The Story Teller and a Moment of Terror
Rena Grange, a beautiful flirt from Boston, sparks trouble with Fred Mercer, her friend Mrs Mercer’s son. After provoking heartbreak, Rena marries John Arundel and faces Fred’s threats from insanity. A confrontation ends with mercy and fate, shaping Rena’s lifelong cautionary tale.
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Rena Grange
Mrs. Mercer
John Arundel
Mercers
Rena
Fred Mercer
Fred
Eve
John
Lam
Rena Arundel
Mercer
Poorney
Tiis
Tea Etiquette and Longevity Notes
A discussion on tea preparation warns against using worn metal pots and adding milk or sugar. It favors black tea, proper infusion, and avoiding adulterations while noting a London doctor’s statistics comparing lifespans of American and English statesmen and lawmakers.
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Epicures
Wong Chin Foo
Guy
London
United States Congress
Glasgow University and Scottish heritage in 19th century view
A Yorkville Enquirer writer profiles Glasgow's growth from immigration and industry to its university. It traces the University of Glasgow's origins, layout, and finances, notes nearby institutions, and praises prominent Scots such as Adam Smith and poet William Motherwell while detailing Dr. John Dick's theology and memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yorkville Enquirer
Glasgow
Great Britain
Atlantic
United States
Europe
University
Turnbull
University of Edinburgh
University of Glasgow
Rottenrow
High Street
Lord Hamilton
Gilmore Hill
Kelvin
the Clyde
Comitia
Edinburgh
Princeton
Yale
Free Church College
Anderson’s University
School Board
Clyde
Rutherglen
Greenock
James Watt
Professor Sandford
Adam Smith
Jeanie Morrison
Earth
Heaven
Motherwell
William Henderson
Robert Pollock
John Dick
Pollock
John Jamieson
Jamieson
Secession Theological Seminary
Dr. Dick
Aberdeen
King’s College, Aberdeen
John Brown
Haddington
Stateford
Shuttle-street
Greyfriars
Lawson
Associate
John Knox
Macgavin
New Jersey
America
Macaulay
Tests for Impurities in Water and Related Notes
The article outlines chemical tests for water impurities, including hardness, copper, sulfur, lime, and alkaline contents using soap in alcohol, filings, salammoniac, oxalic acid, barium chloride, litmus, and ferrocyanide. It also lists water quality criteria for domestic supply, bed hygiene tips, and several brief notices on historical figures and a tree decay discussion.
Mrs. Julia Grant Remembered for Courage and Duty
A portrait of Julia Dent Grant wife of General Ulysses S. Grant, highlighting her fidelity during his illness refusing Vanderbilt funds and her Civil War era roles. The piece notes her lineage from Judge Dent and life at St. Louis and Detroit, with details of their marriage and White House years. It also mentions her daughter Nellie and Nellie's marriage to Algernon Sartoris.
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Julia T. Grant
General Grant
Mr. Vanderbilt
Grant & Ward
Grant
Judge Dent
Missouri
Whitehaven
West Point
Dent
St. Louis
Sackett’s Harbor
Detroit
Covington
Fort Donelson
Vicksburg
Washington
White House
Nellie
Algernon Sartoris
General Crant
World
A Curious Ferentino Dog and Other Tales from a Magazine
A wandering narrative portrays a street-smart dog in Ferentino who fetches cigars and bread for coins given by a traveler. The piece also covers Burns myths about comin thro the rye, the Dives explanation in Harpers Magazine, and Franklin’s placidity as a revolutionary exemplar.
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Dives
Lazarus
Abraham
Heaven
Hades
Ieee
Harpens Magazine
The Waters of Utah and a Mystic Love Drive
A Boston Budget excerpt describes Utah's northern sub terranean soda water reservoirs and southern circular lakelets with lime crusts forming coral like rims. It notes springs, trout streams, a strong sulphur hot spring near Salt Lake City, and a vivid account of a bright diamond like hot pool. It then shifts to a meditation on why men fall in love, arguing attraction stems from a mysterious natural force rather than outward virtue.
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Utah
All America
Orderville
Salt Lake City
Boston
Puck
Tritan
Titanias
Revolutionary Survivors of the Revolution
A Hartford observer traced Revolutionary War veterans and confirmed six lived in 1864: Daniel Waldo aged 102, William Hutchins 100, Adam Link 102, Lemuel Cook 105, Alexander Milliner 104, and Samuel Downing 102. They died within a year or two after being seen, with Waldo dying within months.
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Hartford
Daniel Waldo
William Hutchins
Adam Link
Lemuel Cook
Alexander Milliner
Samuel Downing
New York
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Satan
California
Tam
Hotel On Foreign Lands
Scotland
R. Lathan
Sunday Oregonian
Nathaniel Prime
Jay Gould
Prime
Wall Street
Washington Building
Davis
Gen. Grant
Boston Globe
Jefferson Davis
the Man ON
Cedar Hill
Ridgelow
Manigault
South
Brinkerhoff
Chattanooga
Charleston
Columbia
Gen. Brinkerhoff
A. M. Manigault
South Carolina
Missionary Ridge
Napoleon
Bragg
Cincinnati
Dean Swift
Chicago Times
Wboy
Ferentino
Signore
Robert Burns
Laddie
Lassie
Ayr
Franklin
Benjamin Franklin
T. Louisio
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