Pride Isn't Everything
Clementine Dill and her aunt Miss Emily Dill confront family tensions over a forbidden romance involving Jerry Landers. Emily agrees to support Jerry and Clementine, seeking forgiveness and a path to love, while Ebenezer Landers confronts pride and consent to their union. The couple reconciles as Emily offers a new, inclusive future.
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Clementine Dill
Miss Emily Dill
Clementine
Miss Dill
Clem
Doctor Brown
Miss Emily
Jerry Landers
Emily Dill
Ebenezer Landers
Landers
Emily
Augusta Barnes
Dill House
Augusta
Gussie
Jake Harry
Betsy
Ebenezer
Jerry
City A Veritable Beehive
W L Lull describes Chungking as a vast crowded city of six hundred thousand within a mile square. He notes foul smells, fog, heavy traffic, and drizzling rain as a boat trip begins, slipping down muddy banks to reach the river craft by its masthead flag.
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Chungking
W. L. Lull
Asia Magazine
Poems of James I Highlighted by Bodleian Supplement
The Bodleian Library issues a supplement to its Quarterly Record featuring five poems by James I printed from manuscripts in Fell type. The piece notes Henry VIII as a strong royal poet but praises James I for his occasional minor charm and two published volumes.
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Henry VIII
James I
Bodleian Library
The
Saturday Review
Suttee Abolished in India After Wide Scale Practice Ends
The article notes the historical practice of suttee where wives immolated themselves on their husband’s funeral pyre. It cites vigor of the custom across India, with 700 widows perishing in Bengal in one year. The British abolition came in 1820, though isolated cases persisted afterward.
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India
Bengal
Overeating Theory Quoted In Boarding House Dialogue
A boarding house keeper recalls a magazine asserting that two thirds of human diseases stem from overeating. A bachelor downplays illness in the establishment, noting months pass without anyone being sick.
Flannel Replaces Silk for Spring Coats and Sports Wear
Fashion notes describe a shift from silk to flannel and wool coats for spring and summer wear. Designers favor versatile, between-season coats with varied details including cape-inspired shapes, white flannel skirts, and coordinated white accents on dark coats.
Shabbona the Potawatomi Chief and White Friend of Whites
Shabbona born Ottawa and adopted into the Potawatomi rose to peace chief after marrying a Potawatomi woman. He helped save John Kinzie during Fort Dearborn and warned settlers before Stillman’s defeat. He opposed Black Hawk’s alliance, aided by his scouts service for General Atkinson, earned a pension, and died July 17, 1859 in Morris Illinois.
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Shabbona
Pontiac
Fort Dearborn
Sauganash
John Kinzie
Black Hawk
White Cloud
Stillman
Illinois
Indian Creek
Atkinson
Kansas
Illinois River
Morris, Il
Osceola the Seminole Leader and the Florida War
Osceola also known as Asiyaholo a bold Seminole chief leads resistance after the 1821 treaty and refusal to relocate. He drives war in 1835 after a stalled negotiation and is captured under a flag of truce before dying in January 1838 at Fort Moultrie.
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Mississippi
Osceola
Washington
Jackson
Thompson
Byusbng
Trons
Date
Florida
Asiyaholo
Jesup
Fort Moulgue
D. C
Thankful for a Little Child Lydia E Pinkham Ad
Kutztown Pennsylvania woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring health and enabling her baby to develop normally. The advertisement promises childless women may find relief and urges trial citing a fifty year record and widespread testimonials.
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Mrs. Mertz
Lydia E. Pinkham
Kutztown
Lydia E.pinkham
Sis
Thal
Charles A. Mertz
E. Pinkham
Deliberately Unfriendly Pocket Bible as Social Antic
A comical vignette describes Mr Grumpson as eccentric and unpopular. He carries a pocket Bible and interrupts a golfer by asking the player to place his right hand on it when he begins to boast about his score.
Public Indignation as a Persistent Social Theme
The piece notes that public mood leans on indignation as a lasting privilege. It contrasts forced smiles that resist fading with a monotony that can settle over society, hinting at a critique of public affect.
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McClure Newspaper Syndicate
Clemnie
China
Royal English Poets
RSA
Liu
Spohn’s
Spohn Medical CO
Goshen
IN Pty
Wesley Martin
Warwood
W. Va
Rown Products CO. Dept. N
Steubenville, O
King Pin Plug Tobacco
Cuticura
Agent * UN
Good Way Line
W.N. U. Ginginnati
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