Widowed Keziah Faces Suitor In Farce From Trumet
In a village vignette Keziah Coffin plans to move to Boston after her brother’s death and rejects widower Ryan Pepper. Captain Elkanah Daniels then visits with a serious marriage proposal, while Keziah’s friends react with startled surprise as a fog-bound scene closes the scene.
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Keziah Coffin
Trumet
Boston
Ryan Pepper
Mr. Pepper
Keziah
Abishai
Lavinia
Marm
Grace
Cap
Elkanah
Elkanah Daniels
Keziah Unearths a Prowler at the Parsonage
In fogbound Trumet Mrs. Didama Rogers learns that a stranger arrives at the Regular parsonage seeking shelter after a coach mishap. Keziah Coffin and Grace Van Horne confront a still undressed guest who reveals he is the Regular minister.
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Halloa
Grace
Ryan
Cap’n Elkanah
Grace van Horne
Trumet
Keziah
Elkanah
Lurany Phelps
Parsons
China
Eben
Eben Hammond
Gracie
Sol
Miss van Horne
Bayport
Wellmouth
Pera
Moses and the Burning Bush Call to Higher Purpose
The meditation on Moses tending flocks in Midian and encountering God at the burning bush shows how humble service leads to spiritual elevation. Solitude reveals the sacred in the ordinary, and God speaks to those ready to receive the divine presence in all places.
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Israel
Moses
Heaven
God
Midian
Jehovah
Simon Peter
Land of
Resinol products touted in patient testimony
A St Louis reader recounts relief from a severe facial eruption after using Resinol Soap and Ointment. The letter claims rapid cure with no scarring and recommends purchasing by drugstore or mail order from a Baltimore Chemical Co. Advertisement emphasizes eczema ringworm sores burns and itching treated by Resinol line.
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St. Louis
Ernest le Pique, Jr
Dickson
Chemical Company
Baltimore
Ady
Professor Hears Intruder Under Bed After Meeting
A college professor deep in thought returns home from a science meeting and hears a noise from beneath his bed. The unseen intruder answers that no one is there, prompting the professor to remark that he thought he heard someone under the bed.
My gracious I wish I belonged to a family that swore
The story recalls a strict Presbyterian household where profanity is shunned. Little Ruth, angered by a doll’s conduct, cannot express herself and flings the doll while exclaiming her wish to belong to a family that swears.
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Ruth
Dolly
Usual One keeps pace with aote in Cooke circle
A fragment notes aote as the latest item in Cooke’s social circle, with a casual nod to Sekar described as her husband. The line hints at domestic connections and current trends.
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Aote
Cooke
Accounted For The Roasting Of A Raw Piece
A brief exchange notes the piece was very raw and warranted roasting. The quip frames a critical, candid response to the work.
Backache relief tied to Lydia E. Pinkham's remedy
Letter from Mrs Ollie Wooll of Morton's Gap Kentucky praising Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for backache and female disorders. She claims two years of pain and irregularity ended after use and invites others to seek confidential advice from Lynn.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Ollie Wooball
Gap
Kentucky
Pinkham
Lynn
Pines
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Ek Joseph C
Lincoln Cy Whittaker
Thustratione
Ellsworth Young
D.appleton & Company
Didama Rogers
Bunch
Captain Elkanah
Daniels
Mrs. Coffin
Coffin
Cisuk
Cannon Hill
Captain Mayo
Regular Society
Sandwich
Provincetown
Captain Daniels
Parson Langley
Washington
Stephen
Carter
Saas
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