For Love of Chloris and the Wetherell Family
A young Betty Wetherell submits a story to a magazine while clashing with her mother Lizzie and a graduate student who secretly urges Lizzie to enter the work. The prize goes to Lizzie, who wrote the tale herself, sparking anger, revelation, and reconciliation as Betty learns humility and honesty with her mother.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brownlow Street
Betty
Betty Wetherell
Ambrazon College
Scott
Stevenson
Milton
Browning
Macaulay
Lizsie Wetherell
Eversham's Magazine
Chloris
Litzle Wetherell
Ste
Nancy Towle
Maine
Nancy
Lizzie Wetherell
iLizzie Wetherell
Nanty Towle
Hattie
Eversham’s
Chloria
Prig
Ambrazon
Eversham
Evergham
Hiversham
Elizabeth Wetherell
Evért Wain
Everahan
Evernham’‘s
Lissle Wetherell
Eversham's
Liszle Wetherell
Words of Wisdom and Witty Sayings Collage
A compilation of aphorisms from various sources including American Cultivate Scottish Reformer Puck Buddha and New York Times. The items touch on fault, happiness, sacrifice, motivation, religion, and money with a mix of humor and moral counsel. Some entries quote notable figures while others present succinct maxims.
Industry and science notes on noises and petrified forests
A fragment discusses a Berlin professor's registering device for counting ear noises, a massive petrified forest in Arizona spanning hundreds of miles with multicolored logs, and theories on thunder sounds. It also mentions Agassiz's ice sheet depth estimates in New England, artesian well drilling timelines in France, and an electric wireless controlled truck in Omaha Union Pacific yards.
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Arizona
Grenelle
France
Passy
Maisons- Laffitte
Union Pacific Railroad
Omaha
Honest politics joke at dinner party in Chicago
A Washington Star item recounts Longworth in Chicago discussing honest politics. He quips that promising and performing differ, as Lurgan of Cincinnati tries to win a grocer's vote with a promise. The grocer replies skeptically, highlighting political skepticism amid campaign talk.
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Longworth
Chicago
Lurgan
Cincinnati
Rural police reform urged for safer roads and crime control
The Philadelphia Press argues for a robust rural police system to cover states, cities, and towns. It says gradual change will occur under the U.S. system of divided jurisdictions and urges constant patrols and closer ties between police and elites to better suppress crime and track murderers.
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Philadelphia Press
The Feminine Way Shoes Backfires in Chicago News
A humorous exchange shows a wife telling her husband the shoes don’t fit and must be exchanged. He assents, noting they feel comfortable even after an hour, revealing the discrepancy between comfort and fit in a witty tidbit from Chicago News.
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Joan
Chicago News
A Married Man Sergeant Questioned by Prisoner
A station sergeant is asked if he is married and replies no. An officer notes a searched prisoner’s pockets contain a clipped receipt for curing croup, a sample of alkl, and two unposted letters in a woman’s handwriting a week old.
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Sarge
Unclear OCR fragment on speech pacing and directions
Fragmentary OCR text shows garbled words about an orator, pacing of 7600 words per hour, and requests regarding directions and magnitudes. No identifiable person, place, organization, date, or event is confirmed.
David Grieves for Absalom and the final doom
A temple lesson on Absalom’s plotted rebellion against David, the divine overruling of Ahithophel’s counsel, and the fatal consequences of sin. The narrative contrasts God’s deliverance with Absalom’s ruin, emphasizing personal responsibility and the father’s deep grief.
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B. C
Ahithophel
Sam
Hushal
Absalom
David
Joab
Ahimaas
Abimaas
God
Ahimans
Jehovah
Jehowah
Abimaasz
Christ
Farmer Killed by His Horses in Narrow Road
A. L. Craft, a Thompson area farmer in Susquehanna County Pa, was instantly killed when his team backed a wagon over an embankment while trying to pass another team on a narrow dug road. The frightened horses threw him from the wagon, breaking his neck.
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A. L. Craft
Thompson
Susquehanna County
Susquehanna
Mr. Craft
Also Mentioned on This Page
Words OF
Puck
Atchison Globe
Buddha
New York Times
Mary Emily Case
Indiana
Terie May
Terrence
Industry
Professor Rubner
The
Univerversity of
Berlin
Louis Agassiz
New England
Surday-School
International Lessny
David Grieves
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