Hamlin Brings News After Long Indian Campaign
Major Hamlin, a Confederate veteran now serving in Custer’s command, returns with dispatches from Cimarron and reveals the truth about Dupont and LeFevre. Sheridan vows to clear Hamlin’s name while Hamlin and Molly cling to their bond amid a winter trek toward Fort Ripley and Custer’s campaign.
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Gaskins
Hamlin
Fort Dodge
Molly
Dupont
Conners
Cimmaron
Wasson
Hughes
TeFevre
LeFevre
Levre
Hiamlin
Custer
Black Kettle
Sheridan
Elliott
Little Rock
Little Raven
Santanta
Fourth Texas Infantry
Fisher's Hill
Punished by a War Reporter on Return
A war correspondent recalls camp life with sharp jokes about missed meals, hot shot on the half shell, and pay docked upon landing. The editor scoffs and reassigned him to the Wall Street desk to curb his pun stock.
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Cimarron
Wall Street
Tortoise Sets Church A Fire At St Mark’s Denver
A tortoise caused a lamp to topple at St Mark’s church in Denver Colorado igniting a fire that was quickly averted. The incident followed a missionary convention and a large religious gathering drawing ecclesiastical figures into town. The animal’s behavior remains the sole unusual factor cited in this otherwise typical church fire scenario.
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Athens
St. Mark’s Church
Denver
Colo
What Puzzled Him Vaudeville Sketch on Politics
A vaudeville writer frets over too much material about the political scene. He notes abundant, sharp ideas but must decide what to exclude to fit his sketch. The dialogue highlights the era's noisy political theater and show business irony.
Steamer Memories and a Peach Luncheon Gather Friends
A hostess hosts an afternoon of steamer memories with eight guests sharing fifteen minute travel tales plus needlework and shipboard details. The event features a seaside porch setting with steamer chairs, a child as ship’s steward, travel literature, and plans for next year’s voyage party, followed by a salon of tea sandwiches and a peach luncheon on the lawn with a pink and yellow theme.
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Great Lakes
Buffalo
St.Louis
New Orleans
Moonlit corn roast gatherings captivate society hosts
The piece celebrates seasonal corn roasts as informal, fashionable gatherings. Guests enjoy bonfires, roasting ears, sweet potatoes, bacon, coffee, and sandwiches. Social atmosphere features hayracks, four-horse rides, and music with banjos and guitars.
A Bonnet Party For Twenty Young Guests
A young hostess hosts a bonnet making party for twenty children with hats created from tissue and crepe paper. Children aged eight to eleven design and wear hats during judging, prizes include dolly hats, and ice cream is served in straw hat-labeled bowls. Boys are excluded from the event.
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Dolly
Smart blouses and delicate lace styles praised
The satin blouse remains stylish in white with front buttons and bell sleeves. Embroidered pockets and color hints from silk handkerchiefs add charm. Valen ciennes lace and Irish lace produce filmy effects, with a narrow satin collar finishing looks. A chemisette of India lawn with high relief embroidery appeared in a major lingerie shop.
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Valenciennes
India Lawn
Demand for Blood as Path to Blessing in Atonement
The sermon argues that great achievements require shedding of blood and links this to Christian atonement. It asserts life’s cost, biblical witness, and the necessity of Christ’s blood in Gethsemane and Calvary, with Nicoll illustrating intense supplication and the ultimate sacrifice.
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Gethsemane
Christ
Calvary
Calix
W. Robertson Nicoll
Be Not Content and Seek Greater Purpose
A sermonette urges relentless ambition against complacency. It argues that every man is a child of God and should forever crave deeds larger than current life, thoughts, and actions to fulfill true calling.
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God
Phillips Brooks
Cultivate Memory’s Blessings, A Call to Quickening Memory
The passage urges all to quicken memory as life fades like yesterday into the past. Mercies resemble gathered flowers that fade, and even deliverances such as those from Egypt fade from recollection as time passes.
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Egypt
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Shultz
Shenandoah
Washita
Himmel
Pines
Eugene le Fevre
Kansas
Dodge
Molly McDonald Stoes
A.c.meclurg & CQ
Pet
Pastor
Lamp
Jesus Christ
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