The Scarlet Letter Synopsis: Early chapters summarized
A market scaffold scene in Boston shows Hester Prynne with her infant and the scarlet A. Dimmesdale urges her to reveal the lover, she refuses and is imprisoned. Chillingworth, Hester’s hidden husband, joins Dimmesdale as physician while Hester retires with her child. Authorities weigh seizing the child. Dimmesdale intercedes. Chillingworth becomes the minister’s physician.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hester Prynne
Boston
Arthur Dimmesdaule
Atranger
Roger Chillingworth
Hester
England
W—ilester
Arthur Dimmesdale
Dimmesdale
Little Pearl
Pearl
Isaac Johnson
Mr. Dimmesdale
The minister and the physician seek hidden sins amid graves
In a summer moment Dimmesdale debates sin and confession with Chillingworth while Pearl and Hester watch from the graveyard. The physician hints that heart trouble hides spiritual disease, and Dimmesdale’s temper flares before he retreats. The scene ends with Chillingworth's eerie ecstasy at a troubling discovery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Dimmesdale
Roger Chillingworth
Mr. Dimmesdale
Dimmesdale
Satan
Meerschaum Carving Requires Long Apprenticeship
The craft of meerschaum carving demands a three to ten year apprenticeship to master the art. Carved pieces start rough like plaster casts and are then scraped, filed, soaked, and finally polished to finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
First Woman Engineer Admitted to Michigan Civil Course
Miss Margaret C. Shaw niece of Rev. Anna H. Shaw and a Michigan student will enter the civil engineering course. Officials initially demurred since no woman had enrolled, but after deliberation granted permission. The class of 18 marks the first graduation of a woman engineer from the university.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret C. Shaw
Anna H. Shaw
Michigan University
University of Michigan
Hood’s Sarsaparilla Proven by Hundreds of Letters
The text claims Hood’s Sarsaparilla has extraordinary curative power after other remedies failed. It emphasizes a large number of letters praising marvelous cures and asserts the medicine’s unique merits compared with other medicines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Hood’s Pills and a Multi Purpose Spade Tool
Hood’s Pills cure constipation by restoring the peristaltic action of the alimentary canal and are advertised as the best family cathartic. A new tool combines a rifle butt spade and digging implement with a shovel blade and a threaded portion to screw into a hollow handle, usable as a spade or rifle pit-digging tool.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Left side sleep trouble tied to diseased heart says Miles
Metropolitan papers quote Dr. Franklin Miles, Indiana nervous and heart disease expert, claiming left side sleep problems stem from heart disease. He cites thousands of examined cases and promotes his New Heart Cure sold at Bradshaw & Tnoma. Mrs. Chas Benoy of Loveland, Colorado reports dramatic improvements. a free book on heart disease is offered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Miles
Indiana
Bradshaw & Tnoma’s
Chas
Benoy
Loveland
Colo
Mamie Works as Saleslady in New York Story
In New York, Mamie earns only meager wages as a saleslady. Her sister helps by working as a servant girl, providing limited support to keep soul and body together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamie
New York Press
Dullam’s German Medicine Praised by Flint Builder
A Flint Michigan contractor praises Dullam’s Great German Blood Liver Stomach and Kidney cure. He claims years of biliousness indigestion and loss of appetite and sleep disappeared after one bottle, endorsing the remedy for others. Sold by Geo D Clarke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dullam’s
German Medicine Co
Dullam
W. E. Russellil
Flint, Mich
Geo. D. Clarke
Floral display notes from a new neighbor
The New York Weekly records a humorous remark about a neighbor filling a bay window with geraniums. The exchange mocks geraniums as cheap and garish as viewed by Mrs. De Fashion and Little Miss De Fashion-Nurse.
Mother's Friend Endorsed By Montgomery Midwife
A veteran midwife testifies that Mother's Friend greatly eases child birth and relieves pain, calling it the best remedy for breast rising. The testimonial notes its value and mentions sale by Geo. D. Clarke in Montgomery Alabama.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Brewstrern
Montgomery
Ala
Geo. D. Clarke
Notable Remedies and Oddities Plastered in a 1900s Paper
An eclectic cache of advertisements and brief items featuring Hansen's Radical Cough Cure from Des Moines Iowa, Dr Miles' Wills liver remedy samples, Jumbo the elephant's famed bones and body weight, DeWitt's Sarsaparilla testimonials, Shiloh's cures for coughs, lamp slide varnish techniques, and pills from Clarke's pharmacy. Also noted are social politics around New York society and a quirk about mosquito anatomy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hansen
H. C. Hansen
East Locust St
Des Moines
Iowa
Also Mentioned on This Page
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Leech
Meerschaum
Fisherman
New York Evening Sun
Miles
Bradshaw & Thomas
Jumbo
Barnum
St. Thomas
Canada
L. R. Parton
Rockford, Lil
DeWitt
Shiloh
Bradshaw &Thoma
Bradshaw
Thoma
Clarke
Clarke’s
Wheeler & Wilson Mfg. CO
Wabash Ave
Chicago
Plydesdale
Glenogle
Legislator
Lord Lyon
Hercules
Rob Roy
Clenocle
Welcome
Bashaw Barn
Fairfield
Lowa
WH. Carmichael
Hugh Carmichael
U. 8
Patent Office
Washington
C.a.snow & CO
Washington, D. C
Coodban & Fulton
South Side
MAY & CO
St, Paul, Minn
Ohio Chemical Co
Sycamore St
Cincinnati
Adghaw & Thoraa
TAMAN
Chicago,Rock Island & Pacific
Joliet
Ottawa
Peoria
la Salle
Moline
Rock Island
Illinois
Davenport
Muscatine
Ottumwa
Oskaloosa
Winterset
Audubon
Harlan
Council Bluffs
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minnesota
Watertown
Sioux Falls
Dakota
Cameron
St. Joseph
Kansas City
Missouri
Omaha
Lincoln
Fairbury
Nelson
Nebraska
Atchison
Leavenworth
Denver
Colorado Springs
Pueblo
Topeka
Rocky Mountain
Salt Lake City
Ogden
San Francisco
Dock Island
Manitou
Pike's Peak
Colorado
Kansas
Indian Territory
Albert Lea
Lakes
Pacific Coast
United States
E. ST. John
John Sebastian
Gen
Tkt
Pass. Agt
Ill
South Dakota
So.ip
St. Louis
Minneapolis & St. Pau
Cedar Rapids
Spirit Lake Gy
Great
Joe
C. J. Ives
J. E. Hannegan
Pass
B. F. Black
Pittsburgh
Krause
Norman Lichty
Pamity Ouest
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