The Usurer's Daughter Leads Ravensmere Lord Caraven
Lord Caraven and his wife Hildred journey to Bromhill where the earl confronts his failing estate and his wife offers to become head steward. She pledges to reform Ravensmere, improve living conditions, educate children, and manage labor with justice, earning his consent to place her in charge. The chapter ends with both reevaluating their roles and future.
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Caraven
Tam
van Tan
Raoul
Bromhill
Moores
Hildred
Mater
Sevant
Ravensmere
Holdred
Omeiun
Rayvensmere
Ladoamos
Blantyre
Lord Caraven
Twildred
Chapter NXIIII Caraven Dressed For Dinner
The excerpt recalls Caraven preparing for dinner and remembering the joyful faces and gracious words heard recently. She notes a change in her husband’s expression that day, suggesting a shift from indolence to awakening passion and prompting questions about his reaction to her ardent words.
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Cost of a Door Handle in a Special Room
The New York Sun notes the high cost of a custom door handle, priced at fifty to seventy five dollars for the first one. Architects, pattern makers, mold makers, and pourers all earn from the initial design to final casting, with price dropping as production increases.
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New York Sun
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H. P. Jones
E. Mulbury &J
Kokomo
Indiana
America
Bual Blessings Dialogue on Love Across Time
A fragmentary exchange features Edith and Uneta Crusty debating love’s value, with Puck chiming in. The playful dialogue hints at a literary or theatrical mood and characters named Edith Uneta and Puck in a whimsical scene.
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Edith
Puck
Puloters Stand By Their Cig
A brief item notes that puloters, though not militarily inclined, consistently back their cigarettes and habit practice remains strong among readers.
Heroes of Manila rise of Dewey and gallant captains
The article highlights Commodore Dewey’s Manila victory as a landmark naval feat and notes a congratulatory government resolution and a promotion to rear admiral. It goes on to profile Dewey’s career and detailing the service records of captains under his command, including Gridley Dyer Walker Wood and Wildes, with origins and academy ties.
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Manila
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Mississippi
Farragut
Vermont
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Kearsarge
Charles W. Gridley
Olympia
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Michigan
Oneida
West Gulf
Mobile Bay
Brooklyn
Monongahela
Trenton
Boston Navy Yard
Buffalo
N. Y
N. Mayo Dyer
Baltimore
Volunteer Navy
How to Induce Sleep Sleep ensues when the brain is large
An article discusses research linking brain size to sleep patterns and restfulness. It notes how sleep states may come more readily or deeply as brain architecture scales, with possible implications for understanding sleep disorders and brain function.
Naval careers of Dewey and Coghlan amid Civil War actions
Navy officers Dewey and Coghlan rise through Civil War duties aboard the Mississippi and other ships. Dewey fights Forts St Philip Port Hudson and Fort Fisher, commands ships, and earns promotions. Coghlan serves on the Raleigh and Pawnee after entering the Naval Academy in 1863. The report interleaves naval exploits with medical notes on sleep.
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Dewey
Lel
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Mississippi
Farragut
Mississippi River
New Orleans
Bailey
Fort St. Philip
Port Hudson
Agawan
North Atlantic
Fort Fisher
West Gulf
Glasgow
Randolph
Mobile Bay
Black Diamond
Morgan
Elk
Stockdale
Bureau of Navigation
Regular Navy
Ossippee
Dyer
Boston Navy Yard
Pointer
New Hampshire
Tennessee
Marion
Joseph B. Coghlan
Raleigh
Kentucky
Naval Academy
Illinois
Sacramento
Leutenant
Pawnee
Hamlet Humored as Little Streamlet Defies Size Claim
A witty note contrasts a streamlet and a hamlet, playfully suggesting a small stream can outsize a village by virtue of wordplay and misperception. The remark explores scale and naming with light humor.
What a Healthy Man Eats
A healthful man with a good appetite consumes in seventy years ninety six and one half tons of solid and liquid foods. A 150 pound man would eat and drink about 1 280 times his own weight in a lifetime. Transforming this food into work would lift 87 600 000 tons a foot or raise the Forth bridge to 1 235 feet.
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Forth Bridge
Allen's Foot-Ease Promises Quick Comfort for Aching Feet
Shake Into Your Shoes. Allen's Foot-Ease is a powder that cures painful swollen feet and instantly eases stings from corns and bunions. It makes tight shoes comfortable and helps sweaty hot tired feet. Sold by druggists and shoe stores. 25c by mail. trial package free. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Kingly Seat From Egypt’s Past Reaches British Museum
A venerable throne once belonging to Queen Hatsu from the Nile Valley around 1600 BCE now rests in the British Museum. The artifact, celebrated for its age and historical value, stands as a remarkable link to ancient royal life.
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British Museum
Hatsu
Nile Valley
Christ
You Can Rise Five Dollars Wheel Advertisement
A sales pitch offers an 1898 model wheel for five dollars with express charges paid and a privilege of examination. It directs readers to see the A B Ellis Mfg Co ad in another column and echoes a Daniel Webster quote praising self government and popular representation.
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Constipation Cure Ad Promises Refund of Money
An old newspaper ad touts Casoards Candy Cathartic as a remedy for constipation with a ten cent price and a refund offer if it fails. The copy ends with a satirical line about men and sin.
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