Local Trades and Sundries Guide on Hope and Church Streets
A scanned list shows merchants and goods along Hope Street and surrounding avenues. Entries include furniture, crockery, clothing, linens, groceries, haberdashery, and druggists with items like ready-made clothing, cambrics, flour, teas, and hosiery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mimball
Bas Catuer
Hlupe
Church Streets
Drury
Hope Street
Abrieses
Spooner
Uiler Mbuit
Hope House
Dude ES Coesheid
Pahae
Cassimeres
Deeskins
Rich Westings
Wade Clothing
Aikjng
Gunes
Afi Ieee Ie Atul Rai
Cnn
Ode Weddeid
Poe
Pearse
Hota Teehee
de Walls
Goodhar
Svasil Babron
Laces
Sleep, Lovely Babe in Summer’s Bright Refined Lullaby
A brook dances by a tranquil scene on Block Island where a sleeping infant lies in pure whiteness. The poem contemplates heavenly dreams and earthly fading, bidding the child sleep as time and youth fade, imagining a peaceful transition to heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
Bread Returned to Riches Through a Stranger’s Help
An aged Jacob Manfred, impoverished after losing all four sons, fears the poor house. A former beneficiary, Lucille Williams, now prosperous, visits with a pledge of a home for Jacob and his wife, restoring their hope as bread returns to their table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eee
WM Vars & Son
DE Wolf
Hope Street
Bristol
R. I
R. L
Charles H. Phelps
Sige
The
Golden Eagle
Sixth Avenue
New York
John Gladding
Phames Street
Jacob
Jacob Manfred
Susan
Heaven
Susa
Fife
Aya
Uian
Phecari
Parier
Aatfisge
Snag Questyan
Cassinge
Walliaie
Williams
Jacob Manfred Lucille Williams
Careenoan
Jacob Minfren
Keep to the Right in Life and Islands Fashion
A preacher urges moral discipline urging readers to keep to the right in life. A correspondent describes Block Island Island life with its barren harborless coast, rich landlords fading under distribution laws, and island fishing practices reflecting old New England patterns.
A Chapter On Boys By Beecher From The Independent
Rev Henry Ward Beecher writes on boys as a distinct life stage, praising natural play and simple country pleasures. He critiques overpious youth culture, urges nurturing freedom, curiosity, and honest kindness, and argues country schooling benefits body and mind.
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The
Polytechnique
Henry Ward Beecher
Independent
Deliberate with caution and yield with gracious firmness
A reflective note urges慎慎 deliberation and measured decisions. It emphasizes balancing caution with firmness and grace in leadership, urging restraint, thoughtful judgment, and considerate action to achieve steady progress.
Economy and perseverance in business admonition
Advice urges individuals to mind their own business, avoid unnecessary purchases, and use time wisely. It counsels regular audits of books, retrenchment during hardship, and to face difficulties with unflinching perseverance to avoid dishonor.
Reading Spelling and Spankings Earned at School
A father questions his children about school, the eldest reads and spells while a younger boy boasts he receives reading, spelling, and spankings as his rewards for the day, illustrating a humorous scene of school life.
Jury Hangs Itself Not The Defendant In Courtroom Tale
An old reader misreads a trial tale and asks why the jury was not hanged. A wag explains the jurors hanged themselves, not the prisoner, prompting irony about finding twelve men willing to hang themselves at once.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havik
Indy
A colored man questions labor and heaven in a 19th century dialogue
A narrative quotes a enslaved or free African American man challenging his social position and future state. A clergyman argues there would be work in heaven but the man retorts that enslaved people would be used there too, threatening to rebel with planters as guides.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alene
Lebben
Chile
Rats in Chicago Deface Streets with Muted Fear
A Chicago writer laments a city swarmed by rats. The narrator describes streets as shelters for myriads of rats that roam at night, gamble around doorways, scurry across sidewalks, and dodge under feet as residents attempt to avoid them. The piece notes constant frenzied activity and the need to quiet friendly but intrusive animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Sondetter
Myriada
Halla Dogen
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Buut & Shoe Maker
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WWE
Josephus Gooding
Hupe
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Potter & Brother
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Rovience, Re
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