Pocahontas faces final choice beside Thorne in church
Pocahontas wanders into a quiet church where Thorne, wounded by love and duty, confronts her as a tearful farewell and pledge. Amid memories of Berkeley and her mother, Jim urges patience and support, while Thorne urges restraint and honor as their fates hinge on a stubborn scruple and enduring affection.
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Pocahontas
Pie
Trand
Thorne
Lavir
Hersel
Berkeley
Jim
Aemim
Nesbit Thorne
Allen Thorne
Mexico
Viremia
Stringers
Self
Dow
Berle
Berke
Berkeley Ad
Blanche
Lige
Mrs. Maron
Talend
Thorne and Jim Face Change After Virginia Plans
Chapter XXVI depicts Thorne not joining the Virginia party yet poised to follow for Blanche's wedding. Poeahontas desires the arrangement, Thorne endures inner change after the ordeal, while Jim stays in New York to resume work. Thorne’s transformation hints at growth and restrained happiness ahead.
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Thorne
Virginia
Blanche
Tiune
Poeahontas
Ipward
Jim
New York
Prince of Wales to focus on housing for the poor
The Prince of Wales plans to take up and deepen involvement in improving dwellings for the poor upon his return to London. He has chaired conferences and visited squalid areas, disguising himself to observe conditions and encourage reform. His efforts aim to better the lives of the city’s disadvantaged.
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Prince of Wales
London
Bist Gnd
Aileves
Western Mercury
Coins and gas talk in early Washington column
A Washington Letter notes bronze cents wear with constant loss of value due to handling and minting costs. It cites a Connecticut factory supplying blank coins for a dollar per thousand. A Buffalo inventor claims natural gas expansion can power a small engine and form ice. The Washington agricultural bureau studies bamboo uses in China. Bigelow links solar magnetic fields with earth’s motion to explain magnetism.
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United States
Uncle Sam
Connecticut
Washington
Lee Muide
Buffalo
Philadelphia Record
Agricultural Bureau
China
Frank TH. Bigelow
Notable Figures and rapid-fire biographical notes across realms
A miscellany highlights living statesmen and notables. General Sehenck stays quiet near Washington amid hints of restraint. Harlion of California runs the world’s largest apiary with six thousand hives yielding two hundred thousand pounds of honey. London’s new lord mayor David Evang is forty two, the youngest ever. Baron Hirsch’s wealth stems from railroad contracts. Naturalist G A Dunn counts seventy thousand horn insect sects, five thousand crickets, and four hundred butterflies. Depew praises Macaulay studies for lasting wit. Cardinal Lavigerie once a beau. Cardinal Howard wore a Life Guards commission. Perth’s archbishop once an Austrian hussar. Fenian James Stephens, seventy, still fiery though indicted for high treason. Sir James Ferguson, Crimea veteran, wounded at Inkerman, earned Crimea and Turkish bravery medals. Major William Dickey of Maine, nicknamed the Duke of Kent, at eighty remains active in politics and public life.
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London
David Evang
Baron Hirsch
G. A. Dunn
California
Chauncey M. Depew
Macaulay
Cardinal Lavigerie
Beau Andronr
Cardinal Howard
Life Guards
Perth
James Stephens
Dublin
James Ferguson
Inkerman
Crimea
William Dickey
Aroostook
Duke
Whispers About Women Highlight Daring Achievements
A potpourri of notable women’s feats and figures appears here. Baroness Rothschild’s gems, Mrs. Evangeline Wilson Carpenter donating her father’s photograph to workers, 3000 women physicians in the US with 500 in New York, Miss Blackwell’s pioneering medical entry, Sverdrup driving six horses in Gothenburg, Mme. Millet’s improved home, Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney’s long literary career, and Oklahoma’s Mrs. Beeson praising progressive femininity across occupations from farming to newspaper editing.
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Rothschild
Evangeline Wilson Carpenter
United States
Henry Wilson
Philadelphia
Gothenburg
Sweden
Sverdrup
Norway
Millet
Barbizon
Mme. Millet
A. D.T. Whitney
Oklahoma
Beeson
Langtry to Start American Engagement in New York
A collection of notes on late 19th century entertainment figures and curiosities. Lillie Langtry begins her American engagement in New York on January 25, 1892. Bertha Ricci, a singer, recently lost valuable property to a rich man whose daughter she once aided. Sarah Bernhardt’s pet is an opossum named St Casilda, a large St Bernard she bought in California with a humorous mispronounced name Oaklande. Henry Arthur Jones’s new play The Crusaders is deemed a failure by critics.
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Bertha Ricci
Sarah Bernhardt
New York
Mirror T Reports
Senart
Brooklyn
Wheatcroft
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American Presa Association
Cloe
Jan
Streetheart
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Shere
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Eyehange Place
New York Times
England
Scotland
Ireland
Irekuid
Engkind
New York Herald
Frauklen
America
Gambier
Arry
Haury
Hignoramus
Larry
Venice
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
Little Tom
Minneapolis
Treasury
Washington Monument
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Capitol
White House
Smise
New York Recorder
Marin County
San Rafael
Latehy" Baker
San Quentin
Folkom Prison
Baker
Anai Slaughter
Wny
Tfeelock
Enot
Argo
Riker
San Francisco
QoGrenn
Toman
Henry Clay
Mr. Clay
Billy
Clay
Ghent
New York Advertiser
Abbott
Museum of the
St. Louis Republic
W. W. Tunis & Bro, Lumber Company
Tunis Mills
MD. N
R. S. Fountain
W. W. Tunis & Bro
Solar Lin Golete
Bristol
Baltimore
Aia
Richard T. Carter
Denton. MD
C.T
C.B. MacKenzie
West Baltimore Street
de mM
Vagon
Dayton
Baltimore Coal Tar and Manufacturing Company
Rasnaa
W. Campen Srrrer
Baltimore, MD
F. Crew
Eit ‘L. Coulbourn
Crew & Coulbourn
Wholesale Commission
Sront St. Ett
Beck
Clark Circuit Court
Kent Co
Stevens Bros
S. Charles St
Dey & Kugler
Thompson Ave
N.Y
Produce National Bank
Chestnut St. Phila
JL. Medairy
Geulk. Medairy
J. H. Medairy »®& Co
North Howard Street
Marrylane
Dan’s Fo Bratty
Washington, N. J
Glen Bsos
Rochester
N. Y
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Western Union
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Ghais
General Sehenck
Sid
Mr. Harlion
Lillie Langtry
Argyle
Washington County
Indy
Arcola
Waterloo
Napoleon
Jewsparr
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