A Test of Charity Between Two Friends
In a bright June parlor Annie Dale and Carrie Hunt discuss Annie's fiancé Edward Cheever. Carrie doubts Cheever’s stinginess and bets on a charity test. Annie proposes a plan to test his generosity using a bracelet gift from Tom Bentley and a forthcoming visit from Ned to reveal true character.
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Annie Dale
Carrie Hunt
Annie
Edward Cheever
Cheever
Carrie
Edward
Addie
Ed Cheever
Che
Miss Hunt
Papa
Tom Bently
Thomas Bently
En Passani
Tom
Mr. Cheever
Bently
Ned
Charity and deception on a moonlit corner
Two young men meet and discuss Miss Dale and Miss Hunt before encountering begging women who turn out to be the two girls in disguise. Edward Cheever aids the pair while Tom Bently refuses, leading to a moral tale of charity, romance, and consequences ending with marriages and a charitable act.
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Annie
Carrie
Cross Streets
Edward Cheever
Thomas Betty
Dale
Cheever
Bently
Sam
Tom
Miss Hunt
Miss Dale
Ned
Charity
Cheaver
Ko. Street
Miss Haunt
Thomas Bently
Ned Cheever
Tom Bently
Annié
Moe
Annie Dale
Carrie Hunt
Gathering Cocoanuts in Ceylon
Cocoanut forests cover wide plains near Gaile with tall straight trees. Coolies climb using ankle ropes and drop coconuts to the ground. Each tree yields about a dozen nuts, harvested by one worker per tree, supporting export revenue and local industry.
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Ceylon
Gaile
Island
AxioMS FOR YACHTSMEN Do and don’t on boat safety and seamanship
Advice for yacht crews covering conduct on deck. Warns against standing in boats, sitting on rails, trailing garments, and stepping aboard from awkward positions. Emphasizes keeping plugs in, securing gear, hoisting flags, tidy appearance, discipline on the quarter deck, moderating alcohol, and improving self navigation skills.
Norwegian farmer seizes wood with mistaken lien plan
Knude Knudeson sold firewood to Ole Oleson of Green Bay Wisconsin. When payment lagged he tried to file a lien per Blackstone but misheard lien as lina. He wrapped clothing line around the wood to threaten Mrs. Oleson into payment, admiring the legal bluff before realizing the error.
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Knude Knudeson
Ole Oleson
Greenbay
Wisconsin
Oleson
Knudeson
Blackstone
Knuderson
Lina
Price Conundrum Crops Up In Boston Shop
A new Boston merchant clerk, fresh from apprenticeship, asks a customer what to charge for a marked item. The clerk claims the tag reads four dollars and a half plus fifty cents for coating.
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Boston
Friendship Foundation Through Selfless Love
A miscellany citation urges building friendship on loving friends for their own sake rather than for personal gain, stressing selfless regard as a durable bond.
Remembering Eternity Beyond Wealth and Glory
A meditation on mortal priorities and the永永 nature of virtue. The speaker urges not to mourn for lack of heroism or sainthood, noting God placed countless grasses and common fidelities on earth as signs of enduring worth beyond time.
Making a Fortune by Useful Local Works
Emerson argues that practical improvements such as digging wells planting trees or building durable houses create lasting value for a country. He suggests wealth gained through constructive labor enriches the community beyond personal gain and endures after the individual is gone.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Remembrance Anecdote From Talmage Sermon
A Rev and city missionary tale recalls a boy who tears the lining from a hat. He keeps the lining because it came from his mother's dress and reminds him of her after her death. The act shows the boy's longing for material memory and maternal affection.
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DeWitt Talmage
Industry as the remedy for indolence and poverty
A moral reflection extolls industry as the key to ease and success. Laziness leads to poverty, while steady effort keeps body healthy and mind active. idleness is labeled the mother of vice and ruin.
Sincerity and gossip clash in a coin of social chatter
A fragment contrasts true friendship with hollow compliments and envy. The tale shifts to a drugstore scene where a stranger seeks to buy stock but misreads a general store plan, exposing rural commerce pretenses and failed negotiations.
Extravagant Sultan Abdul Aziz Cited For Vast Expenditures
The Vermont Republican notes Abdul Aziz as a reckless spender of his kingdom revenues. It cites a palace budget of ten million dollars, five thousand five hundred servants, fifty doctors, six hundred horses, and a thousand two hundred harem members costing about eight hundred thousand dollars yearly. It lists farm, art, and building outlays totaling millions.
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Abdul Aziz
Picayune
Beecher
Vermont Republcan
Custer Charges Rosser in Daring Victory at Strasburg
In 1864 during the Shenandoah Valley campaign a ceremonial duel ends with Custer leading a rapid cavalry charge against Rosser. Custer rides alone to draw fire then returns to command, his unit sweeping Rosser back toward Rood's Hill with minimal artillery support and Sheridan joking about the lone gun.
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Tuer
Custer
Twenty-third Ohio
Rosser
Sheridan
Army of the
West Point
Rood’s Hill
Columbus
Montenegrin War Tactics and Ferocity Described
The article portrays Montenegrin warfare as primitive and brutal. It notes their discipline of not seeking mercy, removing wounded enemies heads, and carrying wounded comrades from the field. It emphasizes their marksmanship, use of terrain, and surprise factors against regular armies.
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Clobuck
Hog Bouncer Aids Hogs In Yard Movement
A West Albany cattle-yard device called the hog bouncer uses a spring loaded platform to force hogs from loading cars into the yard. When crowds resist, a lever raises the platform and springs cast a shower of small projectiles over the animals, dispersing the blockade without serious injuries.
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West Albany
Scientific American
Dr Dio Lewis Advises Marriage To Develop Manhood
The letter from Dr. Dio Lewis in the Green Bay Advocate urges young men to marry and settle down, arguing life before marriage lacks development of manhood. He rebukes old bachelors and warns that world travel without roots breeds habits that hinder success, urging readers to choose a productive path.
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Dio Lewis
Green Bay
Wis
A Piea FoR AsHES
The Hartford Courant argues ashes are clean and useful not dirty. A bed of ashes protects the hearth and chimney, preserves embers, and saves fuel. It urges relaxing neatness to enjoy open fires and notes ash benefits with certain wood like green rock maple.
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Hartford Courant
Simple honest prose guides writers from Bryant to Sydney Smith
The passage urges plain language over foreign terms and ornate phrasing. It advocates clarity and honesty, avoiding long words when short ones work, and reminds writers to speak as they think. Sydney Smith adds that editing away half the words often strengthens writing.
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William Cullen Bryant
The
Evening Post
Sydney Smith
Outwitted by a Yankee in a Southern hotel tale
A Chicopee man visits a Southern city and outwits a boastful Carolina by posing as a four hundred year old tradesman. He questions the old man about iron and lumber business years, prompting the crowd to chant that the Carolinian is over one hundred and twenty years old, then the insult is cooled as the Carolina concedes.
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Southern Drag
Chicopee
Carolina
Springfield Union
A Traditions Tale At Saratoga Lake Mystery
The Mohawks once believed Saratoga Lake’s stillness kept the Great Spirit’s vigil and a single voice could sink a canoe. An Englishwoman tried to prove them wrong and cried out mid lake. The Mohawk chief replied the Great Spirit is merciful for a white woman cannot keep silent.
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Saratoga Lake
Harper's Magazine
The Levers of Jerusalem The Lepers and the Zion Gate
Charles Dudley Warner describes a walk along the Zion Gate and the city wall in Jerusalem. He sees lepers in huts by Zion Gate who beg and chase visitors, then flees up the wall with Demetrius as rear guard as two old women curse them from a distance.
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Jerusalem
Zion Gate
Temple Wall
Binson
Demetrius
Charles Dudley Warner
How 7 Get Rico
A tale of a self made farmer and his wife who lived frugally for decades. They saved almost all earnings, bought land and bonds, avoided debt, and built a quiet, productive life despite hard labor. As they age the couple seem content yet face questions about the fate of their wealth.
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Rico
The Camorra's Enduring Reach Across Southern Italy
Mrs Linda Mazini writes to the London Examiner detailing the Camorra Mafia and Brigandage as Southern Italy's three scourges. The piece describes Camorra organized crime spanning prisons and high society, its persistence despite repression, and its entanglement with municipal systems and broader society.
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Tue Jtrauran Camorra
Linda Mazini
London Examiner
Camorra
Italy
Naples
The Story of a Life Buoy and a Rescue
A schooner Mary B Tower picked up a life buoy from the British steamer State of Indiana. A man overboard was saved when the buoy, cut adrift in a gale, floated him to safety. the buoy remains aboard and the saved sailor survives, questioning whether the buoy’s loss aided another’s救.
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Mary B. Tower
Indiana
State of Indiana
Quien Sabe
Grow One Fat Recipe for Gaining Weight
The excerpt presents a dieting guide advising daily soup and hot drinks, a heavy in fats and carbs focus with milk butter and sugar, and meals of fish meat only once daily. It stresses digestion must be near perfect, ample sleep, and moderate exercise to safely gain weight.
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