The Charity Girl Continues in London Encounters
Sheila Fraser meets Lady Daleswater in London as rumors swirl about Jacks illness and an inheritance plot. Beverley Rochfort reveals Roderick Anstruther’s dying confession claiming Audrey is his heir, and Audrey learns of a perilous marriage plan tied to guardianship and money.
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Rheila
Lady Dales- Water
Sheila
Lady Daleswater
Jack
London
Mrs. Fraser
Mrs. Watson
Daleswater House
Earl of Daleswater
Mountberry
Beverley Rochfort
Roderick Anstruther
Miss Fraser
Anstruther
Africa
England
Audrey
Frank
Constance Anstruther
John
Craiglands
Constance Fraser
Lily Flower
Amile
Mr. Thorngate
John Glendurwood
Lady John
Dr. Sentance
George
Lord Daleswater
Gladys
Beginning of the Trouble and Witty Exchanges
A playful exchange features Mrs Newed asking if pies rival her mother and Mr Newed affirming, recalling a boyhood escape. Other quips remark Mr Swags’s bushy lashes drawing attention and a jab about political machines and their makers, ending with a child’s “Bolts, Bobby.”
RAM''S HORN BLASTS And Warning Notes On Repentance
A compact retrospective of moral exhortations condemning alcohol and urging personal virtue. The text rails against self worship, praises restraint, and frames salvation as earned through thinking, effort, and right conduct, linking liquor to social and political harms.
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Still House
Witty Parsons and Colonial Church Charms in New England
In Old New England Churches Dolores Bacon notes the Quincy church once planned dual stone dressings for the east wall facing Baxter's house. Rev Wibird offered to pay for dress stone on his side. He also trimmed tax debts by removing names deemed unworthy. Lexington parish elders were asked to groom the minister’s horse and accompany him on trips, a duty the deacons declined to accept.
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Quincy
Masa
Dolores Bacon
Thomas Baxter
Mr. Wibird
Baxter's
Lexington
Mass
John Mahu
Teeming Millions of India Population Figures in Blue Book
The British blue book cites India's population at 204 million, up 41 million in twenty years amid famines and high death rates. About 192 million farm livelihoods rely on agriculture with rice as a staple. Christians exceed 3 million, natives 2.6 million. Illiteracy dominates, and taxes rose from 6 to 45 cents per person in ten years.
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India
Sure to Be Careful Lady Meeting Servant Story
London Punch remarks on a servant in a new position praising her employer and cautioning care. The item jokes about Morse Telegraphs and Arthur Young illustrating telegraph theory long before Morse’s birth. It notes a humorous anachronism about telegraphing by wire and 1775.
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London Punch
Morse
byArthur Young
Professor Morse
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Effie A. Rowlands
Mrs. Thorngate
Lord Iverne
Rameses
Nile
Red Sea
Old Rameses
St. Peter
Mayme
Edyth
Poolish Boy
Mr. Swags
Houston Post
Bobby
Kansas City Times
Ram
Witty Parsons
Idaho
Feight & Groves
Idaho Abstract Company
Bonded Abstracters
Caldwell
Iiding Bank
Bank
R. V. Sebree
Ello
F. P. Kipp
Brickyard
Boise River
D. S. Brown
Picard & Roberts
Sebree
Vico Pie
First National Bank
Kay
Caldwell, Idaho
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