Not Daunted Grant Spirit In Love
Emma Dent Casey recounts a tale of Lieutenant Grant courting Julia in a muddy Gravoise river scene. He overcomes embarrassment, declares his hand and heart, and commits to a decisive, irrevocable step despite misgivings and social scrutiny. The narrative links this moment to his later steadfast decisiveness from Spottsylvania to Appomattox.
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Emma Dent Casey
Circle Magazine
Grant
Gravoise
Gran
Julia
John
Rant
Serge
Spottsylvania
Appomatox
White Haven
London mansions guard vast treasures of art and history
From Town and Country chronicles four hundred great London houses and their priceless interiors, noting Dorchester and Bridgewater houses, vast galleries, and rare manuscripts. It cites Arlington Street holdings and the broader English country estates with enduring collections. A side note tells of Judge Wallace and a quip about the liability of a common carrier.
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London
Dorchester House
Bridgewater House
Chesterfield House
Apshouse
Duke of Wellington
Devonshire House
Grosvenor House
Asdowne House
Stafford House
Wimborne House
Arlington Street
Marquis of Salisbury
Alexander Henderson
Lord Carteret
Lord Yarborough
H. Gordon Alfridge
Chicago
van Dycks
Greuzes
Rembrandts
Reynoldses
Lelys
Germany
Venice
Florence
Verona
Genoa
England
W. T. Wallace
San Francisco
Billy” Barnes
Wallace
Invention of Coinage From Greek Beginnings to Rome
The Greeks in Halicarnassos and Asia Minor coined small gold and electrum ingots stamped to guarantee weight and purity. Coins evolved to round forms seen in Aegina, while Phoenicians Lydians Persians Egyptians did not adopt coinage until Alexander spread Greek culture. Romans learned of coinage in Sicily Magna Graecia and began silver coins in the third century B C. Dorian coins from Sicily remain unmatched for beauty.
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Saturday Review
Halicarnassos
Asia Minor
B. C
Aegina
Olot
Phoenicians
Sicily
Syracuse
Agigentum
The Vanished Bootjack of Grandpa’s Day
A Denver Republican verse recounts the vanished bootjack once used with carpet strips and brass nails. It laments the loss as a comic, nostalgic relic of old hearthside life and asks who will cherish such sparkles from the back log of memory.
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Denver Republican
Pointed Paragraphs From The Chicago News
A quirky collection of sayings on relationships money and manners notes that humor and charm often mask real motives. It also flags the Panama Canal work of the year requiring 16 000 tons of dynamite and hints at social judgments of talkativeness secrecy and propriety.
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Chicago News
Panama Canal
Cincinnati Woman Suffrage Bequest From Mrs McCall
Mrs Sallie J McCall of Cincinnati leaves 50 shares of Cincinnati Street Railway stock to the National Woman Suffrage Association. The use of the bequest has not yet been decided.
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Earth
Shackleton
South Pole
Antarctic
Pole
Gray
Grandpa
John DE B. W. Gardiner
Rebecca McLean
Donald McLean
New York
Gardiner
Parley Sheldon
G. J. Sheldon
Cash
A. Keenan
THE
Story County Bank
Ames
Iowa
Knauth
Nachod & Kahne
National Bank of Commerce
Natio Bank
Des Moines Savings Bank
Des Moines
Firee National Bank
Marshalltown
Judisch Bros
Story County
Nevada
Owa
ED. Miller
Wil
U.S
Haverly
Frank Haverly
Morgan, Morgan & Watts
Attorneys-at-Law
Ames Savings Bank
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