A Little Mistake Ends In A Wedding Surprise
Harvey Frothingham schemes to ruin his rival Fred Holman but a false note trails wrong conclusions. Josie Ormund’s secret marriage to Fred emerges as the truth when the couple’s integrity and bond are revealed, leaving Harvey exposed and chastened. In a tense twist, Fred’s uncle, James Rutherford, helps unite the couple and spare Josie from hardship as Fred’s true devotion wins Maude Chesterton’s blessing.
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Harvey Frothingham
Lon
Josephine Ormund
Josie
Maude Chesterton
Fred Holman
Fred
Arvey
Maude
Silas Pfrothingham
Starvey
Por Harvey
James Rutherford
Tie
Ife
Harvey
Josie Ormand
Ralph Street
Fred Nolman
Frederick Wolman
Frederick Holman
Maud Chesterton
Frank
Andred
Maure
Prank Holman
No. 28
Miss Chesterton
Frank Holman
Annie S. Frost
To Love to Forget and ts Bic Galaxy Poem
The poem by Joaquin Miller ponders three divine gifts love memory and death and frames love as peril and pain. It contrasts fleeting happiness with grief and ends reflecting on time, youth, and weariness as night approaches. The Galaxy magazine August issue is cited as the source.
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Lonesome Sea
Haven
Dark Mother
Galaxy
A Heart Song
A lyric fragment-centered meditation on love and longing. The speaker praises a beloved’s virtue, voice, and healing touch while admitting enduring desire for deeper companionship. The poem presents three labeled sections I II Ob with shifting images of joy devotion and emotional fulfillment through union.
Isolation Poem by Elinor Gray and 1866 Peace Quote
The piece reflects on isolation within intimate bonds and hints at a future day of mutual understanding. It includes a quoted remark by John A. Andrew urging vigorous peace prosecution after war, and ends with a fragment about bad weather. The text blends poetry with historical quotation and a trailing weather remark.
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John A. Andrew
A Chicago Wife and the Hammer Plot
A Chicago wife tries to convince her husband to fund a new summer hat and suit by imagining a road to guardianship and bank control after a hypothetical injury. Her husband, puzzled, learns of her request from a hardware dealer and later hands over funds for the purchase, only to return the hammer for preservation jars.
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Pine Street
Jara
Minister Refuses Lottery Prayer At Raleigh Sermon
A Raleigh minister gently rebuffed a stranger named Dolsecker who sought spiritual advice tied to a lottery ticket. The exchange ended quickly as the caller pressed questions about becoming a Christian, with the preacher declining to dwell on the matter.
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Raleigh
Dolsecker
Mr. Dolsecker
Raleigh Sentinel
The Russian Czar Obedience Tale Recalled
Aurelia Scholl retells a tale of Russian obedience from the Evenement. Czar Nicholas tests a general who jumps into the sea and a regiment that gallops to Siberia. The episode ends with the fate of the regiment and a lingering question of truth.
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Russia
Aurelia Scholl
Nicholas
Siberia
Bread and Lime Water as Healing Diet
Physicians increasingly prescribe bread and milk with lime water for indigestion and stomach weakness. Lime water improves digestion, even when milk alone is hard to digest, and a goblet with four tablespoons of lime water suits many. the preparation is lime water from unslaked lime John Scientific American notes.
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Scientific American
Reminiscence of De Foe in London Argonaut
The reminiscences describe Daniel Defoe as witty and satirical, a trader whose debts led to bankruptcy in 1692. He hid from creditors in Bristol as the "Sunday gentleman," later paying off debt from $85,000 to $25,000 and vowing to owe no man. The text notes reforms and odd prophecies about shirts and toads and ends with aphorisms.
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de Foe
Daniel de Foe
London Argonaut
Fleet
Bristol
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Slater
United States
Joaquin Miller
Beas
Elinor Gray
Atlantic Monthly
Chicago
Hie
Sax
Hayes
God
Georgia
South Carolina
Ear the Toad
the Tondy
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