Heartsie Beckwith and the tonement scheme in South Carolina
In a rural South Carolina scene Heartsie Beckwith pursues a plan to return stolen goods to the church as atonement for debts and misdeeds. Uriah and Heartsie discuss disguising the act as church offerings during a special excursion and rededication, hoping to lift their fortunes via community salvation.
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Marster
Mr. Beckwith
Regina
Chile
Gina
Emline
Heartsis
St. Jude’s
Heartsie
New York Evening Post
Painter Poutman Death by Fright After Studio Skeletons
The famous painter Poutman died following a frightful incident in his studio. Sleep brought a quake caused panic as dancing skulls and bones appeared around him. He fled through a window to the pavement and died days later from the nervous shock, despite the skeletons’ festive explanation. Law Practice in London: average earnings of barristers do not exceed £300 annually.
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South Carolina
Riah
Heartsie
Bud
Bellum
Mr. Beckwith
Humpy
Bollum
Sally
Uriah Beckwith
Beckwith
Lismon
Uriah
Poutman
London
Mike
Edvwrat Raabe
Rogers
Raabe
Prince
San Francisco Examiner
Rebellious Echoes and Lincoln at the Front in War Memoirs
A collection of Civil War era reminiscences recounts veterans’ march into camp and farewells, plus Major Duxbury’s tale of Gen McCullough's Lookout Mountain prophecy. Also included are Horace Porter’s Lincoln visit to City Point, Sherman’s parade musings, and Arctic birds amid bogs and cranberries.
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Chickamauga
Monary Ridge
Lookout Mountain
New York Tribune
Wm. Crocker Duxbury
Joseph E. Johnston
John B. Hood
Duxbury
Frank C. Armstrong
United States Army
Confederacy
Richmond
Ben. McCullough
Arkansas
Sand
Pea Ridge
Chattanooga
Tenn
McCulloush
McCullough
Armstrong
Tenessee
Albert Sidney Johnson
Bowling Green
Nsq
United States
Tennessee River
Mississippi River
Grant
Missionary Ridge
Sherman
Athinta
South
Texas Rangers
Frank Armstrong
Washington, D.C
Lincoln
Horace Porter
City Point
Abe
Gen. Grant
President
Smith
Petersburg
Illnois
Chicago
Forrest
Shakspeare
Eighteenth Corps
Fader
Abraham
Arctic Circle
Ghostly visitor bookmarks a cobra scare in India
A sister recalls a chilling hour as a phantom figure appeared in her home before a cobra stealthily slithered from a bathroom door. The tale blends superstition with a warning on safety, framed by a report from Philadelphia Times.
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India
Engig
First Man Dressmaker Faced 18th Century Paris
The piece notes a 1730s Paris dressmaker named wi Rhomberg, son of Bavarian peasants near Munich, famed for concealing figure flaws. He drove fine carriages, displayed an escutcheon of corsets and scissors, and left a large fortune for heirs.
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Paris
Rhomberg
Munich
Paulevay
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Heartsie Beckwith
Newro
Mr. Beckinth
G. A. Vandegrift
Board of Administration
Ohio River
Barton’s Landing
Illinois
Cincinnati
Vandegrift
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Ninette M. Lowater
Anton
Washington
Tau
Pleasanton
Mudd
Tam Alfral Pleasanton
Antienna
Gen. Porter
Gen. Sherman
Georgia
Inhiladelphia Times
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