Irene and Ethel forgive and faith heals a deathbed
Immense emotional exchange unfolds as Irene Woolsey confesses sins to Ethel Lindsay. Ethel forgives freely, praying for Irene’s soul, and a hopeful reconciliation follows. Clyde Woolsey later rescues a girl from a river, befriending Mary Walters and her mother, leading to a budding connection and tale of revelation about Ethel Lindsay.
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Irene Woolsey
Ethel
Irene
God
Christ
Clyde Woolsey
Prognosis Discussed In Crumbling Slavery Era Dialect
A overheard street conversation in heavy dialect reveals Julius and a man named Snow debating recovery from illness. The speaker uses stark racial language while discussing prognosis, survival, and whether the convalescent will live or die depending on doctors’ forecasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julius
Cork letter recalls Bridget's death in June
A Mrs Mulroney writes from Cork to her sister in this country recounting the death of her cousin Bridget in June. She notes Bridget died after drinking Cornelia Morgus and an Indy meal. An aside mentions lime mixed with skimmed milk as a hard durable paint. An exchange recalls a schoolgirl’s definition of fearing false witness.
Masons plan Mt Vernon purchase and state transfer
A Richmond dispatch reports Mason lodges in the city plan buying Mount Vernon for 200000 dollars with Union lodges likely to join, aiming to donate the property to Virginia while keeping annual meetings at Washington’s tomb. The piece notes public charity and curious anecdotes from Wisconsin and Cleveland about acts of kindness and odd marital schemes.
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Mount Vernon
Richmond
Mt. Vernon
Brothers of the
Washington
Virginia
Vernon
Salt Lake City polygamy and child mortality claim
Elder Hyde argues in a Mormon book that polygamy yields mostly female births and cites high child mortality in Salt Lake City. He says more wives mean more daughters and notes Utah’s mortality rate rivals Louisiana, with Salt Lake City nearing New Orleans in health, while Brigham Young’s family reportedly numbers under thirty children. Gilbert Stewart recalls a Boston society tale about his portrait and a kiss.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hyde
Salt Lake
Union
Utah
Louisiana
Salt Lake City
New Orleans
Brigham Young
Sisters' fraud alleged by New York Jré dune correspondent
A New York Jré dune correspondent claims Mrs Cunningham’s trick was successfully performed by her sister Sarah in 1827 and that another sister aided, with her illegitimate child presented as Sarah's child by her deceased husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Jrédune
Cunningham
Sarah
Coffee Rights and River Gate Conversation
A stylish woman asks to pass a gate toward the river. A crude man replies with a curt, ugly line about a load of ha having gone through earlier. The exchange ends with a quip on when a husband may scold his wife over coffee, implying spousal conflict and social tension.
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Warren Mail
E. Cowan
TERUS
Nhatin
Ana eAara
Lwance
Equare
Meadville Academy
Teacher’s Normal School
Meadville, Pa
T. F. Thickston
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Warren Co. Pa
Richard 8. Barbour
Temperance House
Cole
Court House
High Street
Warren, Warren Co
American Hotel
Independence Hall
Chestnut Street
5Th
Philadelphia
Wyatt & Hermines
P. R. Bennett
Warren
L. T. Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren County
Wetmore and Spencer
Second Street
Johnson & Brown’s
Warren, Pa
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Scofield and Brown
Liberty Street
Glenni W. Scofield
WM. D. Brown
P. D. Fitch
Water and
Hazel Streets
Old Bridge
Parthena Williams
Reformed School
L. E. Guignon
Sugar Grove
Warren Co
K. M. Pierce
Third
Mickory
Nesmith and Keller
Exchange
Wm. H. Combs
Verback
Bartlett and Morgan
Orr & Henry's
Bennett
Stranahan & Randall's
George Sailor
Tanner's
G. N. Parmlee & Co
Ever
C. W. Rathbun
Pealer
Point Breeze
D. M. Williams
Chauncey Hulburt
Sarra, Murray &*Co
Great Pennsylvania
Market Street
Church Alley
Willoughby and Woodworth
A. Willoughby
Columbus
Willoughby
Woolworth
Lewis Arnett
Salt, &c
Orr & Henry
HENRY
R. S. Orr
Patents
H. G. Otis, Esq
Geneva
N. Y
Hon. B. Hackney
Aurora
Ill
W. W. Hackney
W. W. Dayton
P. Johnson
E. H. Danforth
D. D
Wetmore & Spencer
East Indies
Egypt
Japan
Portage
Oath
Spring Street
St. Nicholas Hotel
Mom
From the Home Magazine
New England
Virginia F. Townsend
Grant Malford
Alison Holmes
Alison
Irene Holmes
New York State
Clyde
Miss
Mary Walters
Mary
Mrs. Walters
Europe
Nettie
Mather
Ethel Lindsay
Mamma
Miles
Gerald Maltby
Richard
Stratton
Little Valley
Albany Statesman
Western Fur Company
Missouri River
Advertiser
William Wells Brown
Abington
Cayuga Lake
Mr. Brown
Cleveland Herald
Fasher
Wisconsin
Gilbert Stewart
Boston
Stewart
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