Lemuel Habbiel Resists Mehitable Pierce’s Push for Pie
Lemuel, long sheltered by brothers Reuben and Silas, marries Mehitable Pierce and endures her controlling ways. He secretly resolves not to pretend, admits he made no resolution, and regains small freedoms as Mehitable’s pressure and his gentleness shape their strained marriage.
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Lemuel
Mekitable Pierce
Reuben
Silas
Meitable
Rewbon
Mehitalle
Hannah Morse
Greter
Lommel
Pierce
Hannah
Temuel
Cald J
Sentuel
She
Mohitable
Tomuel
Mose
Mehitable
Jegt
Lemuel Habbiel
Ray —Denple
New Year Reflections on Personal Growth and Community Help
D. J. R. Civedale urges readers to deepen spiritual and intellectual life, expand usefulness, and extend gifts through self denial. The piece stresses learning from past mistakes, seizing neglected opportunities, and starting fresh deeds each year, with a light Chicago Daily News quip about revolutions.
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Ife
D. J. R. Civedale
Vovasinn
Reich
Brodds
Jowel
Chicago Daily News
From Old Year to New Year Weighs of Hope and Courage
A reflective verse from Washington Home Magazine bids farewell to the old year. It speaks of packing away troubles and joys, leaving behind tears, fears, and failures, while carrying memories, smiles, prayers, and faithful moments into the New Year.
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Amos ! Wells
Washington Home Magazine
Animal Omens and New Year Superstitions
Domestic animals and their sounds on New Year’s Day are linked to omens in various countries. A dog’s bark or howl signals good or bad luck, a cat foretells residence changes, a pig brings plenty, and a jackdaw or magpie warns of deceit and violence. The notes survey southern Europe and Latin beliefs about fortune and misfortune for the year ahead.
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Europe
Whitewashed Prison Guard Relates Trimble Incident
An 1805 incident from Camp Chase involves Private Trimble of the Eighty eighth Ohio Guards who whitewashed a prison office after being ordered to scrub it. Lieut X, who disliked Trimble, laments seeing the mess, but Trimble asserts he followed orders to repaint everything. Trimble is jailed briefly before a captain releases him.
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Eighty-eighth Regiment
Ohio State Guards
Camp Chase
Trimble
American Tribune
Agai
Drimble
Trineble
Remembered the Dog in Pension Office Encounter
Pension Commissioner Ware recalls a Civil War era brigadier general who enters his Washington office asking about a bulldog named Major. The dog had been the pet of the First Iowa company and the general was known for his reckless ways. Ware slowly recognizes the man by the dog, not the name.
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Ware
Washington
First
Iowa
Major
Tom Regintor
Gains Priced. He who gains thne gains good
Chicago Daily News reports on a maxim about gain and moral value. The proverb-like line emphasizes that benefits obtained yield broader advantages. A brief editorial style note accompanies the motto.
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Chicago Daily News
Frail but Pugnacious Sigel in Wartime Tale
A New York writer recalls General Sigel as frail yet fiery, a friend of Gen Brand Rigel. At a Broadway saloon he held off roughs while telling German reminiscences, recalling Shenandoah at the American theater and a quarrel with a drunken critic over Sheridan.
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New York
Gen Brand Rigel
Washington Post
Broadway
Sigel
Park Row
Whit
Nancy
Thad
von Portyseeond Street
Bronson Howard
Phil Sheridan
Hernard
Quelled Mutiny on Hartford and Admiral Engle’s Civil War Link
A WWI era reminiscence recalls Rear Admiral Frederick Engle relieving a mutiny aboard the Hartford during the Civil War era in China. The Hartford later served as Farragut’s flagship, while Engle’s nephew Capt. J Edgar Engle earned honors in battles at Bermuda Hundred and Green Plains, Va. Bronze Old Guard medals derive from the Hartford propeller.
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Hartford
Navy Yard
China
Frederick Engle
Stribling
Engle
Washington Star
Vera Crux
Princeton
Confederacy
America
Farragut
J. Edgar Engle
Pennsylvania
Bermuda Hundred
Green Plains
Old Guard
Hurtford
Hound to Get He Gerald and Engagement Hint
Fragmentary dialogue suggests an engagement plan between Gerald and a character named Geraldine. The exchange notes hesitation about presenting a ring and references a potential mismatch with a band. The snippet reads like a quarrel over timing and suitability.
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Geraldine
Homemade fencing machine beats patent devices for farmers
LW Colvin in Form and Home describes a simple home made fencing machine using wood planks and wires. The plan weaves pickets between two bottom wires anchored by weights and poles. A gauge keeps pickets even and practice yields neat fencing rivaling patent machines.
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LW. Colvin
Winter on the Farm and Upgrading the Homestead
The article urges farmers to study during winter, invest in agricultural books and subscriptions, start a family reading club, and improve houses and barns. It stresses scientific farming, keeping up with new methods, and viewing the farm as a bank account to sustain fertility and profitability. Catered to brother farmers, the piece cites C. Pitman of Agricultural Epitomist.
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Leonuse
Brother Farmer
C. Pitman
Feeding hogs and breeding: learn to feed first
The Cincinnati Commercial Tribune notes weight for age is crucial in hogs and many failures stem from ignorance of feeding. Breeders should be good feeders, and those new to pure bred stock should gain experience on grade hogs to avoid costly losses. Cod liver oil with eliminants is suggested as a cheap supplement for cult raising.
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Ti le
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
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