Coquette Marie Genere and Herbert Maltravers Diamond Ring Entrapment
In a dramatic social tale set at a lavish gathering, Herbert confronts Marie Genere about their broken engagement fueled by her wealth and vanity. She deflects with charm until a dramatic reveal shows Marie still wearing the engagement ring as Herbert declares love lost. He reappears with his wife, Lucy, and the ring is reclaimed.
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Miss Genere
Marie
Herbert
Captain Horne
Mr. Maltravere
Herbert Maltravers
Marie Generes
Marie Genere
Éad Beartleas
Mariel
Terma
Hunter
Lincoln
Father
Hartman
Mr. Genere
Miss Genore
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Coquette
Miss. Genere
Lucy
Washington
Louisville Ledger
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Robeson
Delano
Akerman
Georgia
Cresswell
Maryland
Long Branch
Spinner
London
White House expenses and political clashes discussed
The article reviews the 1870 1 White House budget and staff costs under Grant, detailing salaries and duties from private secretary to lamp lighters. It also notes election contests, party strategy, and criticism of Republican governance, including the influence of Vanderbilt and the press amid national elections.
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Grant
White House
Congressional Globe
Congress
R. Douglas
T.J. Ely
L.p.suckley
C.c.sniffin
W. H. Crook
W. H. Fry
Horace Porter
Ssce Cenree
O. EB. Babcock
Ccosssessore
Badeatt -Ovesseee -Es-S
F. T. Dent
Vsss
Seeeenee
Eccce
Svsivseceeesee
N.C. Brooks
Ccces
Cass County
Board of Commissioners
Appellee
Circuit Court
General Assembly
Drullinger
State
Cass
Clark
Fearful Scenes of Famine in Persia
A dispatch from Tabney reports dire famine in central and southern Persia with hunger in the capital. Children sold as slaves to Turcomans, corpses dug up for food, pestilence and depopulation feared across regions including Khorosgon and Yazal. Mapstone notes a local mad dog antidote stone from England used to extract poison in hundreds of cases.
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Persia
New York
Tabney
Khorosgon
Ispahan
Shiax Karman
Yazal
Harrison Miller
Oaktown
England
Murphy
Terre’ Haute
Miller
Harrison
Vincennes Sun
Boy Dies After Stallion Dragging Crash in Jeffersonville
A tragic incident in Jeffersonville Indiana involved Christopher Taylor, an unidentified boy riding a stallion. The horse became frightened, threw him, dragged him, and fatally crushed him as it kicked and mauled his body.
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Jeffersonville
Ind
Christopher Taylor
Liberality in farming and animal care
The excerpt argues that liberal provision of utensils shelter and food boosts livestock and crop yields. It equates kindness to animals and diligent effort in cultivation with success, linking humane treatment to health, growth, and productivity in agriculture.
The Right Kind of Pity Proves Worth in Cash
A tale contrasts mere sympathy with practical aid as a French observer tempts a miserly man to part with twenty dollars to help a destitute widow and dying businessman. The crowd learns true pity is measured by action, not sentiment, ending with the poor man gaining a new horse and cart by nightfall.
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Becide Him
Profit in Hog Raising Reported by Indiana Farmer
A Thorntown farmer tallies hog profits noting six pigs grown to seven months at about 250 pounds each. He tracked corn input at eight dollars per hundred to estimate gross earnings, though exact net profit depends on origin, breed, and feeding starting size. The piece contrasts old hollowing elm peelers with profitable hogs and ends with a coffee joke overheard by a traveler.
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Thorntown
Indiana
Fragmented reminiscence from a playful dialect scene
The narrator recounts a noisy scene about a Shineyman and Mynbeer Nye with garbled speech and comic misstatements. The speaker asks for order and hints at a card game, admire or scold reactions, and mentions Iona with a line about eighty eight woolen rectories.
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Iona
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