Muller a New York truck driver was charged with cruelty to animals after a furniture van struck a horse on Fourteenth Street near Ninth Avenue. Witnesses conductor and a passing fireman corroborated the incident. Muller claimed haste to the ferry and blamed his own carelessness. the court fined him twenty dollars.
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William Muller
New York
Joseph Proctor
Ninth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Muller
Maller
The Spider and the Wasp Battle Strife and Odd Tales
The piece contrasts the spider’s weakness to the wasp’s armor and sting. It notes the big red wasp’s fear in Texas and New Mexico, stories of wasp nests devouring spiders, and a strange finger injury from a 24 year old incident. A second item profiles Captain Thomas J. Spencer, a Washington pension office veteran of forty five battles, three captures, two escapes, and seven Confederate prisons.
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Texas
New Mexico
Washington
Thomas J. Spencer
Novel Burglar Alarm at San Francisco Subtreasury
A new electric burglar alarm is installed between brick rows of the San Francisco subtreasury building to trigger if either brick cement is tampered with, signaling a break in.
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San Francisco
She Was Doing Her Share In Her Newly Married Life
A young physician tired after calls returns home to his wife of a couple of months. She explains she organizes a class for girls and married women to share cooking tips and exchange experiences. They send dishes to neighbors, especially a boarding house, for fun. He praises her devotion to his practice.
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Detroit Free Press
Tales and Bits from Tollemache and Others
Humorous scraps recount Tollemache dancing by the south coast and humour in family lore. A barber shop wig caper precedes a reminiscence of Lady Elizabeth Tollemache and a mistaken doorway encounter, followed by a Spectator note on poetic misreadings and a salon gag about a hat in a ballroom.
Why He Came Early In A Train Car Seat Switch
A mother asks to swap seats so her baby can look out the window as a train begins to move. Mr Haven Hartford replies with polite sarcasm that he had saved the seat for the child for half an hour.
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Haven Hartford
Litfe
Engaged Hearts and Frost King Poems
Juxtaposed snippets report a couple announcing an engagement tentative and a remark about a well off suitor. a humorous note about a dog and a visitor. A poem fragment lauds the Frost King in winter and waxes lyrical about nature, seasons, and a restless poet, ending with a Detroit Tribune note.
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