The Minuet and Hepsey Brooks Reunite at May Festival
In a village May festival Miss Hepsey, the subject of gossip for years, dances a minuet with Mr. Brooks, her youthful sweetheart. After a forty year separation they reconcile, aided by Miss Villiers, and Hepsey moves to the Grange as Mrs. Hepsibah Brooks.
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Hepsibah Springer
Dorothy Palmer
Dolly
Dorothy
Miss Hepsey
Miss Villiers
Villiers
Hepsey
Brooks
Hepsibah Brooks
Boston Post
Profits in Organ Grinding by Two London Clerks
Henry St Penny a bankruptcy clerk and A J Southgate described a wager driven eight hour street music day. They hired a piano organ, performed from Peckham to Old Kent Road, collected from passersby and pubs, and after expenses earned 2 pounds 1 shilling 1 and a half pence. The tale highlighted sympathy from poorer crowds over better-heeled folk.
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London
London Mail
Henry St. Penny
Daily Mail
Penny
A. J. Southgate
Devonian Club
Charles Ricci
Warner Street
Clerkenwell
Old Kent Road
Peckham
Jones & Higgins
Mr. Ricci
Elephant and Castle
New Kent Road
Old
Kent Road
Ricci
Momentum of an Ocean Liner
Experiments show a large ocean steamer at nineteen knots per hour will drift more than two miles after its engines are stopped and reversed.
Ex-Gov Fletcher First Abolition Governor of Missouri
Obituary for former Missouri governor Thomas C. Fletcher who died in Washington. Born in 1794 at Herculaneum, he was the state’s first abolitionist governor after the Civil War, served 1865–1869, and remained active in law and railroad matters while dividing time between St. Louis and Washington.
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Thomas
Fletcher
Washington
Southwest
Herculaneum
Jefferson County
Missouri
St. Louis
Thomas C. Fletcher
Southwestern
Pacific Railway
Court of Claims
Tom Fletcher
B. K Bruce
Mississippi
Bruce
Vietcher
Not Meant for Him
A New York quiet citizen in a crowded cable car gives up his seat to a domineering woman who demands he sit on her lap. He balks but she insists claiming she is addressing her niece behind him. The scene unfolds with public sympathy for the modest man.
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New York
Sun
Thick Fogs Across the Railways in Britain
A London Tit Bits item notes fogs delaying a morning train to the city with visibility so poor the driver stops to feel the rails. Another speaker from the railway company jokes that in Lincolnshire the fog is thick enough that the driver must get out and lead the engine.
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Lincolnshire
London
Longevity After Sea Adrift Ends in 103rd Birthday
Mrs. Margaret Bootman of Hoosick Falls New York died at 103 after surviving a wreck at sea sixty years earlier. She and her 10 month old child were lashed to a mast and drifted three days without food or drink before rescue by an American vessel. Her secret rule was Early to bed and early to rise.
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Margaret Bootman
Hoosick Falls
N. Y
Germany
Babe
Albany lawmakers clash over abolition of death penalty
In Albany the law-makers wrangle over abolishing the death penalty. A successor to this reform effort is portrayed as a great benefactor to those who break laws, while an advertisement touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for indigestion and constipation. The Office Boy and the Lawyer banter about quibbles and their monetary value.
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Albany
Hostetter
James
Lightning deaths in France top six thousand across centuries
A historical note cites that since 1485, 6,198 people have been killed by lightning in France. The claim frames a long running safety concern tied to storm events and public awareness.
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France
Frances Dean of Willard Hospital Praises Pe-ru-na
Miss Georgiana Dean, three year Liberia missionary and nurse trainee at Frances E. Willard Hospital, writes from Chicago praising Pe-ru-na for treating obstinate catarrh and dyspepsia symptoms. She notes cures and urges sending a free health book by Dr. Hartman.
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Georgiana Dean
Liberia
M. E. Church
Chicago
Frances E. Willard National Temperance Hospital of
Ill
Mfg. Co
Columbus
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Columbus, O
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Union Pacific
Main Street
McClure
Booth Taskington
Indianapolis
Santa Fe
Missouri River
C. F. Warren
Dooly Block
Salt Lake City
Utah
Earthly Toys
Christopher Valentine
St. Nicholas
J. Nichols
Princeton
Ind
Frances Willard Hospital
Ower
TOWER
J.h.mclean
Bright
DR. J. H. McLean Medicine CO
ST. Lous, MO
Ripans Chemical Co
Carter’s
Carter’s Ink CO
Boston
Mass
Western
Canada
Department Interior
Ottawa
C. J. Broughton
Monadnock Block
R N. A
Salt Lake
Finswering
Klodly
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