Ideal Lover Fails Leah and She Loses Love and Family
Leah in Pikeville rejects plain Joshua Hobbs for an imagined romantic hero Horatio Fitz Allen only to find him a con artist. After a string of deceptions and a betrayed betrothal to Joshua’s rival sister Jane, Leah returns home heartbroken, realizing the perils of chasing an ideal. She remains unmarried and lonely, while Joshua marries Jane and finds happiness.
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Joshua
Pikeville
Joshua Hobbs
Mother
Jane
Leah
Ken
Sach
Juno
Barstown
Barstowe
Caroline
Anne
Tran
Horatio Fitz Alien
Fitz Allen
Burstowe
Paul
Conan
Goura
Horatio
Rascal
Joe Hatrin
Luke Hartwell
Horatio Fitz Allen
Mr. FitzAlen
Rey Lovera
Towren Maan
DIAMONDS UNEARTHED AND MORAL DISCOURSE
Fragmented prosy miscellany reflects on love and friendship, self forging character, and moral power. A speechlike passage explores women and men, perseverance, pity, and gratitude, ending with a Central market scene of a hungry tramp seeking food.
Salted beds and sugar beets in New England farming notes
A horticulturist advises salting strawberry beds to deter insects and weeds. Sugar beets attract attention as a crop in Maine New Hampshire and Massachusetts with Europe noting vast beet culture. Calf nutrition using whey with bran or middlings aids bone growth. careful feeding prevents poor gains. Practical farming tips cover cattle fattening, poultry remedies, and kitchen recipes for frostings dressings and desserts.
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New England
Maine
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut River Valley
Europe
Trongha
Ann Sowa
Household economy tips from a historic source
A fragment lists household hacks for freshness and preservation. It suggests plunging potatoes in cold water before cooking to refresh them, using a small paper or linen moistened with spirits of turpentine to deter moths, soaking garments in lukewarm borax solution overnight without rinsing, and advises other brief notes on fabric care and a carp hat recipe fragment.
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Salada
Lincoln reprieve tale at New Jersey meeting
At a New Jersey Historical Society session in Newark a memorial recounts a Civil War episode involving Rev Dr Sheldon of Princeton and Rev AE Rodgers. A minister pleads for a condemned soldier. Lincoln quietly grants reprieve after confirming the family ties and awaiting the man’s final hours.
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New Jersey Historical Society
Newark
N. J
Sheldon
Princeton
Rodgers
Lincoln
Rogers
Washington
Rodgera
Funeral notice wired into Derrick editor
An anonymous man visited the Derrick yesterday seeking publication of a funeral notice he had heard about. He dictated terse notes describing Jim Smith’s fever death and a large respectful audience, a eulogy by Rev Sigdecker, and a closing line about a crowd present and the affair ending well.
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Jim Smith
Beein
Sigdecker
Sally
Derrick
Millard Fillmore's V P gift note on honey and flour
A letter from Millard Fillmore as vice president describes thanks for a box of honey and a barrel of flour. He notes the honey is uncommonly fine and pure, and reflects on the generosity amid hardship and sacrifice in the country.
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Millard Fillmore
Fragmented OCR News Item With Mixed Data
A garbled 1878 era OCR text mentions cattle numbers by state, a Philadelphia House of Refuge incident ending in a suicide, and extensive unverified medicinal ads for Stomach Bitters and related patent remedies. It references Kentucky, Michigan, Texas, and agricultural figures amid travel and health notices, with further notes on phonographs and cabinet organs.
Markets and Catalog Notes From Quin Jackson Beat
A brief catalog note with Quin Jackson's Beat Sweet Navy Tobesca and Anton Pogue's Bitting Bull Durham Tobecco. Includes reference to Tie Mondomantiu Piano Ca at No 1 East 15th Street and Factory Pilvoa and mentions NOY and Manos.
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East 15Th Street
Noy
Factory Pilvoa
Quin Jackson
Anton Pogue
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