The Foremost Magazine of the Day Review
A fragment praises a leading magazine noted for its broad literary scope and high readership. It highlights monthly circulation of 170,000 copies and compares Harpers Magazine to a versatile literary guide with diverse essays and poetry.
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Eztmerer
Harpre
Madazinix
Ahispeee
Americas
Wore Philosophical Quarterly
Wee Daily Journal
London
Boston Courier
Subscriptions for Macazine and Wxexir Offered by Office
Publishers announce a mail subscription system for prompt delivery of Macazine and Wxexir directly from the Office of Publication. The magazine price is 1 cent per year, to be paid at the subscriber's post office.
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Office of Publication
Harrer
Magazine and Warner offers from Harper & Brothers 1939
Harper & Brothers advertises a year of The Magazine or Waener with free extra copies for clubs and bulk discounts. It lists pricing for complete sets at 225 per volume and single volumes postpaid, with cloth binding options and express freight, urging readers to mail orders from New York in November 1939.
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Hlamrer
Maoazing
Magazine
Waener
Express
Archarer
Harper & Brothers
Pranxern Squarne
New York
Godeys Lady's Book Promotes Fashion and Home Arts
The ad touts Godeys Lady's Book as the leading fashion magazine with double fashion plates, wood engravings, crochet and embroidery, toilet and kitchen guidance, and music. It highlights models, drawings, gardening, and fashions from New York and Brodie, with terms for single and club subscriptions and notes on distribution and pricing.
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Fashion Magazine
Godey
Magasines
Gunley
Mesera
A. T. Stewart & Co
New York
Nemesis
Miriam
Fet
The Hills The Hills for Me in Nature’s Call
A poem by Charles W. Thompson yearns for mountain freedom away from crowded cities. It contrasts nature’s beauty with trade and deceit, praising liberty, pristine hills, and the woodlands as the soul’s true home.
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Liberty
A Washer Woman's Hard Day and a Woman's Mercy
An aging aunt tells Mary a true tale of Ada a washerwoman who toils six days a week to support a sick husband and child. When a careless employer delays a key wash Ada loses precious daylight and nearly loses her husband and son. The story ends with a plea to be kind to washerwomen and to ease their work when possible.
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Susan
Mary
Adam
Ada
Daylig
Troe
Chen
Navy growth and ironclad progress in three years
The article details a rapidly expanding navy with 558 steamers totaling about 40 000 tons, up from 26 steamers and 49 700 tons at war start. It cites new wooden and ironclad vessels, including Monadnock and Monitor class ships, aiming for higher speeds and heavy armament, highlighting national resources and engineering prowess.
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National Defence
Department
Aa Rards
Naval Shipyards
Tonowanda
Montonomah
Agamenticus
Monadnock
Ead
Monitor Ironclads
Calumny and Envy in a Small Town Eden
A long prose piece decries envy and calumny in a Woonsocket area town on the Providence and Worcester line. It warns how slander harms all, especially women, and uses biblical and literary allusion to urge virtue and restraint.
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Woonsocket
Providence and Worcester
Nature
Arev
Anil
Angela
Belial
Eden
Imagination Defies Water Cure at Glastonbury
A Yeovil workhouse old woman crippled for years was convinced Glastonbury water could heal her. The workhouse master supplied bottles of water from a normal spring, she shed a crutch but soon relapsed after the illusion failed.
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Glastonbury
Yeovil
Two Londoners Talked of America From a Misty Scottish Hill
In Argyleshire two men from London enjoy themselves on a hilltop and strike up conversation with a shepherd reading nearby. They joke about a foggy view offering a distant sight of America and the moon as the mist lifts.
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London
Argyleshire
America
Donald
The Proud Schoolmaster and His Musical Ass Tale
In Pekin province during 1840, a wagon journey is led by a boastful old schoolmaster atop a lively donkey. He boasted loudly at every sight of peers, and at an inn kept the animals awake with tunes. To silence the donkey, he boasted that a stone tied to its tail would prevent braying, a lesson proved when the stone made the beast drag and become dejected, only to resume braying once freed.
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Tuc
Pekin
Avan
Nes
Eid
Eure
Ase
Verse on Morality in a Neighborly Conflict
A fragment urges distrustful behavior toward neighbors and strangers alike. It prescribes hoarding kindness, doubting every bill, avoiding the sick and poor, and embracing a bleak worldview that Ends with a warning about a miserable heart. The piece contrasts imagined gain with harsh social judgment and descent into misfortune.
Morning at Pompeii Awakens in Silent Ruins
A vivid, elegiac sketch of Pompeii at dawn. The city lies half clothed in ash as tourists still rest, while the sun reveals the deathly beauty of its ruined streets, silent houses, and lingering signs of daily life. An inscription in red marks the day's spectacles.
Lady Doctors Debate Alleges Female Cruelty and Mercy
The piece quotes Jennie June predicting ↑ deaths among women from female doctors and argues women are naturally vicious to each other. It contrasts this view with a defense of womanhood, urging mercy and empathy over hardened actions.
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Jennie June
Doctura
Jennie
President’s Last Meeyin ize and a Bookish Mishap
A garbled tale describes a three boy audience with a tired president figure reacting to a biblical episode. Shadrack Mesheck and a third boy spark Read aloud effort, a stumble causes fear and a cry about “three rascal fellows.”
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Tnd
Sehdolen
Daniel
Ike UHeard from Mrs Partington on Ike and war tales
Fragmentary letter style piece notes Ike and shifts to army service and a boy named Dan amid messy times. Neighbor Tibbuns mentions Fires and a child promoted to sergeant. The text evokes fear, curiosity, and mercy in a troubled community.
A Curious Custom in Chinese Burial Practices
A traveller notes Chinese funerals use thick coffins with paper layered joints, and deceased travel with many personal goods. Coffins are stored in homes for years, leading to prominent displays among household furnishings.
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China
A Cure for Jealousy Tale From Old Letter
A jealous husband on a voyage to London visits a clairvoyant to learn his wife’s actions at home. The tale unfolds with him spying from a distance and a dramatic claim of remorse and divorce. The narrative ends with jealousy resolved in a harsh judgment against the wife.
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London
Time Span for Life on Earth Based on Cooling Rates
In a Dublin Geol ogical Society discussion Rev Prof Haughton uses earth cooling rates to estimate when life could arise. He cites albumen coagulation at 122 degrees F as fatal for life and computes a gap from 103 degrees F to 75 degrees F for tropical epochs, yielding about 1.018 billion years between those temperatures.
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Haughton
Dublin Geological Society
Earth
Ios Grees
Motesaa
Vanished Vulgar Wealth and Primitive Industry Echo
Fragmentary text discusses economy and wealth as related to extravagance and display. It references brash business conduct, predictions about wealth roads, and contrasts ancient and modern labor, noting long-lost tech and material achievements and the fleeting nature of civilization.
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Ruk Hinyaaid
Agein
Brussels
Shila
Tiona
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