Matrimony and convention change at Mills cottage
Matty Mills hides at the barn as four ministers stay with her mother for a convention. She adores Jim Beresford, a seminary student posing as a minister, and their secret meetings spark a clash about money and dreams. Eventually Matty chooses family duty over ambition. Beresford later returns and plans marriage, altering the household.
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Matty Mills
Martha
Mrs. Mills
Matty
Jim
Smythorn School
Westend
Mother
Walt
Aleop
Aunt Betsy
Mr. Belford
Betsy Billings
Marthe
Mr. Beresford
Miss Matty
Massachusetts
Marthy
Betsy
Mansfield
Raymond Cushing
Aminie
Ryny
Thad
Mattie
Jamex
Frost protection by smoke experiments at Paris garden
Report notes winter trials at the Jardin d Acclimation in Paris to ward off frost with artificial cloud formation. Fire columns produced black smoke believed by the inventor to condense into a dense stationary fog raising temperature by four or five degrees. A separate report mentions garnet bullets used by a native tribe on the Cassmere frontier against a British troop.
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Paris
Jardin d
France
New York Journal
Cassmere
Government Botanical Oddities and the Arbor Plant in Washington
A St Louis Republic report describes curious specimens at the Government Botanical Gardens in Washington. The barber plant supposedly prevents facial hair growth when applied to the face, while the cruel plant in the fly trap order uses intoxicating honey to lure insects and trap them before discarding their remains.
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Government Botanical Gardens
Washington
Davis
Government Gardeng
St. Louis Republic
Remarkable Japanese Timepiece Showcased in Frame
A three by five foot frame holds a noon landscape with blooming plum and cherry trees. A crystal cascade from a distant hill guides a thread of water around rocks and is tracked by a gold sun on a silver wire marking hours by a tortoise. A plumage bird sings hourly as mice scamper from a grotto to the garden.
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Japan
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Cleveland Real Estate Agency
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F.B. Sutton
A. H. Henderson
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Cleveland Hotel
Blue Ridge Mountains
Heal Estate Agents
Cleveland, GA
White
Henderson & Underwood
J. W. H. Underwood
Atty & Abstractor
Pat and
Tippytoe
Pittypat
Tippyton
Pittypat Komteimes
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Chicago News
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New York Sun
New Yorker No. 2
Alaska
McLean
Willard
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