San Marino and its ancient republican guard
A correspondent describes the Republic of San Marino with its small 16,006 population near the Adriatic. A sixty-seat council of nobles governs via captains regent and limited local courts. only thirty men form the standing army, and no printing press exists within its territory.
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Republica di San Marino
Rimini
Adriatic
Italy
Republic
Congress
San Marino
Europe
Republic of
Bologna
Padua
Turin
Man pushes marriage in Vernon township tale and beyond
A bashful farmer wins his love when his daughter's father interrupts a private proposal with a blunt ultimatum. The couple agrees to marry, securing a license the next day as townsfolk relay a lively tale of swift matchmaking and rural wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dubuque County
Iowa
Vernon‘township
Mary
John Henry
John
Bishop’s witty reply to ignorant tirade at conference
An anecdote recounts a West conference where a member praised his isolation from colleges. The Bishop gently corrected him asking if he meant to thank God for ignorance, noting the man has much to be thankful for.
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Goth
Europe
Saint Timpex
Saint Brazy
Secretary of the Treasury
Rome
New York
Ames
West
Death Foretold Amid Nurse's Tremor and Family Plans
In a Raleigh Advocate letter Rev J P Simpson relates his move to the Methodist Protestants. A sick woman speaks of unfinished tasks like lifting carpet and painting, noting if she dies before Monday she will be near ready for death and a large family.
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Winston
P. S
Raleigh
J. P. Simpson
Bishop Wightman
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Jupitersall
Charlotte Observer
Hene
Mervyy Arcopare
Simpkin, Marshal
Arghdall
Israel
The
Inston Sentinel
Geo. M. Mathes
I. W. Durham
Winston, N. C
T. Vogler
Main Street
Merchant's Hotel
Crutchfield & Stedman
Beck & Moore
San
N. C
T J.brown
J.B. Vaughn
Brown's
Vaughn & Prather
Brown & Vaughn
James D. Patton
Pobacco Manufacturers
Cary Street
Richmond, Va
Boxitr
N.C
Wenry
Foy
Jacob Tise
J. H. Masten
Tisz
East Side Court
House Square
Furnitoore
St. Louis Republicas
Gibraltar
Cincinnati
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Saint Discones
New York Tribune
Castle Garden
Paris
Liverpool
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Glasgow
Immigration Department
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Ireland
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Salem Gazette
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Mankato
John W. Daniele
Lynch
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King’s Mountain
Virginia
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