A Debt Repaid and Love Found in Vicksburg Echoes
Walter Holmsby, ruined by partner Gordon Bates, seeks restitution and revenge. In rural New England he helps Bates’s daughter Violet, learns of Bates’s dying innocence, and clears his name. Bates dies with Walter forgiving him, and six months later Walter marries Violet.
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Walter Helmsbey
Vicksburg
Gordon Bates
New Orleans
Mr. Grabai
Meall
Holmsby & Son
Greenword
Holmsby & Bates
Batea
Walter
Graham
Europe
Mr. Graham
Walter Helmsby
New York
New England
Pana
Sam Violet
Violet
F’ather
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New York News
Good Temper in Travel Enjoyed by Harper's Bazaar
A Harper's Bazaar essay extols good temper as the chief travel requisite. It urges patience with delays, acceptance of others' wishes at windows, and calmness amid heat, seasickness, and rough trains, noting the disciplined traveler gains enduring memory and advantage over the irritable.
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Harper’s Bazar
The cheerful giggler sermon text amusing child
A small child returns from church in a cheerful mood proclaiming the preacher's text was “The Lord loveth the cheerful giggler.” The humorous remark shows the child’s humor and simple churchyard insight.
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Small Madeline
Madeline
Mamma
AIDS TO HOUSEKEEPING A Modern Comfort Era Note
The piece praises midcentury household tech and conveniences from Harper's Bazar. It extols ready cooked grains soups canned fruits and vegetables and jellies and praises gas stoves and oil or spirit cookery that reduce odors. It notes improved life for southern housekeepers and calls the gas and oil cookery a major scientific comfort advance.
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Harper's Bazar
An Interesting Wedding Theme and Prehistoric Drillings
An essay contrasts brides and wedding guests with Heatrice and Bienedick, noting humor in wedding mishaps while Beatrice and Petrie unveil ancient drilling tools. Petrie, after two years’ study in a Gizeh tomb, argues that 4000 year old tools used jeweled edges and similar modern techniques for pyramid construction.
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Gizeh
Wilhelm M. Flinders Petrie
Ancient diamond drill work puzzles Great Divide readers
The article describes granite cores cut by tubular drills showing uniform depths and even removal of material through soft sand stone to granite. Observers infer jeweled settings on the drill, with pressures around two tons per revolution, and speculate on tool materials possibly not diamond, suggesting curundum as a likely abrasive in Great Divide.
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Zie
Moderna
Why It Didn't Run Clock Tale in Scrubtown
In Scrubtown a tinker named Jubal Pitcher recounts a story of a wall clock owned by Mrs Wallace. He explains how, after windings were stuck, he reset the mechanism by removing packed weights and resealing the clock, declaring it ready to run again and free of further trouble.
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Jubal Pitcher
Herry
Wallace Folka
Boston
Household Peace Through Tact and Restraint
A mid 19th century reader urges couples to curb criticism and unnecessary corrections at home. He argues that excessive questioning and fault finding provoke quarrels and advises keeping quiet about minor faults, avoiding apologies, and practicing gentle courteous behavior to maintain harmony. The piece emphasizes liberty of action and discretion to prevent petty disputes.
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Mammu
Jenny
Jane
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