Barbara Frietchie remembered in Frederick town
The poem recalls Barbara Frietchie in Frederick Maryland as Union flags fly above the rebel march. The ballad portrays her standing at a window, urging defiance of Stonewall Jackson and shielding the flag with a loyal act. The narrative ends with praise for her courage and the flag as a symbol of Union and liberty.
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Tess
Fredarick
Maryland
Frederick Town
Barbara Fyietchie
Dame Bugbara
Frederick Street
Barbara Frietohie
Stonewall
Freedom
Union
Beatty
Fred
Hick Town
Be Still My Heart Then Let Love Be My Guide
Poem extols inner wealth over fading beauty and time. It emphasizes a kind loving heart as true wealth, wiser than youth, and prays Heaven grant a fresh, gentle spirit each coming year despite aging and worldly change.
Fragmented Verse Fragment on Earth and War
Fragmentary lines evoke apocalyptic imagery of earth to dust and coming catastrophe. Poem references fear, boldness, matrons and maidens, swords and pens, burning temples and trampled thrones.
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Wii
Influence of books music and conversation on home happiness
The passage argues that small intelligent entertainments drastically improve family life. It asserts books, music, and social talk awaken affection and higher sentiment, drawing families together and easing public gloom. It contends private disarray fuels public confusion and urges embracing these cultural influences.
Lobster Life Cycle and Habitat Described in Detail
The text details lobster anatomy including claws gill-chamber jaw and tail. It describes annual molts four and eight legged limbs and a tough shell transition. It notes molting weakness cautious hunting tactics and deep-water habitats with thousands of eggs in females and rapid tail propulsion for escapes.
Weeds in a garden and the ages of discretion
Coleridge discusses upbringing and bias by showing a garden overgrown with weeds as a metaphor. He explains that youth cannot yet judge and that early influence is unfair. The passage contemplates nature power, weather, and virtue overcoming hardship.
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Coleridge
Home Remedies to Ease Coughing in Old Text
The article suggests soothing a throat irritant by sipping thick slippery elm tea or sucking gum arabic. It notes these substances coat mucous membranes to reduce irritation and mentions paregoric as a local mouth treatment that helps stop coughing.
A Bigot Defined by John Foster
A quotation defines a bigot as one who sees religion only as a line and moves along it. He resembles an American buffalo, looking only straight ahead with no regard for angels or devils at ten yards distance to either side.
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John Foster
Welsh Proverbs On Virtue And Courage
Three sayings note durable money of the benevolent and the butcher's shoes as well as a woman's tongue. Other lines claim three things equal to their betters and compare dirty water quenching fire an ugly wife to a blind man and a wooden sword to a coward.
Hair Thickening and Virtue as Lasting Wealth
The article cites a home remedy to thicken hair and prevent graying using boiling water infused with cage leaves, applied near the roots daily, with coconut and olive oil and perfume as an alternative. It extols virtue as the durable possession, opposing time and illness, and contrasts mildness with the perils of pride. It also warns against harsh words noting the thin line between words and swords.
France in Distress Seen Through New York Times Lens
A New York Times writer portrays France as ally to England in deep decline after recent convulsions. The piece ascribes France with lost faith, moral ruin, and a nation exhausted by war, its arts and knowledge eroded while military pomp remains.
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France
New York
England
Rome
Canteen Word History and Its Foreign Journey
The article traces the word canteen from Saxon tin can to Gaulus adaptation and French terms, noting how English reused the original form while meanings shifted. It laments slander and weathering, comparing reputations to gold whose value remains despite impeded currency.
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Gaulus
Onguent promises wild hair growth turns heads and cows
A sensational advertisement touts Onguent as a miracle hair growth salve. It claims dramatic effects on beards moustaches eyelashes and even boots and wagon wheels with a single application. Priced at a dollar per cake the rags to riches pitch sells mail order bottles nationwide.
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New York
la Crosse
Eure
Sameon
Curious 17th Century Warped Bill From French Parchments
A French paper reports a bizarre 17th century parchment discovery detailing a painter’s charges to an abbey. Items include restoring biblical figures, gilding celestial bodies, and mending saints, with odd line items like new teeth for Herod and renewing the sky.
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Pontius Pilate
St. Peter's Cockre
Gatriel
Cainplas
Lucifer
Herod
Balaam
Lampeon
Freddy's Prayer and a Moral Tone in a Child's Wonder
A four year old recites a bedtime prayer asking for protection and forgiveness for a misdeed, then questions if God forgives harm to a hop toad. The tale contrasts sincere religious practice with notes on artificial hair and morality in young women.
German Beer Controversy Stirs Saloon Case
An arrest for selling intoxicating liquor without license unfolds as a German witness named W- claims lager beer is not intoxicating. He jokes about drinking sixty ginse and humorously questions if a gulp could make a hog act mad, while other witnesses test the beverage’s effects.
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Ash
The One-Horse Chaise Turns John Clarke Rich
John Clarke, once poor, inherits wealth via a bequest tied to his reform and his old one-horse chaise. The village watched as a humble man rises after the uncle’s reading, with Jenny Brazier and others wagering on his future. The tale ends with Clarke proving a good man despite early flaws.
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John Clarke
John Clarkes
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Clarke
Orentes
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Smnoy
Susan Spriggs
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Tie
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Pehaw
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Tuco
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Wheelwright
Joe Hemp
Julia
Cluth
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