Coming Home. A tale of Nell and Fannie in Harlem cottage
Nell and Fannie, left to fend after a guardian’s betrayal and a vanished suitor, move to a small Harlem cottage. They adapt with Aunt Sue, share scarce funds, and welcome John Harris as boarder. News arrives that Fred Norris, once suspected, is cleared. a California-connected brother returns, bringing marriage for Fan as the year opens.
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Harlem
Nell
Fannie
Aunt Sus
Aunt Sue
Sue
James
Army
Navy
Fanny
Jane
Fan
Parker
Mr. Norris
Fred
Pan
Neil
Fannis
Fred. Norris
Susan Dorrimer
Herbert Norris
Punt
Rodney
New England
Europe
John Harris
Harris
Fred Norris
Msgs Dorrimer
John
California
Susan
New York
Nere
John Dorrimer
Swindler’s Kiss and Balloon Flight Near Miss in New England
The tale recalls a theater theft in which a woman’s missing brooch is replaced by a maid in disguise who accepts a kiss in exchange for the jewel. Separately Captain A E Moore and Prof S M Brooks recount a perilous balloon ascent near Winsted, Vermont, as a thunderstorm drove them into a frightening descent and a wrecked craft.
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Hartford Times
A. E. Moore
Moore
M Brooks
Bevere
Therones
Voyager
Brooks
3Foore
Eclipse of the Sun Observed in Grenada by Harvard Team
Prof Pickering and Harvard Observatory assistants observed the August solar eclipse in Grenada. A private Boston letter reports the event passed off smoothly with only forty five seconds lost to clouds. About 300 spectators gathered, policemen kept the crowd back, and a boy fainted while a dog threatened to leap from a parapet amid superstition that part of the island would vanish.
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Grenada
Prof
Pickering
Harvard Astronomical Observatory
Boston
Nven
Feeulte
Westward settler recalls cow theft by neighbor in claim clash
A Portland man now settled in Yakima country told of moving to a claim where a neighbor allegedly branded his cow. He said the man claimed the animal after the brand was on it, a practice said to be common in the area, though he called the neighbor not strictly honest.
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Portland Oregon
Yakima
Cone
Pikes County
The Wonders of Yellowstone Geysers and Sparks of Old Faithful
A letter to New York Mail and Express extols Yellowstone as home to over 100 geysers and 50 hot springs, led by Old Faithful. It describes towering eruptions, vivid colors, and dramatic landscapes with abundant basins, beehives, and named vents, noting the park’s power to alter terrain and its enduring, hourly spouts observed by visitors.
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New York Mail and Express
Yellowstone Park
Hecla
Iceland
California
Yosemite
Columbia
Masara
Somaiso
Indy
Blaine Republian
Iking
Blaine
Cleveland
Mmajesty
Norris Geyser
Powsitt
Paint Pot
Uni States Geological Survey
Ita
Noyes
Saiu
Wal
Turquoi
Grand Primate
Yellows Park
Veriabh
Nreviana
Mii
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Chicago News
St Petersburg
Alexandra Theater
the Nevsky
Palkin’s
Adober
Cirl
Life In the Wild West
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