Sailors Home in New York Express Promotes Seafaring Aid
The piece extols Sailors Home on Cherry Street as a benevolent refuge for mariners. It highlights deposits, wills, baggage storage, and cash safeguards, praising trustees and donors including a recent $400 gift. The account notes visitors viewing 250 seamen at meals and recounts Captain Richison’s Sunday speech praising temperance and moral uplift for sailors in port.
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Cherry Street
Eliore
Hos
Richison
Serney
Duck
Hans
New York
Watts Street
Breakfast and Dinner Customs of Isabella and King John
An excerpt notes five o'clock breakfast and ten thirty morning dinner in Isabella of Angouleme’s era, with King John disliked for midday naps and court scorn for his schedule. It also describes a camphine based method to extract whale grease from fabrics, using a rag, fresh camphine, and cologne to remove odor.
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Saratoga
N. P. Willis
Te National Intelligencer
Wdo
Congress Spring
Puitier
Isabella of
London
Ceapstell
Birmingham
Hady
Ler
Remeber
Strange Rural Notes and Moral Musings from Dublin Press Fragment
A garbled 16th century style English fragment covers parish names, odd goods lists, and a rural sermon on female virtue. It includes a wandering traveler’s directions to Stevensons Milla, sketches of domestic duty, and aphorisms on firmness, truth, and smile. The text cites “The Stranger’s Penn” and sketches anecdotes about bachelors and tunes.
The Two Uncles Endure a Bankville Homecoming
Aunt Phillis learns Banksville is a rough, bare settlement as she and Elmira return from a lavish wedding. Mr Banks boisterously coins a new life in a plain house while Phillis protests a dream of grandeur and faces her mistaken hopes. Elmira’s quiet sorrow underscores the upheaval.
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Philip
Elmira
Elmira Banks
Banks
Joseph
Joseph Banks
Phillis
Lielia
Bon'cery
Lelia
Limita
Charles
Mr Banks
Mre Banke
Uis
Mr Hants
Aunt Phillis
Manners
Clements
Mannwre
Atarles
Mt l
Lelin
Wenre
Bankaville
Jon
Banksville
Uncle Banks
Bina
Howe
Ancle Banks
Bankeville
VAIL
Aunt Phille
Botany Bay
Banke
Diddle
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W. HH
Bayley
Thames Street
Amil
Aibave
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New York Express
Porcotien Arts
Ming
Pliny
Vetranius
Diodorus
Marcus Grecus
Plymatock
Clarek
Seargent Smith
Richetti
N. B
Dublin
Med. Press
Stevenson
Aranger
Robinson Place
Deacon Moore
Col
Penn
Wales
Gisby
Sume
Clarshes
Christaina
Cimnees
Eharnaler
Amon
Evangelion Magazine
Archie
Thore
Itaddaw
Paradise
Claude Guardinal
Ile
Lyons
France
the Teavollar
New England
Albany
Iin
Canadas
Philadelphia Saturday Courier
Caroline Lee Hentz
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