The Wedding Bonnet Mischief in Aunt Rhoda’s Wedding
Aunt Rhoda Hemenway plans a New Year marriage to Lake Potter. Hitty borrows the beloved wedding bonnet, a gray silk piece once worn by Aunt Rhoda, and a charity of luck turns sour when the bonnet catches fire. Hitty flees with the bonnet, seeking a gray feather from Miss Slack as a replacement while the family braces for the wedding’s outcome.
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Rhoda Hemenway
Lake Potter
Owith
Wassib
Rhoda
Rob
Jol
Bathshel
Far West
Ilinois
Featherston
John
Hemenway
Hitty
Aunt Itheda
Cousin John
Slack
Miss Slack
Wedding Bell Drama Ends in Betrothal Surprise
In a December snowbound scene, Titty escapes a hurried wedding bonnet mishap as Cousin John rescues her. A carriage chase ends when a horse bolted but steadied, revealing John’s proposal and a betrothal vow. Aunt Rhoda’s will looms, but the couple gain support from cousins and Uncle Abiel amid family scrutiny.
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Litty
Cousin John
Iook
Johin
John
Luke Potter
Ima
Rhoda
Ahiel
Aunt Rhoda
Cousin Witte
Cousin Johns
Klad
Aunt Matilda Smith
Hitty
Matilda
Ithoda
Cousin Johm
Amy
Fifteen Stars and Stripes History in Early U S Flag
The text notes the 15 stripe and 15 star flag era during Andrew Jackson and Winfield Scott’s era, with references to a proposed system of adding a star and stripe for each new state and a failed effort regarding the pace of growth, mentioning a Maine pine mast and a Chicago News citation. It also contains a separate quote on vanity and jealousy from Unele Esk.
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United States
Andrew Jackson
Winfield Scott
New York
Maine
Chicago News
Military Education in Germany and Other Notes
A survey of German military education notes nine schools in the empire with several in Prussia, entry ages 10 to 15, and examinations for officer commissioning. It mentions a Berlin War Academy for lieutenants and captains, plus artillery, riding, medicine, and veterinary training. Also observed is a remark on oculists in Union Square and insights on authorship and signatures for writers.
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Berlin
War Academy
San Francisco Chronicle
Union Square
New York World
Poor Studenta at Yale and the eating club scheme
The New Haven News outlines a Yale eating club where a student organizes eight to ten members to pool money for weekly board payments to a partner. Monitors earn a yearly stipend, college bell ringers are paid, and the college press sustains editors with varying annual sums.
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Buffalo question urged for Manitoba stock plan
A Manitoba buffalo stock idea gains support as a practical solution to conserve the species. A herd of about fifty in Manitoba, half- and three-quarter-blood hybrids, demonstrates hardy, winter-survival, with potential for domestic use and wool production.
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Winnipeg
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Januay
North West
Short sermons and famous youths in history
A collection of anecdotes about youths who become notable figures such as Gustavus Adolphus and Titian, underscoring that character is shaped in youth. It contrasts such moral tales with a critique of American nervousness, arguing Americans are not inherently fragile or overexcited.
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Gustavus Adolphus
Gen. Baner
Tirol
Titian
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Iver
Fiehte
United States
Popular Science News
Curious oil field flame warms ants in frozen field
A Oil City oil company worker reports a queer sight as gas burned at a well. The flame warmed a small circle of ground, waking black ants into lively, cricket like activity despite surrounding snow and frost. Some ants retreat from the warmth back into the cold.
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Tail cannibal hogs raise odd mystery in Needmore district
A Needmore school district farmer in Casarcreek township Greene county finds 44 hogs with short tails and one with a long tail. The lone tail hog allegedly chews others tails, becomes isolated. The tale appears in Ohio State Stock Journal. Also notes Chinese emperor bride gifts include 10 piebald horses, 200 pieces of cotton, 200 ounces gold, 12,000 ounces silver, 20 horses with trappings, 2 without. bride’s parents receive cavalrylike gifts per Harper's Bazaar.
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China
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Time and dogs and wood veneers in a windy era
A collage of brief quips and anecdotes from newspapers: a Buffalo woman loses track of night and day after a single lit window. dogs and their owners parade on Sundays. Rome’s youths walk canines in urban pride. a quip on literature and unwritten things. Alaska’s population breakdown by Governor Swineford. a meteorology note on climate ranges. Veneer wood supply shifts toward redwood from California forests as a substitute for traditional woods.
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Alaska
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New York Mail and Express
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