Lavender Leaves and a Garden Remembered
A nostalgic poem recalls Mistress Standish from a New England garden summer long ago. Lavender beds lie beside the cottage wall as corsages of memory bloom against images of English gardens and soldiers, wounds, and graves.
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Mistress Standish
New England Magazine
Night Wanderers and Hidden Silver at Darlington Hall
Mrs Brathwaite uncovers a cellar stash of silver with crests, while Elder Wynne in disguise as Bob Jennings reveals night activity and plots within Darlington Hall. Amaranthe's nurse trouble and Aunt Jane Mary’s misdeeds fuel a tense, eerie, nightly chess game.
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Elder Wynne
Mr. Seldon
Amaranthe
Bob Jennings
President Smith
Mrs. Brathwaite
Oblivion
Jane Mary
Elizabeth Darlington
Johnny Allibone
Darlington Hall
Sisterhood
Miss Darlington
Baldy Towner
Bill
Glorianna
Night Vigil and Troubled Family Secrets Unfold
The narrator cares for ill Miss Elizabeth and Aunt Elizabeth while Amaranthe frets over nursing duties and possible hidden jewels. A pious visitor appears as tensions rise about trust, medical care, and safeguarding valuables amid a fragile household.
The Art of Speeding a Favor from a King in History
A Hertfordshire tale from the Victoria County History notes a method used on King James I. Hunting displaced state affairs and a favorite hound returned with a message tied to its neck begging the king to return to London or risk the country’s ruin and exhausted provisions.
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Hertfordshire
Victoria County
James I
London
Fish Story From India With Boot and Eels
A correspondent for Asia’s leading sporting paper recounts fishing under a bridge when a boot is snagged on the line. Inside the boot lies a large eel and thirteen more eels hatch inside, making a curious and fishy catch.
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India
the Asian
East
Destruction of the Steamer Caroline in the Patriot War
The Patriot War began in Canada in 1837 as reformers led by Mackenzie recruited in Buffalo. They captured the Canadian steamer Caroline on December 2, 1837, and sent it over Niagara Falls. President Van Buren declared neutrality and Gen. Wool enforced it. The insurgents were captured on Navy Island January 13, 1838, ending the episode with no tangible result.
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Caroline
Mackenzie
Canada
Fusal
England
United States
Buffalo
Canadian Navy
Niagara River
Falls
van Buren
Wool
Niagara Frontier
Navy Island
Toronto
Endowment for Lincoln Memorial university reaches two hundred thousand
Gen O C Howard celebrates completion of a 200000 endowment fund for Lincoln Memorial University Cumberland Gap Tennessee. Spiru Haret urges female teachers to adopt national peasant dress in a note to school inspectors. Salvation Army in London expands waste paper recovery with 360 workers and 6000 tons collected last year. Chicago claims a vast parish school system serving 32000 church members at St Stanislaus Kostka with 4000 annual parish school attendees and yearly classes around 909 and 750. Dr Edward Hale speaks to Boston Parents Club urging open air life for children and urban reform to avoid tenement life, aiming for future cityless cities.
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O. C. Howard
Lincoln Memorial University
Cumberland Gap
Tenn
Spiru. Haret
Salvation Army Colony
London
Chicago
St. Stanislaus
St. Stanislaus Kostka
Edward Everett Hale
Mothers’ and Fathers’ Club
Boston
Ivory watch by Henri Houriet from billiard ball
An ivory watch crafted by Henri Houriet of Chaux le Fonds Switzerland uses an old billiard ball for the works hands and case. The watch keeps good time.
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Henri Houriet
Chauxle-Fonds
Switzerland
N. Y. Sun
Humorous Exchanges and Witty Snippets Across Papers
A collage of light quotes from 19th and early 20th century newspapers. Jests about singing for money, tigers in India, lecture halls, teachers, wealth, and a five year old reframing a request. Includes lines from Detroit Free Press Philadelphia Press Washington Star and Baltimore Herald.
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Soubrette
Detroit Free Press
Bridget
Arthur
India
Giggs
Biggs
Harvard Lampoon
John
Willie
Philadelphia Press
Mamma
Philadelphia Ledger
Henderson
Baltimore Herald
Sensation as Woman Engages Real Duke in City
A vivid city pageant unfolds as Mildred is linked with a real duke, sparking the day’s greatest sensation. Gossip swirls over the claim that the aristocrat is truly of ducal rank.
Atlanta School Children Buy Elephant for Zoo
Atlanta school children save weekly pence to fund purchase of an elephant for the local zoo. The effort is reported by the Indianapolis News.
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Atlanta, Ga
Indianeapolis News
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