The Story of Annette Tremaine Arrives at Coomakesta
Annette Tremaine travels eight hours by Irish rail and arrives at Coomakesta to meet her cousin Elizabeth Hart and Mohun Hart. The house sits in a wild Irish setting with ivy covered gray stone walls and a tense, unwelcoming mood as Annette faces cold welcomes and unsettling family dynamics.
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Coomakesta
Arrah Bedad
Oireland
St. Patrick
Ireland
Shure
Virginia
Hart
Elizabeth
Morning at the estate with Mohun and Miss Lattimer
The narrator awakens refreshed and explores the house with Mohun. He notes Miss Lattimer at breakfast and learns of Mrs. Elizabeth Ryves’s fragile health and the family’s landholdings. Mohun explains Elizabeth’s waning interest and reflects on their father’s death two years earlier.
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Elizabeth
Dad
Tenerife
Miss Lattimer
Mohun
Ye "cook" claims exalted status in Goldborough household
A humorous Bohemian exchange unfolds as a boastful caller in a butcher shop insists he is "higher" than the new wife and reveals he is the cook for Malcolm Goldborough's mansion. The blunt conversation highlights class pretensions and social pecking order.
No Need of Them Some Day
A 14 year old boy failed to spell 15 percent of words at a monthly exam. The tutor urged constant study to remember them forever. The boy mused that he might not live that long, underscoring the humor in the exchange reported by Harper's Weekly.
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Harper’s Weekly
Mr. Green
Jack
London
In Rolling Chairs
Short, witty exchange from Lippincott's features a playful clash over time and money as imagined by two speakers about riding chairs. The snippet hints at leisure versus constraint without naming people, places, or events.
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Lippincott’s
Morning siege memory from a Civil War frontier
W. C. Reddy recounts a dawn through a Confederate siege on Port Hudson, detailing a company’s reveille, sharpshooter drills, muddy trenches, and the clash of Parrotts and Whitworth shells. The narrative captures heat, stench, coffee, hardtack, and a tropical storm that ends a day of shelling and waiting for renewed attacks.
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Jones
Indiana
Baton Rouge
Breckinridge
Shiloh
Corinth
Port Hudson
W. C. Reddy
New York Advertiser
Witty snippets from a bygone society page
A collage of humorous exchanges and social quips from various readers and society columns. Jokes cover courtship, family, money, class, and everyday office and church life with references to names and places such as Philadelphia Philadelphia Ledger Chicago Tribune Louisville Courier Journal Washington Star and Somerville Journal.
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Farmer Squashleigh
Jack
Farmer Wayback
Somerville Journal
Philadelphia Press
Papa
John
Louisville Courier-Journal
Winnegan
Flanagan
Philadelphia Ledger
Washington Star
Farmer Countessel
Ile
Louisville Courier- Journal
George
Chicago Tribune
Archie
Notorious wartime swindle turns patriotism ploy
General F D Grant recalls a New York sharp who advertised for a dollar to reveal ways to avoid conscription. The scheme drew 600 replies daily and dollars. When a dupe sued, the court ruled the transaction legal, with the sharp replying simply enlist.
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F. D. Grant
New York
Washington
Advertiser
Edward VII Skates in Classic English Style
Edward VII skates well in the stiff English style. Russians refrain from eating pigeons due to dove sanctity in Scripture. Walrus skin covers small boats attached by tusk points. Dried currants given to horses may boost endurance. Nottingham miner patents a safety pit cage, hailed as a major advance. The Tonga Islands disband their standing army of six officers and thirty men.
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Edward VII
Nottingham
England
Arboren and Cumrox Debate Forest Preservation Tone
A Washington Star exchange features Arboren noting a family tree and Mr. Cumrox expressing suspicion that some American citizens do not preserve forests properly. The remark highlights concerns about forest stewardship and civic responsibility.
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Mr. Cumrox
Washington Star
Also Mentioned on This Page
Annette
Chapter
Garvin
Malcolm Goldborough
Goldborough
Jack Cadogan
Catoville Chronicle
Cayuga
Deacon Underhill
John Cadogan
Abbott
Baker
Hudson
O'Brien
Spencer
Pangborn
Corporal Jones
Gore Todlay
Springfield
Red Bank
Wilkins
Bilkins
Kara
Lizzie
Chicago
Iferald
Tonga Islands
Arboren
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