Dorothy's Romance in Framleigh Homestead
Miss Dorothy Field, a demure Framleigh girl, falls for cousin Robert Deane during a May courtship in the rural village. He stays to help with his sick mother and writes from Salem after years apart. a published letter reveals unrequited love and fate. Dorothy grows old as Aunt Dorothy, famed for kindness, while a final postscript uncovers a long-lost confession from 40 years prior.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dorothy Field
Squire Field
Andrew
Fransleigh
Dorothy
Framleigh
Deacon Gray
Pramleigh
Cambridge
Rebecca
Thompson
Harvard
Robert
Ruth Hawkes
Woo
Sweet Alice
Ben Bolt
Robert Deane
Lttle
Nathaniel
Dayton
Burl
Hubert
Frambigne
Miss Dorothy
Boston
Chet
Tommy Chapin
Tommy
Frambeigh
Salem
Conoret
Rorent
Boiling Eggs With Electricity Experiments At Office
The Electric Supply company office at the Masonic temple on Third Street hosted a novel test boiling eggs by electricity. Luke Lilley, assistant electrician, supervised as six amperes and ninety six volts heated about two quarts of water in a tin cup. About thirteen dozen eggs were eaten as word spread among brokers bankers lawyers and other city men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Electric Supply Company
Masonic Temple
Third Street
Luke Lilley
Charley Marshall
Cincinnati Times-Star
LODED HORSES AND THE LOCOED HORSE MYTH
Col Juan D McCarthy recalls California stockmen debating locoed horses and the rattle weed cause. He narrates misbehaving locked horses, disputes over loco origins, and fanciful theories about sheep and ear ticks influencing equine madness. A New York Sun humor piece reflects frontier stockman lore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Sam Beacham
Sam
Plug
Billy
Acarce
Kern County
New York Sun
The Fever Ship Legend in Jamestown and Portsmouth
An old report notes yellow fever outbreaks on the Jamestown training ship in Baltimore and on the Portsmouth. After repairs and sanitation, outbreaks recurred or threats persisted, with deaths among crew and workers. The text questions whether a fever ship remains permanently tainted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamestown
Baltimore
Portsmouth
Norfolk
Navel Constructo
Hichborn
Unclear Bond Between Lovers Sparks Dramatic Quarrel
A Boston Times fragment recalls jealousy and a confrontation between Biss A and Misa B with a third party present. It describes overheard insults, a jealous argument, and a dramatic scene as onlookers react to the tension in the street. The dialogue hints at possible actions of passion amid a tense love triangle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tin
Iain
Biss A
Misa B
Ettemit
Boston Times
A Real Missionary Named Elsie Calls Neighbor to Heaven
A young girl named Elsie, living near a family the parents dislike, overhears their gloom about “godless” neighbors. She runs to the gate and sweetly implores the boy across the street to come to her house and “go to heaven” with them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W.croess
Elsie
New York Tribune
A Plea for Toltration Across Nations and Politics
A lengthy declamatory piece argues against treating Asians as heathen, urges restraint from evangelical abuse, and links China and Japan to broader moral questions. It also analyzes Pennsylvania politics with Pattison and Black, noting Quayism dynamics and GOP defenses of corporate regulation amid a harsh campaign tone.
McKinley tariff bill risk to world trade and farmers
The Philadelphia Herald argues the McKinley tariff would wall in the United States from foreign competition and provoke global retaliation. It warns that if Britain France and Germany shut out American goods, Western farmers and cotton interests would face collapse and widespread economic harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
America
Germany
France
England
West
Europe
Philadelphia Herald
Notable Cure Claims and Local Ads in Scraps
A San Francisco Call item quotes Charles Cosgrove saying he recovered from Bright's disease after taking five doses of Sulphur Bitters, and L Fenner of Waterbury credits three bottles for recovery. An eastern friend and a druggist named Lake are mentioned. Also a Pennsylvanian governor remark by M. Jost Quay is cited. A Diamond furniture store ad urges shoppers to compare prices before buying. For sale: eighty six acres near Tidioute, Pa, with 46 improved. CO E Logran, Tidioute, Pa listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Cosgrove
Bright
Tam
Keith
San Francisco
Jost
Tidioute
Callon
E. Logran
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Juan D. McCarthy
Hoffman House
Billy Edwards
Tolration
China
Japan
Mass
Alr. Moody
Farrar
Christ
India
Africa
Aun
Pattison
Black
New York Evening Post
Pennsylvania
Wallace
Harrisburg
Quay
Philadelphia
Delamater
Guay
Lake
L. Fenner
Waterbury
Conn
Diamond Furniture Store
Greenland
Water St
Warren, PA
Diamond Furniture CO
Mason Emery
W. H. Pickett & Co
H. A. Jamieson & Co
Sherman
Jewett’s
Steve Ranges
Syracuse
Gale
Warrep
Rte
Wim. Spinner
Diamond Breck
Gneida Valley
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