Marrying a Clerk The Mercantile Angel A Domestic Tale
Sophia initially scorns a merchant's clerk suitor for her sister Mary but Mary and Frederick Harlowe fall in love. The clerk proves prudent and devoted, winning Mary and a cottage life, while the Danvers family learns to value genuine affection over social rank. The Harlowe household grows with a large, industrious domestic staff and a thriving woolen and linen business.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chater I
Sophia Danvers
Mary Danvers
Sophia
Augustus Fitzherbert
Mary
Starlowe
Mr. Danvers
Harlowe
Palpabl
Poe
Finstock
Fitzherbert
Mr. Harlowe
Frederick Harlowe
Frederick
Albani
Danvers
Fitzyherbert
New Orleans
John Smike
New York
Sophy
Desperado Robbery At Auction Store Ends In Bloodshed
A thief in a dramatic raid at J.B. Blanche auction store on Charles Street caused a melee as patrons mobbed the desperado. A Spaniard attacked with a stilettos, shots were fired, bricks and paving stones flew, and Francis Monian was seized after a violent struggle. He was taken to the Second District police station in critical condition awaiting trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Crescent
J.B. Blanche
Charles Street
Dominique Bianchini
Francis Monian
Washington's Wealth and Mount Vernon Estate Riches
The 1800 book notes General Washington as a major landholder with a 1796 estate income of a thousand pounds. Mount Vernon extended to nine thousand acres, cultivating ten thousand bushels of corn and seven thousand of wheat annually, with lambs, flax seed, and potatoes among crops.
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Russel & West
Boston
Washington
Martha Washington
United States
Mount Vernon
Mother Home and Heaven in a Chilean festival
An observer recalls a Chilean festa where family faith and home influence mingle with ritual. A lifelike wax child figure atop a candle scaffold is revealed as a dead infant, shown to the mother who dances and resumes the celebration, illustrating belief that a child ascends to heaven.
Scotland’s women shearers wage dispute flares up
Among the strikes of the season is a dispute by female shearers in Scotland who declare they will not work for less than two shillings and sixpence a day and threaten to act if paid lower rates.
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Sophy
Fegee Islands
Soche Lan
Augustus Pets
Pitzberbert Ways
N. Orleans
Chance
Agua Ardienté
Rte
Chilij
Dia
Bertefors
Taur Garr
Scotland
Exempren Excerpt Shows Fragments From Printer’s Tale
A damaged OCR fragment presents a quirk filled line about printers and children. The readable bits suggest a note on a willingness to do something but lack clear context or full sentence structure.
Be always at leis are to do ge BOG
Be always at leis are to do ge BOG.
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the Mercantile Angel
Warren Ashton
Liv
Father
Sam
McA
Bird
Heaven
Mother
PAO
Arden
Turkey
Apis
Withltiine
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