A Woman's Protest Poem From The Woman's Journal
A lone speaker declares she will not marry for a man's bread and throne. She mocks the idea of a superior half and imagines preferring a male ape until he evolves. The piece expresses female independence and resistance to patriarchal expectations.
Nanny Pettibone Buys Bees Builds Berry Patch
In a penniless Peters county family, seven Pettibone sisters face poverty after their father's death. Nanny Pettibone plans to raise bees, plant a strawberry patch, and market produce to support Jeannette and the others. Abigail, Angelina, Gertrude and Bertha weigh school, work, and writing ambitions as they adjust to new subsistence living.
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Ephraim
Aaron
Pettibones
Betsey
Tam
Mr. Comstock
Mrs. Comstock
Aaron Pettibone
Bessie
Abigail
Angelina
Nanny
Miss Abigail
Deacon Parmalee
Four Corners
Pshidi
Briges
Anuelinal
Jack
Abbie
Gertrude
Bertha
Scovill
Nan
Jeannette
Washington
Jean
Joseph—Briggs
Lance
Angie
Sturmier
Greenlan
Jol
Nanny Pettibon
Margru
Jeannie
Bess
Angelica
Family gossip hints at bees and painting talents across kin
In a rural parlor the Comstocks discuss kin and their ventures Bertha Abbie and Gerty are praised for stories teaching and teaching art Angie delights in managing six Driggies Nanny Pettibone tends a growing bee yard and strawberry patch while planning for a future with Squire Bartlett Ellen Jeannette Lizbeth and Aaron Pettibone figures surface with ambitions and pride Uncle Ephraim notes Nan’s progress and the boyish comparison with humor
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Ahea
Bertha
Abbie
Gerty
Angie
Ephrai Comstock
Nanny Pettibone
Betsey
Ham
Lizbeth
Deacon Parmalee
Nancy
Jeannette
Nanny
Bartlett
Ephraim
Aaron Pettibone
Webster's Last Fourth of July Oration Recalls Early Dawn Salutations
The text recounts Daniel Webster's final Fourth of July address delivered in Washington decades ago. It notes his habit of greeting the rising sun, his Marshfield mornings, and his jubilant opening remarks to mark the nation's anniversary and the occasion of President Fillmore laying cornerstones.
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Daniel Webster
City of Washington
Filmore
Capitol
Mr. Webster
Marshfield
Sceg
A Ribbon Through History in Love and War
Mrs. Sherwood Carr recounts ribbons as symbolic links across poetry and history. From blue and red tricolors to white cockades, ribbons bind royal loyalties, battles, and personal fates from Hastings to Fontenoy, linking lovers, heroes, and queens in a vivid tapestry.
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Sherwood Carr
Boston
Sybil
Cesar
Clotilde
Covins
Edith
Ivry
Mary Stuart
Gove
Leicester
Elizabeth
Buckingham
Anne of
Mile de la Valliere
Agnes
Amolphe
Perrin Daudia
St. Louis
Steinkirk
Anserlitz
Legion of Honor
Pompadourl
Jean Jaques
Massena
Mme. Flier
Waterford village mob punishes alleged wife beater
Citizens in Waterford Pennsylvania improvise a dripping post to shame a newlywed man accused of whipping his wife over breaking a plate. He was seized by three men, tied to a crockery crate, a fire alarm shorted, then expelled from the town and instructed to leave.
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Waterford
Hhs
Aieom
Uni Workwen