Golden tidings lure Sir Richard Mortmain to a risky match
Rufus Crouch arrives with news of a rich heiress Violet Mowbray, whose seventy thousand pound fortune rests in a trust. Sir Richard Mortmain contemplates a scheme linking marriage to gain wealth, while both men plot next moves in Yorkshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mortmain
Australia
England
Brent Asperity
Rufus
Sir Richard
Searce
Rufua
Richard Mortmain
Crouch
Baglin
Ticharnt
Bowman
Lawyer Bowman
Somersetshire
Tk. Mortantin
Ddim
Bart
Toyama
Saleiar
Pierre
Sir Wehr
W'Fen
Richard Mortni
Sir R
Duns
Yorkshire
Beckdale
Canat
Woodburn Parish
Woodburn Parsonage
Richard
Violet
Violet Mowbray
Baronet
Gratis
RL Moremain
Tutus
Elbelston
Beekdale
Tutus Crouch
Monkey and Foxhound Race Tale and Clever Animals
A whimsical collection features a monkey who interferes to win a race against a foxhound, then a San Francisco rooster who drums up trade by roaming markets and delivering cards on his head. A Chicago boy recalls hogs scattering plums and a black and tan dog aiding a hen by turning soil for nestling food.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob
San Francisco
Deaser
Chicago
Indianapolis Sentinel
Don
A Magic Letter Turns Things To Surprises
A whimsical rantering piece touts the letter S as a serpent that can transform objects and words, promising marvels and cautioning readers to keep it away while reading. It humorously claims S can alter a tree to trees and a house to hoses, and even turn pain into Spain with the serpent’s aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hole Q
Spain
Plums Center Farm Meadow Tale
A farmer recalls a plum tree at the heart of a small meadow where hogs roamed and other fruit trees stood nearby. The fragment hints at a rural scene on a western Withess farm as the narrator reflects on family and harvests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Withess
Menadow
Alto
Thackeray Among Friends at Horace Mayhew’s Chambers
Thackeray visits Horace Mayhew in Regent Street and jokes about being an old fog, discusses current events with Mayhew and two young men, and remembers a past dinner debt meant for George. He and Douglas Jerrold, close at Punch, reportedly quarrel yet enjoy future meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thackery
Thackeray
Douglas Jerrold
Horaco Mayhew
Regent Street
Harry Mayhew
Mr. Mayhew
Punch
George
Mhor
Alwys
Anim
French Army Museum Founded in Paris by Minister Billot
Cen Billot the French Minister of War has established an Army Museum to be housed in the Hotel des Invalides in Paris. It will hold a historical collection of arms flags and pictures dating back to the sixteenth century, linked to France’s first regular army formation.
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Cen. Billot
Hotel Des Invaisses
Paris
France
Unclear fragments from Indianapolis Jovurant dialogue
The readable text shows a garbled exchange about quotations shirts and a Vel visits Kin. The source presents two men discussing sayings and affection in a distorted newspaper fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fiungry Higgins
Weary Watkins
Markite
Indianapolis
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Hyde Park
Sir Richard Mortmain
Borgia
Machiavelli
Mortimain Park
Queen Bess
Market Harborough
Newmarket
London
Hichard
Nan
Werthey
Richard Mortmnain
Harti Crouch
Roy
Cromch
Tosco
Riehwred Mortiniin
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