Their Golden Wedding Reflects Half Century of Unity
Mary A. Denison recounts a couple’s fifty years since their wedding during a Christmas snowfall. The narrative sketches a life of shared burdens, mutual support, and enduring affection as they traveled together through fair weather and storms toward home and heaven.
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Mary A. Denison
Washington Star
Unholy passion leads to tragedy in Washington tale
In a dim room Richard Somers and Frances reveal guarded desire and secret vows. A pistol shot erupts as the couple confront truth and trust, leaving Somers mortally wounded and the room plunged into dawn’s silence as Dr. Brodnar acts.
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Richard Somers
Somers
A Draught of Fishes From Lake Michigan Run
In the early 1860s Mackinac Island residents report a historic fishing run. From Cross Village fishermen haul barrels of salt fish as nets yield about 20,000 pounds per day. A sudden west wind drives fish away and the shore fills with spawn days later.
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Mackinac Island
Cross Village
W. D. Hulbert
Frank Leslie
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised In Public Letters
Endorsements from New England women highlight Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a cure for pelvic inflammation painful periods and nervous prostration. Letters from Mrs Mabel Gookin Jamaica Plain and Mrs H S Ball New Haven cite relief and improved health after using the remedy.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
New England
America
Mrs. Pinkham
Mabel Gookin
Mechanic Falls
Maine
H. S. Ball
Orchard St
New Haven, Conn
The Wisdom of the Wise
A quip from Irish legal history about a young solicitor who declares clear opinion. The seasoned senior counsels him gently that at a minor point one should reveal only the preponderance of doubt. The tale appears in The Green Bag.
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Nestor
Distinction and a witty old Englishman quip
An eccentric grandiloquent Englishman deflects his wife’s pleas to mend wear. He declares a hole is merely an accident of a day while a dam signals premeditated poverty, a quip quoted from Youth's Companion.
Makart's Taciturn Dinner Ended by A Soubrette
A Vienna paper recalls painter Makart sitting in silence beside the soubrette Josephine Gallmeyer for an hour at dinner. At last she broke the quiet asking him to change the subject, to which he offered no speech.
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Richard Somers
Washington
Vienna
Makart
von Moltke
Josephine Gallmeyer
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