Leah’s Hidden Grief and a Family Farewell
Leah endures a secret heartbreak as Sir Basil’s romance and a father’s letter threaten her future. The household prepares a change of scene to aid Hettie while Leah contemplates a final look at a home she will never inhabit again, amid political life calls and looming separation.
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Hettie
Leah
France
Roseflene
Tie
Joe
Sir Basil
Mentone
Rosedene
Ile
Sir Arthur Hatton
Sir Arthur
Glen
London
Basil
Boudoir
Desperate Boer Attack Prolongs Siege At Ladysmith
British and Boer forces suffer heavy losses in a seventeen hour assault. Reports place British casualties around twelve officers killed and scores wounded, with Boer losses between two and three thousand. Ladysmith remains besieged as Buller plans a future push and other theatres show limited gains amid ongoing stalemate.
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Ladysmith
Feial
London
Chitty
Poer
Sie
Southfrien
Lidysmith
Baller
Kimberley
Methuen
Modder
Mafeking
Bodhganahiwnd
Caper
French
Gatacre
Colesberg
Stermberg
White
Buller
Gens
Roberts
Kitchener
Tadysmith
Caesar's Camp
Wagon Hill
Wagon Tl
Golenso
Tugela
Plevna
South Africa
Cape Colony
Indiana News Snippets From Greeneburg To Peru
The report recounts varied Indiana items including Willard Hale 16 killed by a passenger train near Greeneburg, theft arrests in Muncie, Washington residents pushing municipal electric ownership, Freeman log accident death, Lafayette child death from choking, Upland curfew ordinance, Tell City hunting injury, Michigantown oldest native Hoosier claim, Jeffersonville Reformatory paroles, Matthews Land Company buying 100 acres and starting a twelve pot window glass factory, Peru vandalism at Lantz’s carriage shop, damaged private window panes, Stephen Rutherford located in St. Louis, Upland street contract and bank dispute, Wabash River salinity and salt boil claim, Gas City electric plant operation costs, Langton gun stocks order for Transvaal, Salem poisoning death from brandy, Loganport bread price war, and Big Four railroad demolition of limestone bluff for St Joseph Harbor.
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Greeneburg
Willard Hale
Kirtheen
Muncie
Washington
George McConnell
Freeman
Wiliam Photius
Lafayette
Matthews Land Company
Peru
John Lantz
Stephen Rutherford
Troy
St. Louis
Rutherford
Upland Town Council
J.C. Bidwell
Ile
Jotn Wilhelm
Upland Bank
Bidwell
Bank
J. C. Bidwell
Wabash
Gas City
Langton
Frankfort
Transvaal’ Goverment
New York
Salem
John WJ. Bash
Jasper Saliday
William Baker
Flora
Bringhurst
Baker
Logansport
Fort Wayne
Loransport Bakers
Big Four
St. Joseph Harbor
Mich
St. Joseph
Letter From My Dying Father Finds Its Way To Leah
Leah discovers a square envelope among her father’s papers marked for her after his death. She hopes a loving note will revive Hettie’s waning will to live and begs memory and association to spark activity. Leah recalls she arrived too late to comfort him as he died.
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Leah
Southwood
Hettie
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Sir Baail
Arley
Southweul
Brentwood
Martin Ray
Mettie
Baail
Lettie
Aurong
England
Nettie
Hlettie
Etranser
Sir Basil Carlton
Dene Abbey
Duke of
Trettie
Arthur Hatton
Satardaay
Indiana Stats News
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