Engagement Reveals Linly's Hidden Heart at Ryelandia
Linly Thetford discovers Hermione Thetford intends Rupert St Charles as Linly’s fiancé after Clare gossip about the Ryelandia household and a rose-signaled engagement arrives. Linly faces heartbreak as Rupert and Hermione plan a union while Linly wrestles with love and loyalty in Circleville.
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Papa
Hermione
Ryelands
Mr. St. Charles
Linly
Tia
Misa Lucinda
Lucinda
Lidy
Marshfield
Dr. Thetford
Rupert St. Charles
Ryelandia
Sultana
Circleville
Love and Reason Sail On Into Danger
A poem in Scribner for Tune narrates Love and Pleasure steering a frail craft with Reason admonishing caution. Love ignores warnings, the lotus leaf overturns, and Cupid and Pleasure drag along in a reckless voyage toward ruin while Reason watches from shore. The tale contrasts rational caution with reckless delight in a lyrical romantic fable.
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Bo Reason
Love
Imp
Cupid
Rosa V. Jeffrey
The Three Horsemen Visit The Inn From The German
Three horsemen halted the inn and asked for welcome cheer. The hostess tells of her daughter slain, a maiden lying dead. Each horseman confesses a lasting love as he salutes the maiden and departs quietly. From the German.
Amusing Epitaph Fragments from Global Cemeteries
A collection of humorous and odd epitaphs from US and UK gravesites. Examples include cryptic lines on a California tombstone about a man killed by a revolver, a German inspired quip about a deceased wife, Cornish verses about buried spouses, and jaunty rhymes from Saratoga and South Carolina. The verses reveal wit, superstition, and social attitudes of the eras.
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San Diego
California
S Akrid
William Henry Skaraken
Colt
Cornwall
England
Druggist’s Bold Store Turns Heads With Ghoulish Flair
An Ohio-origin journalist opens a drugstore in Detroit that blends morbid curios and macabre labels. The cheerful shop displays skulls, bones, and eerie captions promising remedies amid arsenic and sulphur, with plans for a grand sign advertising various toxic and supposed cure-all products.
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Ohio
Yost
Detroit Free Press
No Burglars Need Apply Time Lock Shown in Banks
The Mt. Vernon Banking Company and the First National Bank install Yale Time Lock with two chronometers to guard against burglar entry. The device uses a steel block that locks the main bolt until the set opening hour, remaining inside the safe and independent of outside access. Valued at $400 each, the full jewelled movements offer precise timekeeping and a deterrent, with the warning that burglars will learn of the lock during business hours.
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Mt. Vernon Banking Company
First National Bank
Yale
Howard
Vernon Star
The Human Face and Moral Character
A reflective essay argues that facial features mirror moral training and temperament. It claims laborers exhibit stolid expressions, savages appear uglier, and intellectuals show bright gazes and inner light, with beauty in sensitive yet plain individuals.
Train Boy and Passenger Confront Odd Exchange
An Illinois train boy pesters an elderly passenger with papers and goodies, trying to spark a reaction. The man stays calm, taunting him with money back if he dies, while the boy insists the money would go to a next door family that might soon exist when he hears of the death.
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Illinois
New Deadwood Postmaster Recalls Start on May 19
The new Deadwood postmaster writes on May 10 that he arrived on the 19th ultime to find six thousand letters awaiting him and an excited populace awaiting them.
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Deadwood
Youngest Past Grand Master F 8S Devol of Masonry
F 8S Devol is described as the youngest Past Grand Master in the state at thirty one, with a rapid rise from Mason in 1866 to Grand Master in 1876. He led with fairness and parliamentary skill, not seeking re election, while supporting the one term system.
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Devol
Grand Lodge of
Ion
New Albany Ledger- Standard
Precautions of a Book Lender in Early Boston
A Boston Transcript correspondent outlines careful lending practices for a mixed library. He keeps strict records of loans, limits to sets, and returns on time. He retrieves books when needed, even from friends, and wraps volumes for protection. He varies bindings by borrower trust and notes gentle reminders deter late returns.
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The
Boston Transcript
A New Swindling Dodge With Metallic Clothes Lines
A Wheeling Intelligencer report warns of a new scam involving metallic clothes lines. A polite agent befriends a farmer, offers a gift of a hundred feet while inviting him to act as a sales agent, and has the farmer sign his name and address on a circular. Subsequently 2000 to 3000 feet are shipped and a printed order arrives demanding payment at five cents per foot, with the farmer left liable as an innocent purchaser. Moril: Don’t sign your name.
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Rupert
Laat
Hermione
Linly
Rupert St. Charles
Hermione Thetford
Moril
Wheeling Intelligencer
Pierrepont the English Crest Petitioner Sparks Debate
A hostile letter attacks Ram Edwards Pierrepont describing him as a loud boasting opportunist in politics. It accuses him of seeking ancestry fame and misusing a crest request to Earl Manners while in England. The piece calls for recall and labels previous U S figures as knaves and fools.
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Ram Edwards Pierrepont
Mary
Flint
New York
England
Earl Manners
Pierreponte
Pierrepont
Poker Schenck
Ind
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Thomas Woodhen
N.B
Woodcock
South Carolina
Robert Gordin
Drugs and Enterprise
Tom Thumb
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