Entangled Passions On Rocky Hill Murder Twist
Muriel Warner, after a disrupted marriage and a fatal riverbank murder, is drawn into a new life with Ralph Resseguie the banker. A dramatic Bahamas reunion reveals the murderer and survivor, leading to marriage and a chance at happiness.
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Mariel
Ralph Resseguie
Resseguie
Muriel Warner
Fred Warner
Rocky Hill
Bahama Islands
Norman van Ness
Muriel
Bahamas
van Ness
Mabel Resseguie
Maggie Shaped by Roles She Is Known For
The Boston Times notes Maggie as a youthfully appearing figure who, in youth, wished to play Juliet and similar parts but followed guidance to adopt the characters she is now identified with.
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Mironec
Maggie
Juliet
Boston Times
Baby's carriage rug with Afghan stitch lilies fringe
A baby's carriage rug features alternating red and white Afghan stitch with red borders and knotted red fringe. Each white strip shows a trailing red lilies cross stitched design held as a lucky fisherman's motif part of the item description.
Echoes of Love and Labor in 19th Century Stores
A collection of light vignettes on clerks and customers, a shopkeeper’s reflections on class and service, and a social critique of manners in retail. The piece contrasts customer arrogance with clerk dignity, and includes a longer essay on the era’s revolutionary history and wartime emotions.
The Female Cranium and Short Hair Critique
A Chicago author critiques women with short hair, claiming the average female skull, face, and ear lose beauty when hair is removed. The piece uses graphic comparisons to argue against short hair on women and describes outcomes as unattractive.
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Chicago Mail
Frugal First Lady of Tennessee Buttered White House
In reminiscence of Andrew Johnson the article praises his wife for guiding him in writing and reading and shaping their daughters with virtue. She preferred simple life, once asked to buy cows to make butter, and her two Durhams grazed on the White House grounds, providing butter for the Executive Mansion during Johnson's presidency.
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Robespierre
Committee of Public Safety
Marat
Danton
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
Elizabeth
Hebertists
Paris
France
Convention
Inter Ocean
Childrer
Chicago
Andrew Johnson
Washington
White House
Tennessee
Executive Mansion
Spencer
New York
Scouring Effect of Water Increases with Velocity
An engineer states that scouring grows with the sixth power of velocity. A river six times faster than another can transport 46 656 times as much material. At three inches per second fine clay is barely affected, at six inches gravel sweeps, at twenty four inches pebbles, and at thirty six inches or two mph egg sized fragments are moved.
Dead Letter Brings Old Man's Bitter Joy
An unlettered man hired a friend to write to Tennessee, waited for a reply, and asked at the post office often. The postmaster said a letter arrived but was dead. The man mourned aloud, saying he feared some of the writers were dead after hearing from them.
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Muriel
Green
Detroit Free Press
Miss Black
Manassas
Georgia
Alabama
Bartow
Bee
Col. Gardner
Dr. Miller
Jet Howard
Jet
Hugh Swinton Legare
South Carolina
Demosthenes
Legare
United States
Brussells
Richmond Whig
Richmond Enquirer
Mastodon
John C. Breckinridge
Kansas
South
John W. Forney
Johan C. Breckinridge
Kentucky
Lawrence M. Keitt
Jesse D. Bright
Indiana
John Slidell
Louisiana
Samuel 8. Cox
Forney
Keit
Mr. Breckinridge
Breckinridge
Kent
North
Pierce
Sidney Webster
Capitol
Senate
Webster
Tennessee
Noisy dispute fades when vented like sealed beer
A proverb compares a loud quarrel to a corked bottle of beer. When vented or spoken aloud the disturbance loses its power and collapses. The saying warns against arguing with a loud opponent.
The Modern Small Girl and Her Dangers
A writer laments seaside resort youth culture describing miniature, corseted girls in hotels. He questions who these children will become, arguing such early immersion in vice harms moral strength and fearing the nouveau riche influence on future wives.
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Dolly
Humors of a menagerie and a machine estimate
The piece humorously details monkeys tormenting cages and choosing prey like jackals and birds. It notes rabbits and guinea pigs as silent nonentities while observing the jackals’ tails as targets. A stray line adds a mathematician's claim that a one horse power machine could run 27,000,000 watches.
Fishing on the Mount Desert voyage reveals crew routines
A veteran sailor recalls century old seafaring methods. He describes seining, baiting with pork and rag, and lines tied to the rail. They salted 210 barrels of mackerel in one day off Mount Desert and recount sea curiosities like drum fish and toad fish.
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Mount Desert
Cape May
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Nacernenint
Crete
Gherme
E. Duncan
Ssris Arm 6 Intelligencer
Tee Sc
Ames
Aes
Chicago and North- Western Railroad
Des Moines
Minneapolis
Iowa
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Official Directory
Serta
Cssas
R. Reas
Coreier
Board OF Supervisors
J. Q. IE
Acs
Lincoln
Anthony Halz
Tee Collins
Howard
Ruth Hall
Willy
Will
Ned Carey
Lillian Lee
Ralph Sands
Mary
Jack Whitney
Nel Page
Dad
Trousseau
Maggie McKee
Weston Girls
Beatrice Harris
Celia Carter
Boyd
Grace
Goll
Dame Grandy
Bia
Grace Greeley
Marie
Harpers Magazine
E. R. Chamberl
W. C. Shockley
L. van Dusen
A. Ricamono
van Chamberla
C. E. Haverty
G. H. Maxwe
A. Perkins
Ais
Methodist Episcopal
H. J. Everly
Baptist
H. W. Wilson
Civie
Ervices
E. C. Moulton
Masonic
Acadia Lodge NO
A. F. and
A. Masons
M. C. Jones
W. M. Carlippines
United Workmen
MES Lodge
G. A. Meredith
M. Serer
G. Alr
Pllsworth Post
A. R
G. A. R. Hall
Geo. G. Tilden
M. Hemstreet
Adj. H. Wilson, Jr
O. M
If. C. Ritnnii
Harvey Stucksacer
O. S
M. J. Smith
Geo. A. Underwood
U. S
District of Iowa
Union National Bank
Stevens & Hays
Agrneys-At-Law
Ames and
Agenda
J. H. Picky
D. McCarthy
J. L. Stevens
Dyer & Fitchpatrick
United State
Opera Block
Nevada
A. H. Thayer
the Peace
Real Es.on
Isurance Palace Drug Store
H. M. Templeton
Tdeysician
Towa
The
City Drug Store
South Side
G. A. Beverly
Church
Story County
Chas.e. Hunt
West House
H. L. Carrell
John Glidden
Rey
Hutchinson Bros
Eve's
Daily Graphic
Fourteenth Street
Stone
Brown
America
New York Mail
Bilt Arps
Atlanta (Ga
Jack
Mademoiselle
Babh
New York Star
England
D'Issonval
John Ericsson
Monitor
Nature
Capt. Ericsson
Andrew Johnson’s
Enti Atlantis
Europe
Hapsburgs
Cza
Constantinople
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