Aladdin Lamp Sparks Pine Ridge Daydreams
Nancy learns of Cousin Columbine's frontier past and the town's rough history. The elder recalls Leadville Creede and Cripple Creek while musing on reading, ambition, and the lack of a library in Pine Ridge. Nancy imagines using a lamp to transform her town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark Adam
Aurora
Jack
Nancy
Cousin Volumbine
Nelson
Adam Ranch
Eve
John Adam
Pine Ridge
Aurora Tubbs
Cousin Columbine
Leadville
Columbine
Columbine Nelson
San Juan County
Creede
Bedlam
Cripple Creek
Pemperton
Luke
Eve Adam
Matthew
John
the Springs
Mark
Matt
Put
Nance
the Atlantic Monthly
Adams
Theodore Taylor
Juanita
Family Letters Bring News From Pine Ridge Ranch
Nancy writes Aunt Louise from Pine Ridge as Edgemere readers her letter aloud. The Nelsons adjust to country life and a calmer routine while Phil thrives with chores and hard work. Louise notes Nancy’s Colorado visit has helped her. The group plans supper and awaits Nancy’s message, as storms delay replies.
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Nancy
Louise
Edgemere
Phil
Margaret Nelson
Margaret
Colorado
Boston
James Nelson
Jack
Adam
Columbine
Pine Ridge
Dad
Nance
Middle West
Little Helps For This Week
A devotional piece emphasizes small acts of faith and discipline. It urges constant quiet holiness in daily life, noting that hidden, unselfish acts deepen faith and beautify character. Perfection comes from steady, self-forgetting service to God in minor details.
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God
Old British colonial bank notes found in Cincinnati
Two rare currency samples surfaced in Cincinnati Ohio a Maryland six dollar note from 1770 promising London payable bills at four shillings sixpence per dollar and a New Jersey twelve shillings bill issued in 1776 both bearing the death penalty for counterfeiting The notes were found among old records in the Board of Education Library and their origin remains a mystery since Cincinnati was then a remote frontier area with few white settlers.
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America
Cincinnati
Ohio
Maryland
London
New Jersey
Cincinnati Board of Education
White Elephant Funeral Pyre Enlivens Burma Buddhist Rite
In Burma a Buddhist funeral for a priest featured an enormous paper and bamboo white elephant rigged to bear the coffin to a canopied seat on its back before burning. The spectacle marks a distinctive ceremonial tribute as mourners observe the cremation rite.
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Burma
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Caler
Zechariah
Heaven
Calgary
Edmonton
Regina
Winnipeg
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