Prisoner’s Escape Tale Ends With Reunion And Rings
An extended first person narrative describes a prisoner’s long muse through darkness and light as he carves an escape via a rock wall. A fellow captive dies abruptly after a failed attempt to steal water, revealing a hidden passage to daylight and freedom for the narrator and his family. The tale closes with a reunion of Maria’s rings and a veteran officer recognizing their meaning amid postwar peace.
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Asa
Red Wall
Mme
Tagnin
Scotland
Christopher
Maria
Europe
Northumberland
Peter ‘Thornton
Jessie Wilkingon
The True Brea of Edwin and Angelina
A satirical domestic tale centers on Edwin pressed by Angel ina to economize amid political preaching on public virtue. He endures coffee altered with burned peas and meager meals as Angelina cuts costs to balance a fragile budget.
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Brea
Edwin
Angelina
Henry Carey Baird
Alexander Delmar
True Love and Marriage in Money Focused Times
An editorial lament on marriage driven by money and fashion. It argues love is rare as young people seek wealth, noting shop girls and clerks pursue financial advancement, while many marriages end unhappy when money dominates affection. The piece warns of bachelors and old maids if extravagance continues.
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Marriag
Candy Bank
Ioney
The Simplicity of Greatness and Anecdotes
A historic anecdote recalls Princeton Seminary licentiates preaching at a distant station to a humble enslaved listener Uncle Sam who later claimed the preacher was profound The episode features Archibald Alexander and a quip about coats and babies amid a collapsed bankruptcy note fragmentary and unclear.
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Princeton Seminary
Sam
Archibald Alexander
Druggist Refuses Prescription and Sells Whiskey
An elderly man tries to buy whiskey with a doctor’s prescription but cannot obtain the medicine. The druggist explains the prescription rules and offers a half pint for a dollar, plus fifty cents for medicine. The man pockets the bottle and exits, declining the prescription.
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Yinning
Herstuck
Fragmented moral reflections and oddities from a pasted text
A garbled jumble extols good nature and humility as rare virtues, then veers to love kindness and faith. It cites misquoted aphorisms, a stray note on friendship, and scattered reflections on obedience and beauty. The piece includes disrupted lines and a bizarre claim about 81,200 buildings in New York City.
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New York City
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