Leap Year Marriage The Squire and Miss Jenkins
In a village tale set around leap year, Squire Duckworthy contemplates marriage to Miss Araminta Jenkins after her bold proposal. Ferdinand Apperly fears losing an inheritance while the couple plots to outwit him. the scene ends with a plan to wed and a resolved, comic twist.
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Squire Duckworthy
Dakworthy
Ferdinand Apperly
Ferdinand
Squire Dockworthy
Araminta Jenkins
Ferninand
Ferdy
Hollow Dam
Mr. Duckworthy
Joshua
Joshua Duckworthy
Miss Araminta
Miss Jenkins
Rascal Ferdy
California
China
Japan
Squire
Joshus Duckworthy
Perry
Rascal Ferdinand
Jenkins
Araminta
Two things not safe to trifle with says the old proverb
A bygone proverb warns that both a woman's opinion and the business end of a wasp demand caution. The remark reflects a pointed view on social wit and nature’s peril, typical of old newspaper ventings on gender and hazard.
Oil Belt at Parker's County and Hooker Strike
The Parker belt spans about three miles with three oil streaks the Parker East Robinson center and Grant west. A new Hooker strike on Jamison farm eight miles northeast of Butler and fifteen miles southwest of Parker’s may lie on the Grant belt. About twenty wells are starting north and south of this well, which produced seventy barrels daily and burned its derrick when first flowing. Owners ask thirty five thousand dollars with farm prices ranging from two hundred sixty to one thousand per acre. Parker district now yields eight thousand barrels per day across numerous twenty to one hundred barrel wells.
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Parker’s
Parker
Robinson
Grant Belt
Hooker
Jamison Farm
Butler
Parker's
Reno
Butler County
The Germ of Virtue and Vice in Every Man
The statement asserts that every man contains both virtue and vice and that which develops depends on surrounding circumstances shaping character and conduct.
FameHorse Excelsior Fades In Dan Rice Show
Dan Rice’s famed trick horse Excelsior, blind and deaf, grew weak during a Cincinnati engagement and was wheeled from the ring as his eighteen years with the show draw to a close. Rice announced the horse would receive care at Raymiller street stables and be honorably interred upon death.
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Columbus
Judge Jewett
Jim Ashley
Ohio
Fred
Hassaurek
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Dan Rice
Union
Excelsior
Mr. Rice
Mr. Conolly
Raymiller Street
Baltimore
Griswold
Humorous Observations On Language And Manners
A composite set of satirical lines on borrowing papers payment by neighbors road to tavern and fashion phrases. It mocks social slang and notions of propriety with quips about red-haired belles and a husband who misreads affection. The tone is playful and mildly instructive.
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Joan Srix
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Albert Wise
Buffalo Clothing Store
Morocco
William Messner
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Penn’a
Chromos
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