Mary Holmes finds a new home with Mrs Mason
Mary leaves the poorhouse for Rice Corner's Miss Mason cottage. Mrs Mason, a kind Boston-born widow, offers Mary a steady home with reading and care. Mary adapts, comforts Mrs Mason, and feels hopeful as she settles into a cheerful room, flowers, and a warm table.
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Mary
Jenny
Rice Corner
Mrs. Mason
Boston
Mr. Mason
Rose
Mia
Mason
J'n
England
Mr. Knight
Mrs. Parker
Rice Corners
Judith
Old Charlotte
Harry
Difficulties the Frenchman faced learning English
In a Sheffield Weekly News item a French student in an English lesson debates pronunciation with his teacher. The exchange parodies how words ending in ooghs and gh combinations are irregular, highlighting comical mispronunciations such as tough snuff cuff and plow vs plough.
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Enou
Sheffield Weekly News
Education and tabasco joke about child’s future plans
A brief cartoon caption features a parent asking if the child is prepared for college and the response jokes that the boy will begin next week and must take a daily drop of tabasco sauce. The snippet reflects humorous dialog without narrative detail.
Chicago's Big Case of Insurance Fraud and Murder Unfolds
In Judge Waley's Chicago court room, Dr August Unger Little plotter FL Wayland Brown and Frank H E Smiley face charges for conspiring to defraud life insurers. Prosecutors allege Unger planned a fake death for Miss Marie Defenbach, with a beneficiary scheme leading to murder. Defenbach, an LaPorte Indiana artist's model, died after a mysterious package arrived days earlier. Brown, Defenbach's alleged advanced husband, and Smiley are charged as co conspirators.
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FL Wayland Brown
August M. Unger
Frank HE. Smiley
Waley
Chidage
Marie Defenbach
Owo
Unger
Miss Defenbach
Patieles
Brown
Smiley
Ming Defenbach
Miss Defunbach
Miss Deffenbach
United Presbyterian Church Bars Masons and Odd Fellows
The United Presbyterian general assembly in Des Moines adopts a judiciary report interpreting the fifteenth article of the church testimony to bar Masons and Odd Fellows from membership. It states Grand Army of the Republic and labor unions are not affected. The Philadelphia assembly adjourns after naming a creed revision committee.
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United Presbyterian
Odd Fellows
General Assembly
United Presbyterian Church
Des Moines
Judiciary Committee
Masons and
Grand Army of the Republic
Presbyterian General Assembly
Philadelphia
Minton
Odell and Grey Sign Anti Scalping Bill in New York
Grey and Odell signed the anti scalping bill in New York as part of state actions. Small Ohio potteries unite against larger rivals amid labor reshaping sectors. Callaway to lead locomotive trust at a salary of $0,000 per year. Riley Lowe sentenced to death for poisoning stepson in Livingston Tennessee. A Chicago burglar at church service says he has religion. Mrs Nation pleads insanity to justify Kansas temperance crusade. Officials doubt a foreign trade bloc harms US. James R Garfield, son of ex president, gains admission to practice before the Supreme Court.
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Grey
Odell
New York
Ohio
Callaway
Locomotive Trust
Livingston
Tenn
Riley Lowe
Chicago
Nation
Kansas
United States
James R. Garfield
United States Supreme Court
Hoosier Happenings Include Suicides and Drownings
Local items report multiple fatalities and accidents across Indiana. Garner Bryant dies by suicide at Converse amid family troubles. Miles Williamson and Earl Sayers drown after overboard accident on the Ohio River near Lawrenceburg. William Wishard dies after a fall in Elwood while chasing pigeons.
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Converse
Garner Bryant
Cook
Monon
Bedford
Lawrenceburg
Miles Williamson
Earl Sayers
Ohio River
William Wishard
Elwood
Summitville
Montezuma
O. J. Brown
Borghirs
Loogoolee
F. W. Evans
Ora Eno
Graysville
Merom College
C. B. Eno
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Mary J. Holmes
Sin
Tenny
Lincoln
Root
Branch
Southbridge
Miss Mason
Miss Grundy
Sally
Mars
Peter
Billy
Allie
Old England
BAR Secret Order
Hoosier
John W. Kennedy
Togansport
Wiliam Smith
Union City
Fred Bays
Sullivan
Ile
John S. Bays
Union Labor Journal
Frank Yeoman
Rensselaer
Tie
Liberty
Henry Oberson
Indianapolis
Maude
William
Will S. Stitt
Wabash
Macy
Blatchley
Transom
Frankton
Sherman
Mr. Slangon
John A. Marlin
Murlin
Tanson
Isaac Loudenback
Knightstown
Loudenback
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