Louise Dabney in Valley Farm flirtation and remorse
Louise Dabney's summer at Valley Farm becomes a social test as she pursues a flirtation with Mr. Leroy while Mr. Northcote shows protective interest. A note from Lizette Layton reveals Leroy's engagement and prompts Louise to confront the consequences of her vanity and misguided affection.
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Miss Dabney
Louise Dabney
Louise
Loring Northcote
Asphinx
Mr. Northcote
Mr. Leroy
Jehu
Damenel
Valley Farm
Mrs. Farniss
Leroy
Northcote
Mrs. Furniss
Scylla
Fairfield
Dapney
Lizette Layton
Lizette
Listette
Courage in Sorrow Poem Admonishes Perseverance
A poem by B. M. Browne exhorts readers to endure grief with courage. It urges struggle, resilience, and duty, promising days after night and that sorrow can forge heroism and strength.
Moral Advice Poem on Truth and Love
A moral verse urges spotless truth and honor and warns against lies even if white. It counsels helping the weak, respecting the aged, owning fault, and controlling anger. It calls for wholehearted love with heart soul eye and touch and claims you can never love too much.
Science Vistas and Oddities From A Curious Era
A survey of quirky science notes and curiosities includes methods to deter mosquitoes with tar and feathers, thin gold coinage, vast stellar distances, and odd experiments. It mentions potash chemistry, Saturn’s moons, heat from a stopped Earth, and a parrot that could only say Harriet for 20 years.
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United States
Potassia
Saturn
Argo
France
Squigly
Tynderall
Clinton
Massaachusetts
Parrot
Harriet
Reversible Hat Tops Popular Two-in-One Headwear
A reversible hat draws attention as it can be worn in two configurations. In one mode it serves as a bonnet, while the alternative arrangement presents a round hat suitable for varied styles.
How Women Play Whist In A Card Game
A quotation from the St. Louis Journal notes how women play whist, illustrating behavior at the table. The piece describes clues from card play such as trump identification and keeping tricks, reflecting gendered observations of amateur players.
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Carda
Henry
St. Louis Journal
Box for national institution members at Paris opera
A box accommodating ten persons is reserved at every performance of the grand opera house in Paris for members of the national institution for the lad.
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Grand Opera House
Paris
Membee
National Institution
Political Catechisms and the Charges of Hard Times
A critique of currency policy and governance. It accuses speculators and politicians of causing hard times, decrying greenbacks as unjustly withheld from tender and blaming corrupt officials for fiscal burdens. The text contrasts social labels for unemployed men and officeholders, framing a partisan indictment of the era.
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United States
Queen of Beauty to be Crowned in Spanish Exhibit
The Universal Exhibition in Spain will host a beauty prize show for photographs of the world’s most beautiful women. Under the minister of public works, sixty one main prizes plus silver sets and hundreds of mentions will be awarded. Photographs judged by a two-person jury from each nation will include full-face and profile images. The winner, crowned Queen of Beauty, will ride in a municipal parade in Paris, while the sixty one prize winners’ photos will be shown for twelve days.
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Paris
Laris
Miss Cobbett Dies in England at 82
Miss Cobbett eldest daughter of William Cobbett and editor of many writings died in England at age 82. She was born in Philadelphia. The piece notes that 10 U S Senate members are by trade.
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Miss Cobbett
William Cobbett
England
Philadelphia
United States Senate
The Days Before Teapots in European Tables
A historical sketch traces tea’s arrival in Europe from Dutch merchants to English adoption. It notes early uses as medicine, the 1641 Tulpius praise, Lord Arlington’s role, and the East India Company’s monopoly with tea priced at a guinea per ounce as a royal gift.
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China
India
Arabia
Cartary
Persia
Europe
Tulpius
Lord Arlington
England
East India Company
Ghazi Title Bestowed on Mukhtar and Osman Pashas
The Ghazi honor, rarely given in modern Turkey, has been awarded to Mukhtar Pasha and Osman Pasha. Shumla fortress, famed Ghazi Shumla, has withstood twenty seven sieges and remains resistant. Blum Pasha, German born, is named to govern Shumla if Suleiman Pasha retires.
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Ghazi
Mukhtar Pasha
Osman Pasha
Turkey
Europe
Shumla
Ghazi Shumla
Rasgrad
Rustchuk
Shamla
Blum Pasha
Suleiman Pasha
Porte
Ingersoll Asked to Deliver Morton Funeral Eulogy
City Times reports a movement to invite Col. Robert Ingersoll to give Morton’s funeral oration in Indianapolis. Proceeds would support a monument fund. Ingersoll is noted for opposing consolations of religion in public death contexts.
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Ingersoll
Morton
Col
Robert Ingersoll
Senator Morton
Indianapolis
Bob
Kaneds City
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George Peabody
Peabody
Mr. Peabody
America
B. M. Browne
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