The Settler’s Escape From the Kentucky Indians
Dick Turner, a frontier settler near Boonesborough, is captured by a party of six warriors. Bound and camped, he frees himself, slays a captor with a knife, and escapes into the forest. He hides in a tree trunk as flames threaten, is rescued when neighbors extinguish the fire, and credits his rifle fuse of luck for survival.
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Kentucky
Boonesborough
Dick Turner
Daniel Boone
Cumberland Mountains
Savage
Miscellany Quote on Prayer Sincerity by an Old Writer
An aged writer muses that God judges not the eloquence length or number of prayers but their inner sincerity. The remark critiques ornate phrasing and complex methods, urging genuine spirituality over display in devotion.
Let Your Actions Shine Out Your Religion
A meditation on visible faith urging that religion be demonstrated through conduct rather than words. The speaker compares lamps and lighthouses to show that true belief is revealed by consistent, illuminating actions guiding others.
Keep the Heart Alive Moravian Reflection
A Moravian reflection urges extending sympathies and affections with age. The writer notes aging narrows feelings yet emphasizes seeking amiable, loveable traits in others to sustain mental health and happiness. It argues ongoing small friendships keep the heart alive and humane as humanity evolves.
Books as voices of the distant and the dead
A Channing reflection extols books as true travelers and sources of mental life across ages. He argues that readers gain fellowship with Milton, Shakespeare, Franklin and other great minds by faithfully using books, even if living in obscurity or lacking status society.
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Milton
Shakspeare
Franklin
Channing
God in Nature and the Christian Farmer
The farmer sees God’s workings in nature daily and can distinguish the divine hand in sun and rain. A Christian farmer gains unique joy and peace, perceiving God as a Father and friend even amid storms, while others admire but do not feel the same spiritual comfort.
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God
Floating Fish Oil Factory On Algonquin Hull At New Haven
A New Haven Palladium description details a vessel dockside dwelling turned floating fish oil factory. The Algonquin hull, sold to eastern buyers, now hosts a drying machine by Hogle and a Tuthill elevator process that converts menhaden from smacks into oil and guano, with a capacity to dry a ton per hour and to age lumber and fruit.
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New Haven
H. B. Bigelow
Tuthill
Long Island Sound
Professorohnson
Sheffield Scientific School
Algonquin
Milford
Science and Superstition at a New Lighthouse
At a Polytechnic Club meeting Mr Boyle recounted a lighthouse keeper tale. An old sailor, neglecting curtains, saw his reflected image in lantern glass as sun rays focused by a lens lit the lamp. Fearing a witching glare he fled, insisting Satan lit the lamp, until dawn revealed the truth and a new keeper was hired.
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Polytechnic Club of the American Institute
Boyle
New Island Sound
Salior
Satan
Hair on End in Cardinal Pacca Tale and York Burglary Verdict
A passage from Memoirs of Cardinal Pacca recounts a violent interruption as Pope Pius VII confronted an arrested cardinal, with the cardinal describing his hair standing on end in anger. The piece also cites a York assizes burglary trial where the prisoner’s hair bristled during suspense, yet lay flat on hearing Not Guilty.
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Pacca
Miollis
Pius VII
York
England
Seward and Toombs Snuff Box Duel Aside
A Senate altercation between ex Secretary Seward and Robert Toombs ended humorously as Seward, amid anger, drew a snuff box from his coat, offered Toombs a pinch to ease tension, then calmly resumed his argument in favor of his measure which passed.
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Seward
New York
Robert Toombs
Toombs
Senate
Southener
Mr. Toombs
Mr. Seward
Colonel Fisk and the Newsboy Charity Tale
A crippled newsboy in Twenty third street gains a business partner in Col. Fisk. He funds a paper stand at the corner, stocks it, and shares profits. Fisk later gifts the boy all earned money, freeing him from debt. Upon Fisk's death, the boy mourns beside the draped stand at burial.
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Col. Fisk
Newsboy
Jade
Col Fisk
Weatherhood Echoes in A Shopkeeper’s Odd Forecasts
A quirky note from a local newspaper recalls a clothing store owner who sells ice in heat and eerily forecasts seasons with odd phrasing. The piece plays on prediction and commerce, hinting at weather moods influencing retail.
Funeral Attendees Recall Deceased With Harsh Silence
A coarse ill-natured man dies and, at his funeral, friends offer no kind words. At the graveside, a kind German man breaks the quiet, remarking, Well, he was a goot schmoker. The moment delivers a wry, compassionate jab at the deceased.
Balbec Balbec City Between Damascus and Tripoli in Syria
The Balbec region lies roughly halfway between Damascus to the southeast and Tripoli to the northwest. The town's huts house about a thousand Arabs. Ancient writers mention it as Heliopolis of Coelesyria. Balbec is linked to Solomon and Palmyra in chronicles, with tales of the Tower of Lebanon and a residence for the Queen of Sheba.
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Balbec
Damascus
Tripoli
Syria
Palmyra
Macaobius
Heliopolis
Coelesyria
Egypt
Imelipolis
Bal
Tadmor
Iteliopolis
Solomon
Tower
Lebanon
Sheba
Secrets of business success in social magnetism
Maxine Trapge argues that attracting customers hinges on friendliness, courtesy, and integrity. He notes two rival firms with equal location and stock can differ in sales due to personal interaction skills and consistent, honorable conduct.
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Maxine Trapge
How To Build Brick Chimney Tops
Instructions from Industrial Monthly advise cement mortar for all brick-work above the superstructure and soaking chimney bricks in water before use. Mortar should dry slowly to harden, wet bricks slow setting, and a copestone or arched top protects flues from water ingress, preserving interior plaster and calcimining for over a century.
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Industrial Monthly
Cucumber praised as versatile vegetable in old exchange
An exchange extols cucumbers as highly useful and versatile, noting they can be prepared in many palatable ways beyond tomato and squash. It argues cucumbers are best cooked when too old for raw use, and warns that a raw cucumber can be indigestible for many people despite its flavor and aroma.
Verdict of a Jury of Boys in a Roxbury School
Dr Nathaniel Prentice threatened six blows for whispering and offered a verdict by three boys. They declared the master must keep his word and intended to share the punishment, but John Ziegler volunteered to take all six blows. The punishment was never carried out and the doctor pondered it until his death.
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Nathaniel Prentice
Roxbury
John Ziegler
John
A Middle-Sized Boy’s Composition On Girls
A humorous student reflection on girls and women, blending playful insults with observations. It contrasts boys and girls, notes how girls torment and outshine, and ends with a here to stay claim that girls will face consequences of their schemes, while boys shoulder it with good humor.
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Nick
Pussley
Man Tells Comical Dressmaker Tale After Mental Break
A Cleveland man, picked up by police, recovers and recounts a surreal morning routine. He explains his wife sent him to the dressmaker with a long, precise order to change fabrics, styles, and stitching details for a silk gown, including flounces, puffing, box pleats, gusset stitches, and applique.
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Cleveland, O
The Use of Lemons as Cure All Remedy
A correspondent extols lemons as a stomach corrector and nerve tonic and claims they help rheumatism and gout with regular doses. He asserts lemon juice relieves headaches in ten to fifteen minutes, prevents disease, and quenches thirst, noting it can be diluted or taken neat and that most people would prefer it to water.
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Canarsie Bay
Brooklyn Ferries
Boston Journal
SURE CURE FOR NEURALGIA CLAIMS GERMAN REMEDY
The Norwalk Gazette reports a reader cured of neuralgia by a German physician using a poultice from common thistle leaves and a tea decoction. The method involves macerated leaves as a poultice and a boiled decoction taken before meals, claimed to relieve pain and provide cures in many cases.
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Norwalk Gazette
Germany
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