Absets Loans and Discounts and Bank Statements
A fragment from a 19th century financial notice shows a bank cashier swearing to a statement of assets including loans, discounts, specie, notes, and circulation. The text names Ganson, Malden, and Wells Fargo, with addresses in New York, Boston, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and California streets. It references forwarding freight and California collections, with March 28 date and various bank and express company details.
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SORWARD Freicht
California
regon
Washington
New York
San Francisco
Oregon
Sandwich
CALIPARNLA
JarOar
espacio
OFTICE
Boston
San
Sminy wharf
Montgomery California streets
How to Know Good Fathers in a Quiet Son’s Heart
A reflective meditation on fatherly love and examples of virtue. The narrator notes a son’s admiration for a caring father, contrasting worldly troubles with a steadfast heart. Love, not ambition, is set as the true reward of fatherhood and youth.
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furla
The Beautiful Flowers and the Wedding Vision
A literary fragment extols flowers as symbols of marriage and eternal renewal. The prose likens wreaths and garlands to the cradle, altars, and tomb, with rivers of perfume and Cupid imagery, praising floral abundance as spiritual devotion and perpetual beauty.
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universal board of man
bleserg
anya
prairies
Ueir fragramee
Industry and Toil Define Happiness and Reward
The text argues that toil is the price of sleep appetite and enjoyment. Industry overcomes natural sloth and yields pleasure, while nature’s plentiful rewards cannot be bought. Toil strengthens body and mind, and the comforts it brings arise from exertion itself, not wealth.
Deacon Hagop's Sabbath Stand Amid Asia Minor Ties
A native Armenian deacon Hagop now leads the Protestant Pohurehav Trebizond in Asia Minor. The tale recalls his Sabbath refusal while employed by an English trading house in Sum sang. When urged to work on Sunday, he asked if a pit should be dug out when an aga falls in on Sabbath, prompting a sharp retort about duty and deliverance.
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Hagop
Pohurehav
Hugopy
Ridiculous Country Revel in a Rural Party
The account describes a rustic gathering where a young country girl, about sixteen, is the center of a raucous scene. A group of youths, mostly men, engage in disordered dancing and crude kissing games while a matron-like figure reacts with disapproval. A dissenting voice from a man named Dushand interrupts to protest the exploitation of the women, warning that many in the room have been involved in inappropriate behavior. The room's mood shifts as tension rises over consent, propriety, and interference.
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althiuhh
berberaulei Dushand
rompeid
enice
Stavnheom
tives
anne
John 2
tinlfa
A scattered tale of temptation and comic vignettes
A fragment style column blends moral anecdotes with humorous scenes involving a tempted child, a distressed mother and infant, a flirtatious omnibus agent, a jealous husband, and a tavern tale. It threads pious caution with lighthearted mischief, capturing everyday life in brief, vivid sketches.
The Farmer's Motto and Cottage Garden Remedies
A fragmented 19th century excerpt cites farming ideals and humane farming, urging stock, seed, and cultivation. It extols gentle bird-friendly home life, memory of childhood gardens, and the value of kindness in farming to produce a thriving household. It also discusses whitewash recipes for homes, including Paris White preparation and household paint tips.
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hii slater
Birds and manners in Japan and a jumbled note
A largely garbled 19th century fragment discusses Japan protecting birds since a treaty with the United States. It contrasts humane treatment of birds with warnings about insects, plus stray anecdotes on a Postmaster in Tennessee, a classroom dialogue about inertia, and a rustic joke about a boastful calf.
Misadventure at Prayer and a Village Scandal
A town gentleman plans an evening out but must take his wife and child. He uses pinching tricks to dodge babysitting, fails when the child cries Mamma Papers please. A separate tale from a manufacturing village in Ireland reports a schoolmaster guiding Irish voters, only to see Republicans win. Restitution notes threaten exposure over stolen money and forged scripture.
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Adams
carey
oorvid Wartehouse
titaigess
PRE SAUERWELN & SON
Baltimore
eburgh
Daryer
Democratic party
Self Reform and Language Lessons in a Dated Tale
A fragmented compendium of quotes and anecdotes on self control reform and language conquest. It weighs how a man must purify himself before guiding others, stories of neighbors, linguistic missteps at the Isthmus, and a joke about a housemaid’s routine, ending with a toast about resignation and a quip about women’s patience.
Blizzard Subscribes to a Railroad in Montgomery
An old miner named Blizzard from Pike County offers three thousand rails for the Mobile and Girard Railroad, but declines cash, exposing a rustic view on rail funding. The item records local sentiment on rail expansion, narrating the agent’s return and Blizzard’s stubborn stance amid frontier skepticism.
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Blizzard
Montgomery
Mobile & Girard
thia settlement
Old Blizford
tic plantation
dikneune
Prairies
Montgemery
BR. Co
Mr. Blizzard
old B
imr
perciues
avre
Blizgved
H.R
Montgomery Mail
Arrest of Alleged Murderer of His Family
Banana Me April 11 Marshall Potter was arrested at St Staphoo by officer Bena. He faces charges for killing his mother two brothers and a nephew during a Thursday night fire at Tee and robbing the barn of 150 dollars. He escaped when the house burned, changed clothes at Carroll, and fled to New Borgowick before arrest. His clothes were bloody and the brothers’ winter earnings were found on him.
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Banana, Me
Marshall Potter
St. Staphoo
N. B
Bena
Lee
Tee
Carroll
New Borgowick
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SLAGLE & CO
North Street
Fiont
Clavar
Northern Central Railroad
Klinehiler
Spite & Co
Gettysburg
B. B. Buehler
BANK OF
GET SBURG
General Assembly
Commonwealth
Buls
T TD
Ganson
Giettysburg
WD GARSON
Malden
ALD
Geo Ansonn
SAMUEL G. COOKOULD
Wattles
Globe Inn
York street
Getty
windo
Gistelisa
GEO
BURULER
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Uppwiss Puehyy
maine
HOME
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fae
Ravnenner
pulite omnibus
Laxington
Lmisville
bipgape
Leaington Statermean
gitt
tex Boid
Tom
Daniel Webster
vane tavern
bat man
Lexst
walla
Paris
Japan
Gonmoore Perry
criel
Qormmodore
Lim
dupan
Buchanan
ip Tennesses
eurente
f. Ban P. M
Confucius
Bueyres Journal
Merved
Poat
eertwin
Meather
Fle
ming
enyail
faerie
sowetody
Tennesses
Tinesster
Greaves
Cincinnati
waa
Richilieu
Bantru
fagrané
ied
Indy
aistay
greenhorn
Jonathan
Henry Ward Beccher
Henry Clay
Louisiana
adimé
hix
National Council
aml ua
treat
Limita
ARMLAND
Philadelphia
United States
Liv
Cray
West Conat
Africa
Ges
Dahomey
denlera
Benin
Negroland
Cuba
Brazil
Goxo
France
Whydah
England
Staford
Northampton
Stafford
Northeapton
meg
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