Charity Ball Romance Ends in Union for Allie Rivers
The Charity Ball at the Great Academy features Allie Rivers and Charlie Horton as they drift from courtly elegance to a private promenade. Amid family pressure and Solomon Yellowstone’s wary gaze, Charlie outmaneuvers objections, secures approval, and wins Allie’s hand with a kiss after a dash through the supper room.
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Charlie Horton
Prudence
Inclination
Strauss
Charlie
Alice Rivers
Great Academy
Tropics
Allie Rivers
Allie
Mamma
Solomon Yellowstone
Wall Street
Bowery
Solomon
Jonvin
Charles
Moneybags
Lexington Avenue
Papa
America
Slamma
Heathers Bloom in Autumn Bearing Love and Loss
A reflective poem recalling autumn, heather scented moorland, and a first love. The speaker revisits memories of a youthful kiss amid purple heather, then confronts the passage of time, loss, and resilience as maple leaves glow and the Atlantic separates them. The piece concludes with gratitude for growth through sorrow.
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Ruth
Scribner’s Monthly
A Parting and A Detroit Mother's Croquet Observation
A dramatic parting reveals a broken bond as two paths separate and a quiet farewell masks deep emotion. A Detroit mother muses on her daughters and the fatigue of chores versus croquet, noting the camphor bottle in a wry domestic contrast.
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Detroit
Untold Sums Invested in New Hampshire Gold Mine
A Peterborough mining venture has seen sixty thousand dollars sunk into the alleged gold mine with little to show for it. In California, deer plague El Dorado County vineyards, while debates arise over aiding the poor Indian, and a quip compares courtship to studying law as preparation for romance.
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Peterborough
N. H
The Vatican A Rich Depository of Art and History
This feature outlines the Vatican’s origins on Rome’s seventh hill, its evolution from a modest papal residence to a grand complex. It notes Pope Eugenius and Innocent II, the Avignon exile, Petrarch’s prayer for return, and the Vatican’s status as a vast treasury with 40,000 manuscripts and thousands of statues and antiquities.
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Rome
Nero
Eugenius
Innocent II
Peter II
Arragon
Clement V
France
Papal
Avignon
Vatican
Pontifical
Petrarch
Pliny
St. Thomas
St. Charles Boromeo
The Old Pioneer and His Tall Tales on the Car Ride
An elderly unnamed traveler on the train tells of the archetypal old pioneer, a respected figure who recalls early America and jokes about encounters with Washington Lafayette Penn and Columbus, claiming amazing feats and close ties to historic figures as he spins humorous reminiscences.
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Free Masons
John Morgan
New York
Chicago
Old Chemung County
George Washington
George
William Penn
Bill Penn
Bill
General Lafayette
Bunker Hill
Washington
Lafayette
Boston
France
Laif
Christopher Columbus
Christopher Golumbus
Chris
W. Quad
Excavations at Pompeii Reveal New Ancient Treasures
A Pompeii dig uncovers a woman and a man with life like postures, a dog mummified in agony, and inscriptions in wooden tablets. Rich rooms show frescoes, bronzes, and a Orpheus mural, while dining rooms reveal a temple and Diana and Minerva imagery. Artifacts move to Naples museum. excavation continues slowly. A separate note cites a claim from The American Chemist about wood preservation using linseed oil and charcoal.
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Pompeii
Adriane
Sheseus
Paris
Appleton
Orpheus
Diana
Minerva
Hermes
Priapus
Venus
Tlercules
Sicily
Mercury
Bacchus
Cupid
Naples
Tiber
Rome
Brooklyn
Bible pattern inspires Martha Jane on idle boys
Martha Jane finds in her Bible that the ant stands for industry and indignantly questions why lazy boys should be labeled truants. The reader is prompted to consider diligence and discipline in youth.
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Martha Jane
Moody Revivalism Converts Few Adherents In England
The report notes that among thousands converted under Moody's preaching in England, fewer than one in a hundred remained committed or "stuck" to the faith.
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England
Moody
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