Love and Deceit in Jarvis Manor
In Jarvis a wealthy Samuel Hunt scorns Mary heiress, while Captain Grant Alburn loves a maid Belle. A plotted murder at the river is foiled by Belle, a river chase saves Grant, revealing Belle as Mary’s half sister. War ends, truth surfaces, and Mary flees as Grant and Belle wed.
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Fugar Slipp
Jarvis
Samuel Hunt
Sam‘ Hunt
Sam
Mary
Alburnias
Mary Slunt
Grant Alburn
Ao Company of Volunteere
Lincoln
Grant
Jarvis Volunteers
Tunt
Jervis
Hunt
Belle
Peter
Pho Hassy
Pete
Janey
Ming
The Chinaman as a Railroad Builder
A San Francisco Phonograph excerpt extols Chinese labor on the Central Pacific Railroad. It cites superior alignment, endurance, and skill of Chinese crews, noting their crucial role and potential for future rail projects while defending their capabilities against white workers.
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San Frantisco Phos
Pacific
John Chinaman
Central Pacific Railroad
Sierras
Central Pacific Company
Central Railroad
Trishmen
Central Company
Union Pacific Road
Pacific Railroad
California
California and Oregon
Pacific Slope
Noble Revenge and a Lawyer's Mercy
A grim scene unfolds as a poor boy at his mother’s coffin pleads for one minute more. A stranger lawyer steps forward, recalling twenty years of grievance, and saves the man who wronged him, delivering a masterful, humane revenge. The tale contrasts poverty, charity, and a pivotal act of justice with lasting moral impact. Then a domestic-education column argues girls should learn housewifery to aid families, teaching practical skills, self-reliance, and refinement, with anecdotes of a girl baking bread weekly and mothers guiding daughters in household duties.
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Teannol
Etranger
Wood
Yeu
Grant encounter and Mark Twain anecdote from war era
A Bangor Jeffersonian recounts a traveler determined to see General Grant at the War Office. After four hours, Grant meets him, warmly offers tea, then the man departs. The piece also retells Mark Twain’s VC dinner moment in Vicksburg and a telling exchange about Yankee origins and loyalty during the Civil War.
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Bangor
Washington
Movida
General Grant
War Office
Ant
Ming
Oleat
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