For the Will Murder Plot At Wintock Park
Arabella Anderson and Meredith Weston plot to murder Mrs. Wintock to gain her fortune. The scheme fails as the lovers are arrested after a staged drowning, Meredith kills himself, and Arabella is sent to a penal settlement for life. The tale closes with a caution on crime.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meredith Weston
Arabella
Meredith
Arabella Anderson
Fortune
Miles Wintock
Wintock Park
Monmouthshire
Miss Anderson
The Appeal Advertising Rates and Policies
The Appeal lists payment rules and rates for notices and ads. It notes no delivery without cash, fixed rates for a one square notice, and 25 percent surcharge for unpaid ads after expiration. It also charges 5 dollars for political candidate announcements and treats obituary notices over five lines as standard ads.
Willie and the Pocket Treasure
A five year old named Willie bursts in with a claim of having a pocket as a wondrous treasure. The pocket fills with leather marbles string licorice stones and pennies and even a borrowed knife and a lost closet key. The pocket becomes a living trove emptied only when Willie sleeps and the rattle of treasures proves endless.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie
Johnny
Buying a Bride Described as county duel ends in marriage
A humorous tale from the region recounts two young men from Freeborn and Steele counties courting a single woman. After bids up to 160 dollars, the groom wins the bride with a note endorsed by the bride’s father, and the couple plan to resist payment claiming no value received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Lea
Steele County
Freeborn County
Freeborn
Voudou Ceremony at Lake End In A Night Of Revelry
Reporters describe a St John’s Eve gathering by Lake Pontchartrain where a Voudou dance was held in a house over the water. Spectators paid to watch a ritual led by a dominant queen figure as a bewitched participant drank from a bottle and a snake was produced and disposed of as dawn broke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Picayune
Bayou St. John Shell Road
Lake Pontchartrain
Heathenness
Definition of Loveliness and Good Character
An essay on beauty beyond appearances, urging kindness, amiable conduct, and mind cultivation as true charm. It argues character outshines facial features and dress, offering guidance to girls on being liked and loved through kindness, cheerfulness, and restraint.
Maiden seeks a husband under an oak with an owl
A maiden long past youth prays under an oak for a husband. The ancient bird hoots as she implores divine aid, asking who may wed her. The owl’s quavering response sounds like a sign that any suitor will do, in a rustic moral verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arabella
Rules for boys at home and effects of a lightning flash
The passage lists behavioral duties for boys, urging respect for mothers and sisters, honesty, thrift, and gentleness at home, along with a warning against smoking and drinking. It then explains lightning duration as a mere sixtieth of a second, based on Wheatstone experiments, and notes women in New England taking up church collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheatstone
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indian Service
Gazette Medical France
FEF
Biews
Ics
Jack
Kate
ST. John’s Eve
Scientific American
Connecticut
Down East
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