Time's Balm and the Wavering Heart
A narrator recalls wooing Marie with eager devotion and financial sacrifice only to be refused. He then meets a newer, lovelier girl, and the memory of Marie's rejection no longer weighs him down. The piece ends with the line of gratitude for not winning Marie.
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Marie
Maurie
The Robber’s Return Aboard Dakota Stage
In Dakota a stagecoach is halted by a robber who recognizes Col. Weston and his son Little Jim. Pelton confronts the colonel in a ridge camp and aims a pistol, but Weston renounces murder for the boy’s sake. Pelton trembles as Weston walks away, and the boy pleads for his father’s return while they head toward Cedar Gile.
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Dakota
Jim
Col. Weston
Pelton
Mr. Pelton
Muc
Little Jim
Jimmy
Rose Harper
Lin
Welton
Cedargile
Man Leads Son Toward Stage and Safety
A terse Butte Miner excerpt describes a man guiding his boy with a firm, wordless resolve as they move toward safety, signaling calm action in a tense moment. The incomplete text emphasizes leadership and protective intent without explicit details.
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Butte
Salvation Army Compared to 18th Century Black Preacher
The Brookyn Citizen posits that the Salvation Army mirrors an 1786 movement started by a Black preacher in John Street Church. It cites the New York Gazetteer notice of a gifted Black preacher and describes the later adoption of uniforms banners and warlike scriptural texts as a revival of that earlier idea.
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Gen. Booth
Salvation Army
John Street Methodist Church
Booth and Lady
New York Gazetter
Methodist Church
Old John Street
Ile
Booth
Lady Booth
Brooklyn
The Emperor of China Rules of Daily Life
The Emperor of China must follow strict etiquette rules. He wakes at 2 a.m. and eats fixed meals in pairs with a state physician overseeing food. He never turns a corner during drives, and if he shows a food preference it is removed.
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China
At the Seaside Heroic Girl and Lovers on the Veranda
A fragment notes a dramatic seaside incident earlier, with a man who helped rescue a boy and is now seen on the veranda proposing to the fainting girl while a friend recalls the moment. The source captures a melodramatic social scene and the engaged couple.
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New York Weekly
Compounds in China and Japan Use Walls for Protection
War dispatches describe the term doupound and its variant inclosure. In China and Japan it is common to build tall brick walls around factories, businesses, banks, and homes for defense and privacy.
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China
Japan
Muskwakis Tribe of Tama County Iowa Follows Primitive Customs
A long account details the Muskwakis, a four hundred strong group in Tama County Iowa, living in wigwams or wick-i-ups and keeping moccasins, breechcloths, and open fires. They resist conversion, preserve a treaty with the United States from 1816, and return to Iowa after brief relocations to Kansas. The community relies on pork and poultry meals, with few white-woman conveniences such as stoves, and shows strong attachment to tribal rites and the old way of life.
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Tama County
Iowa
United States
Indian Bureau
Seasts
Superintendent of Indian Schools
Estella Reel
Miss Heel
Charlie Greenshake
Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson
Great Lakes
Mississippi Valley
Ma-tau-e-qua
Matanequa
Iowa River
Kansas
Tania County
Johnson County
Lowa
Remarkable Law in Nebraska Licensing Sale of Liquors
The Nebraska Legislature enacted an unusual law to license and regulate the sale of malt and spirituous liquors. It threatened jail or costs for any justice who failed to render judgment under the act, mandating payment of the entire costs upon proof of violation of the third section.
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Nebraska
Sorry He Spoke
A brief dialog fragment from the Indianapolis Journal hints at tensions and threats involving a man and a woman, suggesting jealous rivals ready to exploit his death. The exchange implies a controlling relationship and potential danger if the man dies.
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Indianapolis Journal
Boy Faces Question On Last Time Hands Were Washed
Five minutes after leaving the wash basin a boy answers how recently he washed his hands explaining the moment he turned away and then speaking about the action in question form.
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