Uncle Ben’s Letter and the Hidden $8000 Fortune
In Lake County Bill Hullett guards an unopened Civil War letter from Uncle Ben to his sister Mary Hallett. The letter uncovers a family tale of devotion, loss, and a buried fortune later revealed by Bill’s son Andrew, transforming a plainer plasterer into a local fortune.
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Bill Hullet
Lake County
Bill
Mary Hallett
Antioch
Ils
Gettysburg
Hullett
Fetterage
Tam
Andrew
Rascal
Uncle Ben
Mother
Opie
New York Commercial Advertiser
Our Saints in Radiant Haloes Through Time
Poetic meditation on saints past and present, linking legends and art to everyday devotion. It celebrates unseen holy figures, their shadows, and the enduring hope of a transcendent, dawned day beyond mortal care.
American men praise diverse feminine beauty in US art and show scenes
Ward McAllister writes in the New York World that American women surpass English beauty, noting the varied cast of looks due to racial mixing. He cites horse show attendees and National Academy of Design portraits as evidence of the American beauty type and variety.
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England
Americas
America
National Academy of Design
Ward McAllister
New York World
Infallible Coffee Mixes a Quarter Mocha and Java
A Kansas City Star quip recalls Bridget the cook insisting she uses no single coffee variety. She explains the blend is one quarter Mocha one quarter Java and one quarter Rio. The mistress asks for the missing quarter and Bridget answers none.
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Bridget
Java
Rio
Kansas City Star
A Laclede building elevator conductor’s daily travel
A narrator asks a uniformed elevator conductor about his daily work. The driver says he makes about 450 trips each day and covers roughly eighteen miles while serving workers. The piece reflects on the distance implied by many daily trips and the routine of the job.
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Laclede
B.t
Louis Pont- Dispatah
Cupid and Psyche on the Cambrian Prince
Edward Braithwaite Colchester nicknamed Cupid is a fourth officer on the Cambrian Prince. He falls for a distant aristocratic romance while his mother struggles, his letters from land grow tense, and a passenger named Hinks enters the tale during a voyage from Tilbury to Sydney.
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Edward Braithwaite
Colchester
Tilbury
Sydney Harbor
Cupid
Teddy
Sydenham
Teddy Colchester
Plymouth
Salisbury
Royal Wiltshire Yeomanry
Humington Down
Hfe
Hinks
Himelf
Aho
Miss Hinks
Kangaroo
Psyche
Adelaide
Sydney
Cupid and Psyche On the Ocean Wave Ends in Wealth
A sea tale follows Teddy and Miss Hinks as their unlikely romance sprouts aboard ships and during shore leave. The narrative reveals Miss Hinks is actually Miss Hinks-Gratton, a millionaire heiress, changing Teddy’s fortunes and future.
How to Preserve Old Manuscripts
A method describes washing the fragile document then enclosing it between silk sheets to press and seal with paraffin. The coating preserves legibility and protects against disintegration fading and vermin such as insects or mice through a permanent seal.
How He Tells the Tims in Waterbury
A small boy boasts his father is a great man who always knows the time without a watch. The child explains that at morning calls the time is to get up and at night the time is to go to bed, prompting a curious visitor.
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Tommy
Alius
Allus
Waterbury
Highway Robber Fails as Citizen Threatens Police
A citizen tells a highway robber to leave or face police. The outlaw hesitates, questions the threat, then departs to avoid possible trouble. A Detroit Tribune note mentions dangerous smoke and toxic fumes from burning substances including ammonia and hydrogen sulfide.
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Detroit Tribune
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A. A. Mann
Edward A. Greene
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James L. Jenks
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Philo E. Thayer
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J. Milton Payne
Lorge W .Newell
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Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
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State Equitable
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High and Bourn Brts
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