West Virginia Inn Tales and a Midnight Robbery Rumor
A traveler in rural Western Virginia describes a vivid stay at a mountain inn run by Joshua Horner and family. He overhears a secret affair and a planned midnight money scheme, then learns of a nighttime robbery at Moorhead with five hundred dollars seized and quick intervention by Madame Paget.
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Little Mountai
Virginia
Sehomad
Firth
Joshua. Horner
Rosy
Euphemia
Wilford
Ani
Black Mountain
Tne
Humphreys
Ming
Madame Paget
Madame
The Moorhead Mystery of Moorhead and Cora Laselle
In a frontier village a night of rumored robbery ties Cora Laselle to a lover and a “new master” at Moorhead. The narrator investigates a hunter’s cabin scene, learns Colonel Paget’s wife is Celeste, and witnesses a terse, faulted marriage sealed by wealth and deception.
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Perry’s
Moorhdad
Hird
Cora Laselly
Paget
Moorhead
Cora
Randal
Perrys
Meadow Bridge
Hern
Cora Laselle
Thad
Humphrey
Humphreys
Miss. Horner
Welford
Stedman
Nme
Hogt
Gothip
Colonel Paget
Alford
Ure
New Orléans
Col. Paget
Acknowledgment of Providence in War and Fate
An excerpt argues that small errors or unforeseen events can alter the course of empires, with victory or loss hingeing on a Divine Hand guiding conduct rather than human fortune. It contends without acknowledgment of Providence rulers become mere spectators.
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Safa
Beth
Dr. South
Tame conceit and growing wisdom in life’s schooling
Tore Dosn t. Timé notes how youth exhibit self confidence as they leave school and begin life, only to learn their knowledge is limited. As age passes to three score, one may adopt the humility echoed by John Wesley and recognize frequent past mistakes.
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Tore Dosn T
John Wesley
AnNaLens
Erin's Isle
Newfoundland
The Garden as His Giviler Host and Summer Labor
A reflective piece by Bronson Alcott on dedicating spring and summer to gardening. The author contrasts scholarly duties with the lure of outdoor work, describing garden influence on mood, health, and daily life, and noting the season’s summons to cultivate crops and leisure.
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D. Bronson Alcott
Garden walk tips with coal ashes guidance
The article advises using coal ashes to improve garden walks. Dig out two to three inches, place coarse ashes at the bottom and finer on top to a depth of three to six inches, then roll. The walks stay dry and pleasant, with few weeds, which are easy to remove.
Water as life and a Napoleonic veteran in Erie
The piece reflects on John B Gough's temperance rhetoric praising water's purity. It also reports in the Zuschauer about Napoleon era veteran Sébastian Bleille living near Erie, Pennsylvania since 1836, bedridden for eleven years, born in 1703 in Baden, who fought in 81 Baden regiment and later in Russia, with two other Napoleon veterans identified in Erie.
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Eastor
Gettysburg
Roval
John B Gough
Gougb
Earth
Heaven
A Vereraux
Zuschauer
Napoleon
Dow
Erie
Peor
Wattsburg Road
Beer Brawery
St. Boniface's Church
Sébastian Bleille
Krotzingen
Baden
Grand Duke's
Col
Stockhorn
Lotzene
Russia
Moscow
Prenadiers
America
Beechwood
John George Weber
149Th Regiment
National Guarda
Frederic Fillee
Millreek
Misread Paris lodger tale of a literary man tenant
A landlord, who rents a furnished house, questions a literary man staying indoors all day. The querulous exchange centers on business noise and home wear on furniture, highlighting the idle stereotype of city misers and quiet occupancy.
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Paris
Gentleman Reflects On Parish Patience And Repentance
A gentleman touring a rural church under repair remarks that the task may take long. A workman agrees, noting the reverend has spent thirty years striving for repentance that remains unfinished. The exchange turns on the idea of effort versus outcome.
Providence Embassies and Bridges and Guardianship Acts
A 19th century Rhode Island document details an embassy visit invitation to China, a Providence River bridge project with swing spans, and amendments to guardianship and school committee laws. It references state officials, city committees, and procedures for public works and legal reforms.
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Asgantasian
China
United
Court of Pekin
Rhode Island
Citzens
Cz Ns
Providence
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