The Quiet Protestant Pastor and His Once Penitent
In a sunlit study at St Anatole a Catholic heiress Georgette de Beaumont seeks her former confessor Pastor Anville now a Protestant leader. She reveals she remained Catholic yet longs for him and asks to confess anew, recalling a storm confession that reshaped both their lives.
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Loyola
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Adam
Ian
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Georgette and the pastor pursue wealth and faith
In Temple Bar M E B recounts Georgette de Beaumont and a humble pastor whose shared wealth and conscience drive them toward a noble but impossible union. She envisions a grand Protestant church in Paris while he seeks atonement for a past wrong and a life with the peasant girl. Their farewell ends a brief, fateful romance.
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Touraine
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Georgette de Beaumont
Temple Bar
Missing Man Clayton Page Returns to Mount Holly
In 1862 Clayton H. Page joined Company H 30th New Jersey Volunteers. After injuries and a long wandering life including Australia and Egypt he resurfaced in Mount Holly, NJ, where his sister Anna H. Page left him $14,000 in her will if he returned within twelve years. He finally came back to claim the legacy but plans to leave for Australia again after visiting friends.
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Mount Holly
N. J
Company H
30Th
New Jersey Volunteers
the General
Anna H. Page
Testatrix
New York
Australia
Strange Louisville slave tale ends in tragedy and mystery
A Memphis Avalanche recounts a 19th century Louisville story of Lizzie Carlton a beautiful milliner who marries Phillip 8 then is revealed by a Louisiana planter as a slave Melida Cass. A compensation payment ends a severed marriage but Lizzie dies heartbroken due to social scorn and paternity questions hang over her son whose fate remains unknown.
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Lizzie Carlton
Williams
Fourth Street
Lizzie
Baptist Church
Phillip
Philip
Fifth and Green Streets
Buck
Mar
Melida Cass
Galt House
Sisters of Charity
Mr. G
Hawesville
Gravelotte battlefield remembered on a quiet hillside
A Pall Mall Gazette sketch recalls Gravelotte a village where German and French forces met in brutal combat along a ravine and the St Hubert road. The scene shifts from trenches and mitrailleuses to graves across cultivated fields as memory sheltering graves and crosses spread across the landscape.
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St. Hubert
Pall Mall Gazette
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Metz
von Zastrow
Archibald Forbes
Uhlans
Peter Keenan
Chancellorsville
Zastrow
Lord Wolseley
le Cochon
St. Private
Obituaries Cite Bright's Disease Rising Death Toll
The Pittsburg Commercial Gazette notes Bright's disease appears more common now, with 1571 ranks seventh and 1885 fifth in fatality. Laborers and domestic workers show higher risk. most deaths occur between ages 25 and 65. Dampness and kidney inflammation linked. albuminaria not always indicative.
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Pittsburg
John T. Nagle
Boy at church remembers nickel in box
A child named Bobby visits a church for the first time and, after dropping a nickel into the contribution box, whispers to his mother about a store clerk failing to ring up his item correctly.
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Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows Holds Grand Forks Session
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows met in Grand Forks with a public reception followed by business. Grand Master Rice read the annual report showing 87 lodges, 4500 members, 607 initiations, 644 week benefits, and $44748.59 paid for relief. New officers were elected for the grand lodge and grand encampment, listing names and positions.
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Grand Forks
Rice
R. R. Briggs
Briggs
Treasuer
Grand Lodge
G.M
A.G. Smith
Lead City
Don McDonald
G. W
John Wally
Ashton
R. B. Briggs
Sioux Falls
G. T
George W. Snow
Springfield
Harvey J. Rice
Haron
T.a.robinson
J. T. Wooley
A. E. Riichardson
Grafton
Ralph R. Briggs
Grand Scribe
M . Ohlman
Yankton
William Hart
Fargo
FE. Blavett
E. E. Overholt
Lawrence
Inside Sentinel
A. E. Ronce
Elk Point
Outside Sentinel
G A R issues orders and memorial updates across veterans groups
General Order No. 14 commends Women’s Relief for veterans families and endorses the Sons of Veterans. It appoints W G Veasey to the Grant memorial committee, calls Thirteenth corps to meet Sept 27 for corps badges, advises pensions inquiries, and notes Decoration Day evolution to Memorial Day. Also lists new aides and reports Ex-Gov William Smith’s death, a Southern Minnesota band convention, and a Kentucky man’s $15000 damages verdict for seduction.
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Ruthland
Grant Memorial
W. Hooker
Battledow
Warriors
Thirteenth Corps
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
Grand Army
State Department
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Pittsburg
W. W. Greenland
Clarion
G. H. Williams
Erie
Christian Young
C. F. Houghton
Philastelphia
Thomas Munroe
Galletzin
William Smith
Virginia
United States Congress
Minnesota
Rochester
J. W. Barbour
Kentucky
E. U O. Stephenson
Ohio
Pasco Declared Elected Florida United States Senator
In the Florida legislature on the 19th Pasco Democrat received 84 votes to 17 for Goodrich Republican, declaring Pasco elected. The nominee, a London native about 48, Harvard graduate, Confederate veteran, speaker of the Florida House, is seen as a compromise between Perry and Bloxham. He succeeds Jones, whose Detroit residence is a national scandal.
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United States
Pasco
Goodrich
London
Eng
Harvard College
House of Representatives
Call
Perry
Bloxham
Will &S
Jones
Detroit
Long wait for a prodigal son haunts grieving couple
Affected by long absence the gray haired parents of Silas endure four years of prayer and vigil as they hope for the return of their son. The father sleeps downstairs to hear any sign at the door while the mother calls softly in vain for their boy.
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Silas
Sam
Sally
G. I
Preston
American Magazine
Fences Dispute Triggers Wyoming Troop Call
The call to aid in destroying fences in Wyoming stems from Windsor and Cobb and Davidson Bros not removing fences on ranches 47 miles southwest of Cheyenne under a Jan 28 1887 order. Special inspector F A Bowers ordered removal last December. The secretary granted until May 1 to comply.
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Wyoming
Windsor & Cobb
Davidson Bros
Cheyenne
F. A. Bowers
Secretary of the Interior
Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Cures Worst Cases
An offensive breath and catarrh distress the afflicted and those nearby. The remedy claims to cure the worst cases with thousands testifying to its effectiveness.
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Reath
Caterrh
Sage
Profit in sixty days by stock trading promise
An advertisement claims you can make 100 percent profit within sixty days on any amount from ten dollars upward by contacting stock broker Geo C Obcott in St Paul Minnesota. It also notes the interstate commission rules it has no power to permanently suspend any provision of the law.
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St. Paul Minnewe
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Interstate Commission
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M. E. Church
Silverton
N. J
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