The Englishman and the Irish Emigrant’s Lament at a New York Gala
At Mrs. Horatio Harding’s refined reception in New York, Herbert Escott, engaged to Alice Hoyt, listens to a haunting version of The Irish Emigrant’s Lament. The song stirs memories of a lost love in England and a wife named Mary, prompting Escott to drift into reverie before escorting his fiancée back to the crowd.
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Horatio Harding
New York
Herbert Escott
Alice Houyt
Escott
Montacute
Horace Waters
Sons
Broadway
Waters
The Honey Bee Lesson From a Sunday Story
A poem recounts a busy honey bee trapped by greed for honey. It contrasts diligent work with disobedience to Sabbath rest. God punishes the bees by making clovers hard to reach, hiding sweetness from those who seek worldly gain and miss heaven.
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Honey Bee
Water for All In The King's Desert Kingdom
A tale of drought and a generous king who offers endless water to all who come. Some doubt his promise while a thirsty child explains the well from which the water flows and urges taking as much as needed. The piece closes with moral reflections on sorrow, love, and active life.
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Mary
Montacute
Darling
Alice Hoyt
England
Ireland
Alice
Herbert Escott
Gospel confession on paying fare impresses railroad boss
A Chicago Post and Mail item recounts a letter from a repentant former fare dodger who rode three times without paying. The railroad official replies lightly, suggesting restitution by prayer over future years, while a reflection on an ideal home praises a dedicated mother’s influence.
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Chicago Post and Mail
Sttr
Subscribing and Surprising Editors in The Athens Messenger
A humorous guide suggests men of business should advertise to retire with competency. It claims habitual newspaper borrowers may be guilty of something meaner and urges subscribing via the editor of The Athens Messenger. It promotes forming a subscription club and writing legibly to share news.
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Athens Messenger
Shadow clocks and hopeful warnings from a homely scene
The piece wittily links time to shadow length and work, cites Job, recalls a lecture urging early marriage, notes glasses help, mocks freeloading readers, imagines a neighbor’s chimney cooking, and ends with a palindromic riddle about fame and a changing social rank. The tone is playful and moralizing.
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East
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Helen Hunt
B. Webster
Canaanville Mills
Choice Brands Family
Nes Ém
Canaanville
Ohio
Mrs. Golden
Childen
United States
Alfred White
Cincinnati
Aberdeen
Scotland
D. B. Stewart
Chas, Grant
Athens Mills
Veces Grant
Acer
Pomeroy Iron Co
Pomeroy, Ohto
J. W. Thomas
Sec
Treas
Jas
H M. Johns
McOwen
J. A. Filler
Main ST
Zanesville, D. Co
M. Spooner
Athens
Ini
H. K. Dorr & Co
Ins
Chang Chang
Chang Chang Mi’g Co. Ton
Walker
Eric
Pwu
America
Am.m’fg CO
N. Y
E. P. Gluck
New Bedford
Mass
National Publishing Co
Chicago
St. Louis
U. S
Boston Globe
Interocean
J. C. McCurdy & Co
T. William & CO
Philo
N. Lyon
State Street
Albany
The
Pioneer Drug Store
R. Dasel
John Perkins
Perkin
Main Street
Wa. Walker
A.S. H
Miller’s Bible and Pubishing House
Sansom Street
Philadelphia
Frice
P. Garrett & Co
Chestnut St. Phila
Penn
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A. Richeson
James R. Finley
Margaret A. Richegon
Athens County
Leonidas Jewett
James Coe
Johnson Coe
Leonidas Jew
Alo
Forge Falloon
Oho
Fuller & Fuller
Imerever
Jurubeba
Kilvert Junction
Big Run
H. M. Crippen & Bro
DR. Downs
Opera House
Columbus
Iowa
Nebraska
Burlington & Missouri R. B. Co
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Rail Road
Burlington
Iowa Lands
Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Lands, Or To 8S. A. Shaw
Parkersburg
West Va
Valley Gem
D. H. Baldwin & CO
West Fourth &T
Great Western Gas Works
Pii
Wuseu
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