Like to Go to Hiram's Like We Used to on Sunday
A nostalgic sketch from People’s Home Journal recalls visiting Hiram’s with old friends and kin. The speaker longs to relive Sunday gatherings on the farm enjoying dinners, smoke, chatter, crops, hogs, and porch laughter while feeling youth and kinship return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rin
Mary Hien
Martha Jane
Hiram
Dan
Sarah
Mehitabel
Allike
Hiram’s
Carryall
People’s Home Journal
Avenging Spirit of Pali In a Hawaiian Harbor
An Englishman Cramp ton returns from Australia to England and enters a tropical island world in Honolulu. He befriends Brickwood and meets Emaline, drawn to her jasmine scent and moonlit nights. A native mother reveals the pall of tribal legends as she sings the spirit song of the Pall, recounting an ancient battle and a misty tearful fall from a crater cliff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honolulu
Australia
Fairyland
Crampton
England
Brickwood
Emaline
Brickwoods
Devonshire
Elyse
Hass
Kamehameha
Oahua
Newauna
Paul
Illiteracy and the Pacific Spirit Legend
A fragment from a story recounts Pall the native guardian spirit haunting the mist around Pall island. Crampton and Emaline drift through a sunlit isle, torn between love and duty as a volcanic vision forces a fateful choice. The tale ends with the spirit's vengeance as the lovers flee toward the sea. Also notes illiteracy statistics from the census, detailing rates by gender, race, and region.
Lydia Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound
A historical portrait of Lydia E. Pinkham born in 1819 in Lynn Massachusetts a teacher who studied botany and roots medicine and created a widely used herbal remedy for women. The piece notes the 1873 financial crisis, family hardship, the launch of the Vegetable Compound, and how its promotion grew through pamphlets printing and later newspaper ads. The story credits Pinkham’s foresight preserving case records and training her daughter in law to carry on the work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Estes
Lynn
Mass
Isaac Pinkham
Pinkham
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Yoota Ian
X Son
Ransee
Syd E. Pinkhan
Pinkham Sons
Boston
Neww York
Brooklyn
Lydig E. Pinkham
Lydia BE
Lydia HB. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mutiny at Sevastopol Fractures Russian Empire
Terrific naval and land combat near Sevastopol as mutineers clash with loyal forces. Defeat of mutineers, several ships sunk, town from fort to streets in ruins. Otchakoff wrecked off Admiralty point. population fled. Wider unrest includes strikes in St Petersburg and Moscow, widespread disruption, and potential collapse of central authority.
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Sevastopol
Balaklava
Otchakoff
Admiralty Point
Sebastopol
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Russia
Poland
Count Witte
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Garden of Eden
Pall
Blue Pacific
Compariionship
Alpha Une Loavel
The
Census Bureau
United States
Germany
Sweden
Norway
Denmark
Switzerland
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
South Central
North Central
Geisst J. W. Belcher
Soverndment Printing Office
Treaser
Washington
Potomac
Sevastopolsei Rok
Flas
Pat
Ferin
Goob
Mull's
Mull's Grape Tonic CO
Thind Ave
Rock Island, Ly
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