Mary Marie's Diary Explores Dual Life and Family Rift
A preface to Victory! Synopsis details Mary Marie's claimed dual personality and diary turning into a novel. The diary begins at Andersonville with Nurse Sarah recounting Mary’s birth, a famed astronomer father, and a contested name. Mary discusses family estrangement, a Western divorce, and alternating custody between Boston and her father as she grapples with schooling and revolt against ascribed roles.
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Mary Marie
Andersonville
Mary
Sarah
Viola
Abigail Jane
West
Boston
Marie
Father and Mary Face School Decision in Tense Scene
In a strained dinner and after, Mary explains to Father that she cannot return to school because of her mother. Aunt Jane pushes for study, while Father asserts Mary will not attend and offers to tutor her, hinting at a quiet bond forming between them.
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Ile
Mary
Mother
Nan
Jane
E Girls
Stellan Mayhew
Carrie
Br- Jekyll and
Mr. Hyde
Ater Anyhne
Father
Aunt Jane
Charles
Alury
Rbesides
Innie
June
Hnard
Ann Janeane
Marie
Crows and Their Notable Traits Explored
A fragmented passage discusses crows as distinct birds with personality and talent. It mentions jackdaws and other corvids and notes the world’s limited ability to perceive their society and behavior.
Smock Marriage a Curious Old Custom in Maine
A Bangor lawyer, poring through colonial records in Wiscasset, uncovers 18th century references to smock marriages where brides wore a sheet or relied on witnesses to wed without clergy. Accounts from Bradford 1773 and Meduncook 1772 show couples legally binding themselves in the absence of a minister, with various devices used to avoid debt liability.
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Bangor, Me
Bangor
Wiscasset
Lincoln County
Emgrand
England
Birmingham
Essex
Bradford
James Batley
Mary Bacon
Lydia
Eliazer Burbinnkr
Margaret
Caleb Burbankel
Flint
William É Ty
George
Maing
Asechusetts Bay
cotony-to-the-Crunries-of- Lincoln and
York
Friendship
Knox County
Weduncook
Sandy Harbor
Maine
W. Elwell
Meduncook
Uannah Thomas
Wadsworth
Medhuicook
Wm. Elwell Nial Tanaith Thomas
Smnitige
William Elavell
Elwell
Hannah Thomas
Frost
Willam Elwell
Elannah
Hannah
Elias
Snake as Sunshade Handle at Lawn Party
An odd fashion trend reports guests at a lawn party carrying exotic animal props and actual pets. A striking centerpiece shows a decorated snake used as a sunshade handle held by its owner, while women parade foxes cats and even a chimpanzee with car rides.
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Bondon
Pedigree Hunt in Britain Draws American Interest
London features a rising craze for true ancestral records among visiting Americans. Genealogists highlight deposition books from old courts as rich sources containing spoken words of ancestors, beyond mere names and dates, with access limited by public inspection rules. The Society of Genealogists leads a vast index project containing millions of baptisms and related details.
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London
Jaye Sette Fothergill
Society of Genealogists
Court of Chancery
Man Claims Life Sentence While Fishing With Net
In San Quentin California Carlo Ballester claims a prison life stretch and receives a warning from a fish warden after admitting fishing with a net. The warden confiscates the net and ejects Ballester from the scene.
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San Quentin
Cal
Carlo Ballester
Carlo
Bane
San Quentin Prison
Amishing
Aged Woman Tends West Town Garden Daily
An eighty seven year old woman, Nutdrell Olaire William Russelly, lives in the west end and tends a half acre garden filled with vegetables and flowers. The garden is kept in excellent shape and is worked solely by Mrs Russell, who rises at 4 o clock every morning and works in her garden most of each day.
Pennsylvania soft coal reserves estimated for 290 years
Harrisburg announces that Pennsylvania holds 48,850,360,000 short tons of recoverable coal based on a topographic and geological survey. The supply is less than earlier estimates, with original bituminous deposits set at 75,250,055,000 tons and 5,519,005,000 mined. waste reduces recoverable amounts.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Department of Internal Affairs
Bureau. of Topographic and Geological Survey
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By Heanor H. Porter
R. H. Livingstone
9 Society
Mutron
Philadelphia Navy Yard
Lakehurst
N. J
Trousseau
Pedigree Hunt
Britain
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