The Orphan Lucy Pettigrew Christmas Miracle
A snowbound Christmas Eve in a city leads a barefoot girl Lucy to a glow from a toy shop. A rich stranger gifts five dollars and later meets Hetty Moss and Robert Pettigrew, revealing a family reunion and renewed hope as a basket of gifts arrives for Lucy and her mother.
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Lown
Lucy
New England
Hetty Moss
Deacon Moss
Lacey
Huey Pettigrew
Wave
Carpenter Street
Charley
Hetty
Ietty
America
Letty
Robert
Antietam
Miss Hetty
Miss Hetty Moss
Chance
Continental Hotel
Netty
Peterson's Magazine
Theimsidens Use Courts To Pressure, From Chicago
Chicago women allegedly wield court threats to control fiancés and suitors. A betrothed man faced breach of promise suits, timely notes, and demanded escorts. After resisting a Sunday school class, the woman reportedly had him arrested for disorderly conduct.
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Theimsidens
Chicago
Darling
Marion
Thornley
Tobacco use and state edict in Napoleon era schooling
Dr Willard Parker notes tobacco addicts recover slowly from fever. A 1862 Napoleon report linked paralysis and insanity rises to tobacco tax revenue. An inspection found nonusers stronger scholars with higher morals, prompting a ban in national schools and colleges.
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Willard Parker
Napoleon
Christian character as duty in public religion
A quotation from Bishop Huntington urges Christians to embody true religion in daily life and public acts. He warns against hypocrisy and calls for a high toned, scrupulous voice in religious institutions, stressing justice and mercy as essential to faith.
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Rowland Hill
Church
Justice and Mercy
Bishop Huntington
Obedience Rules for Chinese Women Across Life Stages
The article outlines three obediences for women in China. Before marriage a daughter should obey her parents. After marriage she must obey her husband. After his death she must obey the eldest son.
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China
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