A Ball at Madame Averier’s Sees Love and Schemes
In a dazzling St Petersburg gathering, Michel Averier, a poised Horse Guards officer, captivates Martha Milaguine while Pauline Hopfer schemes to win him. Pauline’s quiet rivalries unfold as Martha’s quiet charm deepens, and the ball ends with a vow of future plots as Pauline broods over a broken medallion and a sharpened resolve.
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Prascovyia Petrovna
Mademoiselle Pauline
Serge
Martha Milaguine
Berge
Martha
Madame Averier
Michel
Horse Guards
Gorokhovaia
Martha Milagaine
M. Milaguine
Nastia
Visior
Pauline
Isaac
Michel Averier
Livonia
Pauline Hopfer
M. Miluguine
Madewoiselly Hopfer
Mamzelle
Mademoiselle Hopfer
Madame Milaquine
Serge Averier
Nastia Milaguine
Martha Milaquine
Pauline Vassilievna
Martha Pavlovna
Bondeir
Tropics
M. Milaquine
Paulie
Don the dog of dogs and a sailor's faithful friend
A narrator praises his dog Don and recounts a voyage aboard the brig Castor. Don defies danger to save an infant when the ship lists. The tale blends affection and adventure as the crew recalls the dog’s courage and loyalty.
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Don
Why Me in the Penitentiary Trial Ends in Laughter
A District of Columbia criminal court hears an old colored man testify in a trial about prior prison terms. The DA questions him about being in penitentiaries in Baltimore and Albany with a sharp but comic exchange. The audience laughs as the witness reveals brief, two hour and one hour stays. Captain Ward of U.S. Artillery endorses Smiths Medicated Prunes as a laxative in an advertisement from Boston harbor.
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Criminal Court of the District of Columbia
John Williams
Albany State Peene Ar
John
Joln Williams
Baltimore
Thomas Ward
Let
U.S. Artillery
Fort Independence
Boston Harbor
Smith
Express
Easant
Fashionable Bonnet Revival Promises Colorful Winter Styles
The Demorest Magazine notes a strong tilt toward plush and satin in millinery with bold colors like bronze gold and garnet. Feathered decorations, bejeweled trims, and beaver and velvet blends drive a vivid, costly look while practical cloaks and coats remain essential amid shifting fashion, climate, and economy.
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Demorest Magazine
Bats
Newport
Latin de Lyon
Rooms of Light and Color Across Gentle Home Interiors
A vivid tour of cheerful rooms from a bright morning parlor with light green moire walls to a crimson and blue chintz drawing room. The narrative contrasts elegant oak and mahogany details shipped from Brazil with ebony bookcases, lavish draperies, and art including Venus of Milo. It then shifts to a snug blue flock room and a transformed dusty city flat, where flowers, pictures, and ornate furniture create inviting, poetic spaces.
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Brazil
Hell
A Cause of Piety in Denominational Journalism
The New York Sun reports Rowell's directory showing Utah and Oregon ahead in piety versus Vermont and New Jersey, with Georgia behind South Carolina and California discounting Maine. It notes New York's piety exceeds Boston and Cincinnati, Chicago surpasses Boston, and Cleveland and Dayton show strong denominational press presence across the United States with forty-four foreign-language religious newspapers.
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Rowell
New York Sun
Utah
Vermont
Oregon
New Jersey
Georgia
South Carolina
California
Maine
Ilinois
Indiana
Dayton
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Chica
Secenee
Boston
Cincinnati
St. Lows
Detroit
San Francisco
Cleveland
New York
Brooklyn
Dallas
Currie
Henry Ward Beecher
Osakosh
Chicago
St. Louis
United States
Evanglical
Sowibh
Corseosssenceeeved Baptist
Scsieee United Brethren
Tiim
Tive Baptist
Seveth-day Baptist
Church of God
As & Fice
Accern Ors Cabreeds Methodist
Methodist Episcopal
Cumberl
Church of Christ
Reformed Church
Florida
Nevada
Arkansas
Alabama
Universalists
Coorado
Connecticut
Delaware
Minnesota
West Virginia
Clairvoyant wife and husband reunite after long separation
Mrs Harriet Hawker, a Providence clairvoyant, joins her husband William Hawker in Michigan after twenty four years apart. He left Worcester years earlier for Savinaw to start a gunsmith business and sent letters that she never received. Misplaced communications and rumors of death separated them. A chance encounter in England led to discovery he was alive in Savinaw, and the couple, now with a grown daughter and her husband, reconcile.
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Quai de la Cour
Madame Averier
Averier
Varna
Caucasus
St. Petersburg
Prascovia Petrovna
Neva
Prascovia Petrova
Serge
Jay
Catherine the Great
Cadova
Michel
Prascovia Petrogua
Paragon
Madam Averier
Nastia
Michel Averier
Count S
Pauline
M. Averier
Micael
M. Milaquinle
Martha
Paradise
Aipres-De-Camp
Mademiselle Hopfer
Pauline Vassilievna
Vauline Vassilievna
Wade
Pauline Touder
Wiy Due
Paul
Harriet Hawker
Providence
Michigan
Wiliam Hawker
Hawker
Worcester
Tie
England
Birmingham
Thomas Austin
Policeman McDermott Arraigned Over Odd Number Tales
New York World reports Officer Michael McDermott of Church Street police arraigned at the Tombs after a drunken woman case. A World reporter asks if he is Republican. he says yes, votes for Garfield. McDermott explains calls about “329” misdeeds and odd whispers on his beat. He later confesses he is a Democrat.
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New York World
Michael McDermott
Church-street
World
MucbDermott
Garfielid
Vesey
Greenwich
Ulock
Billy
Jupiter
Chinee
McDermott
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James T, Freips
Demorest
Toom Pictures
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