Shadrach Platt and Jerusha Pellet in a Puritan Standoff
In a Connecticut village, Shadrach Platt endures a stern father Captain Amzi and a courtship rivalry with Jerusha Pellet. After a rocky marriage to Jerusha, Shad achieves patience through trials, divorce, remarriage, and strategic legal maneuvers, rising to stake a political career while reshaping family ties.
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Amzi
Canaan
Shadrach
Meshach
Abednego
Nebuchadnezza
Shad
Mesbach
Shed
Bed
Bantam
Litchfield
Andrew Jackson
Pellet
Connecticut
Jerusha Pellet
Lundy's Lane
Ephraim
Mesback
Jerusha
Jeusha
Littie
Pratt
Job
Shaddy
Shed Allers
Marris
Jurusha
Platt
Patience
Shade
Old Platt
Reproaches and VTI Death Recalled Her Blindness
Fragmentary obituary note recalls a woman named Shadi Platt, her life with a man, multiple marriages, and five children. The text mentions a New York wed source and hints at past separations and eventual peace with a single wife.
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Shadi Platt
New York
Novel Reading on the Ocean and World Travel Letters
A narrator describes steamer life and reading aboard from San Francisco to Japan. He notes the global spread of novels, travel writing, and magazines, with Filipina or Asiatic readers discussing similar themes. The piece surveys cross cultural tastes in romance and social customs.
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San Francisco
Japan
Mal de Mer
Paul Dy
Ouida
Black
Wallace
Europe
D.N. Richardson
Exterminating the Mackere Urges Bill to Protect Spawning
A Boston Journal writer urges Congress to ban mackerel fishing during spawning season. He warns the purse seine fleet, 100 to 200 vessels off Cape Hatteras, destroys millions of eggs per barrel, risking extinction of the valuable fish.
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Boston Journal
Weedere
Cape Hatteras
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Shad Platt
Litchfield County
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