Fan McLane Plans Fort Sedgwick Visit Against Kin
Fanny McLane faces pressure from sister Charlotte Parry as she prepares to visit Fort Sedgwick to see Randy Merriam and the Graftons. Mrs. Parry urges sensible restraint while Swinburne arrives, and Mrs. Parry seeks counsel from Ned Parry after rushing from the townhouse to intervene.
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Fanny McLane
Graftons
Fort Sedgwick
Mrs. Parry
Fan
Mrs. McLane
Annette
Fanny
Frances
Charlotte
Hall Boy
Major Domo
Clarendon Flats
Mr. Swinburne
Graeme, Rayburn & Parry
Ned
Mildred
Grandma
Lot
Swinburne
Randy Merriam
Parry
Capt. Grafton
Merriam
Grafton
Old McLane
Gal
The Sedgwick Affair of a Western Bride and Merriam
In a tale of love and social drift, Fan Hayward McLane travels with her husband Randolph Merriam to Sedgwick Fort. A chance landing at Santa Fe Junction reveals an old flame, tests fidelity, and a dramatic collision with a jealous past.
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Randy Merriam
Ned Parry
Merriam
Parry
Sedgwick
San Mateo
Bowery
Santa Clara
Wits
East
Graeme & Rayburn
Chicago
Thither
Fan
Mellen
Gotham
Fanny
John Harold McLane
New York
California
Old Fort Sedgwick
Graftons
West Point
Valley of the Rio Bravo
McLane
Santa Fe Junction
Randolph Merriam
Randy
Warned by illness and a curious wedding encounter
A man reflects that severe illness creeps up, heed warnings, and promotes health remedies. A romance scene follows with Randolph Merriam and Floy as a radiant blonde enters the wedding reception, introducing Mrs. McLane, New York, an old acquaintance. The page ends with twilight falling on Florence Merriam’s wedding day, continued next week.
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Merriam
Charlotte Hayward
Edward Parry
Uncle Mellen
Randy Merriam
Miss Fan
Parry
Charlotte
Mellons
Ned
Mellen
War Department
Dr. Pierce
Floy
Randy
Mrs. McLane
New York
Fortunes and misfortunes are har vested in life quotes
A collection of aphoristic maxims on time fate liberty and morality. The statements critique custom sentiment and equality while noting human frailties and the limits of nature and effort. Each line presents a compact judgment on life behavior and society.
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Satan
Points and Moot Points Sayings on Virtue and Action
A compact reflection on perfection, desire, and action. It contrasts sincerity with verity and questions moderation, self, and passion. The piece argues that action is salvation and lists paradoxes about love, conscience, and wealth in spiritual life.
Ram's Horn Quotes and Parables on Truth and Virtue
A set of aphorisms on honesty, reputation, and humility. The pieces critique boastful self promotion and celebrate steadfast effort, warning that appearances and spoken virtue do not replace action in seeking truth and moral law.
Westminster Abbey Burial Toll and Historic Facts
The item lists remarkable figures and trivia including 1173 burials at Westminster Abbey, the eleventh century origin of musical notation, Russia owning about 3 million horses, snow weight and bulk, Chinese gifts, early stockings, and other curiosities. It notes the Empress of Russia paid $5000 for a handkerchief after seven years of work and that ants have large brains relative to body size.
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Westminster Abbey
Russia
Oddities From A Global Fact Book
A collage of curious data notes languages and dialects numbering over six thousand, rivers of water used in Paris on hot nights, and a wide range of historical facts including a Russian college founded in 1588 and Bavaria coal mines yielding 2.7 million dollars last year.
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Russia
Kieff
Empire of
Japan
Globe
Bavaria
Paris
Norway
Notable Quotations On Virtue And Life Reflections
A compact collection of aphorisms on misfortune prayer modesty happiness and human nature. Quotes from Mallet Fuller Hughes Mackenzie and Temple offer cautions about vanity judgment and contentment while urging moral reflection and presence in the moment.
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Mallet
Mackenzie
Fuller
Hughes
Sir William Temple
Devious Definitions from a Quotation Page
A collection of cheeky dictionary-style definitions contrasts everyday terms with humorous twists. It lampoons traits like kleptomania sanctified happiness in taxes and misrule in friendships, ending with a playful autocrat who yields opinions quickly after marriage.
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Magazinery
Loaves and Fishes and the Moral City Commentary
A reflective piece argues greed clashes with law and faith fuels courage. It warns error stumbles on facts, Satan watches humanity, and truth remains constant. It posits ministers sow not sand and individuals magnify misery while mercy grows scarce.
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Satan
Solar System
What One's Body Contains Candle making fat to gas and more
The excerpt lists quantities from a body that could yield several items: fat for four to eight pounds of candles, enough gas for a gas meter, hydrogen to lift him, iron for five carpet tacks, carbon for 9,360 pencils, salt for a dinner, a bowl of sulfur, nine and a half gallons of water, and phosphorous for 8,064 boxes of matches.
Bits of Knowledge and Curious Claims
A collage of quirky definitions and trivia spans terms like Affinity and Honor, plus fact bullets. It lists items from Jingo Cemetery in Kansas to Sweden’s timber abundance, noting tax dodges and tech curiosities like felt thimbles for pianists and oil graphite screws.
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Miami County
Kansas
Mexico
Baltic Sea
Comptroller
Georgia
Sweden
Europe
Russia
Snap Shots and Proverbs Reflections
A collection of terse maxims on temperance humor ambition and human nature. Wry lines on reason happiness labor wit and character. Meanings hint at moral insight and social observation without narrative.
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Warren, PA
Charles King
F Tennyson Neely
Fort Sedgewick
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M. Waters
M. A. Myers
KE. T. Hazeltine
D. F. Hoffman
J. M. Siegfried
W. Parshall
Jas. O. Parmiee
D. L. Gerould
Scribner’s Magazine
Xyovernor Roosevelt
Rough Riders
Robert Louis Stevenson
Sidney Colvin
Richard Harding Davis
Rudyard Kipling
Henry van Dyke
William Allen White
George W. Cable
Herter
Senator Hoar
John Drew
Joel Chandler Harris
Q’s
Robert Grant
Sidney Lanier
C. D. Gipson
Charles Scribnee’s Sons
Fifth Avenue
Rowland & Sons
Ww. C. Rowland
J. E. Rowland. . Rowland, JR
Pisa
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U. S. Pension Claim
Dearborn St
Tionesta Valley Railroad
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Sheffield Junction
Lamona
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Jerry Craky
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McKintey Music Co
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Philadelphia Weekly Press
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Pullman
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Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
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Coves
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Falconer Junct
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Irvington
Youngsville
Pittsfield
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Oil City
Titusville
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Pennsylva Railway
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