Bessie McLean and Captain Fowler Face Hicks in North Carolina Tale
In a Southern plantation setting during the Civil War era, Bessie McLean confronts Lt. Hicks who pressures her father John McLean for cloth to equip a Confederate ranger unit. Captain Fowler mediates, urging caution and support for lawful action while warning against Hicks’s coercive methods. The next-day fallout leads to an increased contract and a public display of loyalty with a British flag over the factory.
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Bessie McLean
America
Bessie
England
Capt. Fowler
Maple Shoals
Tom
Miss Bessie
Mr. Hicks
Hicks
Rangers
Confederacy
John Hicks
Dar
Dinah
Papa
Fowler
Missy
Mr. McLean
Shase
McLean
Captain Fowler
Miss McLean
Sponsaderacy
Tain
Allington
A Cat's Moral Obliquity in Hartford Courant Tale
A Farmington avenue young lady recounts a cat with orange coat who defies dogly foes. Her tabby ally escorts a fox terrier yard chase, then attacks a neighbor's cat on a tree, only to be stopped before a canine celebration. The piece plays on cat wit and moral quirks.
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Hartford Courant
Farmington Avenue
Tabby
Sport
Marvelous Thunder of the Unseen Piano at Argonaut
The instrument produced unearthly sounds with thunderous opening chords like iron gates. A metallic, titanic piano voice followed by crystalline runs flooded the hall with bright, rapid notes. Storms of sound surged, the bass martial march grew bold, and the audience applauded as a great, wonderful thing unfolded.
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San Francisco
Freshwater Fable of the Crane and River Joke
A river and a crane trade quips about high water and swollen faces. The crane jokes about dam ages while the river boasts of rising water marks as the tale wends downstream with light satire.
Stylish pique coats for babies debut this summer
The fashionable infant will wear pique coats this summer in pink pale blue ecru and yellow. Designs feature deep sailor colors gauntlet cuffs of embroidery and the latest white pigne coats with grass linen embroidery on collars and cuffs.
Miscellaneous notes on coins and curiosities
Counterfeit dimes circulate in Oklahoma City while notes compare national populations. A street waterer in Calcutta earns six cents daily and Bessarabia leads vine acreage. A saloon on ice on St John river prompts talk of dynamite. A machine cuts eight cloth layers daily. Typhoid linked to Elmira water. asbestos towels intrigue. An Abigail originated with Abigail Masham. $775 hoard split after ten years. New fabrics for spring. A penny counting machine debuts at the U.S. mint for rapid totals.
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Oklahoma City
Mexico
Canada
Calcutta
Russia
Germany
Bessarabia
Prince Henry of Battenburg
Osborne
Battenburg
Argentine Republic
England
South America
Little Wallace
Fuller
Draper
Thurber
White House
Cincinnati
St. John River
St. Leonards
New Brunswick
van Buren
Elmira
N. Y
Abigail
Cincinnati Times-Star
Sub-Treasury
United States Mint
Hops Decline on Pacific Coast Due to Overproduction
Oregon and Washington hop growers face a sharp drop in production as overproduction keeps prices unprofitable and pests inflict losses. Many hop fields across both states have been plowed under, with more to follow this spring.
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Pacific Coast
Oregon
Washington
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Digestive Renewal
Advert says Hood's Sarsaparilla cures sour stomach waterbrush burning pain and dyspepsia by purifying blood and toning stomach and digestive organs. It claims to invigorate the liver create appetite improve sleep and raise health tone with a "magic touch" for chronic dyspepsia.
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Hood
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Ewoon
Paderewskits
Tafter
Peter Burry
Leominster
Mass
California Fig Syrup Co
W. L. Douglas
R. W.L. Douglas
Brockton
Red Wethersfield
THE
Huntington Seed CO
Indianapolis
Ind
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