A Bit of Gossip and a Country Home Reunion
Annie Lisle, a worn sewing girl, leaves her aunt’s house after rumors of an engagement to Dick Holland shift to Nellie’s marriage. She finds work in the country with the Grays, endures loneliness, then meets Dick in the woods. A mistaken rival tale collapses, and Annie and Dick reconcile amid family warmth and a starlit porch moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie Lisle
Madame
Annie
Helen Lisle
Dick Holland
Marsee
Kate Marsee
Disk Holland
Nell
Kate
Nellie
Sarah
Mrs. Gray
Apollo
Mr. Gray
Mr. Holland
Abs. Gray
Uncle Gray
Aunt Gray
Alice
The Truest Heart In Life I Find My Mother's Love
Poem recalling a mother’s enduring guidance and comfort from infancy through adult trials. The speaker thanks a mother for care during sleepless nights, teaching virtue and truth, and the lasting influence of her image guiding him through temptation and sorrow to the truest heart on Earth.
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Tam
Isles
Boy refuses circus money for missions after learning psalms
A San Antonio father vowed a dollar to his ten year old for memorizing a Bible chapter. The boy, torn between a circus and church plate, cried as he confessed he'd rather earn a living by cards and dog fights than fund the circus. The father pledged to send him to the Legislature if mischief continues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Johnny
Sonny
George Washington
Dollay
San Antonio Herald
Leap Year Jug-Handle Moves Through Eureka Streets
Eureka Sentinel notes a new walking style dubbed the leap year jug-handle where the man grips the lady’s arm above the elbow to steer through crowds. A Cherry Creek visitor jokes about the trend as a crowd laughs and quips about the woman’s footing and timing.
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Eureka
Main Street
Cherry Creek
Cherry
Widows’ Weeds Plan Echoed in Farm Advice Line
A fragment notes a farmer’s remark about social schemes or wooing tactics in rural life. The quoted line implies a humorous or pointed plan to handle widowhood through matchmaking language. No further context or names are provided.
Enigmatic Love and Breach of Promise Trial
A San Francisco breach of promise case unfolds with prurient letters and evasive sentiments. Keating, a stock broker, writes ardent notes to Emily, then has a clerk craft a formal response copying religious verse. The romance collapses, Emily sues for damages, and both await spring rise in stock and court action.
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San Francisco
Keating
Emily
Ife
Wisconsin Board Plans Three Story School Building
An exchange paper notes that a board of education has resolved to erect a building large enough to accommodate five hundred students, three stories high, suggesting an aim to increase tall student capacity in Wisconsin.
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Wisconsin
Board of Education
Quote on vice and crime by social class
A concise aphorism contrasts judgments of vice among the rich with perceived crimes of the poor, noting that actions by the wealthy are mistaken as errors while the poor are labeled crimes. The remark reflects class bias in moral policing.
Tragic tale of Seth after betrayal and suicide
A Boston Advertiser fragment recounts Seth returning home from fishing to discover Sarah Ann with another man. Overcome by despair he travels to Florida woods to cut live oak, is tormented by mosquitoes, and finally decapitates himself in the wildwood glades.
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Seth
Mackreling
Sarah Ann
Floriday
Boston Advertiser
Pair of Giants wed in London now live near Rochester
The two giants Capt Bates and Anna Swan who drew attention with their wedding in London years ago reside quietly near Rochester New York. He stands seven and a half feet tall and she is an inch taller, each over four hundred pounds. Their house rooms are eighteen feet high the doors twelve feet high. Their bedstead is ten feet long and furniture is proportionately large.
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London
Capt. Bates
Anna Swan
Rochester
N.Y
Advice on debt for young men from Mr Beecher
A Providence Press item quotes Mr Beecher urging youths to avoid debt and suggesting if debt is unavoidable it should finance a small home. The note ends with a remark about securing a combination lock, reflecting tone and period sensibility.
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Mr. Beecher
Providence Press
Rich knave is a libel on our laws says Young
A terse remark attributed to Young branding a “rich knave” as a libel on the laws. The quote appears in a reading of legal or political debate, reflecting tension over wealth and justice in the public sphere.
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New Harmony
Indiana
the Register
Co.v.slater
Silas
Sally
Tilden
Horatio Seymour
Mayor Wickham
Smith Ely, Jr
Third Avenue
Stem
Stern
Lilden
Hayes
Mr. Hayes
Peter Cooper
Mr. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Gramercy Park
Thomas Folsome
Hoorett House
New York World
Joe Jot
William Watkins
DE Witt C. Sprague
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