Christmas Kindness Grows A Tiny Tree Of Hope
A poor family in a small room shares a humble Christmas tree and scarce gifts. Miss Kent and Mr. Chrome secretly help with oranges, money, and toys while Mrs. Smith supplies cakes. The night ends with two Maltese kittens and newfound joy as neighbors’ generosity blooms into lasting friendship.
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Sam
Dolly
Polly
Santa Claus
Miss Kent
Mr. Chrome
Mrs. Smith
Olly
Mrs. Blake
Pitkin
Betsey
Mother
Puss
Marquis of Carabas
Blakes
Louisa M. Alcott
A Monks Day From Four Thirty To None
The article outlines a monk’s daily routine from 4 30 a m breakfast to None and Vespers, detailing matins at 4 55 and the schedule of prime mass none and compline. It notes the disciplined rhythm, festival variations, organ accompaniment, choir children from the abbey school, and the emphasis on silent hours after compline.
A View of Margaret Fuller From Hawthorne
Nathaniel Hawthorne's analysis of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, drawn from a posthumous biography by his son, critiques her as a brilliant yet flawed figure. Hawthorne, writing in Rome, suggests she built a façade of refinement over a coarse nature, but he valued his own clear judgment and sincerity while noting broader reverence and doubt among contemporaries.
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Rochester Union
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Margaret Fuller Ossoli
Mr. Hawthorne
Rome
Margaret
Mozier
Emerson
Channing
Poston
Margaret Fuller
Hawthorne
True as Gold and the Bellaire Aristocrat’s Fall
A aristocratic youth Lord John Lord coats a life of privilege with a secret of a factory girl Mary Beeton. His betrayal sparks a social scandal across Bellaire Maryland and Baltimore before he deserts for a Creole heiress and Mary seeks a hard, quiet life on the Alleghenies while Angevine Dutot funds a track to protect her.
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Huygencamp
Lord John
Colonel Lord
Newport
Washington
New England
Bellaire
Maryland
Ballsville
Mary Beeton
Susquehanna
Mary
Baltimore
New Orleans
Beeton
Broad Chesapeake
Angevine Dutot
Alleghanies
Blue and Broad
Woodchuck bounty in New Hampshire reaches 5000 dollars
New Hampshire reports fifty thousand woodchucks killed this year under a state bounty of ten cents per animal. At five pounds each, the total weight is about 112 tons, totaling five thousand dollars in bounty payments.
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New Hampshire
The Boy Who Kissed His Mother Is Every Inch a Man
A sentimental verse from the Christian Intelligencer extols the boy who returns to his mother with a brave, steadfast heart. It frames the scene of reunion as a symbol of strength, duty, and filial devotion, claiming such moments forge true heroes.
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Earth
Christian Intelligencer
Frontier Heiress Mary Beeton Becomes Mary Atwood and Weds a Reformed Lord John
Mary Beeton is guided by a mysterious benefactor to assume the name Mary Atwood and teach in Western Nebraska. She travels to Denver where she encounters Lord John, once a suitor now a wounded desperado. He recovers and marries her, and they settle on a Colorado ranche, transforming his life and theirs in the Rockies.
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New York
Nebraska
Mary Atwood
Lord John
Rio Grande
Angevine Dutot
Europe
Mary
Denver
Miss Atwood
John Lord
Lord
Colorado
Rockies
Ladies in Politics Clash Over Lockwood Club Formation
Justice Ford at the Tombs read a summons as Honora Brady and Kate Matthews led a dispute with Lucy Rehnon and Emma Gibson over a plan to form a Belva A. Lockwood association. The women fought boisterous rhetoric, birthday bonnets, and alleged insults before the complaint was dismissed.
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New York
Honora Brady
Kate Matthews
Lucy Rebnon
Emma Gibson
Justice Ford
Mrs. Brady
Belya A. Lockwood
Belva A. Lockwood Association
The Highland Lassies in Harper’s Magazine
William Black discusses Highland beauty and speech in Harper’s Magazine. He praises handsome Highland boatmen and married travelers, lauds refined Highland peasant girls, notes Wordsworth’s memory of an Inverness Highland girl, and admires the educated Highland woman’s English without an accent.
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William Black
Harper's Magazine
Skye
Leonardo di Vinci
Inverness
Wordsworth
Inversnaid
Fireman Wins Lottery Prize in Early Morning Shock
Engineer Frank Crockett of steamer 12 in the city fire department awoke to learn he had won fifteen thousand dollars in the Louisiana State Lottery. He received a hundred dollar advance as proof, then tried to stand on his head in the corner. The winning ticket was No. 68 980, part of the first prize of seventy five thousand dollars. Crockett, about thirty five, married, and earning 140 a month, says he plans to buy a farm in New Jersey and settle down, while continuing his job. He declined further comment.
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Frank Crockett
Fire Department
Crockett
New Jersey
San Francisco
Cal
Des Moines Pension Agent Stuckey Vanishes Amid Debts
J J Stuckey secretary of the Iowa Prisoners of War association and pension claim agent has left Des Moines two weeks ago. He faces debts to creditors and rumors claim he took excess fees above the legal ten dollar limit. Reports say he was entangled with women and sent gifts to them, then fled to avoid prosecution. His whereabouts are unknown.
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Des Moines
Iowa
J. J. Stuckey
United States
Stuckey
East
Nsking
Canada
Hawkeyensurance Company
Sheriff Green Endorses St Jacob's Oil For Shoulder Pain
Mr Edward L Green Sheriff of Auckland New Zealand recounts a long standing shoulder injury from June 1582 to July 1832. After failing with medical liniments he used St Jacob's Oil for ten minutes and felt relief enabling him to resume sawing and digging with renewed strength.
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Edward L. Green
Auckland
New Zealand
Baltimore Mystery Woman Found Near Bridewell Station
The mangled remains of Miss Brannon, 30, once a Baltimore belle and niece of the city’s late mayor, were found beside the Baltimore & Ohio rail road near Bridewell station. Her life linked to a wealthy Maryland family and a betraying romance with Wickersham, who died recently after a debauched period.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Bridewell Station
Miss Brannon
Wickersham
Maryland
Chief Justice Coleridge Reprimands English Squirearchy
The London Daily News praises Chief Justice Coleridge for scolding a country justice who sentenced boys to hard labor for stealing apples. It decries an incompetent and prejudiced local elite. Washington interview quotes Senator Sabin on a new threshing machine company committee plan and stockholder approval.
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Coleridge
London Daily News
Washington
Sabin
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