New Year Brings Healing After Post Office Robbery Plot
Hartley and Bessie Fowler avert an attempted Big Elm post office robbery led by Dave Mowley. Tom Hartley overhears the scheme, warns the postmaster, traps the culprits, and with the Fowler family ends a years-long feud. The midnight hour and a heroic rescue restore peace as authorities seize the robbers.
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Tom Hartley
Bessie
Winchester
Tom
Fowler
Tam
Bess
Tie
Dave Mowley
Indian Territory
Gray
Big Elm
Mowley
Gessie
Bessie Fowler
Tompson
Post Office
Mr. Gray
Big Erim
Big Flim
New Year's Promise Between Lovers Amid Prairie Peace
Bessie Fowler rides home with pack aces from a country store as Tom Hartley, her former suitor, returns from college and seeks reconciliation. Once close partners in cattle, their families clash over a buyout dispute that strained their friendship and threatens future hopes.
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Essie Fowler
Kansas
Bessie
Tom
Mr. Hartley
Miss Fowler
Big Elm
Vessie
Tom Hartley
Lessie
Ilinois
Fowler
Hartley
Od Tying
Robbie's Flat Christmas Pocketbook Causes Muffled Gifts
A domestic exchange reveals Robbie refusing a gift due to Papa’s tight finances as Christmas plans falter and New Year presents vanish. Siblings debate the idea of good behavior for a reward that won’t arrive.
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Robbie
Papa
Mamma
The Openings Year and Midnights Echoes of Farewell
A collage of verse and vignette on the turning of the year. Madeline S. Bridges speaks of companionship with the year as seasons turn. A midnight city bell tolls farewell to the old year and welcomes the infant year in a playful, comic aside about an absent minded professor.
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Wien
Madeline S. Bridges
Ladies’ Home Journal
Harrison on the Campaign in the Tate Election
The Chicago Inter Ocean argues Harrison failed to influence the Tate election due to personal affliction and political restraint. It cites his remarks on wage earners vs manufacturers, Homestead strike impacts, and warns protection hinges on mutual benefit and public sentiment in upcoming elections. It emphasizes wage-earner intelligence and calls for industrial harmony to restore relations.
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Tate
Harrison
Reid
Mr. Reid
Samson
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Protective Tariff Debate Reflects Prosperity and Policy
A lengthy summary of President Harrison's message praising the McKinley tariff and protective policy. It highlights rising capital, product value, wages, and employment, plus trade growth and bank deposits. It notes calls for a revenue-focused tariff and warns against higher duties to shield mills, with partisan views from the New York Mail and Express and Philadelphia Press.
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Harrison
American Congress
Engiieh Agriculturist
Manchester
Fall River
Treasury
United States
N. Y. Mail and Express
Impatient Democracy Presses for Constitutional Change
The St Louis Globe-Democrat argues impatient democracy should push constitutional reform rather than seek rapid cabinet shifts. It favors aligning presidential and congressional terms with the calendar, urging changes to start ballots and sessions promptly, while noting resistance and practical limits within the current constitution.
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Ommee
England
France
Congress
Senate
St Louis
Globe- Democrat
Democratic reform and tariff clashes across papers
A collection of editorial snatches from multiple dailies critiques reform, tariffs, and Cleveland era politics. It cites Iowa State Register on reform danger, Albany Journal on pensions, St. Paul Pioneer Press on President Harrison, St. Louis Globe-Democrat and Philadelphia Bulletin on party lines, plus humor pieces and satirical quips from various papers.
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Iowa State Register
Cleveland
Albany Journal
St. Paul Pioneer Press
CPP
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Republican Party
Philadelphia Bulletin
Dave Hill
Hill
Minneapolis Journal
Chauncey M. Depew
Democratic Party
Chicago Inter Ocean
Two Bright Little People From Rockville
A Washington Post excerpt recounts two small Rockville tales showing bright children and a mother’s early religious instruction. A toddler’s bugle of phrases turns playful when she tells her dog to "doe back" and a Sunday school scene prompts a quip about Adam and Eve.
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Tommy
Rockville
Montgomery County
Episcopal
Mr. Johns
Washington Post
Seedy figure buys pricey sealskin wrap in downtown store
A shabby man with worn clothes enters a large drygoods store and, after being mistaken for a porter, asks to see the finest sealskin wraps for his daughter. The scene, witnessed by shoppers, underscores how fine attire alone does not reveal wealth.
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Washington Star
Hoston Transcript
Perdita
Penelope
Detroit Free Press
Inter-Ocean
Mildred
Parison
Jeweler’s Weekly
Softpate
Sheldon
Tupper
Smythe
Boston
Somerville Journal
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Tyre
Margaret BE
Sangster
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Powler
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Mother
Tom Smartley
O. K
Gal
Old Fowler
Gray's
Old Tompson
Roam Charley
Charley
Hepley
Pete
Sle
Walter Sedwin
Gace
Pliegende
McKinley
Foster
Democratic House
Philadelphia
House of Representatives
House
Providence
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