The Obliging Young Man And A Boston Elopement Plot
A brisk railway traveler helps a frightened old woman miss her Boston stop causing a chain of misunderstandings. The aunt arrives at Providence with a blessing, while the obliging youth arranges letters and a rendezvous before the party parts ways on a final train. Also included are long market data on wheat and flour exports and a political comparison of Hancock and Garfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Waburn Watering Station
Maui
Lowell
Providen
Providence
Ameria
United States
Russia
Hancock
Congress
Andrew Johnson
New Orleans
Horatio Seymour
Frank Blair
Hampton
Beauregard
Chalmers
Jettavis
South
Alabama
James A Garfield
Appropriations Committee
House of Representatives
Garfield
Detroit Post and Tribune
Wit and Wisdom Fragments From The Atlantic Month
A collage of aphorisms and anecdotes on manners language and society quoting various newspapers and authors. It includes playful lines about gardening finance love and education along with a tale of a Paris concierge and Decamps illustrating ideas of equality and courtesy.
Alligator Fire Duel and Everglades Camp Tale
Narrator recalls a Florida hunt where Judge Connor urges killing a large alligator defying the hogs and calves on the range. He uses blazing palmetto fans to drive the beast into flames, then witnesses the creature retreat to moist sand. Also recounts earlier Everglades camp near Jupiter, with Indians, a twelve foot alligator at the camp, and improvised defense using ridge poles and fire.
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Indiana River
Florida
Connor
Indian River
Leake Worth
Jupiter
Charles Moore
Everglades
Evergades
Moore
Hammond
The World's Wheat Crop at Millers' Convention
Mr. Howard Lockwood announces a world wheat crop study at Cincinnati. He notes 1790 exports of 1 124 458 bushels and 724 628 barrels of flour, rising to 122 353 936 bushels and 5 629 714 barrels by 1879, with a long historical trend.
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Belgium
France
Germany
England
Treland By
Quebec
Ontario
Manitoba
Netherlands
Portugal
Scotland
Ireland
Enezuela
Hibbert
Great Britain
Kingdom
Cincinnati
Howard Lockwood
American Mail and Export Journal
Pashels
Atlantic Canal
Ohio
Old Dutch Church of Madison County Virginia Described
A 1710 German Lutheran colony established in Robinson Valley Madison County Virginia. The Old Dutch Church built on their ground features a 1720 title deed and a cruciform interior with galleries and an organ loft. The ancient pipe organ from Lutzen Sweden remains in good condition though its pipes have faded.
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Robinson Valley
Madison County
Thomas Giffon
London
Coven Byt Gustavus
Sweden
Lutzen
Woman Endures Forty Day Fast in Lowell Tale
A Lowell Massachusetts woman reportedly fasted forty days on a vision from a spirit to regain health. She subsisted on minimal liquids and a small food portion, then recovered after the period ended. The account was relayed by B F Bowers based on family testimony and observations during travel in the region.
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Dow
Strlethy
Arkie
Copay
Lowell
Mass
Coggill
Thas
Ping
B. F. Bowers
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Acallops
Anand Peter Ann Price
Nee
Taos
Spain
Italy
Austria-Hung
Zion
Turkey
Canada
Patralia
WIT and Wisdom
Nobby
Oil City
Moses
Boston Transcript
N. O
Yune
Tennyson
M. Y. Commercal Advertiser
Wroth
Cupid
Parente
Atlantic
Manthle
Paris
Henry Wikoff
Aew
Decamps
Duke of Orleans
Isabor
McLean
Champion
New York Express
Wilburton Church
Ely
Eng
Wars Ren
Aeder
Enthus
Times of
Vhamo
Iboboken
New York
Sewence Monthly
Nicholas Ridley
Hugh Latimer
Arnold von Winkelried
Keenya
Baslon
Virginia
T. W. Higginson
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