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Dead Walk into Funeral
By: Bertha Lawrence
St. Petersburg--Three well-known boys attended their own funeral, Sunday afternoon at the church in town. Thomas Sawyer, Joseph Harper, and Huckleberry Finn went missing last Monday. The boys had last been spotted near the river. They were believed to have floated to the next town on a raft. Afraid when the boys didn’t show up, a search of the river was conducted. The bodies weren’t found, and by Saturday the families had given up hope. Full Story
Tornado in Missouri --The New Orleans Bee says – “A most violent Tornado, accompanied with hail, occurred in the western part of Washington county, Mo. a few days since. Every thing, even the log cabins of the inhabitants, was torn up and scattered; one little boy who was playing near his father’s house was taken up and thrown against a tree with so much violence that his brains were dashed out.”
The same paper says – “We understand that about 12 miles of the Vicksburg and Clinton Railroad were broken up by the storm last week. Damages computed at $250,000.” http://www.newspaperarchive.com/FreePdfViewer.aspx?img=3089883 UFOMr. James Lumley, an old Rocky Mountain trapper, who has been stopping at the
Everett House for several days, makes a most remarkable statement to us, and one, which if authenticated, will produce the greatest excitement in the scientific world. Mr. Lumley states that about the middle of last September, he was engaged in trapping in the mountains, about seventy-five or one hundred miles above the great falls of the Upper Missouri, and in the neighborhood of what is known as Full Story |
Children Barely Escape DeathBY: ANDREW HENRY
McDougal’s Cave – Two children were left behind in McDougal’s Cave Saturday, after the picnic when they wandered from the rest. Tom Sawyer and Becky Thatcher found their way out of the cave 3 days later. During the picnic Saturday, the children, like many times before, went inside the cave. They were late boarding the ferry, and all were thought to be accounted for. The next morning Mrs. Thatcher and Mrs. Sawyer realized Becky and Thomas hadn’t returned. Each had thought their child had spent the night elsewhere. Recognizing something must be wrong, search parties were immediately organized. Search parties scoured every inch of the cave... Full Story South Suffolk Agricultural Society Dinner --The dinner of the South Suffolk Agricultural Society took place in a large pavilion erected in the timber yard of Mr Warwick's, gas was laid on from the nearby street. The viands and wines etc were served by Mr Baker of the Rose and Crown. One of the prizes presented was to G.Joslin 82 years who served 60 years on the same farm, he was reaping wheat in 1836. To John Nice of Great Cornard aged 14 for rearing 38 lambs from 27 ewes, not losing a ewe, he had reared the lambs the company were feasting on today, the President ... Full Story
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