Deersfield Romance Ends In Artful Reunion And Heir
Caroline, the heiress of Deersfield, jilts her faithful art student Joe for a marriage to Charlie Evans. After misfortune and heartbreak, Joe returns as a famed painter to purchase the estate with his art, revealing his lasting love and offering Caroline a shared future with their childlike bond transformed into enduring partnership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe
Caroline
Deersfield
Charlie Evans
Belle
Jane
Beale
Hello
Momma
Ben
Nan
Mamma
Carrie
America
Italy
Caroine
Common Men and the Life of Labor in England
Rudimentary portrait of working villagers from harvest to seed time. It contrasts rural poverty with urban wealth, notes shared hardship, mutual aid, and a stubborn pride. The speaker urges readers to judge the common man with sympathy and recognize England’s strength in its laboring majority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
R. Crawley
Pall Mall Gazette
Beaver Bill's Daughter and the Lost Beauvoir Heir History
A summary from New York Witness describes a remarkable tale from Scribner's Monthly about Nina Saville, known as Nina, who is believed to be the heiress Nina Saville of the Beauvoir line. Her husband William Beauvoir, son of Sir William Beauvoir, unknowingly marries his cousin. The couple later learns of their kinship as evidence confirms Beaver Bill and his wife were killed, leaving Nina as the potential heir to the estate and title.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver Bill
Scribner's Monthly
William Beauvoir
Brighton
Ogland
England
America
New
Edgar Sayville
San Francisco
Alle
Nina
Oliver
Nina Saville
Steal Valley
Cal
William
New York
Chisworth Manor
Suffolk
Wealth and Birth In England Spark Auction Market Rise
A London era observer notes the shift in wealth signs from titled birth to modern money. Northern industrial fortunes see grand homes like Bolthow and Vaughan fade from peak value, with Gray Towers selling for far less than cost, while London social access remains elusive for new money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Mr. Vaughan
Bolthow & Vaughan
Gray Towers
Cleveland
London
Imperial Passport Granted to Curtis From Tientsin to Peking
The Tao tai of Tientsin grants American Curtis permission to travel with attendants to Peking for one year. He vows no disturbance and may show the official seal if stopped. Passport to be recorded at the Yamen in Peking by imperial order dated in the eighth month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Tao-tai
Tientsin
Curtis
United States of America
Peking
Taotai
Yamen
B. B. Curtis
The Tricks They Hesort to Get Other People's Money
A study of confidence men and varied scams used to separate victims from cash. It details tactics from proposals to counterfeit checks, bunko games, freight-bill schemes, and lottery prize pretenses. Notable examples include James Porter of Oshkosh and Elizabeth Cash, a German baroness impersonator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Porter
Oshkosh
Porter
Dixon
Mr. Dixon
Dun
Thompson
Peoria
Bill Dodge
Bunko
Sharper No. 1
No. 1
Elizabeth Cash
Havana
Adventuress
Going Up Stairs and Health
A health note from Hall's Journal of Health argues stairs strain pupils and teachers alike. It warns stairs over six inches high exhaust the elderly and frail, urges gradual ascent, and cautions against running after boats, stressing equal bodily motion and mental activity for health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Hall
Journal of Health
The Story of Celia Thaxter and Appledore Island
A romantic tale links Celia Thaxter to Appledore Island in the Isles of Shoals. The Leighton family bought the island near New Hampshire, drawing a dissatisfied Portsmouth lawyer away from mainland life. His daughter marries a young lawyer who heals with her, and Celia Thaxter becomes a noted Atlantic Monthly contributor fond of Appledore where her brothers run a cottage inn.
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Celia Thaxter
Appledore Island
Isles of Shoals
New Hampshire
Leighton
Portsmouth
Mr. Leighton
Cescealise
Maree
Allant
Atlantic Magazine
Appledore
Appledore House
Emigration from Russia and Poland to America 1820–1877
A St. Petersburg newspaper lists emigration figures from 1820 to 1877. The first forty years show 3000 emigrants, the next decade 5000, then 1871 y 1800, 1872 y 1500, 1873 y 1000, 1874 y 700, 1875 y 30, 1876 y none, and 1877 y 46.
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St. Petersburg
America
Life and Decay in Autumn Imagery
A reflective piece contrasts decay with life as autumn landscapes turn gray. Vivid images of withered ferns, stern woods, and pale afternoons evoke a seasonal decline while hints of renewal appear in May buds and the blackbird's song.
Various items of interest from 1880 era clippings
A mosaic of eclectic notes including a Boston firm seeking a book keeper drawing 347 mail responses, Murphy considering a European temperance tour in 1880, timber strength from north facing growth, fishing luncheons, humor about Gray's Elegy, Chinese workers in UP railroad stations, social quips about visits and calling, Hamburg cattle quarantine, Shanghai trade shifts, Colorado cattle barons, Tonahatcho leading Seminole students in Fort Myers, Utah outdoors, hot days and cool nights, vegetable diet sufficiency, a grandmother’s bear tale misinterpreted by a four year old, a penmanship claim of 190 letters a minute, a line about daily dipping losses, and the death of a French humorist Commer sion known as Commersion the shoeblack.
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Boston
Francis Murphy
Europe
New Orelans Picayune
Union Pacific
Rocky Mountains
Rhode Island
Tonahatcho
Fort Myers
Florida
Utah
le Tintamaure
Paris
Commersion
College of France
Shoeblack
Milk as a Substitute for Blood Discovery in 19th Century Experiments
The article reviews 1859 stories and recent experiments by Prof. Thomas showing milk injections into veins extending life in exhausted patients. It cites Wulfsberg and Marine in Gottingen, noting rabbit and dog trials where milk revived heart and respiration after cessation, suggesting a simple, practical method with potential medical impact.
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George Eliot
Prof. Thomas
New York
Thomas
Dr. Wulfsberg
Prof
Marine
Gottingen
Wulfsberg
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May Merritt
Mag
Charlie
California
Mae
Tam
Rome
Mediterranean
Carolne
Marbe-Paie
Mand
Céirrie
Harper’s Weekly
Cash
Germany
Sunny Italia
Isa Denice
Princes of Confidence
Ralph L. Rollins
Paves
Philadelphia
Mes
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