New Year Romance Quietly Brightens Bubble Tale
In a Christmas Eve setting in Bubble and a Nebraska town, Rafferty’s journey with his ward Hanna leads to family tensions. The scene unfolds at the depot and through Rafferty’s stern warning about the Sheehys, as Hanna uncovers William Rafferty’s engagement to Sarah Sheehy and a blossoming yet troubled romance amid holiday cheer.
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Bubble
Tom
Olive
Moike
Old Rafferty
Ireland
Merrimac
Cumberland
Nebraska
Rafferty
Hanna
William
Coolabhogle
Father O'Flynn
Tom Grady
Murphys
Morans
Sheehys
Fanna
Hanna Rafferty
Will
Mrs. Rafferty
Pat
Sarah Sheehy
Coolathogle
Desaver
Clontarf
Tim Sheehy
Tim
Hurlin
Sarah Connolly
Sheehy’s
Toike
Ellen Jane
Raffertys
George Washington
Rafferty’s
Rafferty Family Wedding Sparks Irish-Moonlit Feud Resolve
In Nebraska a wedding unites Will Rafferty and Hanna Connolly amid stubborn kinship. Old Rafferty relents after a tense clash with the Sheehys, crowning the union with a Twelfth Day ceremony and a warm family welcome at home. Ellen Jane notes Hanna resembles Mary, easing old wounds.
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Cane
Ellen Jane
Sarah Connolly
Will
Mary
Rafferty
Begorra
Nate M. Cleary
Chicago Tribune
American learns European taste kills peanut and popcorn sales
A Chicagoan returns from Antwerp after trying to sell popcorn and peanuts there. He invested 5000 dollars, faced European scepticism and 15 centimes pricing, and found demand vanished as customers rejected the product as poison and fled the stalls. He ends wishing to stay in Chicago.
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Europe
Chicago
Antwerp
United States
Make the New Year a Happy One in Your Home
The piece urges bright spirits and forgiving hearts to start the year anew. A happy home shines into business and community life, with domestic happiness linked to outer prosperity. Forgiveness, cheer, and cordial good will are urged, ending with the promise that such attitude brings happiness to you and yours.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Lair of Hair Locks in Ancient Virginia Tree
In a Virginia forest a huge tree yielded bark with faint initials I py and P 2 standing for John Smith and Pocahontas Powhatan. A Gatling gun incident killed a flock of birds. Henry Jones died from suffocation. A Thomaston cat Fanny hid and later revealed cork-necked kittens’ corks.
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Virginia
New York Recorder
J-o-h-n
John Smith
Henry Jones
Currituck
Jones
Thomaston
Fanny
Avery bequest to Smithsonian sparks ether research hope
The late Robert Stanton Avery leaves 115000 for lectures and treatises on ethereal mediums. The gift, seen as a major scientific endowment, could boost American progress in understanding ether and its role in laws governing heat light sound magnetism and electricity.
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Robert Stanton Avery
Smithsonian Institution
America
Avery
Philadelphia Record
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John Carle & Sons
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Grayling Mich
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Warren St
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Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
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Colchester Rubber CO
California
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Des Moines
Iowa
John W. Morris
Piso
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