The Good Templar Pledge and the Saving of Mark Mills
A dying mother pleads for help against a drunkard husband. Mr Makenzie and a doctor vow to save Mark Mills, who signs the temperance pledge for his children's sake. The narrative follows Mills’ sobriety, the widow Lettie Mills’ burial, and Mills’ eventual reform and family restoration.
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Sheila
Fae Tate
Alme
M. Makenzie
Tam
Templara
Mark Mills
Abe
Mr. Makenzie
Templars
Makenzie
Glezier
Gand
Fatherlees
Makenzi
Spoek
Agich
National Temperance Society
Lile
Mr. Makenze
Mote Mills
Mr. Makenszie
Lettie Mills
Cardinal Poncinice
Humility as a Guiding Virtue in Thomas a Kempis Text
The piece elevates humility as the crowning grace of Christian life, contrasting true humility with vanity. It cites Thomas a Kempis and Pascal, quotes a Kempis passage on restraint and meekness, and offers a devotional prayer for purity, faith, patience, and holy meditation.
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Taovucus
Thomas a'Kerris
Thomas A’ Kempis
Pascal
Fren
Kempiss
Use of minding gossip and false talk in nights
The piece urges ignoring malicious rumors spread by busybodies. It notes gossip harms only if you dwell on it and advises promptly correcting true misstatements while letting falsehoods fade on their own. It emphasizes not giving rumors power and maintaining inner calm.
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Boston
Tux Decoy and the Sheep Through City Streets
An English magazine recounts a London butchers decoy tactic using a sheep attached to its owner to lure a flock to market for slaughter. The piece parallels this with Satan using leaders to guide many astray as sin draws crowds toward destruction.
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Suxrer
London
Leath
Satan
Paradise
Taxes and economy in government reform
The speaker argues for strict cost cutting in public expenditures and tax reductions. He condemns sinecures and waste, urging that every public dollar saved lessen burdens, and asserts America should avoid European levels of taxation while maintaining honest administration and gradual debt repayment.
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Ordéf
Old farmer quips on honest service across work and faith
A seasoned farmer says a man should serve the Lord with the same seriousness as measuring onions and bollers glory. The remark, though humorous, is meant to apply to many kinds of dealings beyond produce.
Keep Your Mouth Shut Warns Against Breathing Through Mouth
A reprint from the Examiner recounts Calis the Tadisn explorer urging winter caution about mouth breathing. It extols nostril breathing for filtering air and detecting impurities, noting the mouth as a wide entry for unfiltered air and the nostrils as a protective gate.
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King Solomon
Calis
Pork and tithing tales in Brigham Young era lore
An aged apostate recalls a tale about tithing and division of meat, describing how one tenth was taken by Brigham Young’s clerks and leadership after he butchered ten fine hogs for tithes. He reports the president’s remark that the Lord would know his share.
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Brigham
Bshop
Salt Lake
Oxen Draw Diligences and Mail Carts Across Regions
A Mesopotamian note recalls 1856 Naples Rome travel by omnibus like diligence pulled by three wheel-horses, two leading horses, and white oxen. A western paper reports Michigan mail carriers using Texan oxen to haul a cart, reaching fifty miles daily twice weekly.
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Naples
Rome
Michigan
Nature and habit shape virtue and reward in Barrow’s view
The passage argues that water, air, metals, soil, and nature change with use or neglect. It asserts that constant agitation keeps things healthy and productive and that human faculties thrive only through continual exercise. Barrow links effort to reward including wealth, honor, wisdom, virtue, and salvation.
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Barrow
Nutmegs and Spices Rooted in East Indies Traditions
The passage describes nutmeg and mace as the seed and covering of a fruit with a spongy coat. It lists cinnamon cloves pepper ginger and caraway as products from East Indies regions and notes a moral reflection on white garments showing dirt less forgiving than faults in good men.
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East Indies
Ceylon
Java
Sumatra
Malacca
Carraway
Swampscott parson and boy clash over manners
A Swampscott anecdote recalls a church meeting about a boy named Tony. The parson challenges his manners, Tony responds with loud defiance, and the parson withdraws amid the boy’s fierce retort and a later claim of good schooling.
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