A Coat Tail Trick Wins Mimi Legrand Romance
Mimi Legrand, 18, longs for love in New Orleans Esplanade Street life. George Wolfe arrives with papers from a society, they bond under Aunt Diane’s warnings, Mimi defies tradition, and a coat-tail mishap at Mr Legrand’s door leads to a parental blessing and marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mimi Legrand
Spinnterhood
Esplanade Street
Mimi
Diane
Lacy Marshall
Millie Dupont
Papa
St. Louis
Arriet
Legrand
Marria
Miss Diane
Aunt Diane
Canal Street
Paps
Ava
Harriet
Wolfe
George Wolfe
George
Man
Mise Tarlton
Kay
Miss Legrand
Mr. Legrand
Mr Legrand
Davia & Wolfe
Guitor
Mra
Herald
New York Echoes of Gog and Gaiters in 1881
New York column traces urban life and mood amid melting pavements and municipal talk. Archery plans, militia reforms, Chinese New Year celebrations, clergy exoduses, and a tragic factory risk highlight social strains and curious observations from Your Radix on February 11 1881.
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Gotham
Register
New York
Bunyan
Berald
Buiy
Union
AG. Constable
British East India Company
Bombay
Harper Bros
Prospect Park
National Guard
State of
Whittaker
India
Letters to a Departed Friend From My Youth
A reflective poem fragment expresses grief for a friend who died recently. The speaker reads childhood letters through tears, noting both friends and self are faded and that youth and trust have fled from the speaker’s living heart.
Fragmented Verse and Local Notices Collage
A fragmentary newspaper jumble mixes verse lines about retirement and purity with comically garbled notices between Mr Thompson and Mr Simpson about pigs and spelling. It then drifts to quotes from a New Orleans doctor on yellow fever, a dentist inquiry in Danbury, an ice crop report for Philadelphia, an evangelical tract society publication, and Tyne of Wesleyan chapels funded by Sir Francia Lycett. Minnesota death-rate claim closes the collection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Thompson
Mr. Simpson
Mr Thompson
Temperance lecture sparks boys to imagine future owners
Billy Rows, a temperance speaker, addresses boys in a public meeting about fate and ownership. He asks who will own houses, farms, and cattle in twenty years, prompting the boys to answer that they will be dead or wage earners. The exchange highlights youth views on property and vice, ending with Rows urging a path beyond such ruin.
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Waterford
Brooklyn
Paddock
Washington Territory
Washington
Bishop Paddock
Dr. Brown
Cleveland
Beecher
Brown
C. Hall
Long Island
Radix
Ravix
Billy Rows
Roshereville
Farina
Billy
Cottage built man joke in old uncle tale
A dialogue features young Sweeps teasing his rich uncle about a cottage built man. The uncle repeats early trials as the boy defines the term with a pun, describing a man with only one story.
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Young Sweeps
Prudent man borrows mower as neighbor plans surprise
Fragmentary text references a prudent man borrowing a lawn mower from a neighbor and a distant note about Colonel John W. Forsey of Philadelphia and an aging novelist. The garbled lines hint at a period-piece item but lack coherent facts or events.
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the Register
Co. W. Slater
Goodsbye
Mr. Wolfe
Gaesarhe
Bell
Mira Diane
St. Anthony's Alley
Deely
Diane Ia
Edmunds
Wordsworth
New Orleans
Danbury
Philadelphia
American Tract Society
Francia Lycett
England
Trangylvania University
Ashland
Kentucky
Henry Clay
Minnesota
John’ W. Forsey
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