Duel of Fathers and Fates Over a Poplarville Romance
Dorothy Brant's engagement to Richard Challoner unfolds amid a buried Civil War secret. Col. Brant owns a duel scene painting tied to Challoner's father, revealed by a letter from William Challoner forgiving Brant and praising him. Richard, moved, forgives the past and seeks union with Dorothy.
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Levison Brant
Dorothy
Mary
Poplarville
Col. Brant
Grand Army
Papa
Richard Challoner
Virginia
Young Challoner
Challoner
Zenius
Col. Srant
Coronel
Col. Challoner
Col Challoner
Richard
Mrs. Levison Brant
Col Brant
William Challoner
Unclear regional claim faces skeptical crowd
The text notes that some people are seen as untrustworthy by even the most credulous, yet they expect divine mercy or acceptance from the Lord despite their actions.
To the Devoted Dead
A memorial Day poem by John Harrison Mills from The Sunday Magazine depicts soldiers, flowers, and flags honoring the dead. It contrasts war’s losses with hopeful renewal, urging unity and reverent memory as the nation marches toward a shared destiny.
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John Harrison Mills
The
Sunday Magazine
Atchison Woman Files Peculiar Divorce Court Document
An Atchison wife, widow to a widower, files a strange court statement itemizing her husband’s first wife possessions. She lists two petticoats, wool, old corset, stockings, dresses, shirts, a thin gold ring, hair switch, breastpin, slippers, and a winter coat sworn before a notary. The document aims to forestall litigation by stepchildren over “mother's things” stored in the attic.
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Atchison
Lincoln State Journal
Pertinent Inquiry and a Scrub Brush Lesson
A humorous vignette features Mrs Fat-So and Mrs Thinne discussing willpower and smoking. Little Willie trips in a scrub brush and falls into a pail of soapy water. He asks where the angels go when spring cleaning in heaven begins.
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Willie
Shake Into Your Shoes and Foot Care Remedies
A collection of old advertisements notes Shake Into Your Shoes powder for feet, Allen's Foot-Ease, Lewis' cigars, Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and claims about Washington letters. Also mentions a Russian snow bathing custom and generic product pitches from druggists and stores.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed
A Milwaukee woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing long standing female troubles after doctors advised surgery. The letter from Mrs Emma Imax highlights backache relief and urges others to try the remedy before operation. Also appears is a local land sale notice offering farm tracts in Camp Co, Dakota.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkam
Lydia E. Binkham
Lydia E.ham
Emma Imax
First St
Pinkham Medicine Company
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Rs. Pinkham
Mas
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Ge Memorial
Lewiston Brant
Brant
Mamma
Atrife
Peggy Fale
Rie
Sone
Midway
G. Washington
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Russia
Grin and Stock Farm
Camp Co
Eastern
Dakota
BR. W. Barclay
Mason City
Iowa
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