Irish Elopement Ends In Accord At Aunt Mary Home
Maurice Dillon and Lucy Damer flee to wed amid opposition from Lucy's father and Watkins. Hill urges caution but helps the plan, then the couple seek refuge with Dillon’s aunt. Aunt Mary condemns the elopement yet approves Lucy’s future, hinting the couple marry and prosper with a child and a physician’s career.
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Dillon
Maurice Son
Irter
Kings County
Hill— Vlamore
Lassure
Arles Lever
Tullacre
Tullamore
Watkins
Ving
Hamlet
Arthur Watkins
Irving
Barry Illivan
Trinity College
Angus
Watkinsould
Dillion
Lucy
Maurice
Beast of
Ucy
Hill
Maurice Dillon
Jereen
Visi
Lucy Damer
Parson Damer
Kilmainham
Kingsbridge
Geashell
Mickey Leddy
Mr. Hill
Mickey
Raheenbeg
Faix
Menasha
Joe Jardille
Oilluni
Nancy Kelly
Joe
Damer
Mr. Damer
Trinity
Portarlington
Killeigh
Arthur
Barbara
Dublin
Mary
Danner
Miss Dillon
Miss Danner
Inucy
Progress and change in the nation’s growth seen by a student
In his address at Washington and Lee University A K McClure recalls the country’s early days. He describes a time before steamships railways cables and even a unified population of sixty million noting how states and a national empire were then in their infancy and education was a privilege of the few.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. K. McClure
Washington and Lee University
Golden Gate
Pacific
Great Northwest
Empire
Southwest
Editor Targets Mysterious Man with Club of Subscribers
In a tense office scene a man with a club enters seeking the editor. The boy reports the club is not a weapon but twenty new subscribers, leaving the editor to decide on bringing the man in as suspense lingers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stais
Memorial Day Tribute and a Soldier's Roses
A Memorial Day scene recalls families honoring fallen soldiers. A grieving mother, Aunt Placida, and Daisy and Julia share memories as roses are placed on graves, culminating in the mother’s dream of Private Thomas Denny. The tale ends with Aunt Placida joining her son, gifting Tommy’s roses to children.
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Dar
Daisy
Julia
Tommy
Thomas Denny
G.d
Daiy
Tommys
John A. Logan
Lexington
Saginaw City
Two Brothers Blue and Gray Lie Side by Side
In Bath county Virginia two brothers, one Union and one Confederate, died in war. Their father brought their bodies home and buried them on the farm under a marble inscription, God only knows which was right. The poem recalls their final dispute, triumphs, and the old farm burial.
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Bath County
Terrill
Union
Confederacy
A. O
Courier-Journal
Roses for a Soldier’s Grave Aunt Placidia’s Defiant Guard
Daisy Raymond, Julia Dent, and friends visit Aunt Placidia to beg a rose for a soldier’s grave on Memorial Day. Placidia, crippled and protective of her late son Tom, refuses, recounting how her boy’s rose-bush must never be disturbed and condemning the request as an insult to those who died. The girls withdraw, moved by her tale and hunger.
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Daisy
Julia
Aunt Placidia
Daisy Raymond
Julia Dent
Lookout Mountain
Florence Marks
Alice
Tommy
Tennessee
Tom
Sid Daisy
Written for This Paper Her Two Boys
A blind mother visits two graves in a crowded cemetery accompanied by a young girl. She speaks softly to the graves of her sons and asks if they are green as June, while others doubt her memory of the soldiers buried nearby.
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Sexton
Rebs
Chattanooga
Mother Honors Soldier Graves With Shared Flags and Tears
An old man explains the two burials of presumed kin and a blind mother who tends both graves. She speaks of her two boys and a faith that God keeps them, imagining a shared vigil of love across divided sides and a final reunion by the Great Commander.
Slave Marriages and Heirs Show Legal Controversy
Judge Tuley rules Elizabeth Bunch illegitimate, denying heirs from slavery point. Case diverts to postwar rights and legitimacy of slave marriages while Maine decision alarms insurers over accident policy interpretation.
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Tuley
Chicago
Elizabeth Bunch
James Washington
Thomas Marshall
Mason County
Liza
Elizabeth
James
Huron
William H. M. Pond
Tuly
Elizabeth Punch
Mr. Fish
Land Dispute Over Wisconsin Indian Allotments and Kansas Transfer
A historic account traces pre 1850 land grants to New York Indians in Wisconsin, the treaty exchange for Kansas land, and later sales to bona fide claimants. It notes mass white encroachment, dwindling Indian populations, 1873 purchases, and a recent veto of a bill to sell remaining land at $250 per acre, with value urged higher.
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New York
Wisconsin
United States
Kansas
Secretary of the Interim
Secretary of the Interior
Treasury
Woman and mother weigh a marriage proposal
An Albany girl asks her mother how to respond to George Sturgeon’s plan to propose that night. The mother advises listening to her heart, noting the daughter feels torn yet considers George a decent catch in a playful Troy Standard tone.
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Albany
George Sturgeon
George
Boots and gloom at Col. Fred Grant wedding
A friend notes Gen Grant's pain at Col Fred Grant's wedding as he greets the bridal party. He jokes he wears new boots causing his distress while the evening mood stays somber amid memories of battles. A Smithville Ga. News item mentions a local tale of courtship and mule driven labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col
Fred Grant
Gen. Grant
Unusual Kentucky Will Divides Body Among Mourners
Dr. Everett Wagner of Metzall county dies and leaves a directive to cut his body into pieces and distribute among mourners while bequeathing his $12,000 cash assets to public charities.
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Everett Wagner
Metzall County
Kentucky
Silo notes by Wat E. Burcess in North Dakota Farmer
Burcess details silo construction and faults, noting boards weighted with dirt caused mould around the sides. He praises ensilage quality, dairy benefits, and cattle appetite, and suggests tarred paper or hay top covering to prevent spoilage. He plans a stack cutter and crusher for future use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teames
Wat. E. Burcess
North Dakota
Farmers urged to keep sheep over goats for wool value
Many farmers doubt wool profits ask about Aurora goats and fleeces. The piece argues for holding onto sheep, warns against replacing them with goats, notes mohair market limits and waning demand for goat products, and calls goat flesh rarely accepted as mutton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Submerged forest exposed by Channel storms near St Malo
Scientific American describes a high sand bank near the Isle of St. Malo in France washed by late storms. A fossil forest, turning to coal, lay bare as land sank and sand drifted. Mount Saint Michel once stood in the forest, which vanished by the tenth century and reappears only at very low tides after storms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Isle of
St. Malo
France
Mount Saint Michel
Manure use, cow milking, and forage digestibility note
Spring manure application guidance compares corn versus potatoes for nutrient use. Dairy cows calved may need more than two milkings in twenty four hours for a period. Maine Station tests show timothy hay digests about half its nutrients, while clover hay provides similar digestibility but with roughly double the protein. Also, Idaho treasury reports lead ore imports from Britain rising, with galena deposits found along the Canadian Pacific line and ore brought across the border for reduction, some samples up to 60 percent lead with silver.
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Treasury Department
Idaho
British Dominions
The Boston Bible Society donor who stayed alive for years
A 96 year old man once offered $75,000 to the Bible Society in Boston seeking 10 percent, then 7 percent, received yearly interest for seven to eight years, turned in notes, later became blind and crippled, and the Society now pays his bills. The piece ends with an advertisement for Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Actuaries’tables, &c
The
Bible Society
Farm Discipline Rewards Succe ss in Daily Labor
A terse aphorism notes that perseverance and steady effort yield results on the farm as in all aspects of life, stressing the value of hard work and persistence over time.
Transcontinental Association Adjourns to St Paul Meeting
The Transcontinental association in session at San Francisco adjourned to meet at St Paul on June 15 after three days of debate on the interstate commerce ruling in the Martin & Co. of Denver case. The full wording must be studied. no action can proceed until then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Transcontinental Association
San Francisco
St. Paul
Interstate Commerce
Martin & Co
Denver
The Little Cryptogram by J Gilpin Pyle
A humorous brochure from St Paul by J Gilpin Pyle dispels Ignatius Donnelly’s claim to have extinguished Shakespeare. Using a spoof Baconian cipher the piece lampoons Donnelly and proves the cryptogram a fraud. Postpaid for twenty five cents from Pioneer Press Company St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Gilpin Pyle
St. Paul
Ignatius Donnelly
Pyle
Donnelly
Pioneer Press Company
Summer Outing Thoughtful Fathers Should Pack Pars Kituer
A speaker urges fathers taking families to the country for summer to carry Perry Davis Pars Kituer to prevent cramps colic diarreal illness and related pains and save on medical bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Davis
Pars Kituer
Pierce's Purgative Pills Promoted In Rhyme Item
An old promotional verse extols Pierce's Purgative Pellets for many uses and lists P words before praising the tiny sugar coated granules. The ad claims gentle yet thorough action to regulate bowels and stomach for sick individuals.
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Pierce
Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery for Consumption
The text urges those with consuming illness to try Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It claims the remedy is not miraculous but has cured thousands in early stages where other methods failed, offering a new lease on life.
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Dr. Pierce
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Iden Hill
Chappie
Trinity Col Dublin
Haphaz
Harold KR. Wynne
Placida
Lell V. Chisholm
Mrs. M. I. Rayne
Maine Supreme Court
McGlinchy
Fidelity and Casuality Company
H. Reporter
Smithville
Darky
Romeo
Coats
Maine
S Jacobs Oil
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Hall
Times
Explorer de Lasalle
Mr. Tree
Brussels
Swatne
Swayne & Son
Philadelphia
Swayne
Beauty
Curicurra Remedies
Cuticura
Porter Drug and Chemical Co
Boston
Mass
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, VT
Ake
Liadstreet, Thurber & Co
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Iowa
Egg Trust
Hood
Lowell
Newhall Street
Detroit
Washington
Columbia Law
Yale
Wellesley
Oberlin
University of Penn
Michigan University
Chautauqua, &c
Richard Proctor
W.w.astor
Judah P. Benjamin
Gibson
Dr. Brown
E. H. Cook
Prin
State Normal College
Loisette
Fifth Ave
Ely
Exy Bros
Greenwich, N
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
EI. Lowe
Winsted
Conn
Tut
J. P. Allen
Minn
Berwstex Bafety Rell Holder CO
Molly, Mich
ALLEN
J. 7
Alien
Mina
Chippit Aems
United
State St
Jenney & Graham Gun Co
Culisco
28 Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Mendenhall Greenhouse
Minneapolis, Minn
Sterling Live Stock Insurance Company
Lowes
Tumber Exchange
Anesota
Bradstreet, Thurber & CO
Saleratus D
Dwight
Arm & Hammer
S. E. Olson & CO
Mammoth
Nicollet Avenue
Northwest
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