Love and Danger on the 59 Engine
John Mills, a veteran railroad engineer, charmed by operator Kate, devises a hidden telegraph scheme to warn of an approaching train. When the plan risks exposure, a perilous midnight setup averts disaster and Kate saves the day. Mills is promoted to chief engineer, and the lovers part with the railway gleaming in the night.
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Woman's Magazine
John Mills
John
Kate
Kara
Ncarm
Katel
I. Graves
Whersas
John Mille
Hse Saeeg
Slawson
A Quaker Wedding Observed At A Meeting House
A Detroit Free Press report describes a Quaker wedding in a plain white meeting-house with no spire. Attendees include old-fashioned gentry in drab dress, solemn worshipers, and a paper marriage certificate on a walnut table amid simple pine benches and a sliding partition. The piece also notes wheat shipments for Milwaukee and St. Paul in 1886 and 1846.
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Detroit Free Press
Meesing-House
Kisses and Kissing in Verse Across Ages
Long excerpt surveys definitions of kissing from poets and writers across eras. It cites Leland, Walcott, Bulwer, Southern, Dryden, Byron, Heine, Johannes Secundus, Pindar, and Shakespeare. It notes biblical and classical mentions, early Christian salutes, and popular customs from toll gates to bridal scenes, ending with reflections on aging and memory.
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Eac
Washington Evening Star
Worat
Leland
Byron
Crasham
Johannes Secundus
Pindar
Nettie
Cresus
Ave
Manfredi
Benevento
Babel
Heine
Jacob
Rachel
the Land
A Spartan Mother Supports Son’s College
The Picayune tells of a Southern mother who funds her son’s college by the labor she performs in cotton fields. Once a great slave owner with opulent comforts, she now walks the fields and picks cotton to earn money for his education.
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New Orleans Picayune
New Orleans
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