The Love Letter and the Seed Corn Plot
Mary Bergamot faces her father’s opposition to love with a note from George Lake hidden in a bag of seed corn. The Squire discovers the letter, Polly Pepper's intervention fuels a comic pursuit, and Mary’s resolve to marry George intensifies as she plans to defy her father.
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Hawking Jessup
Squire Bergamot
Mary Bergamot
Papa
Mary
Squire
Hawkins Jessup
George Lake
Migs
Polly Pepper
George
George Washington Bergamot
Polly
Miss Pepper
Miss Polly
Grant burial plans unveiled for New York funeral
Remains of General Grant to lie in state at Albany capitol and New York City city hall before public obsequies and interment in Central Park. Details include state and army participation, a state style casket by Stein manufacturing, and a plan for a guard of honor with Mrs. Grant and family controlling funeral arrangements.
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General Grant
Central Park
New York City
Grace
Mt. McGregor
Saratoga
Albany
New York
Capitol
City Hall
Drexel
Stein Manufacturing Company
Rochester
N. Y
U.S. G
Chasing the Devil Fish and Harbor Misadventures
Tale recounts sea bat or devil fish seen off Tampa gulf coast with batlike shape and giant reach. A Swede crew once harpooned a sea bat, wrecking a skiff. the line parted, men swam or jumped clear as the fish felled a hull, then floated ashore eighteen feet across and about a ton in weight. Hull Times notes Perry county coal depression and outmigration shaping Corning’s decline.
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Tampa
Gulf Coast
Hull Times
Corning
Perry County
Ohio
Ohio Central
Buckingham
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Dren
PFT
Walter H. Buch
Lititz, Pa
Brandt & CO
Shultz
North Queen Street
Lancaster
A.R. Bomberger
Lititz
WM. H. Regennas
Tecan
Augusta
Maine
Lély
Bomberger
Aliso
Tobscco
Brooke
Eastern College
Meine
Mau
Popular Science Monthly
George Gould
Mr. Gould
Gould
Jay Gould
Earth
Grant
Charles Malley
Elis
Cramerl
Corbin
Jersey City
Ocean Grove
Christian Commission
Fred
Buck
Jessa
Nellie
George W. Childs
Philadelphia
Nellie Grant Sartoris
Fanny Kemble
Pierre Butler
Salt Lake City
Episcopal Church
Baptiste
Cornelius Maren
Mendelssohn
Claxton
City of
Philo
Virginia
Renigin
E. R. Donahoe
Eighth Presbyterian Church
Pittsburg
London
Pillsbury
Dorahoe
Pennsylvania Railroad
EuMo HotTel
Arch Street
Josep M. Freer
Owen P. Bricker
Hsq
East King Street
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