Returning Home a Child in a City-Escapist Reverie
A narrator revisits his birthplace after ten years in the city, recalling the depot, hotel, and familiar routes. He finds the town changed, shelters himself in a beloved home with maples and a familiar bed, and experiences a vivid flood of memories. The piece reflects on how the old home remains a universal, comforting vision across places and times.
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Father
Alps
Rhine
England
France
Southland
Detroit Free Press
Be a Man Says Atlanta Herald On Moral Character
A quoted Atlantic Herald exhortation urges men to embody justice loyalty patriotism and fearlessness. It calls for self discipline, courtesy, truthfulness, and steadfast defense of rights and duties as hallmarks of true manhood.
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Atlanta Herald
Bald Trees Prompt Child Like Lament From Homeyard Scene
A child pleads with emotion about the trees in the yard growing bald headed, conveying a domestic, intimate moment as if speaking to a mother. The line captures simple rural life and a small personal worry.
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Johnnie
Hunting season tightens as hides of steers gain thickness
The notice signals imminent hunting season and describes the need for sturdy hides about a foot thick, reflecting preparations and regional conditions for the upcoming period.
Parish bond and small town humor in Billville Banner
The Billville Banner reports light church notes a ten dollar bond to guarantee good faith for a collection and laughs about local figures. It recalls the governor pardoning a brother in law and playful quips about family, politics, and a marietta kitten returning home. It ends with a joke about a girl deemed too handsome to help her mother.
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Jim
Yho
Adage on Trust and Fortitude in Moral Testing
A reflective remark asserts men would prosper if they trusted wives with finances. It warns that virtue in the company of good people is simple, but remaining virtuous amid base and ignoble surroundings proves true character.
Visited Heaven Tale From San Jose Girl
Daisy Williams a thirteen year old girl from San Jose died after a three month illness. She reportedly revived after twenty minutes, described heaven and Jesus, named relatives and a neighbor in hell, and said family must repent and stop swearing to be saved. The tale drew belief from family and neighbors alike.
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San Jose
Daisy Williams
Alfred E. Williams
First
Martha Streets
Fenr
Heaven
Jesus
Aegg
Earth
Hell
Rigs and Rimpels And Oddities From A Witty Column
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips on war in France, a Wisconsin cranberry swamp fire, dreams of hail for horse cars, a four year sleep of a night watchman, the Sultan of Turkey’s household needs, trees lamenting, and barbers battling a five cent shave. Also brash wordplay on a torpedo and a stray verse about Vera Ava.
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New York
Is Wealth a Curse in Literature and Life
The piece surveys how wealth is portrayed as harmful across nursery rhymes and literature, noting a bias against riches in Sunday schools and fiction. It contrasts views from poets and playwrights with practical observations that some must be rich, while debating how wealth shapes virtue and fate.
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Lazarus
Congress
Hold to Democracy in Reform Debates
The Monroe Advertiser argues for unity within the Democratic Party amid reform pressures and warns against third party splitters. It questions GOP dominance since 1861, defends Democratic records, and urges loyal Democrats to work for reform from within.
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Democratic Party
Republican Party
Orginal Confederation of States
Grand
Monroe Advertiser
The Old Original Remedy Leads
Sick people should not be deceived by pretenders who tout fake cures and claim to know about Micro bi or bacilli. Read the paper advertisements and seek the original tested medicine Madam's Microbe Killer, which the copy warns has made more cures than others. Investigate it before risking health.
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Epp
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chemists
London
England
Close of Autumn by Bryant and assorted quips
The passage presents Bryant’s poem Close of Autumn reflecting on fading flowers and autumn gloom, followed by brief aphorisms and quotes about bicycle balance, ancestors, and a caller’s remark to an editor about usefulness after death.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertised with Endorsements
One hundred dollar reward offer for catarrh cure proof. F J Cheney and company Toledo Ohio cited as proprietors. Endorsements from West Truax Wal ding Kinnan Marvin Toledo wholesalers state Cheney is honorable and able to meet obligations. Cure taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
O. We
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
O. Hall
Murder of a Beautiful Society Girl Sparks Arrest Rumors
Rumors swirl over the disappearance of a wealthy debutante with reports of murder. A prominent young man is reportedly arrested as police withhold details at influential requests. The item cites The Shadow Detective and a curio on Washington’s 106 year old viewer.
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Calumet
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COBB
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Office Mandeville
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Fitts
Adamson & Jackson
Dacsses,’ S Lawyers
Carrollton GA
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R. C. McDaniel
Mandeville Building
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Armstrong & A
Sofat al Epco
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Atlanta Constitution
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Carrollton Dry Goods CO
Drs. Starkey & Palens
Arch St
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Starkley & Palen
Drs Starkey & P
Sutter St
San Brandy
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