The Letter Writer and the Hidden Truth
Margaret, known as The Letter Writer, helps others write letters of love while confronting her own past mistake. Annie's flirtation with a Cuba-era fiancé triggers a confession that reshapes Margaret's life as she guides May and a musician toward honesty and a true romance.
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Pennsylvania Avenue
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Antebellum Love Across Georgia and Kentuckys Ties
An Atlanta tale traces a Georgia bachelor Alexander from Bourbon County Kentucky to Putnam County Georgia as he courts a Kentucky cousin and endures doubts sparked by a homeward heart. A discovered old letter shifts his fate toward the Kentucky marriage choice and away from a distant Georgia betrothal.
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Virginia
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Putnam County
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Ali
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Blue Lick Springs
Cupid
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Augusta
Uke Banquo
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South Georgia
Halifax
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Langled Letter Hints at Hidden City Post Office
A fragmentary notice describes a man awaiting a reply after four weeks and receiving a letter written in a sisterly spirit. The letter closes with a hopeful wish for a happy marriage and a bright future before the scene ends with “to be continued.”
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Long drought broken by heavy rains across western regions
The protracted drought in western and southwestern cities ends as heavy rains improve eastern city conditions reducing ice loss and prostrations. Yet corn and maize crops face a slump with cotton potentially hurt. Western states may yield the best winter wheat in history. Heated debates arise between ministers and scientists on rainfall causes versus divine intervention.
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Clites
Agricultural Department
Talk about the army canteen prompts crowd request
A Chicago Post anecdote captures a speaker admitting no preparation and inviting audience input. The crowd immediately demands discussion of the army canteen, creating a humorous moment of collective urging for a specific topic. The incident reflects public appetite for practical military life details.
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No More By Robert Henry Newell
Poem lamenting a fallen soldier, contrasting homecoming wishes with grim reality. Imagery shifts from quiet morning at the cot to fields of war, with references to flags, drums, and graves, honoring a soldier whose marches end in memory.
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Bugle
Vespera
Rollo Commands Luis Fernandez in East Side Mill Plot
Rollo constrains Luis Fernandez to act discreetly at the Cosa and to mislead Don Ramon Garcia. He warns that any foul play could cost lives, even Fernandez’s, and swears by his own honor as a Blair of Blair Castle.
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Ramon Garcia
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Blair Castle
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Remembering Lieutenant Roland of the 3d Arkansas Cavalry
An elderly writer recalls the death and burial of Lieutenant Roland, Wheeler’s cavalry, killed near River’s Bridge on February 24, 1865. His body was moved multiple times, first buried by a horseman and a enslaved helper, later reinterred in a family grave and then moved again to a monument site. Annual commemorations on April 26 draw crowds, with a memorial shed and platform built by locals. The piece laments lost correspondence and notes a name misunderstanding that may have kept kin from learning of Roland’s fate.
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Arkansas Cavalry Csar
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