Valentine Bruce and the tangled wedding plan
A melodramatic scene unfolds as Valentine Bruce teases Col Mordaunt and Frank Aldrich, while Jack wrestles jealousy and Kate consoles him. Valentine’s hints of love spark a reluctant confession, amid flowers, deceit, and looming engagement as a blue-eyed heiress navigates flirtations and social traps.
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Jack
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Ltordaunt
Valentine
Kacy
Miss Bruce
Mordaunt
Kate
Frank
Bruce
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American cartridges and the rise of copper alloy bullets
The article discusses early American cartridge use in Russia, the shift to American copper, and the import of brass ships. It covers cartridge forms the Sharps and Peabody Martini types, their powder charges, bullet weights, and long range sights. It notes Turkish and English experiences with large calibers and the evolution of Vernier sights for long-range shooting. The piece contrasts copper purity from Lake Superior with foreign brass, and highlights flight of ammunition quality through wartime tests.
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Russia
Russat
New York harbor
Staten Island
Lake Superior
Turky
Connecticut
United States
Vernier
Creedmoor
riteman
Learold in the Law
A mock legal examination from the Western Law Journal features a candor filled exchange where the examiner grills a candidate on duties and duties of a lawyer, exposing sharp wit and legal jargon in a brief sketch. The dialogue turns on fees, clients, costs, and shifting roles between plaintiff and defendant.
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Western Law Journal
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Amusing English Lesson and Early American Scenes
A comic scene shows a lawyer pressing a witness about a duty to invite for a drink, while a French learner misuses prepositions and phrases. The piece then shifts to a broad meditation on social ranks, marriages, and the move from wealth to poverty, followed by a hotel wager about Trinity Church’s fall and a humorous prayer meeting interruption. An Arkansas moment ends with a former slave’s quip about money and courtesy.
An Eloquent Passage by George T. Prentice
The passage questions earthly limits of human life and longing. It ponders why aspirations and lofty beauty evade human reach, and suggests a realm where beauty and loved ones endure beyond mortal bounds. The author muses on metaphysical hope and the elusive permanence of ideal forms.
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George T. Prentice
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A Gompat for a Bride in a Leap Year Fight
In a Little Rock area tale two suitors Abe Garland and Loui Doss fought over the same woman. After a fist fight the beaten man won her hand as the family watched, and the bride declared she would marry the whisked rival. Leap year superstition noted.
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Little Rock
Ark
Abe Garland
Loui Doss
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Abe
Tom
A Strange Story of Paris Love and Amputation
A Parisian tale recounts a surgeon seized at night by armed assailants and brought to a bedchamber where a wounded woman orders him to save her life. He eventually frees himself near home as a scandalous marriage and a former lover trigger jealousy and threats of brutal vengeance.
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Paris
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Pure Air and Health Myths in Early Public Warnings
A fragmentary piece argues that pure air is essential to blood and nerves, linking clean air to digestion and overall health. It warns against polluted air from painting and emphasizes ventilation for vitality, then briefly shifts to a lawyer’s padding and a jokey anecdote about a careless painter.
A Woman on Men in a Clothing Store Sketch
A humorous piece tracks a man wandering through clothing shops and trying on many coats. He strains clerks with false starts and finally buys the first overcoat he tried, then regrets it, planning to trade it for a coal-box bugey.
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hackman
Criticism of Newspapers and Quotable Bits
A ragbag of tongue in cheek observations on publishing and marriage motives. The piece riffs on critics who should publish their own paper, notes marriages for wealth or pedigree, and quips about a Chicago man alarming a ward. It mixes satirical lines with stray questions about census taking and a New York senate rent roll.
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Mo asepr
New York city
New York Senate
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