Two Noted Women in Fiction Anna Katharine Green and Harriet Prescott Spofford
The article surveys Anna Katharine Green born 1846 in Brooklyn and her legal minded detective fiction including The Leavenworth Case and other titles. It also profiles Harriet Prescott Spofford born 1835 in Calais Maine, noting her rise from Newburyport to Boston and a string of works from In a Cellar to The Thief in the Night and beyond.
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Anna Katharine Green
Wer Literary Productions
Marriet Prescott Spofford
Leavenworth
Yale College
Brooklyn
N. Y
Buffalo
Ripley Female College
Poultney
Ies
Cynthia Wakeham
Risifi
Charles Rohifs
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Hamlet
Thomas Wentworth Higginson
Joseph N. Prescott
Boston Story
Atlantic Monthly
Richard S. Spofford
Boston
Dalton McCarthy a prominent Canadian jurist and politician
The text profiles Dalton McCarthy as a aged barrister from Barrie who rose to queen's counsel in Toronto and served in the Dominion parliament. He joined the conservatives and led the equal rights party, maintaining influence though never dominant.
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Pir Dalton McCarthy
Canada
Barrie
Ontario
Toronto
Queen's Counsel
Liberals
Equal Rights Party
Mr. McCarthy
Poems and Ballads Featured in Formative Works
A literary roundup highlights Carabas poems Hester Stanley at St Mark's and The Servant Girl Question alongside ballads about authors. The collection surveys verse forms and public reception, noting varied stylistic approaches across titles.
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Carabas
Hester Stanley
St. Mark’s
Settling an old grudge between two Chickamauga veterans
Two aged Union and Confederate survivors meet on a battlefield memory. They recall picket duty thirty-two years ago and share mutual acts of kindness a tobacco plug and whisky after years apart. The veterans shake hands and walk toward a tent together.
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Chickamauga
River Jordan
Not fable woman appears real to knight
The knight errant, dazed, sees a woman alight from a streetcar and declares she exists, racing home to don his mail as proof he is not dreaming. The fragment suggests a quest in a Detroit Tribune narrative arc.
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Fable
Troit Tribune
Horace Gray and His Record on the Supreme Court
Horace Gray, youngest associate justice elevated by President Arthur, born 1823 in Boston, Harvard graduate, served Massachusetts court reporter, later supreme justice, and finally associate justice of the U S Supreme Court in 1881. He is noted for fairness and opposition to corporate interests though he joined the chief on income tax cases. An adjacent piece reports a zookeepers superstition about straws observed by an orangutan and its dinner routine.
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Orace Gray
United States
Supreme Court
Arthur
Justice Gray
Boston
Mass
Harvard
Harvard Law School
Agace
Supreme Judicial Court of
Massachusetts
Supreme Court of the United States
Horace Gray
Utan
Zoo
Philadelphia
Borrowed Glory in Assembly Line Free Pass Mention
Nutty has been writing Hon. for years, as Van Pelt and an Assembly member sent him over the line on a free pass.
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Wool
Nutty
van Pelt
Townsend Joins New York Morning Journal Staff
George Alfred Townsend known as Gath, famed for political reporting, has attached himself to the staff of the New York Morning Journal. He was born in Georgetown Delaware in 1841.
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George Alfred Townsend
Summer Luxuries Describe Greenland Thaw On Ivigtut Route
Report from the bark Silicon detailing Greenland summer of mildest record. Mountains bare of ice and snow, wild animals pushed north, abundant birds and grouse, plentiful blueberries, warm southern waters allowing a rare Arctic bath. Passengers note Jersey coast colder water.
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Greenland
Silicon
Ivigtut
Jersey
Pewter Porringer Worthy of Dining Room Display
Refer to Pewter Vorringer Unstanter and urge finding a pewter porringer if none, to polish at a shop and keep for bonbon tray. It shines near silver and draws praise at women’s luncheons. Ancestors’ pewter valued for its good shape in a dining room cabinet.
November Breezes and Selections From Current Humor of the Week
A satirical column contrasts the end of the baseball season with football season. It lampoons the football fiend emerging from summer, describing his wild passion, chaotic influence, and the wish for him to be removed from the scene.
Fragmented dialogue reveals a threatened romance and implied danger
Excerpts show a strained confession of love and refusal, a casual weather exchange, and a tense warning about a girl visitor. The exchange hints at a past connection, a possible threat, and a chilling line about harming oneself if the man approaches Jack's sister arriving next day.
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Jack
How to Be Happy Though Poor
A humorous dialogue frames a struggling author seeking quiet to finish an article on happiness amid poverty. The scene recalls domestic chores and disruptions as he laments kids, bills, and noisy neighbors while his spouse declines help.
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Idora
Tommy
Johnny
Sis
They Might Marry Some Day
A fragment shows John and Betty discussing potential marriage with hesitant humor. They joke about the minister possibly marrying them to each other, expressing mutual reluctance and light fear about a future wedding.
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John
Betty
The Figures Correct and a Mysterious Trunk
In a brisk dialogue a railroad official questions what is in a trunk as a passenger admits his wife packed it. The exchange hints at a fatal action and grim humor surrounding the bad form and a death by one’s own action.
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