The Dewsford Family And A Matrimony Standstill
An excerpt follows Mrs Dewsford a sharp minded matron who opposes marriage for her daughter Lizzy. Lizzy loves Charley Everett but faces her mother's fierce protest and a plan to elope when a perilous cliffside drive tests their resolve and finally yields consent through a comic ultimatum.
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Lizzy Dewsford
Mrs. Dewsford
Mamma
Lizzy
Elizabeth
Charley Everett
Charley
Charles Everett
Lizzie
Whitey
Liggy
End of a Model Existence Ends With Marriage
A noblewoman laments Elizabeth's ordinary fate as she confronts the collapse of grand ambitions. Mrs Dewsford openly voices disappointment over a daughter’s conventional marriage, contrasting precepts with a dictated domestic destiny.
FOR THE LADIES. Fashion notes on gloves, bonnets, and gowns
The article details evolving fashion trends in gloves, capes, and dresses. It notes banded walking skirts, elbow lace Kid gloves, full Court trains, beaded collarettes, Marie Antoinette fichus, black French kid boots, velvet basques trimmed with chinchilla fur, jet-trimmed muffs, and gilded embroidery. White silks with black velvet, camel hair walking suits, fur trims, bonnets with satin facings, and new hair styling cues dominate. Hats and bonnets feature teens fashioning front upsweeps and left-tilted styles, while sandalwood jewelry returns with caution on hot days. Low necklines and short sleeves define most full dress toilettes, with long trails and fine milled dresses in mull and silk.
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What Everybody Ought to Know About Food and Health
A lecturer argues that action and emotion drain the body and nutrition governs strength. Milk, water, and mixed foods sustain the system, with daily needs varying by activity. winter calls for fats and sweets, while summer favors fruits and light meats.
Mule Swallows Firecrackers Then Rides Off
A Portland tale recalls a mule that swallowed lit shooting crackers tossed by a boy. The animal wandered about three miles on a smoking, strained ride, with a man fleeing a mile away toward Paddy’s Run. Ike later retrieved the mule, and the man plans relocation awaiting warmer waters for baptism of his wife and eldest daughter.
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Tke Bateman
Ike
Paddy
Louisville Courier-Journal
Advertising Persuades in America
Englishmen note Americans rise fast as fortunes grow. In the United States advertising is more widely understood and practiced, shaping business and public perception.
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America
Don't Crowd by Charles Dickens
A brief poem urging restraint and fairness in life. It counsels not to crowd others, to value freedom of thought, and to give everyone room to pursue virtue and improve their own daily record. The piece emphasizes generosity, openness, and respect for others' rights. It presents timeless moral guidance in gentle verse.
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Minnesota Chip Pile and Relief in Warren
In Warren township Minnesota relief work faces harsh realities as 26 families in the poor list in one township and 96 in Nashville seek aid. Boxes of clothing and flour arrive from eastern relief societies while local commissioners struggle against liars and cheats exploiting the needy. A minister's wife sorts donations with care, finding both gifts and misuses, and readers are urged to pray for wisdom in distributing scarce resources during a milder winter.
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Prairie State
Minnesota
Warren
Ceer
Nashville
Mrs. B
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Daniel and the Quaker at Nantucket
Nantucket once hosted Daniel Webster for a courthouse docket on ships, whale fishing, and oil. A Quaker offered a thousand dollars to plead, Webster agreed to the deal and argued multiple cases, finally claiming one client paid him 1500 including expenses as the steamer sailed away.
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Daniel Webster
Webster
Boston
Daniel
Consternation Among the Piutes Over Heavy Little Boxes
The Nevada Territorial Enterprise reports several thousand pounds of new type in small wooden boxes. Piute Indians mock their weight until attempting to lift the boxes. They recruit to move the goods to the fourth story, then endure a heavy sweat carrying the load.
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Nevada Territorial Enterprise
Enterprise
Redskins
Odd Fellows strength and Pennsylvania lead in 1873
The Odd Fellows in the United States reported 414 092 members and 5 470 lodges as of December 1 1873. Annual revenue reached 2 928 696 with 1 333 240 disbursed for relief. Pennsylvania had 800 lodges and about 900 600 in income with 365 590 for relief, dominating the national lodge strength. A militia major in a private apartment staged a parade drill, cried Attention, company Rear rank three aces march and fell into the cellar, his wife asking if he killed himself. He rebuffed her, saying what do you know about war.
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Pennsylvania
Ohio
New York
Illinois
Face of a Reporter Depicted in Proposed School Reader
A Western editor envisions a reporter as he rushes to cover a grim scene after learning a man cut his own throat. The imagined portrayal invites readers to see a reporter enduring late hours and danger, including sight of dead persons and steep stairs.
Devastation Replied By Conductor After Railroad Smash
A man crawls from the wreckage of a railroad smash up and asks what station one should call this. The conductor answers with stark bluntness Devastation.
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