Evening Stranger Invites Tiny Kentucky House Visit
An itinerant rider seeks shelter at the Bradshaw home in a remote Kentucky yard. The family treats him with hospitality while wary chatter about rumor and propriety threads through the meal. The old man and woman reveal scenes of frontier life and suspicious courtesy amid a curious, quiet tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. T. Neely
Pop
Waal
Dave
Kentucky
Bradshaw
Satan
Hoss
Andrews
Pete Andrews
Hackett County
Long family tale centers on Liza Perdue and kinship
A rural family recollects the marriage of Liza Perdue and the strange naming of Miss Madam and Jedge. The old man recalls a log rolling contest where John Sanderson boasted he could eat more than Pete Andrews, while listeners tease and explain their kinship to Little Dave, Madam, and Jedge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pap
Liza Perdue
John Sanderson
Sis Perdue
Sam Hargiss
Sol Faldin
Jeff Hawkins
Gunter
Liza
Lizzie Ann
Perdue
Pete Andrews
Pete
John
Waal
Sanderson
Andrews
Yander
Lizabeth
Elina
Dave
Madam
Jedge
Hoss
Thar
Old Bradshaw
Weekend at Bradshaw Farm Inspires A Quiet Hope
Andrews, a guest, spends a Sunday at the Bradshaw homestead where a crippled boy Little Dave and a shy girl Miss Madam, plus a hopeful matriarch, discuss school, chores, and possible teaching, while old tensions and gentle humor thread through a rural morning shared under trees and a shaded veranda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bradshaw
Andrews
Sopper
Nature
Lizabeth
Mr. Andrews
Madam
Little Dave
Nono
Nather
Dave
Pap
Dr Pierce’s Favorite Prescription for Women
Dr. Pierce of Buffalo presents Favorite Prescription as a cure for female complaints. It claims to restore health by addressing functional derangements and displacements, promising a healthy complexion, improved sleep, and relief from backache and menstrual pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierce
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Dr. Pierce
Mary Orm
Frankfort, Franklin Co
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary E. Campsett
Albion, Noble Co
Ind
Convicts and Good Roads Bulletin Appeal
A bulletin urges convicts to unite and work to improve roads, citing moral guidance and the benefit of better infrastructure as a community effort under the banner The way of transgressors is hard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. W. Bulletin
Clever pen worker kept a pig in his care
A wry verse notes a crafty inmate at the pen who, though not a prig, misused his job by housing a pig, as remarked by the New York Recorder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
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Warren Mail
Warren, PA
Boyd’s Mill
Mis Pursley
Ruther
Tam
Washington Star
Yerger
Tommy
Texas Siftings
Ayer
O. C. Davis
Wautoma
Wis
Emily
Fliegende Blaetter
van Dooze
Chicago
Jayboy
Gayboy
Clara
de Smythe
Nobuddy
Chicago Times-Herald
Somerville Journal
Siegfried
Pillsbury’s
Siegfried & CO
Erie
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Cincinnati
St. Louis
East
West
F. H. Garfield
Neask Jamestown, N
Climar Re
Ornp
Wright
Bae
H. S. Thomas
East St
D. A. V. & P. Railroad
Telephone
Pennsylvania
Warren
Sheffield
Harrisburg
Sunbury
Lancaster
Philadephia
Baltimore
Washington
Pullman
Williams
Ice
Kane
Williamsport
Renovo
Ridgway
S. M. Prevost
J. R. Wood
Merck Bros., the Old Reliables
Warren County
August Morck
Optician
Morck Bros
Pisa
W. H. Drouen
U. S. Pension Claim
Dearborn St
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
Howland
Jerry Crary
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
New York Central
Hudson River R. R. Co. Lessee
Sun
NORTH
Wee
Albany
Seessen
Rochester
Niagara Falls
Seeeesee
Dunkirk
Fredonia
Lily Dale
Wee Eeere Deureet Ualy
Falconer
Jan Frewsburg Aalrlag
Titusville
Oil City
Pittsburg
Ane
Epson J. Weeks
Exro
H. Kercuamm
Gro
H. Daniels
Gen
New York City
D. C. Moon
Philadelphia Weekly Press
BeBe
Lydia E.* Pinkham
Medicine Co
Lynn, Mass
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