The Man on Trail Christmas Drama in the North
Malemute Kid hosts a Christmas punch night in a Yukon cabin. Jack Westendale arrives with a missing dog team and a hard memory of his wife and child. The group debates loyalty and justice as the trail tightens and Westendale presses on toward Five Fingers.
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Bettles
Henry Ward Beecher
Engishman
Prince
Sam
Betties
Savoy
Meyers
Alsace
Lorraine
Malemute Kid
Belden
Dawson
Jim
States
Sal
Louis Savoy
Gars
Jove
Jack Westendale
Sitka Charley
Father Roubeau
Pelly
Thirty Mile
le Barge
Dawson Way
Harry McFarland
P. C
Malemute
Siwash
Babette
Jack Westondale
Joe Castrell
Dominion
Circle City
Castrell
McFarland’s
Jack
Moods of Negro Folk-Songs Reflections on Spiritual Expressions
A New Republic writer notes that the enslaved African American found artistic solace in religious folk songs. Spirituals from camp meetings reveal diverse moods from dances and joy to lament and tragedy, all expressed under a religious veil that allowed free emotional life.
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New Republic
Hat mystery in Birmingham quarrel escalates
Mr Jagsby demands the location of his missing hat in a heated exchange with Mrs Jagsby. She retorts that he wasn't wearing it when he returned home last night, a remark the Birmingham Age Herald notes as part of a domestic dispute.
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Mr. Jagsby
Mrs. Jagsby
Birmingham Age-Herald
Out Slumming with Dickens in 19th Century Memoir
The piece recalls Doctor Howe and Horace Mann traveling to Europe with their brides on a Dickens guided tour of London. Dickens invites them to dinner and offers to show the city’s grimy wards while recounting his youthful zest. Browning is praised as the era’s best talker alongside James Russell Lowell.
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Doctor Howe
Europe
Horace “Mann
Mary Peabody
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Laura Bridgman
England
Dickens
Horace Mann
London
Mary E. Perman
St. Nicholas
Howe
St. Giles’ Church
Browning
Manchester
Guardian
James Russell Lowell
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