The Scarlet Letter Opens Its Market Place Scene
In Boston's market place a pregnant hush falls on spectators as Hester Prynne, bearing the scarlet letter on her bosom and a child in her arms, is paraded toward public shame. The crowd debates punishment while the beadle leads the procession past the pillory scaffold.
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Prison Lane
Boston
New England
Hibbins
Elizabeth
Hester Prynne
Madam Hester
Mistress Prynne
Beache
Prynne
Meridian
Massachusetts
Hester Jane
Market Place
France
Mindi
Travelers on the Move and the winter migration pattern
The Washington Post notes a northward rise in aid requests at the central office of the Associated Charities. Applicants are recent city visitors seeking shoes and clothing, part of a yearly migration south for winter and back north at spring's start.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Charities
Washington Post
JAS. Locke & CO
A Warning on Flower Bed Use in Lawns
Samuel Parsons Jr warns against the indiscriminate use of formal flower beds on lawns. He cautions that bright red and yellow patches near houses can glare and spoil the overall scene. Beds may be placed close to the house but should be balanced with surrounding landscape and color.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Parsons, Jr
Scribner's
Hood's Sarsaparilla Powers Confidence and Health
The piece extols Hood's Sarsaparilla for its claimed medicinal strength, noting thousands of voluntary statements proving its efficacy and its role in restoring digestive peristalsis. It also calls Hood's pills a top family laxative. It adds market commentary on apples, stating U S exports to Europe fetch higher prices and European demand underscores American fruit quality.
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Hood
Europe
Prince Bismarck
United States
New York Evening Sun
Cubed Cough Cure Offered As Quick Relief
Advertisement touts Cubed Cough Cure as a one minute relief for coughing and sleep disruption, claims it is not a cure for consumption but relieves symptoms and prevents them. Bradshaw and Thoma sell the remedy with many testimonials promised.
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Bradshaw & Thoma
Shiloh
Hot Springs Skin Soap advertised as skin remedy
An ad touts a soap made from evapo rated Hot Springs waters claiming healing powers for skin ailments. It notes medical endorsement and sales by Bradshaw and Thomas, while predicting General Miles will command the U S Army in two years, a path unlike West Point graduates since Winfield Scott.
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Hot Springs
Arkansas
Mannufacturers
Bradshaw & Thoma
Nelson A. Miles
United States Army
Winfield Scott
West Point
Mother’s Friend praised by Louisiana wife before confinement
Dock Miles of Lincoln Parish, La reports his wife used only two bottles of Mother’s Friend and would not be without it despite costing hundreds of dollars. The product is sold by Geo. D. Clarke, druggist. Michigan Central adds new passenger cars between Buffalo and Chicago from Detroit shops, with plate glass windows, high backed seats, and gas lighting, described as comfortable as a palace car.
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Dock Miles
Lincoln Parish
Geo. D. Clarke
Michigan Central
Buffalo
Chicago
Detroit
New medical cures and curiosities in a bustling column
An assortment of patent medicines and curiosities dominates the page. Miles' Vills claims a speedy cure for biliousness and digestive troubles, while Bradfield's Female Regulator targets women's illnesses. English Spavin Liniment advertises horse blemish cures, and Shiloh's products promise relief from coughs and dyspepsia. Prominent figures like Rockefeller and Gould are noted in passing, alongside a note on precise chronographs.
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By Nathaniel Hawtiirne
Miles
Bradshaw & Thoma’ S
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Road
Bradfield
Lou Stewart
Illinois
Piano
D.G. Higley
Fairfield
Lowa
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Gould
Elliot S’. Shepard
L. R. Parton
Rockford, Ill
DeWitt
Andreas
N. S. Bright
Iou
Square
Iowa
H. W. Weikert, the Hustler
Southwest Corner Public Square
W. W. Lewis
East Side
Jefferson County
Sisson
Campbell
Harness
East Side Square
Fairfield, Lowa
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