Return to the North House A Thanksgiving Homecoming
Matthew Torrance, returning after twenty years, faces his past and a ruined life but finds forgiveness and reunion. In a Maine setting with Clara and Paul, his mother and uncle, he confronts the old sin of murder, meets his brother again, and finds new hope as the family prepares to celebrate Thanksgiving with two weddings and shared gratitude.
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Matthew — Torrance
Maine
Matthew Torrance
Mr. Hayes
Torrance
Cain
Abel
Matthew
Ebenezer
Clara Willis
Clara
Ebenezer Torrance
Squire Dean
Margaret
Aunt Miriam
Paul
Paul Torrance
Mat
Terold
Old
Maggie Dean
Monotype Craze Brings Paris Art to America Fad
The monotype craze, started in Paris by Hubert Herkimer, spreads to America as artists airdraft single impression zinc plate works. Parisians praise light and shade effects, while American households joke about lost wringers amid the art push and domestic inconveniences.
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America
Paris
Hubert Herkimer
Boston Boasts Of Vast Victorian Cargo From Layland Line
New York Tribune notes Boston pride over the Layland Line steamer Victorian strong eastward voyage. Cargo includes 155,000 bushels grain, 1,800 tons flour, 1,100 tons provisions, 5,300 bales cotton, 600 tons leather, 260 tons dressed beef, 75 tons cattle feed, 654 cattle, 1,591 sheep, with wide national reach from Rockies to Canada. Georgia, North Carolina, Northwest, Canada, Old Bay State also contribute varied goods and rum.
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New York Tribune
Boston
Layland Line
United States
Rocky Mountains
Canada
Georgia
North Carolina
Northwest
Old Bay State
Chinese Strawberry Bird in Topeka Draws Owner
Dr Eva Harding of Topeka Kansas owns a tiny Chinese Strawberry Bird noted for its small size and singing. The bird’s bill and breast feathers are blood red with a plumage flecked by white spots resembling strawberry seeds, and she says it is the town’s only one of its kind.
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Eva Harding
Topeka
Kan
Harding
Notes of the Day Offerings From a Varied World
The item surveys diverse curiosities from 19th century life including coal consumption by ocean steamers, postal stamp varieties, long lived animals, superstitions in Italy and Silesia, a valuable butterfly collection, an ancient Spanish coin found in Maine, Berne hosting a 1896 congress, lac used in pen glaze, and US daily stamp usage reaching billions per year.
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Barren County
Kentucky
Italy
Silesia
Neumoegen
Brooklyn
N. Y
Rumford Falls
Berne
United States
Gastric Dyspepsia Relief Prompted by Sarsaparilla
Mrs MaKGakit of Indian Falls New York details a year of severe dyspepsia and constipation. after six months with a physician and six bottles of Hood s Sarsaparilla she reports no stomach distress and no further trouble with dyspepsia.
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Savail
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Monsieur Reynard
Hood
Ington, Bec
Wetan
Malta
Sarninnitia Forrentivnee
Wis
Maghin
Somta Prete
Speier
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