One Month to Live Christine Dent Embraces Life
Christine Dent, heir to a fortune, learns she has about a month to live. She abandons vanity to care for the poor, joins a charity sisterhood, and finds happiness in selfless acts. Her bond with Dartley deepens as she faces death with grace, changing her view of life and love.
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Saper
Dart
Daddey
Christine
Thusa
Rhoda
Christie
Lisette
Dorcas
Miss Dent
St. Agnes
Dartley
Christine Dent
Jesus Christ
Happ
Dr. Mercury
Emerson
The Great Trans Atlantic Balloon Voyage Details
The Graphic reports full specifications for a dual balloon voyage. It describes the large balloon at 818 feet circumference and 100 feet diameter, with a 160 feet crown to keel height, 4,316 yards of cloth, and a 600,000 cubic feet gas capacity inflated to 400,000. It covers construction, netting, ropes, the octagonal car, ballast, a life-boat with provisions for thirty days, and instruments. A smaller 40 foot by 84 foot balloon tests upper currents and supports the larger craft.
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Yotkraphic
Donaldson
Eldridge, Durham & Co
Broadway
Manchester
Fourteenth Street
Moonlit Lovers Promise Beyond War
Two lovers meet in a moonlit glade as one seeks a glorious deed abroad. She pleads for him to stay in happiness, while he vows to return and wed, planning a secret union if he survives the journey. The scene blends romance with pursuit of distant honor.
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Plasure
Grand Excursion Quincy to Denver on Reduced Fare
Hannibal and St. Joseph Short Line offers round trip tickets from Quincy to Denver good for three months. Three daily trains with Pullman palace sleeping cars and new day coaches provide safety and speed. For rates and schedules contact General Ticket Agent H & St. Jo. Hannibal, Missouri.
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Hannibal & St. Joseph Short Line
Quincy
Denver
HE. A. Parker
H & St
Jo, R. R
Hannibal, Mo
Military Prison at Rock Island Planned by Congress
Congress authorized a military prison at Rock Island Illinois for confining and reforming army offenders but no funding was provided. Secretary of War appointed three officers to inspect sites and draft plans to begin once appropriations pass, and to study other prisons this summer for practical guidance.
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Army
N. A. Miles
Fifth Infantry
Thomas A. Barr
George B. Anderson
Fifth Artillery
Congress
Hungarian Countess Favors Poor American and Marries Him
A Rome letter notes Paul Starns, former clerk at the Alabama Reconstruction Convention, in Europe. In Naples he befriended Iscippi Geza, Count of Temes, and visited Hungary's Radowit Castle. Paula Geza, Geza's daughter, initially refused Captain Esterhazy, then declared she would marry Paul Starns, prompting intrigue among noble guests.
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Rome
Paul Starns
Bama
Europe
Iscippi Geza
H Rian
Naples
Geza
Teme
Ace
Hungary
Tem
Radowit
Paula
Prince Ester of
Moravia
Prince
Prince Ester
Count Gersbeen
Slo
Count Geza
Est
Esterhazy
Paul Starng
Italy
Hvome
Chas. H. Taylor
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H. M. Sevtral
Guardian
Charles
Lamb
Errele
Wike
Prince of Wales
Lord Chesterfield
Danbury
BrookBeld
Omant
Minnesota
Stenntinental Dam
Triste
Pine Street
Newie
Dan
Tyndall
D.bury
Main Street
Nelson Street
Ava
Hamily Gite
The
Freeport Journal
Sylvan Onids
Robert Star
Annie Rune
A.B. K
Colorado
Paul
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