Bootles Adopts Mignon A Barracks Baby Tale
Captain Ferrers keeps a foundling girl named Miss Mignon, beloved by the regiment, while Mrs Gray guides care. Bootles, lauded for kindness, rejects the workhouse idea, advertises for a nurse, and the child wins over officers and a venerable general. The tale follows village rumors about the mother, the servant’s loyalty, and the-creasing bond between man and child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bootles
Ferrers
Major Allardyce
Sones
Dawson
Mrs. Gray
Mr. Kerr
Boatles
Smithers
Lucy
Old Beotles
Ie Babay
Car
White Dragoons
Mademoiselle
Mademoiselle Mignon
Careley
Des
Mlle
Mignon
Fellows
Beatles
Captain Ferrer
Captain Ferrers
Thheminster
Idleminster
Beotles
Idleminster Chronicle
Scarlet Lancers
Broad Arrow
Blankharmpton
Lucy Sys
Miss Mignon
Nurse
Lucey
Humty Dumpty
Boot
Booties
Boottes
Society of the White Cross expands worldwide reach
At a New York meeting on October 21 the White Cross Society reported growing membership worldwide. A Glasgow clergyman announced 6600 men had enrolled there and speakers urged vigorous promotion of the society’s aims to combat unchastity as zealously as drunkenness. Plans were made to circulate explanatory documents widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Yor
White Cross Society
Glasgow
Last Survivor of Dartmoor Prison Dies at 186 Years
Brockton man James Johnson, aged 226, dies after recounting his wartime voyage aboard the privateer Rolla and his years in Dartmoor Prison England. He recalled the commotion over food, a smallpox outbreak, and a volley that wounded at least one comrade before he returned home to Rhode Island. Johnson claimed he was among the last survivors and remembered a shipload landing in Boston before his safe passage home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Lucy
Mias Mignon
Miss Mignon
Grordiowse Brat
Hartog
Bootles
Uc Trust
Gilchrist
Brockton
James Johnson
Dartmoor
England
Johnson
Henry J. Wyman
Enterprise Street
Gore
Wickford
R.L
Newport Harbor
Higby
T. J. Shortland
Massachusetts
Tim
Boston
Rhode Island
Great Garrison Riot Half Century Reflections in Boston
Fifty years after William Lloyd Garrison was mobbed in Boston for anti slavery views the city and streets recall the riot. The Liberator office 46 Washington Street, the leverett Street jail, and the crowd’s fury are described with eye witness detail and verses by Whittier and Alcott.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Lloyd Garrison
Boston
Wilson's Lane
Devonshire Street
Washington Street
North
Tappan
Commercial Gazette
Thompson
Liberator
Friends of the Union
State Street
Garrison
George Thompson
Lyman
Jeri Parkman
Ebenezer Bailey
Agor Lyman
Nyack
Ruvie
Theoh
Witch Flat
Leverett Street
Uberty and
Ife
Causeway Ae
John Greenleaf Whittier
A. Bronson Alcott
Hall
Columbia
Roasia
Turkey
Oddities From Everywhere Aims At Laughs And Lessons
A long list of odd items from across the country sketches curious tales. incidents include a 15 year old burglar in Alliance Ohio, a Paris tobacconist sign reading no smoking, a Austin Texas rider fined ten pounds, and a snail that crawled 300 feet from sunrise to sunset.
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Alliance
Paris
Austin
Tex
Jarrett
Simpson
Pearson, Cin
Americus
Albany
N. Y
Louis XIV
Milken Hane
Scutari
Castle Garden
Cincinnati
North Carolina
Canyon City
Ore
Crawford County
Penn
Clyde
Kane
Munich
Berlin
Grover
Rupert
Yale
Mr. Shaw Gosh Billings
Colonel Hunt
Michigan
Montana
Patrick Sullivan
Sheboygan
North Danville
Lancaster
Dick Bass
Atlanta
Broad Street Bridge
Adin. Cal. Argus
Hardy
Lincoln
Neb
Acotlin
Temperance Society
Sanford
Fla
Sumter County
Aa Weed
Chicago
United States
New York
Tobias Brothers
Stonyford
Middleton
Massachusetts
See
Alexander VI
Spain
Portugal
Vatican
Tera de Bacalaos
Montr'igal
Lle Perot
Tru Scribe
Sierras
St Pene
Adairsville
Bob Gillam
Harris
Crawford
Boston Cooking School Kitchen Transforms Home Epics
An account of the Boston cooking school at Tremont street showing a bright, modern kitchen where six young women in neat dress learn a second course of richer cooking. They practice coffee, Lyonnaise potatoes, beef steak, rice griddle cakes, curried eggs and more while a teacher guides with precise methods and tips for toasting, sauce, and serving.
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Boston
Tremont Street
Beacon Street
Back Bay
Maynard
Alogether
Ead Dish
Ege Vermicetti
Vti
Miss Maynard
Cno
Yanker ies to stage American exhibition in London
The American exhibition’s director-general John Robinson Whitley outlines London plans for a six month display starting May with a 22 acre site in West Kensington nearby the exhibition building. The main hall will house Linte and Territorial exhibits with 37 states already lining space, plus a 770 by 46 foot American bar and restaurant. The project aims to attract Indian merchants and other colonial exhibitors, while addressing past concerns about General Norton. The opening is set for May with President Cleveland pressing the button, and jubilee events anticipated in June marking Victoria’s fiftieth year.
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Poultry
E. C
GLOBE
London
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Boston
Wople
West Kensington
India
C. B. Norton
John Gilmer Speed
New York World
Hurlburt
Senator Speed
Speed
Kentucky
General Norton
Ae Wafield
Whietly
Mr. 3
Cleveland
Victoria
Gloria
Castoria Slogan Echoes Through Generations
An old advertising rhyme touts Castoria for infants and children. It traces trust from babyhood to motherhood, noting continued use as children grow. The verse pairs Castoria with VASTORIA and highlights enduring family reliance on the product.
Judge Refuses Punishment for Suspected Drunk In Repeat Offense
A Philadelphia Call snippet shows a judge fining a prisoner for drunkenness while the inmate protests a double jeopardy claim. The exchange centers on whether the current arrest repeats the same offense as last Monday, with the prisoner invoking his status as a free-born American citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme
Vli
Japanese Flirtation Rumor Riles San Francisco
Chronicle notes a troubling gossip thread about a Japanese girl in town accused of luring men. The column urges caution, frames the tale as sensational street talk, and hints at social tensions without detailing individuals or events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco Chronicle
Model Wife Ideals Displayed In Curious Essay
A St Louis Republican piece lists aspirational traits for a model wife. The diagrammatic description envisions affection, beauty, obedience, entertainment, childbearing, gratitude, hospitality, and industry as the ideal in orderly, alababatically arranged ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis
Model Man Ideals Alphabetically List Various Traits
A fragmented OCR style list presents virtues for a model man including attentive brave candid devoted enterprising frank good natured honest independent just keen lenient magnanimous obliging positive quick resolute sensible truthful useful vigilant wise zealous. The text blends adjectives with misspellings and spacing inconsistencies in a single reflective inventory.
Uric Acid Usurper Replaces Malaria in Health Hype
The piece rails against Uric Acid as the cause of a wide range of ailments from malaria to headaches and skin boils, touting Warner's Safe Cure and Senator B. K. Bruce as rescuing remedies. It frames Uric Acid as a dangerous blood toxin needing daily elimination by kidney action.
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Malaria
Uric Reid
Warner
B. K. Bruce
Tts
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West Street
Anti-Slavery Society
Burleigh
Wilson’s Lane
Old State House
Charles Sprague
Ffteen
Transcript
Portland
United Kingdom
Andrews
Andrew
Shanghai
Charles Smith
Baltimore
Smith
Astor House
Gardner Colby
Boston Cooking School
Hotel Utter
Maitre D’hotel
Maitre D'Hotel
John
Stare
John Robinson Whitley
Castoria
Miss
Vastoria
Philadelphia Call
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