Christmas Ball Amid Blizzard at Fort Frayne
In a snowbound Fort Frayne ballroom, Leale informs Helen that her husband faces murder charges and must be handed to civilian authorities. Royle Farrar pleads for aid, while Graice’s fate and the guard’s tense vigil highlight a night of personal loyalties, danger, and looming justice.
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Rockies
Old Fort Frayne
Leale
Tattoo
Helen Daunton
Mrs. Farrar
Helen
Leah
Ormsby
Royle Farrar
Will
Farrar
Crow Knife
Graice
Seale
Kitty
Fenton
Colonel Farrar
Will Farrar
Danc
Captain Seale
Blackguard
Grafton
Farwell
Malcolm Seale
Terry
Ellis
Willy
Wayne
Malcolm
Desperate Fire Threatens Fort Frayne Tower
Helen Daunton confronts danger as Graice torches the guardhouse and a climber reaches the tower. Amid rescue attempts, Malcolm Seale’s fate and a fevered dance interweave with a mother’s sorrow and a forbidden love. The escalating blaze and storm lash Fort Frayne as the night ends in uncertainty.
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Helen Daunton
Lancers
Helen
Fort Frayne
Mrs. Farrar
Rorke
Graice
Sorr
Will
Kitty
Old Christmas Sports and the Ancient English Mirth
Boston Herald outlines how Christmas sports once defined the season in England with games such as hoodman blind snap dragon and hunt the slipper. It recalls Queen Elizabeth era revels with the Lord of Misrule and boar’s head feasts while tracing Druidic roots for customs like mistletoe and Yuletide festivities.
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Hoodman
Hunt
Bess
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Lord of Misrule
Elizabeth
Leicester
Essex
Southampton
Pembroke
Raleigh
Bacon
England
Thor
Boston Herald
Doily Menu Cards with Holly Leaves Theme
Two holly leaf menu cards stand before each plate, joined at their points and painted to resemble leaves. The inside displays the menu in quotation form, echoing literary lines about soup fish pie and coffee as a decorous, period voice.
Harper's Weekly Enters Forty Years of Public Service
Harper's Weekly marks forty years since its 1857 launch and outlines plans for 1897. The issue previews ongoing cartoons serials and stories by Mary E. Wilkins and E F Benson, plus Bangs and Newell collaborations. It highlights departments by Howell Martin and others, pledging continued world news and leading illustrated journalism for Americans.
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Trilby
Frank R. Stockton
William Dean Howells
Mark Twain
Thomas Nelson Page
Richard Harding Davis
Owen Wister
John Kendrick Bangs
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Octave Thanet
Mary E. Wilkins
Henry Smith Williams
Andrew Wilson
Mexico
Charles F. Lumins
Harper’s Magazine
Woodrow Wilson
John Bach MacMaster
James Barnes
Sheridan
Gen. G. A. Forsyth
Howell
Africa
Poultney Bigelow
Stephen Bonsal
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Harper’s Weekly
Far East
Europe
New England
E. F. Benson
Styx
Peter Newell
W. D. Howell
Harper & Bros
the Bazar
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Paris
New York
Sandoz
Baude
Chapuis
Red Bridge
Maria Louise Pool
Father Quinnallion
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Marion Harland
Viola Roseboro
Margaret Sutton Briscoe
Good Housekeeping
T. W. Higginson
Harper’s Bazar
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Warren, PA
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U.S
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Canada
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China Department
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American Tobacco Co
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America
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