Albany Honeymooners at Capitol Inspire Cautionary Tale
A long, colorful account recalls visitors at Albany’s capitol during honeymoons and tours. Guides receive tips, with customs showing visitors from Saratoga Springs to California families leaving gifts. A rural voter scene near Governor Hill’s chamber is described, ending with political shifts and district ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
New York
Union
Capitol
Cy Wi
Benedicta
James
Saratoga Springs
California
Delaware County
Union Depot
Hudson River Valley
Isabella
Land
Executive Chamber
Governor Hill
First Episcopal Deaconess Created in America at St. George’s
Special correspondence from New York describes St. George’s Episcopal Church as opening all day and hosting Miss Julia Forneret as the first deaconess in America. Rev. M. Rainsford leads a humanitarian program with assistants Rev. Lindsay Parker and Rev. Henry Wil, while the church supports extensive missions and charity work in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
St. George's Episcopal Church
Stuyvesant Park
Acever
George
M. Rainsford
Julia Forneret
America
Episcopal Church
Miss Forneret
Universal Mission
St. George's Church
Misls Forneret
Rainaford
Lindsay Parker
Henry
Mr. Eden
Charles Reade
Eden
St. George’s
G. Bannis
Widow Loring’s War Lament Across Piney Woods
A wartime tale recalls widow Loring and her five sons from Eben to Little Dick. Four sons go to war, some return broken, Hamp and Riley story of hardship, and the lone survivor Little Dick faces a harsh fate as the war tears through their piney settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loring
Coc
Ebexeser
Eben
Mima
Mack
Riley
Hamp
Betty
Grand Bay
Return of Little Dick and the War's Toll
Aunt Mima walks miles to secure dried beef for Betty as the Civil War claims five sons. Dick, thought dead, returns home to a mountain family after years in captivity, while Mack and Betty survive on crutches and a fiddle. The tale closes with Christmas joy and a village memory of Stonewall Jackson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mima
Betty
Mack
Little Dick
Aunt 'Mima
Atlanty
Eben
Riley
Aunt Mima
Shenandoah Valley
Stonewall Jackson
Jes
Bey
Littl Dick
Loring, Jr
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Jah J. R. Nevo
Bketeh
Curcaco
Denis J. Swenie
Chicago
Niagara
Red Jacket
Swenie
Agai
Ewanie
Michigan
Market
London
Liverpool
Paris
D. J. Bwenie
Alli
Jeb'Stuart
Barrena
In the Gazette
W. T. Sinclair
Douglas County
Counties
Wyandotte, Leavenworth and
Jefferson
Lawrence
Tonganoxie
Tonganozie
Weitzenkorn
MO. A
Dailey
China
Béarry
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