I will escape the Shaker community this night
Esther, a Shaker girl, endures coercive love from Brother Silas. After a feared assault and a vow to leave, she accepts a plan by Hallam Kirke to flee Hadham that very evening. The escape targets a school for refinement and voice training, with a midnight-arranged boat meeting.
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Esther
Silas
Egypt
Mother Ann
Hallam Kirke
Brother Silas
Mehitable
Hadham
Hallam
Marcia
Shaker Garden
Hadham Springs Waits for Hallam and Esther
In Hadham Springs a society circle shadows Hallam Kirke and his fiancée Marcia as Hallam plans to rescue Sister Esther from the Shaker village. Marcia suspects a trap while Ada, elder sister and chaperon, fears Hallam may marry the Shaker girl, threatening Marcia’s future.
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Marcia
Ada
Plot to remove Hallam ends with man asleep in parlor
Ada and I devise a scheme to ship Zephine out and trap Hallam. Felice invites Hallam for tea in our private parlor as we feign amiability. Hallam drinks the tea, grows drowsy, and finally falls asleep, while our plan unfolds for his fate.
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Zephine
Ada
Hallam
The Real Londoners and Their Fringed City
A London World piece argues the metropolis is a patchwork of suburbs, not a unified community. True Londoners live within a small space, while many suburbanites know little of central London culture or landmarks. The essay notes London’s vastness breeds bewilderment and challenges civic pride.
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Caledonian Road
Brook Green
Herne Hill
London
Riviera
Scotland
Mediterranean
St. Paul's
Abbey
St. James's
Grosvenor Square
Rock
Charlotte
Calico
Moral suasion fading in Charlotte says Red Buck
Red Buck argues moral suasion wanes as law and appetite rise in Charlotte. He cites the midway and yellow press as crowds drivers, warns of costly fashions driving young women to theft, and laments declining honesty, virtue, and marriage commitment among both classes and women in the city.
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Charlotte
Midway
William R. Hearst
The
American Now
Red Buck
Charlotte Observer
SQUARED ACCOUNTS AND GOLD ACROSS THE ATLANTIC TALES
A Philadelphia press agent recounts a tale of outwitting an editor over a German festival ad bill, ending with a $70 balance paid after the manager’s death. The piece then surveys the motto In God We Trust on coins, a 1864 adoption, a quip about money, and shifts to a sweeping history of treasure, pirates, and sea loot, from Drake to Kidd, the Vigo wreck, and the Lusitania era riches aboard modern liners.
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Two Continents Engraving Company
John Smith
Maryland
London Tit-Bits
Henry Beges
New York
Francis Drake
New World
Lima
Lopez Vaz
Lusitania
Ambrose Channel
Drake
London
Krenprinzess
Cecilie
Bremen
Teutonic
China Sea
England
Solomon
Ophir
Persia
India
Pompey
Shakespeare
Antonio
Venice
Lloyds
Jules Verne
Wm. Arcunax
Hawkins
Frobisher
Treasuries
Spain
Potosi
Nombre de Dios
Cartagena
Plate
Straits of Magellan
Panama
Acapulco
Peru
Manila
Philippines
Henry Morgan
Flint
John Sliver
Stevenson
van Horn
Jean Laffitte
Teach
Blackbeard
Kidd
Wall Street
Red Sea
Robert Livingston
Livingston
East Indies
Jamaica
Staten Island
Quedalgh
Boston
Execution Dock
Lepanto
Don John of Austria
High Seas
Europe
Vigo
Vigo Bay
Sir George Rooke
Hardy
Hobson
Torbay
North Sea
Pineapples In 1851 San Francisco Tale Of Quick Profit
In 1851 a traveler sold three pineapples for five dollars each after buying them for a quarter in Panama. A Californian bought them for five dollars, then an acquaintance paid ten dollars for two more. The seller boasted of rapid profit with one supper pineapple remaining. The tale comes from the San Francisco Call.
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San Francisco
Darien
Panama
Vallejo Street
Whitehall
Battery Street
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Etta W. Pierce
Sarah
Miss Johnsbury
White Mountains
Hadham Springs
Professor Hallock
Applebys
Redstones
Spring Hotel
Grace Appleby
Newport
Aunt Somerset
Ads
Brothers and Sisters
Hallam, Kirke
Spring House
Moose Mountain
Shaker Village
Shaker
Marcela
Miss Fox
Marcie
Independence League
London the Little
Philosopher Red Buck
Bishop Hall
Vermont
Raleigh
South
Old School
Opera House
Philadelphia
San Francisco Chronicle
Atlantic
Austria
Wle- Hezka
France
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