Home Sweet Home in Exile Love and a D'Orsay Wedding
A long tale unfolds of Jean D'Orsay torn between promised duty and true love Denis Durant. Octavia counsels, guardians intervene, and on June 15 Jean marries Baron von Stock after he returns her freedom, leaving Denis heartbroken yet grateful for honor upheld.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean D’orsay
Octavia
Jean
Papa
Baron von Stock
America
von Stock
D’orsay
Denis Durant
Madame Octavia
Denis
Florida
South
Mr. Durant
Christendom
Mr. Haviland
Jean Jess
Old Haviland
Miss D’or
Aeartache
Mein Liebling
Miss D’orsay
Danis
Hermann
Baroness von Stock
Count Alphonse D’orsay
Baron Hermann von Stock
Jean Blanche D’orsay
D’orsays
Hermann von Stock
Mlle
Dennis
Lip Jean
Pretty Blanche
Baby Rmana
Mamma
Corporations and the Public and a House Notice
A Pall Mall Gazette piece argues that public interest requires vigilance over large corporations and warns against unrestrained private power in America while noting England’s freer enterprise. The page also includes an ad for Rough on Rats claiming to clear rats and other pests for 15 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
North American Review
England
Herbert Spencer
Pall Mall Gazette
Digest of Patent Remedies and Honest Deeds
A collage of product pitches and a young man’s act of integrity. Carter's Little Liver Pills are advertised as a cure for headaches and liver ailments, Wheat Bitters praised for vitality, and Sulphur Bitters touted with a reward to a boy who returned a wallet. A caller warns against nasal catarrh injections and endorses Ely's Cream Balm with a customer testimonial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
Draggista
Carter Medicine CO
New York City
J.H. Young
Everyody
Charlie Sullivan
Washington Street
Messrs. A. P. Ordway & Co
Sulphur Bitters
Orld
Ely
M.greene
N. Y
Catskill & Athens Steamboat Co
Catskill
N.Y
Ely’s
Owego
Quotations on Conduct and Conscience
The excerpt urges plain speech at home as well as abroad and warns that a feeble thought should be rejected. It compares a man’s conscience to a swift eye and eyelid that shut against evil, emphasizing moral vigilance and integrity.
Four Things to Be a Gentleman and a Life of Worth
A reflection on inner conduct and virtue from George MacDonald. The passage stresses gentleness of principles taste manners and person, and praises deeds of goodness. It links prayer and praise to fortune, and urges extracting honey from human experience to feed eternity.
Quote on sorrow and prosperity by Grant
The passage reflects a meditation on suffering and wealth urging restraint. It argues that material gain tempts excess and that true benefit comes from humility and enduringly valuable, eternal things rather than transient pleasures.
Honest minister helps a book seller and his son thrive
Rev. Peter Stryker recalls a country woman offering butter at a bargain after praise for his kindness to her son. A canvasser, urging a Gough book, wins his support with a personal note, leading to a bound copy and many sales. The boy’s mother later purchases butter, proving the minister’s generosity sparked success. Then a portrait of Senators Hoar Frye Allison and Edmunds outlines appearance and character in a Cleveland Leader account.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John
Gough
Ublic
Ballston
Hoar
Massachusetts
Horace Greeley
Hoe
Senator Hoar
Harvard University
Harvard Law School
United States
Senate
Boston
Eulchaw
Harvard
Worcester
Congress
Frye
Maine
Senator Frye
Washington
Blaine
Lewiston
Bowdoin College
Republican Party
Allison
Iowa
Ohio
Perry
Hudson College
Brutus
Chamber
Senator Edmunds
Vermont
Logan
Anthony
Rhode Island
Spinoza
Cleveland
Wool in cotton suit sparks Philadelphia dispute
A wrathful customer returned a suit claiming it was not all wool as advertised. The dealer retorted that the cloth could contain cotton fibers, joking that the wool may have come from a sheep that grazed in cotton fields, implying the fabric’s mixed origin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Valuable Document Destroyed Report Highlights Fire Loss
A poor man pleads for aid after his house and family burned two months prior. A certificate of loss burned with the home leaves him with no proof, prompting a cautious merchant to offer a quarter. Separate item notes a 16 year old seeks a divorce in a New York court with humorous domestic remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vauposta
Granaia
B. W. Bently
London
Sor
New York
Hartford Post
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the Cristol Pharm
Cc. A. Greene
Phenix
Hope Street
American Watch Co
Waltham, Mass
Camarita
Nervin
the Great
Meirme Tcoin Qiuieiriok
Killa Scrofala
Kinga
U. S
Europe
A. Richmond Medical Co
Props
Joseph
Chas. N. Crittenton
Son Adel Noved
Pry Sen Mail
Fey Ant IN & Ony
Burlington, Vt
Ors
Otis Munro
Marianne Farningham
Tx Potomac Flats
Fen
God
George McDonald
Tuheir WaLte
Peter Stryker
D. D
Leslie
Vance
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