Beggar girl to countess and a Missouri primitive town tale
A German princess adopts two beggar children in Albano Italy. The boy becomes a dissolute scoundrel, the girl matures into a graceful beauty who attracts suitors. A Roman noble forces her future husband to marry her, the couple’s fortune becomes their joint estate. The husband dies leaving a son as heir. A Missouri frontier anecdote describes early Gasconade county, a primitive county seat, a jail-like punishment with a crate and four men sitting on it after a minor offense.
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Albano
Italy
Ler
Romnan Pople
Rome
Missouri
Con
St. Louis
Pris
Harris
Webber
Ardereun
Conn
Pritchard
Grant
Heath
Bergstein
Eax
Virginia
Nev
Chronicle
The Hour of Death in Seasons of Life
A poem reflecting on Death as a constant presence through all seasons and scenes. It contrasts with life’s stages from joy to grief, noting Death’s inevitability in nature, homes, friendships, battles, and the world, urging acceptance of mortality.
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United States
N. S
Eiman
Winston
N. C
Nobhoy
Gossi
The Rawley family and the chalk pit rescue
In South Down near a chalk pit, Adam Rawley and his wife live isolated, selfishly ignoring neighbors until a ditching accident with a horse endangers Adam in a pit. Neighbors unite to save him, transforming the couple from self to charity as Mrs Figgins’s family recover.
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South Dowr
England
South Down
Adan Rawley
Adam
Deborah Rawley
Ufe
Rawleys
Deborah
Earth
Heaven
Adam Rawley
Chatavor
Mrs. Figvin
Father Kirby
Old Derry
Adaim
Derry
Lyax
Mrs. Hawley
Mrs. Keen
Mrs. Rawley
The Way to Do It Economy Letter Humorously Notes Saving
In a humorous plea amid hard times the author weighs cutting luxuries to save money. He rejects stopping tobacco and tea but decides to drop the newspaper to stretch finances through the panic. He promotes retrenchment and saving, arguing fortune shifts and life changes daily.
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Glinston Sentinel
Mu Mathes
J.T. Darlington
Aiters
Raleigh
Preston Roan
Mast, EU
Max
Mast & Cray, Attorneys At Law
Winston, N. C
Forasthc
Countie Seectat
Martin Grogan
J. J. Waggoner & CO
Canean Vincixta Srs
Richmond
I. W. Durham
Practical Marble Worker
Winstor
N. C. KE
Beck & Moorh
P-cenors
Barrow & Berk
T. Vogler
Main Street
Merchant's Hotel
Robert D. Johnston
New York
B. F. Cnas Lixd
sTaine
Jas. A. Gray
James D. B. Patton
Meston Fh
Williame & Co
Cary St
North Carolita
N B
Tri Fort
Iste
Joseph P. Winston & CO
Lica
North Carolina
Weas
Tellatock
BP. Wenston & CO
Richmont
Vait
Mes. Hemens
Reweh
Washington Osc
Massachusetts
Boston
Godip
Indiana
Fort Wayne
Sim
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