Where Have My Playmates From Forty Years Ago Gone
A nostalgic poem recalls country childhood on Baker's Hill with names of former playmates and neighbors. The speaker wanders the countryside seeking long lost friends, asking where Ezra Mario Noble Pratt Lizzie Grum Anastaals Snell Roxie Hoot and others have vanished. The piece laments winter’s hush over a once lively schoolyard.
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Ezra Mario
Baker’s Hill
Noble Pratt
Lizzie Grum
Anastaals Snell
Roxie Hoot
Boston
Levi
Ittle
Jos
Newton
Quincy Adams Brown
Bepsy Hall
Eliza Cowlea
Gracie Amith
Cutler
Leander Bnow
Roy Colled
Bill Warner
Donkey Boys
Woman in Dender monde burns inheritance money
A woman in Dender monde near Ghent burned 85,000 francs in cash and deeds of what were described as misdeeds after being wracked by disappointed relatives over an inheritance left to her niece Ronalie Vv. The bank notes were consumed in the fire leaving only ashes.
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Dendermonde
Ghent
Naice
Ronalie
Burdock Blood Bitters
James G
Mrs Cagey and Mrs Murphey Discuss Family Losses
Two women in a streetcar discuss family matters. Mrs Murphy says she has four children four living or dead, with two living two dead and one in Philadelphia. The dialogue hints at personal tragedy and urban life.
Scott's Emulsion Promises Cure for Thinness and Paleness
An advertisement touts Scott's Emulsion as the longtime remedy for fatigue nerves and exhausted muscles. It claims cod liver oil nourishes the body and supports strength, with Acott & Bowne, chemists in Toronto, cited as suppliers.
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Scott
Acott & Bowne
Toronto
Do What You Have Found To Do With Your Might
A reflective urge against endlessly planning and boasting about grand projects. The piece argues great deeds come from steady effort, not loud talk, urging people to roll up sleeves, start tasks, and finish them with determined action rather than perpetual preparations.
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Walt
Do the duty nearest to you and doubt fades
A reflection on turning conviction into action. The text urges immediate application of knowledge to dispel doubt, stressing that progress comes from doing the nearest duty now, which clarifies the next steps.
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Carlyle
Paine's Celery Compound Promises Quick Health Boost
An old advertisement touts Paine's Celery Compound as life giving medicine. It claims rapid relief for rheumatism neuralgia liver disease Bright's disease diabetes and nervous exhaustion by cleansing the blood banishing lingering ailments and restoring vitality after a single bottle.
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Paine
Bright
Paitie
The Art of Withholding Praise and Demanding Rights
A short editorial advises readers to cultivate strict self discipline in praise and to harshly critique others. It suggests assuming selfish motives in all, to demand every possible service as a right rather than a courtesy, shaping behavior with fixed rules.
Marblehead Seaman’s Wife Seeks Community Prayers
An elderly Marblehead woman, wife to a seaman named Mr Blank, asks the village preacher to request the congregation’s prayers for her husband’s welfare before a long voyage. The illiterate widow’s note was read aloud, producing a comical misreading about seeing his wife and asking for prayers.
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Marblehead
Ele
A Few Don’ts For The Beaux
A humorous list urges restraint in daily conduct with cautions about punctuality, overtime, and gossip. It notes a man can earn six to sixty dollars per week and suggests aiming for the higher earning tier.
Fragmented dialogue on retribution and family ties
The speakers discuss a concept of retributive matches on a garth and reference a man expelled from an office after asking to marry his daughter. The tale mentions a broken knee and the daughter aging toward becoming an old maid.
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Garth
Amali
Aince
Reflections on Money, Power, and Self as Told by Authors
Excerpts discuss usury and money lending as oppression, a self-revealing encounter with a stranger, and a meditation on duty and place. Quotations from Bacon, Rab aiyat, and Maurice Francis Egan illustrate moral tensions between wealth, jurisdiction, and personal liberty in a literary mosaic.
Fruit shop beauty and distant cures in old prose
The text paints a vivid fruit shop scene with oranges apples pears grapes and berries described in lush detail. It shifts to ad copy praising South American Norvine Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil and various remedies highlighting health cures and consumer confidence.
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Leigh Hunt
Milton
India
Pontus
Punto Coant
Alcinous
Pineapple elixir and tonics advertised to cure digestive issues
An advertisement promotes Dr. Von Sian's Pinaspple tablets made from pineapple juice claiming to cure digestive troubles and improve health. It lists a box of 60 tablets for 45 cents and includes testimonials and other remedies such as Parmeleo's Pills and Haggard's Yellow Oil with assorted claims and prices.
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A. T. Brown
Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills Praised in Port Hope
Port Hope resident F J Armstrong testifies his wife suffered heart pains and smothering sensations for fifteen months. After using Milburn's Heart and Nerve Pills she grew stronger and more energetic, with Armstrong declaring the remedy highly effective and unsurpassed.
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Port Hope
Milburn
F. J. Armstrong
Milbuen
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