A Broken Blossom Love's Conflict
In Florence Mareyat's tale a young woman, thirtyish, confronts sudden bereavement and independence after her mother dies. Refusing to rely on others she faces an uncertain future and grapples with a proposal from trustee Rev Lovett to join his family in St. Pucelle while she contemplates a new life away from her inherited past.
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Mr. Warrington
Valley
Enias
Horace Lovett
Warrington
Vane
Hilda
Oves
St. Pucelle
Australia
Mr. Lovett
Charlie
Charlie Sandilands
Sandilands
Somerset House
London
Willy
Herbert
Norwood
Merrily
Charley
Mrs. Sandilands
Norwood Cemetery
Heaven
Earth
Abandoned life leads to St Pucelle study
After a death, the narrator contemplates drastic changes seeking escape. She contemplates convent or stage life, longs for new surroundings, and accepts Mr Lovett's offer to move to St Pucelle in Belgium, hoping the new environment will relieve her grief.
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T. Pucelle
Mr. Lovett
Piron
Sis Media
Norwood farewell and a hidden proposal amid a grief
A woman comforts Charlie Sandilands amid a bereavement in Norwood. She reveals a past love and declines marriage, planning to leave for St Pucelle abroad after a grave personal loss. The scene blends sorrow, secrecy, and the ache of unreturned love as she faces the future.
Practical Household Recipes From Old Manual
A collection of era recipes and tips including sausage preparation methods with whale bone, lemon puffs and custard like bakes, orange pyramid dessert, tortoise shell polishing with whiting, a dessert of stewed apples with whipped eggs, shampoo liquor for hair cleansing, and sponge cleaning with sea water. Contains numerous ornate old culinary and cleaning instructions.
My Little Love and the Chessboard by Owen Meredith
A lyric reminiscence recalling intimate winter chess games between lovers in December. Vivid imagery of queen and knight, castling, and warm touches contrasts with life’s later perplexities. The speaker notes their lasting memory of those nights when they listened to the world fade away as they played.
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Owen Meredith
Disraeli on the Street Delights Admirers in Dowing Street Parade
Disraeli admired by a small crowd as he walks from the cabinet meeting with Mr. Corry toward Downing Street. The popular statesman, in a gray ulster, draws bemused onlookers from newsboys to omnibus drivers, all eager for a glimpse of the idol.
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Dizzy
St. Beaconsfield
Mr. Corry
Ulster
Downing Street
Cabinet Council
Homme
Atheneum
Union Club
Useful Receipts for Cooking and Household Dyes
Miss M Parlon shares rules from First Principles of Household Management and Cookery. The guide covers boiling times for vegetables, dye recipes on cotton with copperas and potash, yellow and orange cotton dyes, browns with catechu and bichromate, soap for wool, linen whitening with sulphur, and a ham brine and furniture polish recipe.
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M. Parlon
Moonlit coachman and the chained desires within
A speaker laments envy of a coachman outside the house. The moonlight scene contrasts shared longing with confinement. The poet imagines the coachman’s freedom and the speaker’s gilded boredom, as wine, supper, and social spectacle frame a restless longing for release.
Neat horse swindle exposes Gotham fraud in horse trade
Frank L. Clements of 62 East Twelfth Street fell for a horse scam after meeting a dealer named Charles and a Boston man named Thompson. Promised a 2 1 2 minutes fast mare, Clements paid 350 dollars, then was pressed to sell, but the mare vanished. Detectives identify Jen Abe's gang as leading the scheme with Odells and Collins brothers among the players.
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Gotham
Frank L. Clements
East Twelfth Street
New York Times
Charles
East Thirtieth Street
Second
Third Avenues
Clements
Mr. Clements
Mr. Cleements
Third Avenue
Mr. Thomson
Boston
Mr. Thompson
Mrompson
Thompson
United States
New York
Twenty-fourth Street
J. Clements
Jen Abe
East Twenty-fourth Street
Odells
Collins Brothers
Shinbone-alley
George Sargent Somers
Wheeling
Mr. Thomp
Hints on House Drainage and Lime-Jake Advice
Practical guidance on ventilation traps and vented soil pipes to prevent syphonage, with rules for rain leaders, materials, jointing, and city sewer discharge. Includes recommendations for cisterns and water supply, then shifts to Lime-Jake vs Alcohol noting lime juice use in hot weather and cautions for publicans, ending with a home remedy for diarrhea and cholera morbus.
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Jake
River Shannon flood relief works announced in Ireland
Dublin Freeman's Journal reports a government decision to begin Shannon river improvement works to prevent floods and property damage. The project aims to provide immediate employment, aid drainage, and signal a relief policy, with an estimated cost likely under £50,000 and Lord Lieutenant's influence noted.
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Dublin Freeman's Journal
Shannon
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Florence Mareyat
Chapter
Dresden
Switzerland
Germany
France
Fortien
Mrs. Medii
Mr. Wassington
Pine
Hilda Marsh
Cave Charteris
Cave
Mr. Charteris
Disraeli
J. R. Lowell
Mercantile Marine
Royal Navy
Brown
New Orleans
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