A Tilt at Fairs and Love Across Six Boys
A long excerpted tale from Harper's Weekly recounts a New York widow Marie Marguerat raising six sons with devotion, and a suitor Tom Sigismond who loves her and her children. After moral conflict and a failed proposal, Marie chooses fidelity to her children, then fate and Dr Lawson’s intervention set a path to marriage. Five years later, the blended family becomes a model of reform through example as bachelors marry widows with children.
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Bedlam
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Madame
Gustave
Pierre
Marie
Louis
Colet
Claude
Pau
Maurie
Hinelf
Tom ‘Sigismond
Denulice
Xuntippes
Central Park
Uais
Jorde
Tom
Lam
Layla
Tam
Aix Bays
Monsieur
Tousseur Sigismond
Monsieur Sigismond
Maman
Mamm
Dr. Lawson
Sigismond
Tom Sigismond
Imn
Tie
Louise
Aris
Mother
Harper's Weekly
Was He Fura Got To Decline Richard Yates Death
An excerpt discusses the death of congressman Richard Yates from apparent congenital illness. It critiques religious and political presses for accusing him of heredity and inebriety, arguing the disease preceded birth and noting public sympathy while questioning prenatal influences and parental drinking.
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Tepads
Norodom
Tepada
Dla
Yatee
Abermother
Advance
Advocate
Chicago
Dronkard
Duad
Iris Girtnes
Richard Yates
Yates
Ted Ue
Marie Marquerat and the Seven Boys in New York
Marie, widow of Pierre Marquerat, gathers her seven sons around a New York home where she teaches French to professional men and countrymen for income. Tom Sigismond becomes a key guest at her table, joining her family tableau after their France to America move.
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France
Maurie
Mongieur
Burt
Marie
Pierre
Tom Sigismond
Vna
Madame Marquerat
Madame
Tam
Legislature Laugh Endangers Young Men Under 38
The Salum Gauzette jokes that a proposed law to bar young men under 38 from overwork would spark laughter in Young America. The piece riffes on legislative overreach and societal norms.
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America
Editor’s obituary pitch prompts farmer’s subscription
A Detroit Free Press tale recalls a White Oak farmer whose wife dies and, in grief, subscribes to the Cascade newspaper. The editor asks no obituary fee, offers to publish the notice, and the farmer reluctantly pays, producing a memorial paragraph the bereaved husband calls a “mugity smart picce.”
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Ingham
The
Cascade
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