Wedded for Gold continues to test love and honor
Felix Lonsdale refuses Sir Owen’s wealth to win Violet but she cannot give up her fortune. He then forges ahead in politics, married Eve Lester, and decades later Violet, now Duchess of Rokely, offers wisdom on love over wealth as Eve and Felix visit her.
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Chayter
Felix
Violet
Jaye
Faye
Sam
Sir Owen
Lonsdale
Lit
Ile
Lilford
Cady Chevenix
Darcy Lonsdale
Garswood
London
Paris
Marquis of Renmore
Ixate
Evelyn
Oldstone
Lord Arlington Felix
M. P
Felix Lonsdale
Kate
Mark
Madre
Ate
Eve Lester
Selix
Eden House
Eve
Melix
Lester
Pearl
Welix
Babylon
Hey
Telix
Eye
Florence
Rokely House
Violet Rokely
Rokely
Duke of
England
Duchess of
Eve Lester and Felix Weds Quietly at Lilford Church
In a restrained country wedding Eve Lester, long beloved by Felix, accepts his proposal after he learns she has loved him all her life. They marry in a simple church ceremony at Lilford, then depart for a romantic lakeside retreat, beginning a lifetime of happiness.
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Eve Lester
Kate
Madre
Eve
Lilford
Felix
Goodbye Violet and the fading memory of love
A quiet closing scene shows a farewell between Felix and Violet as their long relationship ends. She asks him to remember her from the past, not the present, while he accepts the goodbye in a moment of restrained emotion. The narrative concludes with her desolate splendor.
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Violet
Felix
Fixed His Fishing Suit
A man values a worn fishing suit as proof of being a true sportsman even as it reaches shabby distinction. A Maine trip prompts packing of the old blue suit mistaken for gray by a maid, and the tailor notes the suit’s poor condition will cost more than ordinary cleaning.
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Maine Woods
New York Evening Sun
Break Bad News Gently in Frontier Humor
A grim frontier anecdote shows cowboys dispatching a neighbor to tell a widow her husband was hanged by mistake. The messenger, delivering the news at the widow’s door, says politely that they hanged the wrong man, reflecting dark humor amid harsh lives.
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Boston
The Judge Would Have Stayed
A Salt Lake gambling case ends with fines paid after the judge asks how to handle a bluff. The defendant remains to recount a poker hand and asks what the judge would have done, prompting the judge to quip about staying with the hand if the gallows were in sight.
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Salt Lake
San Francisco
Gallant Judge Question Sparks Controversy in Paris Court
A Paris trial sees a popular actress as a witness while a judge, wary of prompting perjury, asks her age before swearing. He then prescribes an odd remedy by asking the age first and pressuring her to swear to tell the truth. The exchange, deemed irregular, ends with the actress declaring she is 29. London King notes the scene with measured astonishment.
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Paris
London
The Locust Scourge and Other Parcel of News
The article compiles alarming figures on locust devastation covering 40 million square miles and claims it eclipses wars in cost and misery. It lists causes of fires including matches and electrical faults, then quotes Hokey humor and a Manila price snapshot for chicken and beef, and notes a Dakota river as the longest un navigable river.
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England
London Chronicle
Irrigation Interest Prompts Study by Prof Voorhees
Prof Voorhees of the New Jersey Experiment Station urges irrigation for Eastern States citing May and June 1899 drought losses in New Jersey of at least 1.5 million dollars. He reports lower hay yields and fruit gains from irrigated plots, discusses fodder values and dairy economics, and summarizes Rothamsted clover straw weights for comparison.
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Voorhees
New Jersey
Mississippi Valley
Jersey
Hog Hanger and Farming Tips From Old Texts
An 1890s note describes a hog hanging setup with a lever and post, plus a bench for scraping and dispatching hogs. It also discusses how seed density affects straw and grain, showing Maine Experiment Station results with multiple plants per pot and nutrient impacts for wheat and oats.
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Ohio
Maine Experiment Station
Minnesota Experiment Station Beef and Butter Feed Test
The Minnesota Experiment Station studied cost of feed for beef and butter. Four steers gained 2.52 pounds daily on $8.51 worth of food, totaling 425 pounds gain about two cents per pound. Four cows fed on the same rations for comparison.
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Seef Or Potter
Minnesota
Circumventing the Hessian Fly and Livestock Notes
J Troop from Indiana suggests fall wheat sowing between Sept 20 and Oct 5 in northern counties and early Oct in the south to dodge Hessian fly broods. Decoy strips should be sown late August north and early September south, plowed under before main crop. Orchard Grass hay and pasture practices show lasting yields and grazing value. Good blood and straight breeding are urged for Middle and Eastern States versus western stock.
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J. Troop
Indiana
Middle
West
Pittsburg
Saust
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Bertha N.clay
Teliz
Jim
Indianapolis Journal
Manila
Dakota
Ga Abou
Mata
John B. Lawes
Rothamstead
London Live Stock Journal
Uppermill
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