Diamond Ring Jeopardy Sparks Domestic Turmoil
In a domestic farce, Mrs. Torrance accuses her maid Mildred of stealing a thousand-dollar diamond. Her husband Archy defends her, insisting on trust, while the couple quarrels over evidence, money for Mildred’s sister, and the potential for a public scandal. The missing stone finally reappears when a handkerchief reveals the diamond on the carpet.
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Mrs. Torrance
Archie Bald
Mildred
Archy
Mr Torrance
Archibald
Reading
Mr. Torrance
Gwendaline
Predegonde
Gladys
Noras
Ellens
England
Elizas
Mary Anns
Jane
Rosamond
Xatherine
Eloise
Vane
Patricia
Hannah
Torrance
Mabel
Mrs Torrance
China Service
Grandfather de
Janet
Tor- Trance
Saga
Nathan
David
Mrs. Veasy
Mr. Archy
Law in the East and West collage of quotes
A speaker recounts experiences with law from Ohio to Colorado showing how courts and statutes sometimes thwart justice. The tale includes embezzlement charges, dismissed cases, and a reaction to legal systems, ending with praise for a lawless practical remedy and a caveat on legality.
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Thompson
Ohio
Butler
Chicago
Irm
St Lews
The
Commonwealth and Smith, Butler & Co
Colorado
Billy
Bill
A Compromise Between Sophomore and Intellectual Pair
A Bour Harvard sophomores mix philosophy and mathematics during a vacation reading session with a perceptive young woman visiting her sister. The scene unfolds as they read Corneille and negotiate a playful bargain to pause for affection while continuing study in the quiet morning hours.
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Bour
Harvard
Corneille
George
Boxton Advertiser
Theodore O Hara remembered for Shiloh and Buena Vista poem
The piece recalls Colonel Theodore O Hara famed for writing the poem Bivouac of the Dead and his role in the Confederate Army. It notes his birth in Danville Kentucky in 1820, his Texas writings, service under Beauregard, and death in Barbour County Alabama on the 7th.
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Theodore O’hara
Piniglo Porm
Thomas Gray
Hurchyard
Theodore O'Hara
O ‘Fara
Kentucky
Buena, Vista
Mexico
Frankfort
Hara
Prentice
Qolars
Danville
Aytoun
Republic of Texas
O'Hara
George Cruikshank
Lfe
Calhoun
Alabama Volunteers
Beauregard
Shiloh
William Preston
Preston
Albert Sidney) Johnston
Harris
Tennessee
Johnston
Theodore O’ Hara
Jie
Confederacy
Barour County
Alabama
Monument Erected Over River of the Dead Remains
In June 1867 and 1872 the Kentucky Legislature moved remains to inter them in the soil of the native state and erected a memorial. The monument bears the first stanza of the "Rivoy ue of the Dead" inscribed atop it.
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Kentucky
The Deadly Unintoxicating Bow In Court
In San Francisco Examiner prose a courtroom tale features G Gaston Brown of Oakland pleading for thirty days. The judge questions his sobriety as Brown explains a plan to write on temperance effects while detailing a comical sequence of drunkenness and lemonade before relapse.
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San Francisco Examiner
G. Gaston Brown
Oakland
Mr. Brown
Brown
Deen
What Neuralgia Means
Neuralgia signals a low health condition and higher risk of severe diseases. The article urges vigorous vitality and robust nerve power, especially in fall, to prevent sleep loss and body pain, advising prompt treatment to avoid constitutional danger.
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Lancer
Anecdote of Bishop Simpeon in American Magezine
An uncle relates a gift showing Bishop Simpeon in a Pennsylvanian town. A stranger arrives and, after asking for the preacher, delivers a powerful sermon at a Methodist church. The pastor, surprised by the name, proclaims him Bishop Simpeon and leads the audience in praise.
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Mageszine
Pennsylvania
Methodist Church
simpHon
Si Dent
Binpaon
Iletens
Simpeon
The Great Man and His Bet at the Inn
Count Moltedaninn visited a village inn and ordered a double beer. He paid ten pfennigs and received no change or refund after a favorable taste remark. Days later he returned, demanded the ten pfennig, and left when the landlord refused.
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Prom
Taghlatt
Moledaninn
Moltke
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Rmy Darling
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Mar Per's Bazar
Jones
Coll & Co
New Haven
St. Loui
Simpe
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