He Was Too Good to Live a Wife Keeps Quiet Record
A humorous, homely reminiscence from Warren Pennsylvania dated September 28 1899. Joe Lincoln relates his late brother in law 80 good and his wife now his widow as he quips about heavenly life and his own vowed rivalry and joke that the departed man was better than he thought. The piece preserves local voice with playful exaggeration about virtue and household virtue.
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L. A. W. Bulletin
Uuiles Hewitt
Esther
Ria
Ella
Point o’Rocks
Giles Hewitt
Giles
Bowery
Pierce
T. F. Brown
San Watauga Co
N.C
Tennessee
Georgia
Mitchell
Wisconsin Dairy Food Commission
Germany
Brazil
Mason
Knight
National
Illinois Dairy Associations
J. J. Berry
West Chicago Shop Refining Company
Chicago
Bull Run Soldier Letters Bring War Close to Home
A August day in Wisconsin prompts sisters to write letters of sympathy to soldiers listed in a newspaper. The narrator recalls family mischief, a flirtation with Capt Baldwin and Lt Jack Downs, and a later double wedding in Cleveland as three soldiers return from war unmaimed. The tale ends with family anecdotes of veterans and widows, tying past battles to present life.
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Rible
Aunt Jane
James
Franklin
Bull Run
Molly
Helen
Kitty
Kate
Milwaukee
Baldwin
Jack Downs
Capt
Cleveland
Antietam
Door Dreams and Barn Tensions End in Tragic Storm
Esther Hewitt pushes for a south door and a cooler kitchen as Giles resists the plan citing frugal living. A fierce domestic rift grows until a thunderstorm returns and Esther is killed by a lightning strike, leaving Giles to confront grief and neighborly shock.
Byron’s Punch Bowl and the Newstead Curse
The Chicago Times-Herald notes the Newstead abbey inheritance curse persists as the estate leaves the direct line again after the death of Mr Webb. Byron’s famed skull punchbowl, once owned by Col Wildman, later by Webb, was buried by Webb in an attempt to end the curse.
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Byron
Newstead Abbey
Mr. Webb
Col. Wildman
Waterloo
Webb
Newstead
Chicago Times-Herald
Door becomes center of tragic scene in New York
In a distressing tableau neighbors gather as a man rants about a door while Esther lies beyond, Johnson summoned, and Mrs. Conly and others react with tears and shock. The incident unfolds with neighbors hearing harrowing insistence about a door and statements of being driven to madness.
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Esther
Johnson
Mrs. Conly
Dan
N. Y
Creasy Versus Barnett in Columbia County Treasurers Race
A Bloomsburg dispatch notes Columbia county residents focus on the state treasurer race between William T. Creasy and Colonel Barnett. Republicans expect strong turnout for the regular ticket despite Creasy’s home county stance, with locals viewing Creasy as an ordinary man not a hero.
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Bryan
Democratic National Committee
Democrats
Guffey
Columbia County
William T. Creasy
Barnett
Farmer Creasy
Grange
Sugerloaf
Creasy
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