Husband and wife heal the rift after a farm accident
On a Midwestern farm, Letty Brewster and her husband George face a strained marriage. After George is badly injured by a mowing machine, neighbors gossip and Letty prepares to leave, but the accident leads him to praise her and she tends him through recovery. In time, both rekindle affection, and the couple unites in renewed partnership.
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Farmer Brewster
Brewster Place
Garret
Old Square House
Mrs. Brewster
George Brewster
Ceorge
Letty
Letty Grover
Abe
Solomon Wyne
George
Brewster House
Solomon Wyse
Jret
Crosa
George Brewater
Ataira
Bay Field
Syure
Ben
Solomon
Mr. Wyse
Lyan Transcript
Dan Rice divorce suit shocks circus union
A Pennsylvania deacon's daughter filed for divorce from clown Dan Rice, ending a church and circus marriage. The case unfolds amid mixed headlines from the era, including sensational notes on editors, arsenic tragedies, and royal manuscript sales.
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rar-Dan Rice
Pennsylvania
The Father of Locomotives at a Newcastle Display
A crowd gathers around sixteen modern engines from various companies in a display in Newcastle. An ancient engine named Locomotion built by George Stephenson in 1825 is wheeled past, hailed as the father of all locomotives, its worn frame contrasting with gleaming rivals.
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Midland Railway Company
Messrs
G. R. Stephenson and Co
Newcastle
George Stephenson
Stockton and
Darlington
Gateshead
London Telegraph
Old Journals and the New York Tribunes History
A condensed retrospective notes the founding dates and origins of major New York papers from 1841 to 1873, including the Tribune Sun Herald Times World Graphic and Commercial Advertiser, with a brief mention of the Evening Post. It also recounts a domestic incident of a bridegroom slapping his bride two hours after marriage on a train in Whiteside Indiana.
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New York Tribune
Horace Greeley
The
Sun
Bennett
Herald
the Times
Henry J. Reymond
the World
Courier and Enquirer
Graphic
New York
Commercial Advertiser
Evening Post
Whiteside
Lost nickel and a bumble bee on the plank walk
A vivid scene recalls the immense variety of human expression as a deaf and mute man bends under a plank walk to retrieve a lost nickel and unexpectedly grasps a bee by its stem.
Grim Pawtucket tale of hunger driven revival of vengeance
A line from a 19th century report describes a Chinaman who killed himself in Pawtucket three years earlier. His devoted brother then killed a chicken and buried a shirt on the grave, claiming the dead man was hungry and short of clothes.
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Pawtucket
Bride’s vow tale as jest meets wedding day fare
A humorous wedding moment unfolds when the clergyman asks who gives this woman away and a young man nearby replies I can but I won’t. The bride, described as a flirt in youth, stands beside a playful scene reflecting lighthearted social norms of the time.
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Shell
M. D’s
Clergyman Helps Heartbroken Girl On Train Then Loses Watch
A Illinois clergyman consoles a fainting girl on a train, promises better land, helps her to a small station, and discovers his watch and $300 missing. A Chicago critique claims Cincinnati uses half its water to brew beer and the other half to scald hog bristles.
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Illinois
Cincinnati
Chicago
Ohio City
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Cam
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Bobby
Billy
Tommy
England
Boston Transcript
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