Romance of an Odd Puritan His First Love and Second Marriage
William Bradford of the Mayflower fame, born 1588 in Ansterfield England, sought love with Alice Carpenter before emigrating. After Alice married another, he later reunited with her in the New World, marrying Alice again in 1623 and ruling Plymouth Colony for over three decades alongside a devoted, educated wife who contributed to Pilgrim Hall and local education.
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William Bradford
Plymouth Colony
Ansterfield
Yorkshire
England
Holland
Boston
Lincolnshire
Alice Carpenter
Alice
London
William
Carpenter
Constant Southworth
Dorothy May
America
Cape Cod
Dorothy
Mr. Bradford
Carver
Orly
Bradford
Pilgrim Hall
Do You Love Me Kiss The Book In A Flirtatious Way
Poetic exchange shows Fanny teasing about earnest love toward many girls. Narrator pleads and swears by an oath but stops as she stops him, and she quips that he has sworn now to kiss the book. A brief playful vignette in verse form.
Printer’s Subscriptions Paid Delight Our Shore
A cheerful verse celebrates boat arrivals and neighborly prosperity but places greatest cheer on printers receiving subscriptions paid, highlighting support for the press and community finance as a valued outcome.
Dining code of gestures and meanings revealed
A playful list matches tableware actions to secret phrases. Dropping your knife signals boredom while stirring coffee with a fork means affection. Wiping a knife on cloth equals agreement, and other actions reveal impatience, love, or delight. The quip turns dining habits into coded communication.
Who Are the Perjurers in the Brookyln Trial
The New York Sun analyzes the Brooklyn trial testimony, arguing that many witnesses may have committed perjury. It maps conflicting claims among Beecher Tilton Moulton and others, noting the tangled web of contradictions and the difficulty of identifying precise perjurers. The piece emphasizes the complexity of truth in the witness accounts.
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Brooklyn
Mr. Beecher
Mr. Tilton
Mr. Moulton
Moulton
Deacon West
Brother Bowen
Mr. James
Me. Beecher
Bessie Turner
Tracy
Oliver Johnson
Sam Wilkeson
Palmer
Woodley
Mrs. Woodhull
Family at work in Brunswick cotton mill makes news
A Brunswick Maine cotton mill shows a family unit with father mother and twenty four children all employed. The wife is the fourth wife. a brother of the husband lives with his fifth wife in Montreal and has twenty five children. Subscribe for The Register.
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Brunswick
Maine
Montreal
Mother’s Ring and a Mother’s Influence
A Western city tale tells of a tearful Irish girl seeking a rework of her broken gold ring, a mother’s parting gift. After a long search and repeated brass imitations, the jeweler Konra relents, moved by the plea that a mother’s memory should prevail, proving motherhood’s moral power.
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Konra
The Speculator Who Died Rich in Name but Bare of Goods
A wary portrait of a debtor who esteems wealth as imaginary and chases miracles to pay debts. He trusts all and is trusted in return, spends endlessly, and mocks frugality while his life ends with a hollow balance sheet as creditors seek what remains.
Nurse Arrested in England for Poison Plan on Baby
A young nurse was arrested on a charge of attempting to kill the child in her care by giving sulphate of copper with intent to poison. She admitted planning to reduce her summer workload.
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Sax
England
Mrs Siddons as Lady Randolph in a Shakespearean scene
A vivid reminiscence of Mrs Siddons’ performance as Lady Randolph. The essay traces her portrayal of maternal instinct, grief, and tenderness in the Norval scene, noting the father's defender stance, the emotional upheaval of the birth secret, and the climactic self-destructive impulse.
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Mrs. Siddons
Lady Randolph
Macready Sayy
Beverly
Norval
Lord Randolph
Randolph
Douglas
Glenalvon
Anna
Wouldn't Let His Boy Go Circus Tale From Connecticut
A husband and wife in a Connecticut village forbid their son to attend a circus visit. The boy defies the rule, the parents secretly enjoy the show, while a stray spit incident leaves the boy with a swollen eye. The tale ends with the Testament promise forgotten and a note about Kangaroo the racehorse.
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Ben
Connecticut
J. W. Dasenberry
Biessenburg
Ife
Oneole
Old Ben
The Noble Profession of Marriage and Its Legends
A London Society column extols aristocratic marriage alliances as grand social strategy. It highlights the Duchess of Gordon famed for arranging high-status matches for her daughters, including dukes and a marquis, with anecdotal tales of cunning and devotion, ending with a provocative note on how such unions are achieved.
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Auch
Gordon
Richmond
Bedford
Manchester
Marquis Cornwallis
Lynn
London Society
Stove Pipe And The Married Man Excerpt
A vivid polemic on stove pipe and its supposed domination over married men. The piece claims stove pipe is the sole ingredient of contrariness, provoking extreme reactions and remembered domestic strife, with emphatic, urgent rhetoric. It stresses that this is not a joke but solemn truth.
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Enda
Eleven Rebelions Across U S History Highlight Geneal Strains
A historical overview lists ten prior uprisings to the 1860s rebellion, numbering from 1782 to 1849. It details conspiracies and clashes such as the 1782 militia schemes, Shays’ insurrection, the whisky rebellion, the Hartford convention, Missouri statehood disputes, Georgia Creek lands clashes, Cherokee resistance, South Carolina nullification, Rhode Island suffrage conflicts, and Mormon resistance to federal authority.
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Washington
Shay
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Hartford Convention
Missouri
Union
Georgia
South Carolina
Rhode Island
Paris Trick Egg Dish Delights Diners at Table
In Paris cooks cut one egg with a gla zier and a diamond then slice it with an oiled knife. The halves drop into boiling butter on the plate and are fixed to appear as two eggs, fooling customers who have not seen the performance.
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Paris
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