Peter Perkins Dream and Charity at Christmas
A miserly shopkeeper Peter Perkins faces a Christmas waking dream shows a vast hall of gifts weighed by motive. He learns true charity weighs the heart, not worn goods, and awakens determined to share with Mark and the poor. He reconciles with family, expands giving, and finds renewed faith and community.
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Peter Petkina
Peter Perking
Peter Perkins
Sarry
Lfe
Perdition
Mark
Pryer
Perkins
Wancock
Hig
Tie Wild Turkey in Daring Cross Bow Tale
Maurice Thompson recounts a vivid hunting essay from New York World describing cross bow stalking of wild turkeys at dawn. He details blind setup, turkey calls, patient approach, and a dramatic shot that ends a gobbler's life, then argues cruelty depends on perspective while recalling many turkeys shot with various weapons. The piece shifts to a Florida-set vignette on discomforts of outdoor life, fleas and red bugs in pine woods, by a New York Tribune correspondent.
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Shawn
USA
Maurice ‘Shormpson
New York
Ib Batbow
Woman in Journalism and Progressive Observation Games
A Cosmpolitan piece laments women writers underpaid by 1880 standards and quotes Boston editors while detailing a social game called Progressive Observation. The article also covers a scrapbook trend, travel scrapbooks, and foreign foliage albums as fashionable pastimes.
The Chinese Witness Oath in Ah Chnek Case
A Justice of the Peace and jury hear Ah Chnek on the gelling lottery tickets charge. The oath for the Chinese witness invokes Chinese gods and foreigners' girl, with a severed chicken head shown as a grim threat, illustrating xenophobic fear during Ban Francine Cay proceedings.
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Ah Chnek
Justice of the Peace
Orden
Heaven
Earth
Lomalier
China
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Emily
Dom
Snciety
Ahal Thia
Christostine
Mary Warner
Orine
Ee Peter Perkins
Howe
Boyd
Abe
Maufied Thompson
Henry Tyrréi
Cosmopolitan
Woman IN Journalism
Becuse
Boston Society
Braceny
Back Bay
Courn Sreet
Harvard
Shirley Dare
Boston
Sebiki
Chicago Times
Brooklyn
Morocco
Mo Skinner
Lutestring
Boston Transcript
Sumwon
John Butler
Wear Shoe Store
State St
Marshall
Holiday Trade
Elston’s Drug Store
Malaga
Florida
W. T. Phelps
Eagle Opera
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