The Expiation Proves Her Untong Tale
Roger Walter recalls a life story of love, wealth, and betrayal ending with Jeanne’s buried alive fate. He details a costly marriage to a poor Rouen niece, her jewel obsessions, a fatal chain impulse, and the surprising graveyard retribution that left him later remorseful and seeking forgiveness.
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Mo Tevenge
Mme
Destiny
Roger Wallet
Mie
Rouen
Delle Jeanne
Jeanne
Gine
Paris
Bordeaux
Tean
Ieen
Roger Walter
Robert Scheffer
Herbert Peters
Clock Plant From Borneo Described By Melbourne Times
The Melbourne Times reports a rare clock plant native to Borneo. Its two leaf sizes function as time indicators with minute and hour hands. the smaller leaves complete a cycle in about one minute while the larger leaves take roughly an hour to complete their motion.
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Borneo
Melbourne Times
Inside Outside Poorhouse Nonsense
A Chicago Tribune snippet jokes about a boy named Tommy accused of gluttony and warns against overdoing kindness near a poorhouse, mixing humor with social commentary on public outsiders and temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Tommy
Chicago Tribune
Lincoln's Death Warrants and a Firelit Resolution
A Lincoln anecdote recounts a cabinet morning when Stanton pressed to sign death warrants. Lincoln refused, then burned the papers in a hearth blaze, saying he could not sign so many souls away. He urged Stanton to take a walk instead.
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Abraham Lincoln
Dr. Bullock
Robert Lincoln
Secretary Stanton
Mr. Stanton
Mr. Lincoln
President
Stanton
Sald
English immigrant jokes about England and America
Witty exchange shows an English immigrant praising England then admitting he left. A home-grown American notes the immigrant’s favor, asking what it was. Fractured Philadelphia humor adds a phonetic aside about talking and a baseball park defense hole from a local Philadelphia press piece.
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Old England
Engshman
Chicago Daily News
Jimmy
Danny
Ipst Suipiner
Pailadsiphta Press
Soldier discovers unknown singer in blocked house
A Pennsylvania guard member stationed at Martinsburg, Virginia, recalls the night his squad ignored orders and investigated a house famed for music. A slim, melodious voice drew them nightly until a soldier peered in and found a fat black woman scouring kettles, ending their romantic fantasies.
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Logan Guards
Pennsylvania
Martinsburg
American Tribune
Form Your Men, Captain Ridgeley Rallying Battle Tale
A Civil War anecdote recalls Captain Ridgeley urging his company to form amid shell bursts. General Meade arrives, Ridgeley leads with sword raised, then sprints twice more as shells fall. An amused Deacon Adoniram witnesses an aeronautic landing on his farm with no harm done.
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Clerk McDowell
Fredericksburg
Ridge‘Jey
Washington
Ridgeley
McDowell
Gen. Meade
Morianity
Wis
Deacon Adoniram
Old Dobbin
Gen. Sherman
Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Touts Woman Cures
The advertisement highlights letters from women like Miss Guita Gannon of Detroit and Mrs J H Farnes of St Louis praising Lydia Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for curing female troubles. It claims repeated testimonials prove the remedy’s efficacy and urges women to seek it at drug stores, warning against substitutes.
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Miss Gannon
Lee
Detroit Amateur Art Association
Dean
Guita Gannon
Jones St
Detroit, Mich
Amateur Art Association
Lydis E. Pinkham
Lydia RE. Pinkham
Dean Mrs. Prixham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tremain
J. H. Farnes
Elliott Ave
St. Louis
Boston
Wotset
R. Paxton
Botton
Mass
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Eva
Frank Farrington
Lincoln
Sereet Siinger
Stier
Western Canada
Wilfred Lauriet
Anc
Oman
Salzer
National Cats All Ana
Mother Gray
Olmsted
L LeRoy
Roy
A. Augustus Lindaburt
Scrasten
Califormia
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