Conspiracy Unfolds at Dinner with Portia’s Circle
Kent reveals a Senate oil scandal tied to Rumford Bucks and Duvall. He accuses the governor’s inner circle, discloses a $200,000 draft and a land transfer, and gains a fragile ally in Elinor as danger grows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
Chicago
Jasper G. Bucks
Bucks
Rumford
Gaston
Portia
Ormsby
Loring
Duvall
Hove
Elinor
Penelope
David Kent
Mr. Kent
MacFarlane
David
Dramatic Civil War Portrait of Elinor and Ormsby
A tense scene unfolds on Tejon Avenue as Elinor and Ormsby confront a pivot in their relationship. Ormsby reveals a plan to back Kent’s political rise, but Elinor questions his motives while he insists on binding her to him. The dialogue mixes ambition, constraint, and evolving loyalties amid a stormy, nightbound exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Committee of Safety
Penelope
van Brock
Elinor
Alameda Square
Tejon Avenue
Ormsby
Eli
Loring
Here
Boston
Kent
Brookes Ormsby
David Kent
Col. Tarleton
Lacey
General Sumter
Ferguson
King’s Mountain
Christian Hock
Hook
Philadelphia
White's Mill
Fishing Creek
Chester
South Carolina
Strong
Parson Simpson
Hill
Neil
Sumter
Cloais Branch
Catawba
York
Sumters
Huck
McLure
Bratton’s
York District
Charlotte
William Adair
Col
Edward Lacey
Old Lacey
Bratton's
Williamson
Bratton
James Moore
Patriots
A Prison Poem by Curtis Johnson at Jeffersonville
A prisoner Curtis Johnson in Jeffersonville Indiana cites social glass as his downfall after forging a check under liquor. He uses the bar to Heaven and door to Hell as a moral allegory about drinking’s harms. The poem contrasts barroom temptations with ruined health and family sorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Johnson
Jeffersonville
Ind
Hell
Modern take on a old table lesson about wolves
A small maid returns from school excited by a tale about a boy who cried wolf. She tells her mother the moral is to never tell tall tales, noting the boy cried wolf many times when none was there. The exchange ends with the child asserting the moral plainly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Reminiscences Mention Revolutionary Figures and Battles
The excerpt recalls John Miller of Rutherford County and his pious vow near the battles of Kings Mountain Cowpens and Ramseur Williamson’s. It notes a Revolutionary War soldier observer who saw troops act by instinct rather than orders and mentions ties between Adair and Lacey through apprenticeship and affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Lacey
England
Chesapeake Bay
Shippen Township
Cumberland County
Province of
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Lacey
Fort Dunne
Braddock
Cer District
South Carolina
William Adair
John Adair
Kentucky
Adair
Edwardey
Jane Harper
Chester District
Sandy River
Chester C. H
Aidon
Els
Robert Wilson
York
Florida
Georgia
Williamson
St. Augustine
Altamaha
Congress
York Or Chester
Lamb
Torles
Cornwallis
John Miller
Rutherford County
N. C
King’s Mountain
Uill
Ferguson
Ramseura
Cowpens
Tarleton
Hell's
Billy Hill
Dwarfs of Europe’s Courts A Storied Small Statues of courtiers
A historical roundup recounts famed dwarfs in European courts. Jeffery Hudson met Henrietta Maria after a pie entrance and faced duels and imprisonment. Borulwaski rose from one inch to a yard high, serving across five reigns and befriending George III. Richebourg died in Paris aged nearly 90. Gibson and wife were noted painters tied to James II’s daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Mohemmed Selim
India
Jeffery Hudson
Henrietta Maria
Charles I
Jeffery
Borulwaski
Pole
Europe
Stanislaus II
England
George III
Durham
Stephen Kemble
Richard Gibson
Gibson
James II
Philetas
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Coropas
Andromeda
Julia
Augustus
Richebourg
Paris
Desirable Towns Lure Iron Works Secretary
The Sumter chamber of commerce secretary letters a Alabama iron works seeking relocation to Sumter. The editor argues that chasing new manufacturing by mail is fruitless without home grown promotion, urging sustained local advertising, confidence, and community effort to attract industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumter
Chamber of Commerce
New York
Iron
Alabama
Anderson Daily Mail
Varied Oaths Across Nations and Leather Subterfuge
The article surveys oath traditions in multiple countries from China to Italy, Spain and Norway, describing symbolic penalties and gestures used when swearing to tell the truth. It then discusses leather substitutions in shoe manufacturing, detailing how cowhide and sheep skin are split, finished, and sold as faux or higher-grade leathers to deceive buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Spain
New York Herald
Opportunity prompts quick thinking, elderly man warns
In a Washington Star quotation the elder Uncle Eben notes that a chance invites hasty mental arithmetic, leading people to miss the right answer as they overthink the moment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eben
Washington Star
Also Mentioned on This Page
Capital
Miss van Brock
Mrs. Brentwood
Hig
Misa van Brock
Universal Oil Company
Belmount Field
Miss Brentwood
Pentland Place
Grafton Hendricks
Senator Duvall
Fancy Duval
Lion Hearted
York’s
Maurice A. Moore
Reuben Lacey
Brattons
Colonel Lacey
John Mills
Robert Mills
Reuben
Wei
Willamson
Mills
Philander
John Craig
Sentinel
Samuel Williamson
Hudson, Borulwaski and
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!