Newport Dreamer and the Rich Stranger Tale
In a small town a young widow named Sarah travels to Newport with her sister Lucy. A tall wealthy bachelor, Charles Thornton, befriends Sarah and is intrigued by her portrait. Amid gossip and family meddling, Sarah discovers the charm of genuine character over aristocratic pretensions and eventually chooses a simpler life with Lawyer Giddings, marrying for love rather than status.
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Sarah
Aunt Perley
Mrs. Jenkins
Lucy
Newport
Welby
Jersey
Sawyer Giddings
Giddings
Lacy
Cousin Hirza
Timothy
Wellmont
Debbie
Croesus
Ciocters
Deb‘pis
Uncle Perley
Aunt Welby
Europe
Charles Thornton
Raymonds
Mrs. Walter
Raymond
John
Frederic Raymond
Sarah Spencer
Seth
Aunt Weltby
Mr. Thornton
Mr. Thoroton
Ayl
Aunt Welthy
Jesus
Annt
Cui Bono? A Philosophical Verse by Carlyle
A terse reflective poem fragment questions hope life and human fate. It contrasts a rainbow with wet conditions, a thawing iceboard at sea, and a newborn human striving. the speaker suggests transience, struggle, and mortality, ending with a solitary grave as the final measure.
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Urehin
Why Patriots Should Vote Against the Republican Party
A dated political column argues that only two Massachusetts Congressmen opposed the 1876 fraud and that the entire Republican Party supported it. It cites Julius H. Seelye and Henry L. Pierce as honorable dissenters and condemns Hayes’ party, urging readers to reject Garfield in 1880 if the party remains tainted by fraud, quoting W. Y. Sun.
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Congress
Massachusetts
Julius H. Seelye
Amherst College
Henry L. Pierce
Republican Party
Adams
Hayes
James A. Garfield
W. Y. Sun
River gunman shoots at swimmers in Laredo incident
A sheriff shot at heads surfacing from a river near Laredo Texas as convicts fled. Three swimmers were killed while a man kept awake by a barking dog complained he never wanted to shoot.
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Laredo
Texan
German Postmaster General reports 1878 postal cattle total
A return from the German Postmaster General lists Europe’s postal cattle count for 1878 at 342,000,000, indicating vast carrier use across the region. The note references Deidara in an obscure context.
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Europe
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