Aunt Loraine’s Confederate Christmas Wedding
In a Civil War era village, Aunt Loraine and Black woman organize a secret Christmas celebration for Miss Allie Tyrrell and Captain Moore. Amid rumors of advancing troops, Moore proposes during a staged wedding, obtains a license, and marries Loraine before departing for the lines as the enemy nears.
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Loraine
Federick
Mammy
Aunt Loraine
Miss Allce Tyrrell
Mrs
Allie Tyrrell
Grandpa
Washington Artillery
Allie
Captain Moore
Firefly
Pappy Ned
Jeff Davis
Usly Ann
Zemby
Committee On Entertainment
Miss Allie
Johnson's Island
Dar
de Bresh
Ned
Man Experience in a Wretched Attic and a Mysterious Stranger
A destitute poet in a garret punishes his misery with improvised verses after a mysterious stranger urges him to write promotional lines. He uses St Jacobs Oil as inspiration, producing a string of comic rhymes about misfortune, landlords, and misadventure as the stranger observes the cashless scene.
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Argus
MSS
Magnus McGiffy
St. Jacobs
O’ Toole
St. Jacobs Oil
Oriai
Niagara Falls Route by Michigan Central Exalts View of Cataract
The Niagara Falls Route on the Michigan Central offers prime views from Falls View to Suspension Bridge. The line runs along the canyon edge crossing the Cantilever Bridge with looming whirlpools and upper rapids. Viewers on both sides glimpse the cataract as the train nears Niagara and the New York shore. The piece praises the route as a sublime, cost worthy way to witness nature’s grandeur.
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Michigan Central
Niagara Falls
M. C
Tle
Earts
Falls View
Captain Webb
New York
Niagara
Las
Louis Spectitor
Peculiar Puritan Names Drawn From Old Jury List
A fragmentary note lists unusual Christian names from a 17th century English jury in four counties. Names include Hewitt Redeem ion God-reward Smart Earth Acase Brewer Kill-sin Pimple Be-faith-fruit Flower Seek-wisdom Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith Whicepted Trevor Make-peace Heaton Just-on-high Stringer Called Love Cole Search-the-Scripture ton Fly-debate Roberts Hope eating Weep-not Billing Electes a The-peace-of-God Knight.
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England
Hewitt
Redeemion
Smart
Earth Acase
Trevor
Heaton
Love
Cole
Ton
Roberts
Hope
Ohio & Mississippi Rail Leads St Louis Cincinnati Route
The Ohio and Mississippi line is claimed to be the leading Cincinnati to St Louis road. It operates trains both ways with smoking cars day coaches and sleeping cars, offering fast service over 340 miles in ten hours. Shipping power and management are praised as exceptional in its history.
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Ohio & Mississippi Rail
Cinnati
St. Louis
Ohio & Missi
so-Cincinnati
Inc
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