Aunt Rachel's Niece a Summer of Choice and Insight
A narrator recalls a Ohio summer at Aunt Rachel’s, where Maggie Kelley captivates two suitors, Harry Perrin and Joe, while Aunt Rachel watches and weighs class and life. Maggie’s decisive choice ends their mutual tension, revealing family pride, democracy, and quiet matchmaking.
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Joe
Aunt Rachel
Garrettsville
Margeret Kelley
Maggie
Perrin
Harry
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Man in Detroit plans death by self-dug grave in well
A Detroit man, living in Mount Clemens, confides in a writer about having dug his own grave in a deserted well. He describes a years-long struggle with gambling and dissipation, and vows to seal his fate with chloroform if he returns to the old life. He seeks to be left alone but fears relapse into vice.
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Margaret Kelley
Cleveland
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Detroit Journal
Russian Mendicants Swarm Russian Cities
Swarms of mendicants plague major cities like St. Petersburg Moscow Odesa and Warsaw with about two hundred fifty arrests weekly. Russia grants passports to all former prisoners, making indorsements highly prohibitive and trapping many in a cycle of removal and reimprisonment.
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England
Thrifty Traditions and Oddities From British Rule to Wyoming Votes
A collage of curios from a British governance anecdote shows pennies and pounds in the Crown’s accounts. A Wyoming voter in a first election confounds a clerk with a shooting remark learned in politics. Partridges and quail, driven by a strong wind, crash to earth with fatalities along the Atlantic shoreline.
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Printing and politics clash over free notices law changes
A newspaper column rebukes begging for free local notices as unbusinesslike and cheeky while Secretary of State Taylor explains a new law on road poll tax abolishing the tax but leaving road supervisor duties intact, now overseeing a fund raised by township trustees.
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Hood’s Sarsaparilla leads in medicines in three respects
The New Year finds Hood’s Sarsaparilla claiming the largest sale, the greatest cures, and the largest laboratory in the world. It asserts merit, uniqueness, and care for patients. Also notes hopeful peach prospects in Athens county and mocks advertising as a money-maker.
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Athens County
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