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Washingtonian
James McCafferty
Post-Office Department
Qualities of Animal Food for Diet
A historical overview of meat and dairy values across animals. Veal, mutton, lamb, venison, and fowl discussed for digestion, nutritive value, and suitability for weak digestion, fever, or delicate stomachs. Milk and cream noted for nourishment and digestion, with cautions on acids and butter.
Digestive Effects of Butter and Salt Water Mentioned
The text notes butter's tendency to aid digestion when eaten in moderation and cautions raw consumption versus heating. It also mentions coca bee and the salt water promoting digestion, with warnings that overeating can act laxative and irritate the stomach.
Time. The Temple of Youth and Its Ruin
A reflective meditation on a ruined temple and a world worn by time. A speaker recalls a ruined sanctuary on a distant plain, its once vivid revels and youth now gone, and an aged survivor among desolation as time is personified as an inevitable destroyer.
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Paulding
Walls of Babylon Described with Great Brick Fortifications
A historical account details Babylon as a square wall city fifteen miles per side built of bitumen cement, with a massive ditch, twenty-five brass gates per side totaling a hundred gates, towers between gates, and twenty-five cross streets each way forming 676 city squares of about two miles and a quarter in circumference.
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Babylon
Cyrus
Gardens Amid Square Blocks Reflect Ancient Babylon
The streets lined with noncontiguous houses rise three to four stories high each block, their façades ornate toward the street. Inner voids form central yards and gardens, giving Babylonian appearance while half the city is actually devoted to cultivated land.
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Babylon
Judge Gaston Dies After Life of Faith and Free Thought
The Raleigh Clarion recalls Judge Gaston's deathbed scene. Surrounded by friends he spoke of a Washington party and a self claimed free thinker, then urged belief in a guiding God. He collapsed, died within minutes, his last words praising God.
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Gaston
Raleigh Clarion
Washington City
Fifty Years Since in The New York Mirror
An essay notes changes over fifty years in manners and society. It contrasts Washington era domestic tasks with modern extravagance, highlighting women abandoning baking, rising costs, servant reliance, and financial strain on marriages, leading to more bachelorhood than wedlock.
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New York Mirror
Washington
Philadelphia
Madam Pomadour
New York
Wealth to Work Not Wish to Die Rich
The speaker argues wealth should be used to employ labor and fund active commerce. Letting riches accumulate for heirs often harms the giver and heirs by fostering misjudgment and ruin. He urges owners to gradually dispose of property while alive to ensure it benefits others and brings true satisfaction.
Cautionary Tales From a Gambling Life and Legible Hand Lore
A Philadelphia Sun excerpt recalls the ruin of gamblers and the dangers of vice at gaming houses. It also shares anecdotes on legible hand writing and a theatre dispute resolved by a pill box duel gesture, illustrating practical wit and cautionary morality.
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Therin
Philadelphia Sun
W. Y. Sun
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