owlsneverghosts1872-04-13 The York Daily - A spook is said to disturb the citizens of Bottstown at the West end of York.
The York Daily 11-16-1877 Is it a Spook? For a week or more past, a man appeared to be hovering about in the rear of residences on north Duke street, in the neighborhood of Farquhar's Agricultural Works. He has been shot at, throwed at and grabbed at-but that was all. Ten days ago he was first seen.
The York Daily 12-17-1872
The Bottstown Spook that has been troubling the citizens of that vicinity for some days, which was several times briefly noticed in recent issues of the Daily and which even was alluded to in a sermon on Sunday by one of our town ministers, has turned out we are informed to be an owl.
#ghosts #ghoststories #YorkPa #Butwasitanowl? #newspaperarticles
The York Gazette 12-03-1879
The "spook" story, which was represented to have occurred near this place, as lately published in different papers in this county, is exploded like all such stories. The "spook" in this case proved to be a drunken Irish woman.
#inthiscasedrunkenirishwoman #ghosts #ghoststories #newspaperarticles #HanoverPA
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Last month (yesterday) was Pride month. Rainbow flags sprouted up everywhere, as did Christians who bemoaned the selection of the rainbow as a symbol. Many complain, "They stole the rainbow from God!" and try to "reclaim" the rainbow to make it symbolize what the Bible says.
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"She Had an Affair with Her Bicycle Instructor Because Her Husband Snored"
The divorce of Samuel Freligh (b.1852 NY) and his wife Mary Miller was salacious enough to warrant several newspaper articles in 1900 NY City.
It seems that Mary was accused of having an affair with a "Bicycle Instructor," and was tired of her husband's loud snoring. When the Judge gave his ruling on the case, daughter Ida (who had sided with her mother during the proceedings) began to yell in protest and had to be removed from the courtroom.
Daughter Ida later became a #Burlesque actress in the theatre.
Samuel Freligh (b. 5 Sept 1852 NY, d. 29 Nov. 1929 NY)
Mary Miller/Muller (b. abt.1858 NY, d. 28 June 1934 NYC)
m. 28 Sept 1873 King's County, NY
Children:
Ida (1885-1972, m. Leroy Smith)
Charles Penamen (1879-1935, m. Mildred Barrett)
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