Artist and lover confront elopement letter in Chicago tale
In a studio scene, Jean Chester rejects Hinsdale and declares engagement to John Steele. John crafts a polite resistance note to Hinsdale, while Aunt Maria confronts the couple about impending nuptials in a tense revelation.
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Maria
Jean
John the Baptist
His Funny Stories and Moral Expansion Speech
A humorous exchange from Harper’s Bazar contrasts a pedant Spotts with Hunker over verb forms. The piece shifts to a sermon urging the United States to fund schools and printing presses in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines, proposing a national drive to educate island populations and spread republican ideals.
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Harper's Bazar
Spotts
Hunker
Turner
A Splendid Opportunity for Christian Expansion Abroad
A broad call urges Christianized missions in Cuba Porto Rico and the Philippines arguing printing presses and schools will modernize heathen islands. It claims open doors for gospel work national growth and republican futures through religious education and moral reform anchored in the Bible. The speaker links naval presence to awakening interest and urges support from expansionists and anti expansionists alike.
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Louis Klopsch
Talmage
United States
Madrid
Washington
China
India
Ionaries
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippine
George Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Congress
Philippines
Senate
House of Representatives
Church
Ealf
Mexico
Cervera
Manila
Admiral Dewey
Hoes
Yonder
Capitol Hill
Havana
Santiago
Lisen
Church of God
Christ
Tlere
Iadia
New York
Sanitiago
Archipelasnes
Philippine Islands
Mount Sinai
Golgotha
Porto Rican
Kingdom of God
Vermont
Alabama
Massachusetts
South Carolina
Maine
Louisiana
Jesus
A. J. Canfield
Universalist
Chicago, IL
Ouida Sits to Write on Her Knee Without a Table
A fragment notes Ouida writes prose while seated on a low stool with an ink pot on the carpet. She uses her knee as a writing surface, indicating a tableless approach to composing her stories.
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Ouida
Many Hands and Nonsense Tidbits
A fragmented slice notes a pair of gloves changing hands from dresser to buyer amid common sense versus nonsense. It pairs wry aphorisms on knowledge and belief with images of the moon and a gas meter that cannot vote.
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