Easthill on Sea Sees a New Governess Arrive at Woodlands
Beryl Lindon arrives at Easthill on Sea seeking work as Mrs Tanner's new governess. The bleak seaside town shows rough edges as Tanner explains her past and plans for the Woodlands school while a wary Mary Wilmot weighs social constraints and money.
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Harold
Easthill-on- Sea
Easthill-on-Sea
Easthill
Dynevor Manor
Uplands
Hasthill
Kitty
Marton
Beryl Lindon
London
Elchester Square
Easthil
Brighton
Brussels
Wasthillon Sea
Beryl
Mrs. Tanner
Woodlands
Mia Tanner
Rhoda
Wilmats
Mary
Progile
Migs Lendon
Bery
Sussex
England
Wilmot
Oxford churchwomen earn money with clever recitals
The Methodist women of Oxford held a meeting to showcase how each contributed funds. Recitals included janitorial subcontracts, selling overshoes, cleaning, sewing, keeping quiet for a pay, cat killing, sidewalk sweeping, harness repairs, calf doctoring, and more. The piece closes with a Fuller quote on tombs and monuments.
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Methodist Church
Oxford
The
Boston Journal
Mary Dobbs
M. Collinge
American dances with Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace
The article recalls Richard Vaux of Philadelphia returning from London in 1887 after dancing with Queen Victoria at a Buckingham Palace court ball held for the coronation. Vaux, secretary to the U S minister to the court, was famed for charm and elegant manners, earning royal favor and social prominence among British nobility.
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Richard Vaux
Philadelphia
Court of St. James
Buckingham Palace
Queen Victoria
Vaux
Stevenson
United States
Court of St James
London
Silliman of New York Nestor of Law Passes at Ninety Five
Benjamin D. Silliman, Mayflower descendant and longtime New York lawyer, died at his Brooklyn home aged 95. A Yale graduate and former U S district attorney, he refused a large offer for prime Broadway Wall Street property and held a prominent abolitionist and Republican career.
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Benjamin D. Silliman
Brooklyn
New York
Yale University
Connecticut
John Alden
Priscilla Moulin
Loneyfellow
Vention
William Henry Harrison
Lincoln
United States
Columbia College
Silliman
Broadway
Wall Street
Ebbing Life and the Tide Death of Queen Victoria Notion
Superstitious readers link life exiting with the tide upon news of Queen Victoria’s death. The monarch died at 84 minutes past, near low water at Cowes on January 28.
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Queen Victoria
Cowes
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