Slow Jim and the City Howler at the Harder Farm
Jim Harder acts to win Lucy Buskirk by posing as reporter Lewis Brooks. He steals funds, borrows clothes, rides the train and bluffs his way into city life. A Wakefield tale of youth, deception, and romance folds into a comic misadventure with a warm ending.
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TM Harder
Harder
Jim
Pa Harder
Mr. Harder
Lucy Buskirk
Lucy
Lewis Brooks
The
Times
Lewin Brooks
the Times
Ayer
Halloa
Brooks
Tribleton
Hhis
le Brooks
van Norman's
Ma Harder
Miss van Norman
Lewis
van Norman
Pote
Pungent Paragraphs and Witty Quips Across Pages
A collage of humorous quotes and anecdotes from various publications lampoons on money love and petty manners. It includes barbed lines about wives doctors and boards the exchange between a porter and owner over a trunk and a note on a English court ruling that a maid is not liable for breakage beyond fair wear.
Burglary Trick Ends With Silent Departures
A burglar entered a suburban sleeping apartment through an open door and searched the room for valuables but found nothing worth taking. He muttered about getting satisfaction and set the mantel clock to strike at three before slipping away quietly.
Science and Industry Highlights From Global Data
The report covers coal production in British Columbia at 1,731,000 tons and German female labor force where under 25,000 of 800,000 are organized. It cites Liverpool's concrete slab dwellings from clinker dust, Foster's coal stats for US share and British Empire, Pathological Museum at Berlin with 23,066 preparations, a vegetable substitute for horsehair from dwarf palm fiber, life-detecting electrical reactions by Dr. A I Waller, and improvements in aluminum magnesium alloys through Dutch processes.
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British Columbia
Liverpool
Foster
United States
British Empire
Germany
Pathological Museum
Berlin
Virchow
A. I. Waller
University of London
Dutch Aluminum Company
Missing Love Question Sparks a Bit of Worry
A brief London Tit-Bits note shows a niece asking Harry if he would love her always after he says he loves her. The exchange ends with humor about a forgotten query and a bridesmaid’s hopeful resolve amid family memories.
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Harry
London
As the Sabbath Should Be Kept by Rev J Ross Stevenson
The sermon argues Sabbath rest for body, mind, and soul not puritanical but Christlike. It condemns Sunday social functions, card parties, bridge, whist, and automobiling in Washington and other cities. True Christians should reserve Sunday for peace, rest, and moral recreation.
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Rev. J. Ross Stevenson
Europe
Washington
A Story of Stockings and a War Romance
The piece recounts northern women knitting stockings and sending notes to Union soldiers during the Civil War. A note from a young woman in Xenia, Ohio, praises a soldier and sparks a brief romance. The narrator later sees Lieut. Sheldon at Perryville and Missionary Ridge, noting his loss of an arm and return as a veteran with a major’s rank.
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Sanitary Commission
Ministers of Mercy
Sheldon
Xenia
L EN
Leutenant
Perryville
Bragg
Buell
Missionary Ridge
Sta
Love at first sight on the Ridge and a nurse’s memory
Maj Sheldon of Gen Wood’s staff recalls a stocking note that sparked a romance. After hospital discharge, he traced Louisa E Nevins in Xenia, won her family’s approval, and she married him despite his injury. God bless the fair knitter who remains in his heart.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Skinflint
Yonkers Statesman
Brooklyn
Harvard Lampoon
Green
Brown
Chicago Daily News
Senor Mazatlan
N. Y. Weekly
Maj. Sheldon
Louisa E. Nevins
Sheldon
Flag On Each Grave At Stillman Valley Monument
The town of Stillman Valley Illinois keeps a flag at every soldier grave year round including Civil War dead and Stillman Run casualties. A Grand Army of the Republic post delivers decorations to three cemeteries on Decoration Day. A monument purchased with state funds stands on Illinois soil marked by a four row tree lined square and cement walkways.
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Stillman Valley
The
Chicago Tribune
Stillman Run
Blackhawk
Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army
Stillman Valley Battlefield Memorial
State of
Illinois
Chicago
Northwest
Morgan's Dog Meat Recalls Morgan and the Fourteenth Corps
An old Thirty-fourth Illinois veteran recalls a Hood campaign episode in which foraging soldiers, after slipping from camp for chickens and a dog, faced Morgan’s search and a later joke that turned into a lasting byword for the Fourteenth corps. The tale ends with Morgan realizing the humor as the line spread the phrase dog meat.
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Thirty-fourth Illinois
Fourteenth Army Corps
Hood
American Tribune
Morgan
Gen. Morgan
Fourteenth Corps
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Belle Maniates
Iy Beery Pub
Cod
Georegia
Iam
Indianepolis
Science and Industry
Tom
American ‘Tribune
Lieut
Kentucky
Louisville
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Illlinois
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