A Bijou Cottage Marriage and a Jealous Effigy
Two newlyweds settle in a charming Deering cottage with dreams of harmony. An aunt’s spoiling guest Miss Jenniss arrives, testing Annie and John with lavish meals, social plans, and creeping jealousy. Kate Jenniss’s long visit ends with a costly slip of fate and a final, quiet reconciliation.
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Boston
the St. James
Jenniss
Kate
Miss Jenniss
St. James
Portland
Falmouth
Annie
Deering
St. Catherine’s
John
Beit
Mendelssohn
Cary
Mantinee
Katé
Parton
Elaine
Saratoga
Jim Bowker
Mistress
John H. Emerson
Green Eyed Monster
Miss Janniss
Kate Jenniss
Etech
Jamie
Davis & Ee
Busets Chamber
Davis & Howe
Cure All Diseases Advertised Reward Notice
An advertisement promises a $500 reward for curing all diseases of the stomach bowels blood liver nerves kidneys and urinary organs and offers $500 for any case they cannot cure or for impurities found in them accompanying a reference to truths or proverbs as a column feature.
Sky, not man, shines brightest in pure blue skies
A concise reflection notes that the sky seems most cheerful when its color is a deep blue, contrasting with human moods and suggesting nature's constancy in bright weather.
The Perfect Host And A Maltese Governor’s Cat
A collection of aphorisms on hospitality by Arthur Helps contrasts with a short feature about Governor Hampton and his Maltese cat Tom. Tom accompanied the governor in walks, waited at the gate, and stayed by during illness, showing loyalty and companionship.
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Arthur
Hampton
Tom
State House
Money and weather shields and woes in a lecture and tale
Colonel Higginson argues wealth cannot buy all joys yet eases life by funding health comfort shelter and education. The piece contrasts rich and poor sick and healthy, then a humorous travelogue about tall men and the mockery they endure, ending with a satire on height and rights from the Burlington Hawkeye.
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Satan
Robinson Crusoe
Captain Riley
Jean Paul
Boston Traveler
Honeoye Falls
Colossus
Rhodes
Uranus
Burlington Hawkeye
Gravity questioned by Indiana professor in new theory
Prof. Joseph Tingley of Indiana Asbury University challenges Newtonian gravitation, proposing that matter is para-gravitant and dia-gravitant. He cites comet tails, sun induction, and possible unseen intra-mercurial bodies as supporting evidence for a non universal gravity law.
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Joseph Tingley
Indiana
Asbury University
Tingley
The Ox and Alligator Clash on Lake Jackson
A Florida incident describes an ox drinking at Lake Jackson attacked by five alligators. The beast fought back, tossing one attacker, but another clamped the ox’s nose and pulled it underwater, drowning the noble animal.
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Florida
Lake Jackson
Dr Sage and Pierce Remedies for Catarrh Cure
The article promotes Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy as effective when used with Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery. It emphasizes external applications irritate inflamed membranes, while a thorough internal alterative cures catarrh by cleansing the blood and healing tissues.
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Sage
Pierce
Amendment to Statutes on Public Laws Publication
Chapter 734 amends Section 4 of Chapter 19 to require the printing of six hundred copies of General Assembly proceedings after each session with an index. All conflicting acts are repealed and the act takes effect upon passage.
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United States
General Assembly
State House
Providence
Secretary of State
City of
General Statutes
Law on municipal liability for riot damage enacted in 1879
An 1879 act extends Chapter 229 to require towns pay three fourths of property loss or damage when six or more unlawfully riotous persons destroy or injure property valued at fifty dollars or more. Owners must attempt to prevent damage and secure offenders’ conviction. Towns may recover costs from responsible individuals. Provisions align with General Statutes sections on filings and claims.
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Deering
Baltimore
Washington
Wallack’s
Delmonico’s
Central Park
Philadelphia
West Point
Niagara
Portland
Mother
John
Deering Street
St. Cecilia
Annie
Hendelssohn
Heidelberg
China
Nancy Lee
Schumann
Massachusetts
Boston
Catherine Jenniss
General Assembly
Joshua M.addeman
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Bristol Phoenix
C. A. Greene
Phenix Building
Hope Street
Wekly
Dlass
Thia
Commonwealth
Flint & Cos
Emporia
Gov. Broad and Eddy Streets
Providence, E. 1
CastiLe
Europe
Spain
France
Marseilles
Rhode Island
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