The Cure That Never Came for Rosetta Dounet
Father Dounet a vine dresser in Revigny pursues a dowry for Rosetta a sought after 18 year old whose heart wavers between Paolo Laurient a medical student and town gossip. Paolo leaves for Paris after promise and Rosetta endures heartbreak while Paolo’s father urges return to Ligny and duty. Rosetta grows pale and inactive awaiting fate.
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Dounet
Revigny
Rosetta
Paolo Laurient
Xvich
Desser
Ligny
Paolo
Rosetti
Eve
Paris
Lovars
Sindy
Lauxient
Father Laurient
Rosetta Haad
Rosetta Dounet
Dr. Laurient
Physician's return brings Rosetta cure and marriage
Paolo Laurient returns to Revigny to treat Rosetta Dounet whose illness baffled Paris doctors. Father Laurient trusts his son as the remedy and the couple wed six months later as the village salutes the new physician and the tale of the blacksmith's oath.
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Paolo Laurient
Rosetta Dounet
Revigny
Ligny
Aorge
Father Laurient
Dounets
Donnet
Laurient
Augusto Faure
Smal Brother Breaks College Contest Record
In Detroit Free Press style a lively note reports Harry setting a new college contest record, with grandma joking about the cost of breaking things and whether a new one is needed. The exchange captures a family moment around a school event.
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Harry
Detroit
Poem Excerpt Reflections on Dreams and Stars
A reflective verse fragment discusses trust in wild fancy over sorrowful knowledge and recalls a notion about the stars being sifted each dawn and sighted anew each night. The speaker quotes John Vance Cheney in Century Magazine.
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John Vance Cheney
Pardon Becomes a Robber’s Windfall in Midnight Bluff
In a midnight confrontation at the governor’s mansion, the escaped killer Red Rube coerces a pardon and $100 by threatening violence. The governor, fearing for his life and his young wife, signs a blank pardon and hands over the money after a tense standoff. Rube disappears. the governor’s safety hinges on the ruse. The episode ends with Rube’s escape and no immediate pursuit.
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John
Red Rube
Mhan
Red Rohe
Rube
Texas
Wallace P. Reed
Atlanta
Constituion
Predictions of synthetic meals redefine food by 2000
The article quotes Professor Berthelot predicting synthetic chemistry will produce manufactured food and drink in concentrated tablets by the year 2000. It imagines portable “table d hote dinners” including oysters, cheese, wine, and tobacco, made from elemental components. It warns such meals would strip eating of taste, eye appeal, and social vitality.
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Berthelot
Oah
Boston Globe
Spelling Reform Breaks Romance in London Gossip
A young woman confesses she gave him up after he proved unworthy. Her friend asks if romance faded. The couple parted when he adopted spelling reform, signing his name as Jorj, ending the romance and the royal aura of the name.
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Jorj
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