Washington era reflections and a dramatic warning
A fragmentary newspaper piece blends verse on unseen tears with a historic anecdote about General Washington and Colonel Lear. It recounts a winter Philadelphia scene where Washington intervenes in a dispatch incident, then warns of a looming surprise, ending with notes on virtue, jealousy, and a preacher’s parable about righteousness and charity.
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Washington
Lear
Warrington
Lam
Colonel Lear
Atul
Uvifora
Sean
Presidents House
Philadelphia
Goneral Washington
Tie
Lisa
Mr Dear
Ss. Clair
Congress
St. Clair
Richard Rush
Union College Alumni Seek New Hall and Charity Hall
President Nore of Union College aged eighty to ninety convened New York alumni. Resolutions urged erecting a hall near the college and forming a permanent association. President Nott spoke, urging charity as lasting wealth and warning against parsimony.
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Prident Nore
Union College
N.Y
Callege
New York
Nott
Life and Existence in a Fragmented Reflection
A meditation contrasts mere continuity of life with higher consciousness. It argues that true living comes from knowledge, truth, love, beauty, and faith, which awaken the senses and elevate experience beyond habit. Joy, sorrow, music, childhood memory, prayer, and doubt nurture the human spirit toward trust.
Napkin Hidden Talents Mocked in Noble Education Tale
An English nobleman sends his son to Roland Aull for schooling. The father boasts of talent hidden in a napkin. The diver returns the boy with a sharp note claiming no talents were found. The fragment includes musings on duty, faith, wealth, and homecomings.
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Roland Aull
Sut Lovengood's Shirt Saga In Mountain Memoir
The narrator recalls Sut Lovengood recounting a brutal mishap with a home sewn shirt that tore his skin and left him nearly naked. Sut laments fear of punishment, hints at drink and violence, and describes the shirt’s transformation into a tattered, pasted, stitched mess dangling from a beam.
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Lovengood
Jin
George
Gonrze
Bill
Mouay
Betts
Oman
Dan
Johnson
Police Cart Oddities and a Wary Judge Tale
A collection of comic police court moments and odd dialogues. A German court scene features a warrant request over a sour krout incident. A probate judge discusses an heir case with a buxom matron claiming widow’s rights and a seven month old child, hinting at jurisdiction limits.
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Pandrean
Meester Joodge
I Vents
WarVane
Wis
Me. K
Sawyer
Remarks on Kissing and Wit from Classic Fragments
A collection of pithy lines and anecdotes on kissing virtue and humor. Includes Sidney Smith on tasteful kissing, an elephant’s escape tale, a parable about conquering adversity, and quips about ivy and marriage. Notes on manners, wit, and a government maxim for life.
The Wanderer's Home Message
A reflective piece extols the pull of home for wanderers, urging that even after roaming amid worldly bustle, thoughts of loved ones and familiar places return. It imagines home as a resting place with caring hands, comforting acts, and a welcoming afterlife beside life’s peaceful river.
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Janey
Blome
Enmufort
Oh Water and Sacred Verses A Temperance and Crime Snippet
A mixed OCR fragment surveys water as a beloved symbol in poetry then shifts to brief items: a Wesleyan Methodist Conference expelling two clergymen for immoral conduct, a dramatic leap of a 12 year old horse from a Wisconsin shot tower, a Tonguey woman named Thirty-six Tonwuas, a North Bay schoolmaid scandal, and a French wife’s tribunal complaint about domestic abuse with a blunt reply.
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Clargymen
Wesleyan Methodist Conference
Tormte
C. Wo
Ieg
Tangh
Hamilton
Jonee
Toronto
England
Elena
The State of China Letter on Fishing Population and Society
A letter to the Register General, London, by Sir John Bowring, published in the Journal of the Statistical Society, surveys China’s fishing economy, floating populations, and urban river life. It notes vast crews on rivers, diverse boats, and the accessibility of waterborne living, while detailing how land is terraced and cultivated to support a dense population and food production. It also comments on Chinese dietary practices, temperance, and the status of women, contrasting labor roles and education with Western perspectives.
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China
Register General
London
John Bowring
Journal of the Statistical Society
Tals
Canton
Shineseng Agriculturists
Thal Parta
Thu
Phita
Bowery Land
Chitose
British Review
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Das
V. V. Tribune
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Vwe
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Adda
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Mra. Smith
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Hagle
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Aanosville
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Morgar County
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