Elopement plan in old grudge tale shifts toward pursuit
Hetty Mulveil flees with John Cameron after planning to elope, while Danny, Mrs Mulveil and others react. Simeon Mulveil, Rufus, and a constable race to catch them, following a trail from turnpike to Canonsburg as the lovers head toward Pittsburgh in a risky dawn escape.
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Mia
Malveil
Danny
Simeon
Rufus
Hetty
John Cameron
Cameron
John
Washington
Cutter
Canonsburg
Simeon Mudveil
Pittsburg
Bilis
Temperanceville
Ice Bridge Fails After Snow, Rushing Coal Haulers Test Route
A river crossing on ice that had carried coal wagons in a steady stream from Coal Hill to the city becomes unsafe as under-ice rot and current erosion weaken it. Pedestrians remain safe while only daring wagon teams use the curved route. The scene involves South Pittsburg and the city wharf near the Point as winter conditions persist.
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Coal Hill
Pittsburg
Forty Cents Missing Sparks Browleys’ Domestic Drama
Mrs Browley, once skeptical of personal ledgers, now keeps numerous balance books for groceries, but a missing forty cents triggers a quarrel with her husband. As aristocratic guests gather, a telegram arrives, asking in humor what happened to the forty cents, hinting at a farcical domestic crisis.
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Browley
Mr. Browley
Mrs. Browley
Chicago News
Man Gains Twenty Four Pounds in Two Days in New Jersey
Joseph Geskie, seeking army enlistment in Trenton, NJ, astonished officials by gaining 24 pounds in two days while confined to bed and eating cinnamon buns. He later weighed 152 pounds, claiming a lifelong ability to alter his weight, and volunteered for service.
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Geskie
Trenton
N. J
Joseph Geskie
Connecticut
Geskle
Joseph Geakie
Grand Duke Hesse Known for Needlework and Arts
The Grand Duke of Hesse is described as skilled with the needle and embroidery praised as beautiful. He takes great interest in needlework and is clever in arranging colors. An artistic nature marks him as devoted to music dancing and acting though he also shoots and rides.
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Hesse
Marriage Lottery Tale Becomes Atchison Gossip
An Atchison girl recalled a past boast about two men eager to wed her, forcing her to draw straws to choose. She drew the wrong straw, a curious neck of law and capital punishment in Greece and a man awaiting execution after two years, in a ragged progress of grand rapids?
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Atchison
Greece
Frock Postillion Trimmings and Summer Gown Styles
New York style notes describe dress fabrics with postillion strap trims, rosettes, and embroidery on summer cloth gowns. Svelte bodices, belts, and lace accents appear across cream broadcloth, biscuit cloth, and tussah cloth gowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comniaey
Bretelles
Vision of Heaven in Revelation Explored by Expositor
The article reflects on heavenly truth in Revelation 21 22 focusing on Christ as heaven’s center. It argues the city’s realities surpass earthly imagination and contends that in heaven only those who know and obey Christ will be truly at home, with the light and life fully found in him.
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Hetty
Mary
Danny
John
Gols
Bill Taylor
Mother
Hetty Mulveil
Mary Hilder
Ummer Kriegy
New Jerusalem
Christ
Heaven
Earth
Moor
Fen
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Cetty
J. H. Connelly
Mary Elder
Noblestown
Bretty
Mary Hitler
Grand
Elmer
Oriental and
Severand
Experiedre Fabrica
Gotham
New York
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