Hetty's Love Affair Ends With Reunited Hearts
Hetty Hope waits through a year of separation as Harry Hunt travels to China to rise in his firm. A broken letter, a missed message, and years pass with Hetty remaining unmarried and rich yet lonely. In time a final letter reveals truth and love returns as they reunite at last.
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Harry Hunt
Hetty Hope
Harry
Grandfather Hope
China
Hetty
Peter
Grandpa
Aunt Maria
Tilly
Papa
Washington
Maria
Chi Foo
Letter Found in Post Office Cracks Then Sent to China
On an autumn day twelve years after Grandfather Hope delivered a letter, a postmaster and carpenter uncover assorted items in the counter cracks including a stamped letter. The letter is finally placed in the mail bag and dispatched toward its destination in China.
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Grandfather Hope
Grayson
China
Principle at Odds Over Factory Shakeup
Mr Lawrence orders discharge of all hands at his factory claiming a new deal and political principle drives the move. The foreman questions destroying a prospering business to pursue an experimental change amid partisan debate in the North's Democratic principle.
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Mr. Lawrence
Boston Journal
Remember Friends Remember Dr Wistar Balsam of Wild Cherry
An advertisement touts Dr Wistar Balsam of Wild Cherry as a cure for consumption asthma bronchitis and all lung diseases. It claims rapid throat and chest relief from a single dose and promises savings on doctor bills. Sanctioned by Sanford & Park with large pint bottles priced at 1.00. agent Kk. R. Lash promotes it in Athens.
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Sanford & Park
Kk. R. Lash
Athens
Shetland Women Win Rowing Match Against Revenue Crew
Admiral Thomas offered to be coxswain for three Shetland damsels in a contest against men from the Eagle. The Shetland crew, each using two oars, edged to a decisive victory with graceful pulls. The rest of the passage contains unrelated lines and moralizing remarks.
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Shetland
Thomas
Lerwick
Eagle
Inborn Grammatical Infirmities Highlight Dialect Speech
An Atlantic Monthly excerpt argues most people are unable to spell or punctuate well and dialect writing is a gift not a learned skill. It praises Mr. Harte for vivid California scenes but notes his dialect is not something any reader has experienced.
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Mysel
Harte
California
Stop That Cough Dr King’s New Discovery for Lung Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a universal remedy for throat and lung conditions. It claims cures for coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever and consumption with over a million bottles used last year and offers a free trial bottle or regular size for $1.00 from F E Waterman & Co Athens.
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Dr. King
Aoe
F. E. Waterman & Co
Athens
From Poor House to Penitentiary in Alabama Firm
Two distinguished Alabama lawyers formed a partnership after political defeat and disability. A four thousand dollar collection yielded only half, with a one thousand dollar fee split, prompting a quip that they had started toward the penitentiary rather than the poor house. The exchange reflects their precarious, even hopeful, financial turn after loss of offices.
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Alabama
John
Jim
Southern Law Journal and
Salve Advertisement Promises Cure All Skin Ailments
An early 20th century style ad proclaims a salve for fever sores chilblains corns and various skin eruptions with a money back guarantee. It lists F E Waterman & Co as the Athens seller and states the price as 25 cents per box.
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F. E. Waterman & Co
Athens
Peddler’s Soap Promise Leads to Legal Reversal
A Wisconsin peddler offered buyers a cake of soap that supposedly concealed a $10 note when the center was reached. Buyers cut open the soaps and found no money. The swindler was arrested but discharged after he argued buyers violated the sale terms by cutting instead of using the soap normally.
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Wisconsin
Franklin father’s son recovers after doctors’ pessimism
Israel Jones of Franklin station Ohio reports his son was deemed hopeless by doctors but began improving after treatment, enabling him to leave bed and return to work.
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Israel Jones
Franklin Station
Ohio
Sidney
Pair Married After Thirty-Five Years Courtship
A PAIR were married at Newport, R. I. recently after an unbroken courtship of thirty five years. That is what may be called a slow match.
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Newport
R. L
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