Hidden Home and Rescue on the Mountain Lake
In a sunlit lake chase, Dick Caney pleads with Nan at a hilltop house under construction. Leonard Burns intervenes as Caney is shot, Nan tends to the wounded man, and Burns helps her flee. Burns later confronts Nan with quiet resolve, and the pair face an uncertain future together as the story closes at dusk.
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Bancy Dalton
Nan
Dick Caney
Nanale
Burns
Tom
Nannie
Caney
Conty
Leonard Burns
Sim
Woodchuck
Nancie Dalton
Dict Caney
Nav
Nancy
Leonard
Burna
Leonard Barns
Jovel
Nancy Dalton
Lick
Mr. Burns
Gideon Dalton
Atlanta
Prayer Saves Children From Ferocious Cow
A Little Chronicle tale recalls two children fleeing a cow across a field. The girl says prayer saved them as they ran, guiding her friend Tommy to pray and repeat a breakfast prayer. They crawled under a fence and survived the incident.
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Tommy
Little Chronicle
Trading Horses in War Time
A Civil War narrator reflects on soldiers traits and conduct toward civilians, then recounts a horse theft via trade. The speaker and crew seize a carriage team from a wealthy woman after a barn reveal, justify it as necessity, and face orders to return the horses the next morning, which the captain does not enforce.
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The
American Tribune
Tis Scout
Tam
Thny
Woodward Wood Yard Aid Sparks Civil War Echo
A veteran tale from Adams Express agent N. S. Woodward recalls scarce winter wood during 1862 1864 campaigns with Sheridan and Sherman. Soldiers seized wood from a cave near Knoxville and a railway station brick building at Shett Mound, while others burned fences rails and barns to stay alive revealing wartime shortages and humor.
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N.S. Woodward
Chicago Liter Ocean
Express Gazette
Woodward
Adams Express Company
Oxville
Sheridan
Knoxville
Tenn
Cordwood
Shett Mound
Tennessee
Kentucky
Don'teronch
Chattanooga
Reveille
Chafing Dish Cookery for a Fish Feast and Savory Dishes
Instructions for a chafing dish supper featuring a fish feast and Scotch woodcock. Details include setting a bare table with linen, doilies, four-place settings, and lit sprigs. Recipes cover rarebit with cheese and beer, butter, salt, cayenne, and dry mustard, plus toasted bread with anchovy paste and bacon. Four eggs per six serve as the scramble.
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Herald
Duchess of Orleans and royalist rumors in Paris
A European saying on Paris uncertainties frames a profile of the Duchess of Orleans and her royalist supporters. The piece notes the duchess’s 1896 marriage, her Austro-Hungarian heritage, and the duke’s French royal lineage along with connections to Portugal and Italy. It includes a stray recipe for lavender water with lavender oil musk ambergris bergamot and spirits.
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Europe
Paris
House of Orleans
Duke of Orleans
Faubourg Saint Germain
France
Orleans
England
Victoria
Maria Dorothea Amelia
Archduke Joseph
Austria
Louis Phillippe
Duke Robert
Count
Infanta
Louise
Montpensier
Portugal
Helena
Duke of
Aosta
Italy
Girl Sailed as Boy Esther McEwen Hailed Shipboard Sailor
Esther McEwen a 15 year old Scotch girl returned home after three sea voyages dressed as a boy inspired by a novel. She hid as Allan Gordon aboard the Discovery and later a ship to South America and The Gem to Alexandria where a doctor’s inspection led to her recall. Police detained her briefly before a sister claimed custody. She said shipboard life and miners’ work unsettled her.
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Esther McEwen
Esther
Valparaiso
France
Spain
Alexandria
England
Wishaw
Glasgow
Ayr
Cabin Boy
Discovery
Allan Gordon
Newport
South America
Cardiff
Port
London
Detroit Free Press
Rye Bread Recipe from Early Cookbook
Boil potatoes then mix with rye flour to form a stiff batter. Include mashed potatoes and a soaked yeast cake, let stand overnight. Add warm water and rye flour, then a solid sponge. Next morning add sorghum molasses lard salt water. mix with wheat flour, knead until nonsticky, rise, shape into leaves, and bake with a steady fire.
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Oh, Dick
Take
Browlow
Kentucky Volunteer Infantry
Duchess OF Orleans
Duchess OF Orleane
Cabin Boy Girl
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