The Ballad of Betsey and Jemima
A village tale of Jemima and Betsey who quarrel over a shared life and property. They draft an unequal agreement while Barnyard misfortunes test their stubborn wills and a millstone disaster prompts a hopeful turn.
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17 Jun 1871
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1871
Page
1
Miss Jemima Veer Revisits a Drab House Morning
Miss Jemima Veer moves about a sunlit spring morning in a small house under the hill sorted like a hospital for faded furniture. A faded green silver purse lies in her hand as she counts its contents with growing concern, a sum that does not grow as she hopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teddy
Rob
Aunt Hester
Jemima
Jem
Susan
Hester
Leddy
Cade Bardlay
Mr. Barclay
Aunt Jem
Cade Barclay
Gog
Barclay
Jemima Veer
Invalids
John Wesley First Sermon in America Reexamined
The Brunswick Appeal and Savannah press recount that John Wesley did not preach his first American sermon on St Simon's Island but in Savannah Court House on March 7 1736. Wesley's Tybee thanksgiving and Frederica visits are noted, with emphasis that the historic site photo plan misplaces the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick
St. Simon’s Island
John Wesley
America
Savannah
St. Simon’s
Farmers’ Club
Atlantic
Church of
Frederica
Charles Wesley
John
Tybee
Court House
The Giantess Geyser At Yellowstone Remarkable Display
The Giantess geyser at Yellowstone towers with five jets reaching 200 feet. A clear pool forms when quiet, with a vase like neck and a hollow stem through which bubbles rise. Sunset light creates prismatic drops and golden steam clouds, making it the most beautiful sight in the basin.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gayest Basin
Overland Monthly
Influence of Female Magnetism on the Compass
A Royal Mail steamer ran thirty miles off course after a sleepless night. The captain blamed a local attraction from a lady at the binnacle whose iron chair and steel hoop crinoline seemed to tug the ship, prompting him to declare Madam has drawn my ship forty miles from her course.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal Mail Service
A Little Girl in a Milk Can Tale of Stras bourg Siege
During the siege of Strasbourg a French exporter Despard hides his daughter Marie in a giant milk can to escape French and Prussian sentries. Ursule helps, the pair pass through lines to safety, and the family reunites with Marie’s mother in Brittany, yielding a coastal Breton Christmas of gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Strasbourg
Desparde
Marie
Brittany
Berlin
M. Despard
Ursule
Landwehr
Uhlan
Marie Natay
Breton
Electric Brake Trial Shows Rapid Stopping On Erie Line
An excursion party witnessed a novel electric brake on a five car Erie Railway train. The system uses a magnet clutch and battery powered by a ceiling keyboard to stop the train, with tests showing 55 to 13 second stops at up to 30 mph. The device works independently if cars detach and has saved trains near West Paterson Bridge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Daniell
Jersey City
Bergen Tunnel
Erie Depot
Middletown
Erie Road
West Paterson Bridge
Scientific American
Word of Honor Keeps Indian's Rope and Deadly Trial
A Choctaw murderer in the Indian Nation is granted twenty days to prepare and visit kin while keeping his word. He returns with three sisters and three brothers as a crowd witnesses a staged execution. A misfire precedes a second shot that ends the sentence, the mother weeping quietly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonesburg
Texas
Miscellaneous Notes on Science and Society
A collage of curiosities and industry notes from Scotland to Utah. Highlights include a Collie trained to herd sheep in Colorado, 1200 bird specimens by a Springfield collector, luxury parasols, and a factory lens for portraits. Reports cover Utah mining growth, photography advances, Birmingham production, and narrow gauge locomotive efficiency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atsope
Scotland
Colorado
Springfield
Mass
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Oswego County
N. Y
Henry Allen
Pittsfield
New Haven
General Green Place
Water Street
Dora d’Istra
Collins
Hartford
Utah
Mayatt
England
Birmingham
Gia Ital
Franklin and Whitefield Anecdote of Oratory Fascination
In Gladstone’s London biography of Whitefield, Franklin recalls resisting a collection yet yielding after Whitefield’s sermon. He describes first giving copper, then silver, finally pouring all his gold into the dish as the orator finished. Chesterfield’s reaction is noted when Whitefield tells of a blind man near a precipice, exclaiming in alarm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitefield
London
J. P. Gladstone
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Chesterfield
Model juryman rebukes public instrution raid satire
The Frank Leslie's illustration shows an agent of public instruction told off by the model juryman for attempting to incapacitate an enlightened citizen from serving on a jury. The scene mocks the belief that law is foolish and jurors are unnecessary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Leslie
Oyster Culture in Europe Comprehensive Commission Report
A detailed Ireland appointed commission study reviews European oyster culture in the United Kingdom and France. It assesses methods, profitability, laws, and growth stages with diagrams and locality plans. The report notes Ireland advantages, low feeding risk, and potential output far above current harvests. It ends with a dated biblical remark about Moabites.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
United Kingdom
France
Europe
England
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