Vast War Topics and Local Crises Reported From Abroad
London dispatches note proposed commercial treaties with Turkish principalities without home government reference. Reports from Cuba speak of large reinforcements sailing, and famine looming in Nebraska with up to 10,000 needing aid. Chicago population tallies at 395,226. Various standoffs and trials unfold including Count von Arnim, a Berlin dispatch on expatriation limits, and a series of fires, accidents, and political shifts across the U.S. and Europe.
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A College Garden Reverie and Dolly's Rise
A reflective piece traces memories of a college town, a Moravian Sister House, and Dolly a frontier girl who enters the narrator’s circle as a housekeeper and inn helper. It follows Dolly from quiet innocence to public attention as she drives horse races at Barnum’s Hippodrome, later becoming a respected wife and mother in Nebraska while the observer muses on art, memory, and the music hidden in old objects.
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George
George?” ‘Yes.” He Hesitated. “the Niece of Old Sister Baum
Dolly
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Correggio
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Pennsylvania
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Baum
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Joe
Nebraska
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Capers and caprice guide a goat and a dictionary
A playful tale shows Tommy learning word origins from a goat named Billy. The scene shifts to Annette in a crowded home, noticing mamma’s fatigue and discovering how small acts of care, like preparing broth, brighten a tired mother and teach family kindness.
Thanksgiving Proclamation by President Grant 1874
The President urges the nation to assemble in worship on Thursday November 26 to give thanks for mercy and favor of Almighty God and to observe a day of Thanksgiving and praise. Grant signs the proclamation dated October 20 1874 in Washington DC.
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Ohio
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Selma
Ala
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U.S. Grant
Denison Girl Seeks Clevelanded Union After Cherokee Nation Marriage
A Texas girl, twenty, arrives in Denison to wed John Arnold who has just married another woman in the Cherokee Nation. The bride and groom face possible nullification as a preacher offers to undo the ceremony while earnings and reputations are in question. Meanwhile Gotham reports 8000 dead shade trees felled by a storm.
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Tex
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Arnold
John
Texas
A Woman's Cold Feet Causes Brick Through Window
Mrs. Barrles warms feet with a brick kept by the bedside. Battles, after a sudden knee contact while praying, throws the brick in anger, striking a policeman below. He is arrested for assault and battery, pays a $20 fine, and is released. Mrs. Battles resumes warming her feet with a foot warmer instead.
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Battles
Baby and I and the Birdies Sing a Lullaby
A warm children’s verse celebrates Baby and I sharing joy with blue-eyed baby, birds in the sky, and blossoms. The speakers sing, play outside, and find comfort in nature as the birds and sky illuminate their world. The poem ends by affirming their friendship with birds and blossoms.
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Baby and I
Prosperous Texan keeps cattle by branding in frontier life
A Texan in Southwestern Texas, twenty years resident, claims 30,000 branded cattle by May 1873 while surviving on game and skins. He lives with a large family of nine children, a wife, and few animals in a log house, and insists on gold or silver for cattle sales. His eldest daughter, nineteen, can rope a steer and kill a wolf with a rifle. In contrast, Baptists in West Virginia grow from 10,000 after the war to about 24,000, with signs of further growth.
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Texas
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