Broken promises and a homeward path in a village tale
Ann Friend plans to leave her husband John a maimed exiled man returns home after illness. She confronts guilt as she finds his frail figure by the road, then tears down a bank to guide him back, while the husband acknowledges hardship and a hard-won reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann
Dedgision
Joln
Ann Friend
Ann Ifriend
John
Tohn
Tolin
Garrick
Mr. Watkins
Western reserve Ohio centennial and pioneer memories
The article recalls the Western reserve in Ohio celebrating its centennial with notes on early hardship, the first white child’s starvation death, the first church dedicated with whisky, notable natives like Garfield and McKinley, and frontier figures such as Sweatland and Harper. It mentions Underground Railroad stations, the mercy work of temperance members, and early transport myths. It closes with a humorous elevator anecdote.
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Western Reserve
Ohio
James A. Garfield
William McKinley
Will
Iam
Dean Flewells
Giddings
Wade
Giddings & Wade
Jefferson
Ashtabula County
Little Jefferson
Liberty
McKinley
Niles
Mentor
William Dean Howells
Edith Thomas
Geneva
Sweatland
Alexander Harper
Unionville
Harper
John Brown
Empress of China in Spotlight Amid Boxer Turmoil
A feature sketches the life of Tsi An, from slave to empress in China, amid Boxers upheaval. It notes her Manchu noblelineage, escape from foot binding, literacy, and rise after 1848 as a favored royal concubine and eventual ruler candidate.
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China
Celestial Kingdom
Pekin
Canton
Tsi An
Hien Fung
Imperial Palace
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Hau At
Marans
JAYS
TERN
CELE
Waisky
Honmge Temple
Kirkland
Empress OF China
Marvelona
Republican
Endeav
Putin
Ithe
Congress
Owen
Watkins
Sudan
Etchener
Dpowager Enpress OF
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