Daisy and the lightning storm that spared a life
A Wisconsin farm tale follows Daisy as a thunderstorm strikes the Martin homestead. Daisy is hurt but survives when lightning strikes the barn, sparing her, while neighbors rally to repair the burned structure and support Farmer Martin. Her gratitude and faith deepen as Mrs Parker arrives and helps heal the rural community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Jane Greene
Daisy
Sadie Beach
Molly Parsons
Molly
Pitty Ky
Walter
Aunt Grace
Grandma
Heavenly Father
Smith
Jenny
Grandpa
Farmer Martin
Miller
Portland
Value or Books as a Mind Opening Companion
The passage argues that books serve as flexible companions always ready to assist. They offer access to able thinkers and persuasive speakers, unlike professors who may not. Books are secondary to an awakened mind, yet they trigger mental opening and guard us from our own biases.
The Living Age July 1874 issue features serials and poetry
The Living Age Volume offers Fast Friends and What Might Have Been Ex pected serials, reviews, and poetry. It includes Natural History pieces on the Zoological Gardens of London, a Pet Monkey translation, insect adventures, a snail life sketch, and musings on ants that farm and birds that lay streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
J. H. Woodbury
J. T. Trowbridge
Frank. R. Stockton
Zoological Gardens of
London
Jane G. Swisehelm
Willie
Far West
A. M. Diaz
New England
Charlotte Adam
Lizzie W. Caumpney
Recollections of Charles Sumner and Scribner's August
Scribner's Monthly August presents A B Johnson’s Recollections of Charles Sumner as the lead essay with Mr. Sumner’s longtime secretary authoring. Also Kate Field on Our Mutual Friend manuscript, Goodyear on Pisan architecture, Saxe epigrams, Stoddard on British authors, Reid portrait sketch, King’s Great South on Georgia, Old Time Music The Old State Road, continued novels The Mysterious Island Katherine Earle, poems by H H Mary E Bradley Nellie M Hutchinson, Cinnabar City by James T McKay, Holland on Sumner, Swing on wealth, The Old Cabinet With Malice toward none and Charity for all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scribner’s
Charles Sumner
A. B. Johnson
Sumner
Kate Field
William Henry Goodyear
Saxe
Martial
Stoddard
Whitelaw Reid
Mr. King
Cotton States
Georgia
B. F. Taylor
Sheppard
Katherine Earle
H. H
Mary E Bradley
Nellie M. Hutchinson
Cinnabar City
James T McKay
Dr. Holland
Swing
Glimpse of the Court of China and Reform in 1874
The Overland Monthly issue lists a variety of features including Glimpses of the Court of China, a tale from the Nevada Desert, notes on California and mining reports, reviews of foreign magazines, and numerous literary pieces. It catalogs authors such as Bishop Kip, John Muir, S. Weir Mitchell, and Emma Lazarus among others.
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China
Bishop Kip
Nevada Desert
R. H. Raymond
Iaa D. Coolbirth
Old Janet
M. W. Carpenter
Japan
Wm. M. Griffs
Colchis
Argos
J. D. B. Stillman
Sympathy
G,.h. Jessop
B. Taylor
T. J. Vivian
Sierra
No. V
John Muir
T. A. Harcourt
California
Harvard Club
John of Barneveld
Oregon
Sandwhich Islands
Rocky Mountains
Lirincorr
Paris
Marly
Rhine
Frankfort
Edward Serahan
China Seas
Fannie R. Feudge
Kate Hillard
William Black
Thule
Dante
Beatrice
Titus Munson Coan
Camp Oure
S. Weir Mitchell
Malcolm
Chaps
George Macdonald
Emma Lazarus
Sarah B. Wister
Lebanon
M. E. Beck
Carroll Owen
Coliseum
T. Adolphus Trollop
Mount Desert
John Arbuckle
India
Weekly Update of Serials and Poems From Periodicals
Every Saturday carries continuation of serials A Row in dune His Two Wives and Par from the Wedding Crowd with selections from Cornhill Temple Bar Good Words and other foreign periodicals From The Gentle man's Magazine comes The Wedding of Lobh Maclean by Robert Buchanan The Editorial Department of this weekly is always interesting.
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Dune
Cornhill Magazine
Temple Bat
Good Words
Gentleman’ S Magazine
Lobh Maclean
Robert Buchanan
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Atlantic
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Toledo
Toulouse
Joseph
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Wise
Greenhorn
Etroit Free Press
Virginia
Illinois
Illar
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Ayer
Uncle
de Norf
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Jting Corner
Teig Ding
Edito
The
Chicago Tribune
Ursioingly
Tribune
Grandpa Martin
Elizabeth Converse
Nicholas
Litzie
Quarterly Review
London Institution
Fraser’s Magazine
Mr. Ruskin
Leslie Stephens
Fraser
Cornhill
Macmillian
Blackwood
Valentine
Little & Gay
Scribner’s Monthly
the Overland Monthly
Peard’s Patent
Gitler
LAN
Baileyville
Ogle Co
Rowell & Co
Park Row
New York
John A. Wilson
Stephenson County
Court House
Freeport
M. W. Hollingsworth
J. D. Line
Anyoue
Fifth St
Cincinnati
Michigan
Brewster House
Freeport, Ill
Sanford, Rowell & Co
Farmer ’S
Farmer’s
Farmer's
George Thompson & Sons
Farmer’s Store
Freeport Woolen
B .Blanchard
GEO
Thompson
I. Sunderland, Gray, Blanchard Cassimeres
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M. M. Mayer
Ianois
Stephenson Street
Pennsylvania House
Lehman
Woodmanse
H. Woldmange
Freewort
Seth
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