The New York Mercury Promises a Brilliant Literary Era
A promotional note offering subscriptions at low rates claims The New York Mercury will surpass its own past glory with The Genius of Europe and Braddon's latest novel. It touts stellar writers, artists, and engravers, plus serials, poetry, and gossip, urging readers to subscribe for two dollars a year with club offers.
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Europe
Mies Braddon
England
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America
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Poem Fragment by James Russell Lowell on Nature
A fragment from James Russell Lowell titled Moetry Whe Beggay echoes a speaker wandering through woods seeking strength from old oak pine and brook. The speaker asks for nature to grant steadfastness, endurance, and gentle sorrow, hoping to resemble evergreens and grained timber.
Let Them Talk Sayings And Folk Wit
A draft of humorous verses on letting people talk about others and opinions. It features rhymed lines arguing that concerns about what folks say are trivial and invites free speech. The piece ends with a fable-like note about an honest gander finding a mate.
Stoves and tinware sale at Thames Street shop
E P Brownell invites customers to No 133 Thames Street for stoves five hole ranges tinware wooden ware brooms baskets pumps lead pipe iron sinks French bull pans waffle irons and many other items at low market prices. Pump work repairs tin roofing and job work offered with neatness and dispatch.
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Thames Street
E. P. Brownell
Thomes Street
Antor 8 Heaters for Warmth in Dwellings and Halls
Portable or fire place heaters set in brick for warming by one fire with pure fir. Suitable for dwellings churches hotels depots and public halls with or without registers. Claims to be the most powerful heater and greatest fuel saver with testimonials from citizens and professionals. Sold by John Gladding 3d Thames Street.
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Vencete &O
John Gladding
Thaaies St
Spring Trade Notice for Ranges and Tinware
For the Spring Trade ranges pumps and cookware supply of Meal Ranges and Douglass pampas iron sinks waffle irons and other goods. Onhand a large assortment of tinware cook stoves new and second hand repaired with neatness and care. George Tilley Nos 17 and 19 Bradford st.
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W. & B. Douglass
C. Onhando
Abe Loe
George Tilley
Bradford St
Ned Grumble's Buried Alive Whale Ship Tale
Ned Grumble recounts a perilous voyage on the Wave near Sandweech Islands. He recalls being buried up to his neck to cure scurvy, surviving a snake attack, and a wild hog rescue, ending with a warning against deserting shipmates and a grim fate for those who abandoned him.
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Ned Grumble
Baby's
Ned
Sandwech Islanda
Uncle Ned
Sandwich Islands
Wunet
Hint
Heavenly Mercies and Lessons for Girls at Home
A long devotional urges readers to thank God for daily mercies and seek faith through trials. It discusses how to find sunshine in life, then shifts to advice on girls learning housekeeping, stressing early training in domestic duties, baking, and careful management to improve family comfort and social standing.
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Jesus Christ
Aida
Watt the Inventor of the Steam Engine
In a London tale a youth seeks a shop without fees but is refused. He befriends university members who allow work inside walls, learns foreign languages from books, repairs a university machine, and builds a steam engine revealing James Watt’s genius as a progenitor of a new civilization. He trains by workshop study and practical work.
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London
Corporation
Glaegow
University
Jim
James Watt
Watt
Hwawen
Finceen
Trapgs
Weeping in Anxious Nation Weeping Women and Poets
A reflection on tears as a social force. The piece catalogs women from married to widowed to actresses and beggars, all moved by grief and vanity, and notes poets fashioning tears to move audiences. It surveys public lament as a cultural habit and moral theatre.
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Ephesus
Lia
Lady Kisses General Grant at Havre de Grace
A woman kissed General Grant at Havre de Grace. He blushed yet endured the moment with tolerance, perhaps more serenely than the rival Sire Grant vail might have.
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Gen Grant
Havre de Grace
Sire Grant Vail
Color Matching Birds Seen In Their Natural Camouflage
A reflection on how ptarmigan and grouse blend with summer rocks and winter snow, and how other birds like blackbirds, partridges, quail, pheasants, owls, peregrine falcons, and hawks imitate their surroundings. Each species’ plumage and posture reveal their natural camouflage and distinctive traits.
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Sita
Alligator Nest Construction Described with Eggs and Defense
The article details alligators building large nests four feet high and five feet wide with mud and grass layers, laying 150 to 200 eggs per nest. The female guards the eggs as hatchlings emerge, while the male is absent until after feeding. A New Orleans man recalled packing eggs for shipment to St Petersburg but warned of egg peril during transport.
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Fie
Lutxenburg
New Orleans
St Petersburg
India House
Improbable Imagination Exchange At A Country House
An anecdote recounts Mr Rogers discussing an imagined inconvenience about glass panes and a wine window. A joke about cold arising from a night without a nightcap amuses onlookers while the narrator cites Mr Rogers and Mr Ru geras in a light conversational anecdote.
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Rogers
Vyorovnd
Rugeera
Long Dresses and Modesty in Fashion
A commentary on women’s dress lengths and public perception urges simplification of gown hems. The piece critiques trampling bustle and fidgeting, suggesting shorter hems would improve modesty and reduce attention. It notes women adjust dresses with pages and cords, reflecting evolving fashion norms.
Green Corn Pudding Delight from Tuanton Gazette
The article describes a green corn pudding recipe from the Tuanton Gazette with steps to prepare twelve ears of corn, grind kernels, mix with milk and eggs, season with augur and salt, bake two hours, and serve with sweet butter. It adds a Rhode Islander remark praising corn pudding’s merits and notes wartime imagery.
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Tuanton Gazette
Horses Run Wild on Funen Beach Amidst Rampage
Spanish cavalry regiments quartered on Funen lose bridles and roam free. Their 1,100 black Andalusian horses gore and trample each other in a brutal melee on the shore. Romano cannot order their destruction, leading to merciful but dangerous attempts to quell the chaos.
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Petere Southey
Funen
Romano
Kumano
Firmness for Right Contrasts Obduracy and obstinacy
A compact argument distinguishes firmness from obstinacy and obstinacy from stubborn selfishness. It asserts true firmness rests on conscience and duty, while obstinacy rejects truth and hinders progress. The piece contrasts weathercock politicians and principled reformers, urging steadfast commitment to right.
Speech and Silence in a Woman’s Life Reflections
A fragmented meditation on speech and silence comparing voice and stillness. The speaker contrasts words that capture a lifetime of glory with the deeper meaning found in quiet, noting speech ripples life while silence sinks to its core.
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Buefers
Simple Truths of Nature and Character
The passage extols simple means and plain character as powerful, arguing greatness lies in uncluttered methods. It asserts nature follows few simple laws set by the creator, with beauty and harmony surpassing ornate complexity.
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Keal
Earth
Will of Buenos Aires Elder Gifts Wine Remainder
An elderly man of about seventy in Buenos Ayres left ten thousand eigura to attendees at his funeral. The eccentric testator expressly wished friends not to depart without drinking to his memory the remaining wine from his cellar. The will reportedly was carried out in full.
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Buenos
Alan
Gun Boat McClellan placard sparks mock debate
Two boys discuss the label Gun Boat McClellan on a placard, asking why he is named so after a six hour on board a gun boat during a hill fight. A moral debating society on Wet Street then asks whether abandonment by a deserting husband or wife is the greater abandonment.
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McClellan
G. B
Clellan
Statvern Hill
Ram Page: England Rebel Rama Sparks Historic Excitement
A vivid recounting of the rambunctious rebel Rama in England that captivated the public, stirring political drama and mass reaction. The piece notes the pageant like energy around the movement and its place in the broader history of unrest, collecting public opinion and notable moments.
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Rama
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