Millicent Barrington Earns Regular Household Allowance
Milly Barrington, 18, arrives at Holly Lodge and earns the trust of her father in law as she proves skilled at managing a home. Her husband Dudley resents a tight allowance, but their elder barometer, Mr. Barrington, advises a regular weekly or monthly household budget. Milly pleads for small items, but a late house lesson reframes money as a shared firm budget. Dudley agrees to a regular five pound household salary for Milly, recognizing her as key to the home’s operation.
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Illy Barrington
Holly Lodge
Milly
Dudley
Dudley Barrington
Mr. Barrnngton
Dudles
Millicent
Mr. Barrington
Hannah
Ozie
Mr. Barrington, Jr
Tama
Milicent
Barington & Co
Dudkbey K Barrington
Colonel Barrington
Chicago Times- Herald
Milly Barrington Gains Monthly Allowance in Family Pact
Milly rejoices at a monthly five pound allowance from Dudley, funded by common stock. She envisions independence, church donations, and savings, while Dudley’s father observes with a wry smile. The exchange reveals family finances and dynamics in a colonial era domestic scene.
Boy forces hen to sit with stubborn persistence
A Kansas City Star note describes a Missouri boy who, after trading for pigeons and a goat, owns a single stubborn hen. He rigs a nesting box to hatch a "settin" of eggs, battles with his brother over the box, and tends the hen daily while chasing her for exercise.
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Biddy
Missouri
Kansas City Star
Working Member Alderman Duckworth's Unusual Career
Alderman James Duckworth, MP for the Middleton division of Lancashire, is noted as the only MP who has worked in a factory as a half-timer. He began at six, supported his mother by fourteen, and later served in the army, worked as a town missionary and hawker, and became a major north of England provision merchant with over fifty shops near Rochdale. He sits on Rochdale Town Council as an alderman, is a local preacher, and led the United Methodist Free Church annual assembly for twelve months. In Canada, millions of tiny black insects appear during thaws in the northwest, known as snow fleas or jumpers, leaping three to four inches, then vanish when it refreezes.
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James Duckworth
Middleton
Lancashire
England
Rochdale
United Methodist Free Church
Canada
Arctic
The World's Alphabets
The article lists the alphabet lengths of many languages. It cites English and German with 96 letters, French 25, Spanish 27, Italian 20, Russian 36, Greek Latin and Hebrew 22, Celtic 17, Arabic 28, Persian 31, Turkish 28, Sanskrit 445 and Chinese 214, noting wide variation in letter counts.
Non Churchgoers and London’s Unentered Faithless
A census style note reports 38 750 000 London residents who never enter a church temple or place of worship, highlighting a sizable non churchgoing population in the city.
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London
CHAT OF THE CHURCH AND RELIGIOUS WORK WORLDWIDE
News Notes from All Lands on religious thought and movement. Canon Holland urges workers in faith to endure toil as God works in them. Dr Parker reflects on listening to truth over eloquence. Loyalty means truth, not blind allegiance. Curated items describe small churches in England and Friends meeting houses. Catholic priests rise to 2,500. deaconess hospital plans in Cincinnati. Porto Rico mission by Caldwall. Louisville church bans liquor dealers after one year membership. Zionists seek site at Modin for Maccabean tombs and a future agricultural college fund.
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England
Presbyterian Church
Pittsburg
Little Sisters of the Poor
United States
Evangelical Protestant Deaconess Society of Cincinnati
Modin
Colony Agricultural College
Tiny Sussex church guards a sixteen foot square faith
A note on spiritual resilience quotes Spurgeon as he describes the ark of salvation and a galvanizing trust amid trials. It mentions Tiny Churches describing England’s smallest church in Lullington, Sussex, built of flint with a red tiled roof and five narrow windows lighting a space for about thirty villagers.
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England
Lullington
Sussex
Eight Square Miles Kingdom of Cocos and Christmas Islands
George Clunies-Ross, King of the Cocos and Christmas Islands, describes a tiny prosperous realm with 700 subjects, no money or poverty, abundant coconuts, and a simple lifestyle founded on fishing, free nature, and a unique royal tradition.
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George Clinies-Ross
Cocos and
Christmas Islands
Keeling Cocos Islands
Clunies-Ross
Britain’s Tea Pot Reveals Scale of Tea Consumption
The piece notes Britain’s tea use dwarfs that of Russians and Americans. It compares annual British tea, weighing scales against 215,060 soldiers at 168 pounds each, showing tea would never balance even with several more armies, until mass reaches 1,356,000 men.
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Britain
British Isles
United States
Great Britain
Hopeful Dusenbuck Plan for Summer Visit
A Philadelphia North American item notes hopeful plans for summer travel to the same location as last year with remarks about bringing husbands home. The exchange mentions Bustenbroke confirming similar intent and a desire that partners be left where they were found.
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Dusenbuck
Bustenbroke
Philadelphia
Oldest Living Creature Tortoise Tied to Rothschild Estate
A giant tortoise on Walter Rothschild’s estate claims the title of oldest living creature. Weighing about a quarter ton, it is believed to be roughly 150 years old and among the planet’s most enduring animals.
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Walter Rothschild
Siam's Female Bodyguard Formed of 400 Women
The King of Siam maintains a royal guard of 400 female warriors selected from among the strongest and most capable ladies in the land.
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Siam
King of
Lace Night Robes and Satire Linked to Tabor in 19th Century Tales
The New Orleans Times Democrat recounts Eugene Field’s satirical columns about mineral magnate and former Senator Cornelius H. Tabor. It notes lace night robes costing 100 dollars, Field’s sketches, and Tabor’s public reactions. The item highlights Field’s pranks, public letters, and Tabor’s brief Senate term amid Colorado anecdotes.
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Tabor
Silver State
Eugene Kiel
Denver Tribune
Tie
Field
Denver
Senate
Wild Bill
Billy the Wild
Varilt Bill
Custom House
Atlantic Ocean
Roscoe Conkling
George S
Gene Vield
New Orleans Times- Democrat
Inventions and anecdotes Highlight 19th Century Patents
A survey lists varied inventions from dredge buckets and automatic revolver reloading devices to a cheese cutting scale and a pocket guard. It also notes improved awning frames and secure window locks, followed by a humorous tale from a Missouri church about a stingy donor and plaster mishap.
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Olioan
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Boston Transcript
Poole
God
Canon Holland
Joseph Parker
Sunday School Times
Wythburn
Cumberland
Burnley
Friends’ Sect
Buelkinghamshire
William Penn
Milton
Essex
Esse
Christ
C. H. Spurgeon
Talor’s Lace
Warressburg
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