The Goldsmith of Nuremburg Auction Scene
A crowd gathers before a Nuremberg goldsmith’s shop when Joseph Durer announces an auction of his works. The sale reveals family sacrifices for a son’s marriage and ends with a mystery bidder purchasing the remaining lots, including a diamond Emperor Maximilian portrait pendant.
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Joseph Durer
Sittan
Inlaw
Palmerharte
Lobeck
Daug
Luceck
Bavaria
W Oumar
Albert
Athert
Jose
Wiver Hedpold
Miley
Oremx
Emperor Maximilian
Family reunion and unexpected fame for Albert Durer
A tale describes a father and son named Albert Durer, once estranged, who reconnect after a forged sum nearly tears a family. The son has become a renowned German painter, engineer, and court artist, earning high patronage from Venice and Louis XIV. The old man celebrates the reunion, while moral reflections on virtue and daily deeds follow.
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Albert
Germany
Tighest
Christiana Sermon Tone Urged by United Presbyterian
A United Presbyterian exhortation calls for earnest prayer and cheerful preaching rather than solemn whining. The piece argues Christians should project joy in faith, inviting harmony with humane sympathy and avoiding moroseness while aiming to reflect heaven on earth.
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Mani
Burt Rerious
Emilen
Phearuree
Halby
Mion
Christiana
Presbyterian
Idle leisure seen as moral danger to workers
The text argues idleness corrupts society and harms the active life of workers. It cites biblical and classical phrases to claim idleness leads to decay, moral leprosy, and vice, endorsing steady labor as a safeguard and citing the laborer as a guardian of virtue.
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Idelwegs
Urcer
Thorne
Cato
Telenees
Montague
Growth of Great Men In Youth
Growth of Great Men examines how leading figures like Daniel Webster and Henry Ward Beecher showed little promise as youths. It argues that early dullness or poor scholarship does not preclude later achievement and leadership.
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Robert Rintoul
Walter Scott
Patrick Henry
Daniel Webster
America
Henry Ward Beecher
Rye flour and Indian meal bread recipes from Eliza Prentice
Eliza Prentice of Dakota shares Rhode Island plan bread methods from the American Institute Farmers' Club. She details rye and Indian meal blends with syrup or brown sugar, milk, and boiling water, plus variations for texture, soaking crusts, and two-quart steam-baked loaf ideas for a small family and adaptable amounts.
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Eliza Prentice
Dakota
American Institute Farmers’ Club
New England
Rhode
Rhode Island
Bachelor rent turns to family men in Paria dispute
A prospective bachelor tenant’s contract leads to a transfer of four young children and furniture to a quiet house, as the proprietor confronts an agent. The agent reveals the tenant is the forebears’ son and that the lease permits his family to occupy the space for three years.
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Holace Gregory
New York Tribune
Vermont
Caitpren
Paria
Tivk
Nevst
A California Dairy Near St Louis With 800 Cows
The second largest Amelia dairy lies about four miles from St Louis, housing 800 cows tended by Swiss milkers. It consumes daily 18 400 bushels of malt, 6600 pounds of cut hay, sixty bushels of corn meal, and other feed. The dairy, run by O F Teser & Co, sits on 1000 acres of rolling land with springs, yielding 800 gallons of milk and eighty pails of cream daily.
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Calimornia
Amelia
St. Louis
O F Teser & Co
Fragments on Countenance and Restful Death
An aged reflection on faces changing with wind and time. The author notes that dead countenances fade to a calm, peaceful look reminiscent of early life, evoking awe as loved ones kneel by coffins and glimpse an angelic presence on earth.
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Earth
Heir Plot Turns Sour After Generous Divisions
An elderly man split his fortune among his heirs, who then treated him poorly. He hid money in a locked chest until death, when the chest opened to reveal only a mallet and a note: Whoe ver divides his money before he's dead Take this mallet and knock him in the head.
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George
Vangand
Williams
du Vt
George Williams
Pata
Geome
Offic
Tle
Mary
Ministers and parish tales from a merry Methodist preacher
A pastor recalls a rough night in the country and a bedside Bible reading plan interrupted by cramped pages. A witty banter scene features a one legged lover and a sharp remark about preferring uniqueness over two eggs.
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Tee
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