Neighbors by Fr Rexford a comin tea tattlin wild talk
A humorous dialect piece shows Betsy Jane and Miss Perkins gossiping about Miss Jones visiting for tea. Neighbors exchange sharp jabs on appearances, church talk, and rumors ranging from widows to new dresses and local scandals at a rural New England setting. The narrator notes Betsy Jane and Miss Perkins fueling the chatter while others weigh social costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betsy Jane
Miss Jones
Miss Perkins
Trapper's Wife Rescues Family From Hidden Indians
A frontier mother, while her hunter husband is away, tracks his captors to a forest camp. She frees him with a stealthy knife stroke, discovers their child alive in a sleep, and guides them home through perilous midnight woods toward a daybreak reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Far West
Liac
Las
Agiad
Frandstagerness
Ilere
Recovery and reunion inspire a grateful family tale
A fond mother embraces her recovered treasure and a grateful husband gazes on his beloved once more. Their story ends in hopeful faith as a larger family later fills their home with six healthy children and shared memories of a mother’s devotion and a father’s revived tale.
The Bequest of Water Versus Demon Drink
A Methodist preacher Paul Denton proclaims water as life’s beverage, contrasting it with liquor. He bids the crowd consider God brewed water as the pure drink of life, far from poisons and corruption. The crowd roars a firm negative to alcohol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paul Denton
Texas
Murmers
Heaven
An Interesting Operation Transfusion of Lamb Blood to Patient
A live lamb’s blood was transfused into Herman Dubois at Globe Street by Drs Julius Hoffman and Weyland of New York City. The one minute thirty three second procedure yielded about six ounces. Preparation took about a day. Post transfusion the patient felt back and chest pains with shortness of breath, then chills, then quiet by eleven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herman Ubors
Globe Street
Julius Hoffman
Weyland
New York City
Hoffman
Dubuis
Fail River Cor
The
Providence Journal
Notable Obituaries and Anecdotes From Across the World
A roundup notes Dr. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff late Boston mayor, Richelieu’s Paris tomb restoration, J Dickens in New York likely to settle in Ottawa, and rich New York estate taxes. It covers diverse items from Lehman and Rothschild families to a Paris marriage of a dwarf and giant, plus various deaths and notable happenings in 19th century society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel B. Shurtleff
Boston
Richelieu
Sorbonne
Paris
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FR. Rexford
Bill Smith
Ann
Perkins
Betsy
Mies Johnson
Mies Perkins
Squire Pittibone
Kath
Rine Snyder
Mises Perkins
Mariar Smith
Darter
Lilly
Migs Perkins
Peleg Brown
Hatch
Thomas Sweet
Tier Husban
Thomas
John Wait
Muldo Robinson
Miss Facpans
Betsey Jane
Mina Perkins
Scandalbones
Tom Shepherd's
Tyrateey
J. Dickens
New York
Ottawa
A. T Stewart
Fifth Avenue
Ilalevy
I. R. Howell
Fred
Douglass
Jewell
Post Office Department
Freedenthal
Warner Underwood
Bowling Green
Alphonse de Rothchild
A. E. Cook
Bellaire
Zanesville
Dean Alford
St. Martin’s Canterbury
New Jerusalem
Tom Thumb
Minnie Warren
C. F. Field
London Police
Dickens
London
Charles S. Bernard
New York Dramatic Fund Association
Caroline Richings
Arpin the Gunger
Joseph Vicarri
New York State Prison
Biancamaro
Emma Callender
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke Seminary
South Hadley
Mass
Vermont Medical Society
Montpelier
John Andre
Connecticut Historical Society
A L. Whitman
Groton
Con
Society
Hartford
Arnold
Historical Society
Montgomery
Newport
Wilmington
Chicago
Frankford
Sussex County
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