Aftermath of the Old Regime in a Southern Household
In 1800s Mississippi society, Mrs. Pennington recalls her vanished wealth and social standing while Hattie navigates love with Henry Wayland. A moonlit plea for marriage collides with fears of exclusion, as the family clings to memory, status, and fragile hope amid decay.
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Penningtons
Hattie
Sarah
Mrs. Pennington
Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Memphis
Mamma
Uncle Caesar
Mistiss
Wayland
Henry Wayland
Marseilles
Mrs. Pen
Nington
Cain's Conversion in Zion Church Fuses Song and Sermon
Cain Taylor, labeled the wickedest man in Obion county, attends Zion church where ortho doxy fears his fate. A soaring hymn and Brother Grimes in sermon push him toward conversion, ending with his public commitment before the crowd. He later faces jail for corn theft in Anson Evans report.
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Cain Taylor
Pusson
Obion County
Tennessee
Calin
Brother Grimes
Cain
Zion
Cain ‘Aylor
Moses
Pharaoh
Simeon
Lake Simeon
Anson Evans
Louisville Courier-Journal
Not Every Man Knows Carter's Cough Balsam
An advertisement touts Carter's Cough Balsam as effective for coughs and wise usage. It promotes two sizes priced at 25 and 50 cents and lists Carter & Sherburne drugstore on Merrimack and Bridge streets as the seller.
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Carter
Carter & Sherburne
Merrimack
Bridge Streets
To Let Room Tenement on Grove Street
Advertises a furnished heated room in an apartment house at 96 Grove Street with electric bells. Inquiries directed to 2 Wellington Square FB and to Pesler at 87 Kulot Street Jas.
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Wellington Square
Pesler
Kulot Street
Jas
Modern residence for sale at prime Middlesex street corner
Real Estate listing by Shepard & Fuller describes a well finished modern home with twelve rooms arranged for two tenements, cemented cellar, boiler, and ample lot near Middlesex street depot. Price reduced to 500 dollars, with almost 4000 feet of land, good neighborhood. rental potential may help cover cost with half the house rented.
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East Merrimack
Neomith
Chelmsford
Chelmsford Centre
Highlands
Lowell
Fish & VP Suummer
Central Street
Fish & Plummer
Willie Street
Cenwal Street
Heh & Plummer
Court House
Buick
Merrimack Square
Middlesex Street
Ray
Ighlinds
Tlouge
Westford Street
Higulinda
Pawtucketville
T. H. Lloerott
Pretty Luncheon Idea Lets Guests Wear Floral Fortunes
A maid circulated before the luncheon with a tray of assorted loose flowers. Each guest chose a blossom and wore or carried it to the table. A duplicate flower rested beside each plate with a fortune card. Reading the fortunes caused much merriment during the feast.
Swift Coined Sweetness and Light Before Arnold
The expression sweetness and light was not first used by Matthew Arnold. He borrowed it from Jonathan Swift who used the phrase in The Battle of the Books, establishing its earlier origin.
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Hattie
Colonel Lindsay
Sarah
Mamma
Emily
Mr. Wayland
Wayland
Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Dean Swift
Boston and Maine Trains Schedule Corrected June 27 1898
Corrected timetable lists numerous daily and Sunday departures from Middlesex Street Depot Lowell for Boston Lawrence Haverhill Salem Newburyport Amesbury Exeter Dover Rochester Somersworth Portland Augusta Lewiston Bangor St John N B Halifax etc. Includes seasonal steamer connections and notes about limited runs Saturdays and Sundays.
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Lowell
Boston
Lawrence
Haverhill
Salem and Lynn
Newburyport
Amesbury
Hampton
North Hampton
Portsmouth
York Beach
R. R
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Dover
Rochester
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Portland
Augusta
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Waterville
Lewiston
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Skowhegan
Rockland
St. John
Halifax
Montreal
Quebec
Eastport
Castine
Deer Isle
Sedgewick
Bar Harbor
Jonesport
Machiasport
Southern Division
Petercab
Street Depot
Woburn
Bedford
Salem
Ayer Junction
Amherst
Milford
Wilton
Greenfield
Peterboro
Benninaiey Hillthorpe
Keene
Nashua
Manchester
Concord
Nashu
Franklin
Lebanon
White River Junction
Warner
Bradford
Sunapee
Newsport
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Claremont Junction
St. Johnsbury
Lyndonville
Wells River
Montpelier
Essex
Burlington
St. Albans
St. Johns
Noe
Central Vermont
Montre
Sherbrooke
Lxpress
Dias Yea Andet&s
Gen. Pass
Tickte
H. C. Tat
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