Mountain Outlaws and a Stranger on Cumberland Trails
A Detroit Free Press traveler recalls a perilous Cumberland Gap trek where a false moonshiner encounter becomes a life test. He is guided by wary mountaineers who mistake him for a spy, then befriended after sharing a jailhouse link to a prior rescuer.
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South
Cumberland Mountains
Gen. Morgan
Federal
Buell
Bragg
Kentucky
Cumberland
Cumberland Gap
Joe
Joe Rickaby
Ghost horse haunts river near Albany fair grounds tale
Albany residents know Dink Melvin the fisherman who tells of a headless white horse ghost seen along the Muckalee and Kinchafoonee rivers near the Fair Grounds. He reports nightly sightings, a fearsome encounter, and a plan to prove it to a scribe, who records the tale but Dink later misses the appointed vigil.
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Albany
Dink Melvin
Muckalee
Kinchafoonee
Fair Grounds
Albany News and Advertiser
Dink
Harrison Pettis
Kase
Arbout
How to Cool a Cellar and Avoid Damp Ventilation
An old medical note warns that ventilating cellars on warm days can trap heat and moisture, causing dampness and mold. It recommends opening windows only at night and keeping them closed after sunrise, using lime to dry damp spaces, and relying on cooler night air to ventilate.
Odds and Ends From a Historic Newspaper Item
A long list of assorted curiosities and brief notes covers science, travel, and everyday life. Items include claims about light speed, mining rocks, dinosaurs of chemistry, dental lamps, ancient kings, and a telegraphic Erie Canal signal method shared from 1825.
Cutting Glass Cylinders By Electric Wire Technique
The Pittsburg Dispatch reports Southside glass factories now cut large windo w cylinders with electric current. A fine wire around the cylinder heats the glass, a single water drop creates a clean break, and thicker walls cut more evenly.
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Southside
Pittsburg Dispatch
A Wonderful Old Man In Berlin Aide To The Empire
The article extols German aging figures led by Von Moltke as models of vigor and value to the state. It recalls his 88 years of activity at the War Office, his daily routine, and the respect shown to elderly rulers like Bismarck Blumenthal and the Emperor.
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Chipley
Fla
Pittsburg
Gatling
Joseph Pinion
Temple
Ala
Messrs
Fremy and
Verneuil
Allentown
Penn
J. A. Lintner
United States
Moscow
Texas
Arsenal
Yeddo
William Adams
Japan
Norwich
Conn
Central Park
New York
Ponte Fabricio
Rome
Italy
Apollo
Erie Canal
Buffalo
Albany
Germany
von Moltke
Blakley Hall
German Empire
Berlin
War Office
Bismarck
Blumenthal
William I
Massive Bass Haul Fails To Deliver Promise At Lan caster Pond
Lem Shirk stocked a large sawmill pond near Oregon Pennsylvania with black bass promising a vast bounty. Thousands turned out as a drainage and seine fishing event yielded mostly suckers and catties with only a few bass per person.
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Lem Shirk
Oregon
Lancaster County
Paul Reed
Susquehanna River
Curious Facts From Past Newsrooms
A melting pot of tidbits notes waterproof leather in Massachusetts cheap processes and an English farmer wins a prize for a giant wasp nest thirty inches around. An Edinburgh teacher claims a voice boost via a palate device while US pharmacopoeia lists 1010 medicines and a jokey diner dismissively mocks marmalade. A scientist traces regional virtues and vices by latitude north of 48 degrees temperance south of 45 amatory acts in ports and thrift in highlands.
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Massachusetts
United States
Detroit Free Press
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Ohio Normal
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E.B. Webster
Ohio
Loomis & NY Man
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Sarlin
Howe
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Deyn and Tanert
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New Haven, Conn
John R. Jones
Suffield
Sheridan
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Boston
Mass
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M. A. Steinman
Grand Avenue, Grist Rapids, Mich
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