Brothers Reunited Amid Sierra Blanca Snowstorm
In a rugged Sierra Blanca setting two brothers embrace after a perilous avalanche ordeal. Sim Belden, thought dead by Alice Thorpe, reveals his return and engagement news to her cousin Ethel. The tale follows their reunion, a move east, and Pedro’s life as a teacher at Carlisle Indian School.
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Garland
Sim
Alice Thorpe
Ethel
Alice
Sierra Blanca
Sim Belden
Pedro
Carlisle
Sim Belden’s New Year Rescue in Sierra Blanca
In St Luis Park on New Year’s Eve a snowbound tale unites brothers. Sim Belden, guardian of the Ute Pedro, braves a blizzard to rescue Jack Belden, who had vanished years earlier after a doomed love triangle with Alice Thorpe. The brothers reunite as the clock strikes midnight.
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St. Luis Park
Sierra Blanca
Sim Belden
Garland
Pedro
del Norte
Sim
Alleghanica
Pedro Welpe
Senor
Popus
Here
Jack
Jack Belden
Jeck
The Vestal at the Gate Poem
A poem by Ola Moore speaks to greeting a vestal at the gate with grace and warm welcome. It contemplates offerings, divine control of gifts, and silent hopes that sorrow may become a future blessing. The voice urges acceptance, patient faith, and reverent care in times of pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ola Moore
Ethel's New Year's Caller
A girl Ethel wishes for a grown up New Year’s caller but finds only a glossy black cat. She invites the cat inside, pets him, and declares the feline her lasting caller, marking the end of a single day’s wait with a year of companionship.
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Ethel
Sister Grace
Coldest thing of all in the chill month
In this poem fragment the speaker notes the cold reality of morning announcements and unreturned warmth. The lines describe a marble heart and rival wooing, ending with the image of fires out at 6 am.
Tidal Friction Rewrites Moon Earth Relations in Science
Harper’s Magazine highlights how tidal friction challenges the idea of a stable planetary system. It traces the moon’s acceleration to Earth's slowing rotation, predicts gradual changes over aeons, and notes historic shifts from Laplace to Darwin. The piece also cites figures like Adams Hemholtz and Spangler, tying celestial mechanics to broader growth and decay laws.
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H. S. Williams
Harper's Magazine
Laplace and Lagrange
Adams
Neptunian
Laplace
Hemholtz
Earth
G. H. Darwin
Securing a Substitute Prompted by Tragic Loss
Mattie expresses sympathy for Helen's bereavement over a lost poodle. Helen sobs and hints at needing to marry to cope, saying she may have to get married after her pet's death.
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Mattie
Helen
Hils Sorrow- Guyer- Downtrod Query
A fragment from the New York Evening Journal presents a humorous exchange with phrases about sorrow and a lost Downtrod. The dialogue includes lines about a man left alone with his sorrow and a joke regarding his wife's death.
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Guyer
Downtrod
Cheewit
New York Evening Journal
Bath house opens for the poor in Pittsburg on Thanks giving
William Shaw Jr of Pittsburg opens a bath house offering baths for five cents to the poor. The facility was inaugurated on Thanks giving day. The item also notes a humorous exchange about weight from Harper's Bazar and a January Century contribution by Mrs Martha Littlefield Phillips about Recollections of Washington and his friends drawing on family memories of General Greene.
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William Shaw, Jr
Pittsburg
Martha Littlefield Phillips
Washington
Nathaniel Greene
Bunco Limitation Targets Private Patent Offices and New Year
The new year ends bunco by banning private patent offices from calling themselves Patent Office and directs reliance on qualified lawyers. Also in Atlantic the first instalment of Gilbert Parker’s The Battle of the Strong debuts, set in Jersey in 1781 on the eve of a French attack.
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United States Patent Office
Iowa Patent Office
Nebraska Patent Office
Northwestern Patent
Atlantic
Gilbert Parker
Isle of
Jersey
Yowa Patent Office Report Sparks Public Explanation
A 19th century note discusses violations of patent office rules for non payment of filing fees and misleading communications to applicants. It cites Thomas G. Orwig and Ac ting Commissioner Greeley amid complaints of authority abuse and calls for correction.
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United States Patent Office
Greeley
Thomas G. Orwig
Patents
Des Moines
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Wyonio
Susquehanna
Mother
West
Lily
Call
Marjory Deane
Andrew M. Spangler
Philadelphia Board of Education
Philadelphia
Farm Journal
Philadelphia Evening Herald
the Star
the Globe
The
Evening Journal
Age
Philadelphia Home Guards
Brooklyn
Mr. Candle
Lamp
Mr. Lamp
Harper’s Bazar
Yowa Patent Office Report
Kise
R. W. King
Arch St
Philadelphis
Taft
Kim
Rocheater
N. Ys
Taet
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