Prisoner Tarrabee Courts Westward Bride in Letters
Tarrabee, imprisoned in Kings County Penitentiary, pens letters to a Missouri youth in Blue Mills promising a home in the West after his term. Miss Larrabee says the correspondence hints at romance amid confinement, likening it to a past unfledged marriage proposal from Connecticut.
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Run Tarrabee
Klyn
Kings County
Blue Mills
Jackson County
Missouri
Miss Larrabee
Connecticut
Tenzi
August Flower Promises Help in Health Recovery
Mrs. Sarah M. Black of Seneca Missouri credits August Flower with curing long standing ailments. She describes constant pains, yellow face, variable appetite, mucus in the mouth, bitter taste, short breath, palpitations, and sleepless nights improved after taking the remedy. G. Eex Sole Man from Woodbury New Jersey corroborates the claim.
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Sarah M. Black
Seneca
G. Eex Sole Man
Woodbury, N.J
Love Letters and the Charm of Sentimental Writing
A survey of love letter culture notes that some lovers write with disarming honesty while others avoid paper fearing risk and exaggeration. It covers Hawthorne’s wife and the private sacredness of letters, the ideal length, and the enduring value of marital correspondence as a bulwark of home.
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Hawthorne
Rose Elizabeth Cleveland
Farming Ditching Trial Improves New England Field Drainage
A thirty acre New England field faced wet soil and poor hay yields until a ditching method buried small stones in hollows and added earth to create drainage. The project started 1855 66, cost about 70, and by 1880 the ditches reportedly boosted crop ease and returns, with recommendations for similar farms.
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New England
National Stockman and Farmer
Middle States
Lady Frances Evelyn Brooke the Belle of Europe
Lady Frances Evelyn Brooke, wife of Lord Brooke, drawn into gossip as a beautiful European aristocrat linked to the Gordon-Cumming baccarat scandal. The piece notes her beauty, social reach, and suspected breach of royal secrecy in the episode, with details of her family, marriage, and notable encounters.
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Frances Evelyn Brooke
Europe
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Maynard
Lord Brooke
Earl of Warwick
Brooke
Alderney
Colchester
Prince of Wales
Marou Carmarthen
Duke of Leeds
Dunmore Lodge
Pea Brooke
Prince Gonthier
Schwarzig-Burloistadt
Gordon-Cumming
Lost Leon Frightens Guests In Railcroft Hotel Scene
A distraught woman in a morning gown and blonde hair seeks help after her poodle Leon vanishes in a Girard house hotel. Bellmen search corridors while clerks summon staff. the dog returns with a blue ribbon, and the drama ends with relief as the fear turns to reunion.
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Girard House
Leon
Levi
Ivront
Philadelpha Times
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