Debor ah Samson and the Revolutionary Army Soldier
Deborah Samson disguises herself as a man named Robert Shirtliffe to join the Continental Army in 1778. She serves three years, is wounded twice, and hides her sex until Washington grants her discharge after a hospital episode reveals her true identity. She later marries Benjamin Gangett, with her wartime actions framed as patriotic though debated.
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County Paper Subsidy Critique Sparks Reader Remarks
A writer denounces people who sponge the county paper by reading it without paying. They borrow copies from shops offices or barber shops, letting others miss the chance to see the paper. Many such readers could and should subscribe to support the publication.
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Little Things Shape the True Christian Life
The text extols small deeds and daily duties as the core of holiness. It contrasts quiet consistency with grand miracles, urging avoidance of minor sins and attention to little acts of kindness, punctuality, and self restraint as the mosaic of a great life.
A Home or Taste Engravings For A Household
Engravings shed their spirit over a household and influence the living. Beauty should adorn every paper and wall. Let every chair, textile, and kitchen or parlor object be worthy of a home of taste as Sixiney Smith urges.
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Mosaic Craft and Faraday Theory in a Curious Mix
A Rome visitor explains costly mosaic making with tiny pegs and ten thousand color shades requiring skilled painters and years of work. Faraday is cited on life spans, growth, and aging, followed by light satire on boils and a farmer named Slow commenting on abdication and education.
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Modern luxurious dinners and stomach disease risks
The author laments the modern habit of stuffing the stomach with diverse foods from soup to dessert. He warns that mixing varied ingredients leads to fermentation and disease, noting that excessive eating and immediate cold drinks after meals cause chronic stomach inflammation.
What We Are Made Of Dr Holmer Essay
Dr. O W Holmer argues that a person’s future self is built from harvests and traded goods. He imagines body parts composing from corn rice potatoes and water from clouds and wells shaping a fragile material existence. He frames life as assembled from external inputs and natural reservoirs.
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Proverb-like note on human interdependence warning against overreliance on oneself and underestimating others.
Censure and Praise Mix in Moral Guidance
A reflective passage argues that criticism works best when paired with praise. It suggests examining virtue alongside faults, and notes that future pasts are read in each face, shaping us toward gentleness rather than melancholy.
Rhode Island General Assembly Sessions Major Guardians and Aliens Acts
Rhode Island 1869 session enacts guardianship notice rules for inmates in asylums, allows service within or outside state with physician assent, and permits newspaper publication after due steps. Additional provisions remove alien landholding barriers and adjust Perkins Institute funding to 300 dollars per beneficiary.
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Amendment to Births Deaths and Marriages Fees
The act amends fee schedules for town clerks or appointed officers to collect record and return vital events. Fees include fifteen cents per birth entry, twenty cents for the first return and ten cents for subsequent entries yearly. Repeals inconsistent portions of prior law. Attest: Joan R. Barle, Secretary of State.
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