A Coal Boy and a Mother's Ordeal in a City Home
A woman neglects coal deliveries as three boys bargain for the job. One poor boy loses the work to rivals, tears in his eyes. The narrator learns of a sick mother and destitute child named Sarah Harmon and Charley Escott, who later finds work and steadier life through helping his mother and Jennie.
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Dolly
Kate
Tuty
Katy
Tam
Léwie
Thesvoes
Lewie
Hin
Sarah Harmon
Sarah
Charlie
Charlie Escott
Charley
Hess
Jennie
How an Editor's Life Was Saved in Jackson Memoir
A 1828 presidential campaign vignette shows Mrs. Jackson pleading with Gen. Andrew Jackson to spare a Nashville editor who had maligned her. The General risks violence but yields after her tears and scripture, saying vengeance belongs to the Lord and that her plea saved the editor’s life.
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Dunwoodie
Nashville
A Yankee Trick in Farmington Train Robbery
Four Boston creditors pursued a debtor to Farmington Maine where they chased by rail and cab. One man seized a cab horse for $100 then fled with the horse to secure a writ. The cabman later reclaimed his horse for $50 as the insiders faced the ruse.
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Boston
Farmington
Maine
Ile
Dream of a Panoramic Sacred Landscape and River Vision
A dream presents a vast, luminous realm with tropical abundance and a golden river. Hazy light, flowering hills, and a distant city of gold and gems appear as a procession of richly robed figures passes by. One figure approaches with a tender gesture ending the vision.
The Frost Brings No Comfort to a City Tenement Couple
A New York Picayune passage recalls a midsummer couple in a small tenement, their sorrow over a lost child, and the quiet reminder that many homes suffer while the city buzzes. The couple speaks of a harp tuned in heaven as they endure absence and gloom behind a dim lamp.
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New York Picayune
The Simple Secret of Fortune and Character
A narrator outlines twenty clerks and tradesmen in a village each aiming for success. The path to fortune is steady work, integrity, debt avoidance, and saving, not shortcuts. The piece argues disciplined effort builds lasting good fortune and respect.
Fanny Fern Humor in Ledger Columns
The excerpt quotes Fanny Fern on women’s supposedly impossible feats such as sharpening a lead pencil and wrapping a bundle. It contrasts male condescension with women’s loyalty as Fern jokes about shopping, bundles, umbrellas, and parachutes with sharp, humorous observations.
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Fayny Fern
Fanny Fern
The
Ledger
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Mason W. Pierce, Jr
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G. B. Gooudhue
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Otis Munro
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Java
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Bs Mutual Fire Insurance
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