The Craik Family and Willard Spence’s Love Trial
Captain Craik, heir to a vast old family fortune, clashes with his grandson Willard Spence over ancestry prestige. Willard wins consent to marry Miss Stiles after a discovered family tree exposes shared bloodlines, softening the captain’s pride as love and lineage converge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craiks
Craik
Jie
Willard Spence
Captain Craik
Willard
Stiles
John Stiles
Mary
Stile
Eanpowder
Blackstone
Baker
Miss Stiles
Mr. Stiles
Gig
Roan
French duel ends quickly as pride conquers blood spill
Report of a chamber of deputies duel in France where one fighter was nosebleed as they met. A seconds cried blood, declaring the honor satisfied, and the two parties and their seconds solemnly left the field with little fighting.
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Chamber of Deputies
The Dresser and the Actress Tells of Long-Lost Love
In a backstage vignette Fabree recalls his first passion for a Gobelins theater ingénue, Sophie Cherubin jokes with him as the troupe prepares for a benefit. An old dresser, Constance, reveals herself as Blanche Lilas, once a famed actress now aged and destitute, seeking hospital help while Fabree vows to assist.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odeon
Depit Amomeux
Sophie Cherubin
Marinette
Fabree
Constance
Monsieur
Madame
Panama
Gaite
Sophie
Nouveaute
Fabrec
Rue de Richelieu
Socretaire
Naif
Mile
Blanche Silas
Gobelins
Montparnasse
Grenelle
Rue Cujas
Blanche Lilas
Paris
Montparnnasse
Comedienne
Monsieurs
Cherubin
Voila
Constance Poireau
Society of Artists
Francois Coppee
Cleveland and the Worms on the Hook
Grover Cleveland encountered a little girl fisher who refused to bait her hook saying worms wiggle and won’t stay still. He offered to bait it for her and joked that she could have the fish if she caught one. The quip echoes a prior Poe encounter with similar baiting antics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
Charlie
Alice
Little Chronicle
Grover Cleveland
Mr. Cleveland
Poe
Father tricks boy with counterfeit half dollar
A well dressed man boards a car with a six year old. When fares are collected the man hands the boy a half dollar, which the boy inspects and returns to the conductor. The boy then proclaims that his father has taken a bad half dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City Independent
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Swinney’s Department Store
West Denton
Justin
the Bridge
AVAL
Ocents
GUNS
Huntinese
Smaith
LAW Building
Dentom, MD
Consumer
Delaware- Marshland
Peniant
Conwell & Company
Milton, Delaware
Box
The
Hughes Lumber and Coal Co
Denton
Maryland
Ikl
Qur
Sohmer, Stultz & Bauer
Davenport & Tracy
Gd. P. Caulfield & CO
North Howard Street
Baltimore, Maryland
Baltimore
Best Store
Howard and
Lexington Streets
Hochschild, Kohn & CO
Elsie
McCall Pazar
J. Harry Rose
Likes
Berwanger& CO
Lexington
Furnishers
Likes, Berwanger & Co
Clothiers
America
Sauinge
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