02 Aug 1870
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 02, 1870
Page
1
Alma Crofts, a spirited beauty, yields to pride and breaks engagement with Leon Harris, who accepts a California agency. Letters reveal Alma’s growth into a noble woman while Leon roams the West, but a reunion unfolds on Saint Valentine’s Day as Alma’s hidden ring and a photograph hint at reconciliation and marriage.
Alma endures a strained romance with Leon Harris as Aunt Mercy probes the rift. Alma recalls a quarrel over a bouquet and a party remark that led to a broken engagement. She vows to stay free from fault finding and dictation, hoping Leon will not return.
A nostalgic column recounts John Howard Payne author of Home Sweet Home who lived without a home of his own amid office humiliations. The piece recalls Payne’s Paris Berlin and London visits and his struggle for bread while the world sang his song. It pairs his sorrow with a humorous baseball sketch from the same era.
An elderly woman asked a neighbor to read a letter she believed came from her son Johnny who often stutters. The neighbor began reading "Dear mother" but the script was hard to decipher, provoking the mother's exclamation. A man named A Dutenman relates losing two similar horses and mixing them up as one horse kicked and the other was whipped, illustrating the humorous misidentification.
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