The Grand Duchess Tale in Liebesheim Romance
A London dinner between two old friends recalls a German court romance from Liebesheim. An English youth loves Dorothea, cousin to a future Grand Duchess Meta, who must part to protect a royal marriage. Dorothea becomes Grand Duchess. Meta hides the secret as the lover returns to England.
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Germany
Lyndsay Roundell
Thames
London
United States
Lisette
Berlin
Paris
Roundell
Grand Duchess of
Liebesheim
Bismarck
Florence
Queen Victoria
Rolendell
Meta
Dorothea
Schiller
Jothea
Advertising rates and policies for notices
The notice outlines advertising charges of $1.00 per square for a week and 25 cents per square for each additional insertion, with lower rates for smaller ads. It specifies double rates for marriage and death notices and requires advance payment for transient ads, with yearly contracts limited to immediate business and deadlined by Thursday noon for the next issue.
Ambiguous Verse Glimmers as Torch in Ashes of Delusion
Fragmentary poetic musing contrasts holiday cheer with care and guilt. The lines liken the mind to a cup of joy tainted by doubt, using religious imagery of hyssop to convey contamination of celebration.
Prayer and Mercy Compared to Buckets in a Well
A reflective line compares prayer and God’s mercy to two buckets in a well where one rises as the other falls. The metaphor suggests interlinked spiritual effort and divine grace across effort and outcome.
Governing Tongues Among People and Self
The speaker reflects on self control and the challenge of guiding others. A compact meditation on language and restraint attributed to P Franklin, exploring the paradox of governing speech in social life.
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P—Franklin
Faith and conscience shape mankind’s real history and progress
The text asserts that God entrusts humanity’s true history and progress to individual faithfulness and private conscience, framing moral agency as central to human advancement. It emphasizes personal virtue as the driver of collective development and ethical progress.
Pilgrim Sage Reflects on Hidden Calamities and Woe
A reflective line notes the weary traveler finds more distress in fears of evil than in actual misfortune. It laments that imagined ills burden the soul more than real sorrows ever do.
Revenge and forgiveness echo in moral counsel
A ponderous reflection on revenge as a fleeting triumph followed by remorse and forgiveness as lasting pleasure. The author cites a Roman Emperor who wished to convert enemies into friends to end conflict.
The Physical Benefit of Sunday
The article argues Sunday restores life and vigor for workers, acting as a savings bank for the body's vitality. It compares frugality with saving a pound each week to spiritual stewardship, claiming the Lord of Sunday preserves and returns vitality with usury in old age.
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Savings Bank of
Sunday
North British Review
Care for the Aged Message to Youth
A reflective exhortation urges young readers to honor aging parents and reciprocate their care. It reminds that today’s young were once cared for by the elderly and warns that the same future will return as the cycle of life continues. It emphasizes gentleness, patience, and gratitude toward the aged.
Fish Diet and a Mountain Light in a Revealing Sketch
A lengthy essay extols fish as a nutritious staple and a vast, year round industry, noting London demand, large trawling fleets, and the high protein and oil content of fish such as herring. It blends moralizing travel memory with a tale of devotion during the Revolution and ends with advertising economics lessons from Dr. Pierce.
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London
Mayhew
Keeping at It and the Value of Purpose in Life
A reflection by Dr. J. G. Holland argues that wealth without aim wastes vitality and leads to unhappiness. He warns that lingering work with no clear goal can sustain life and health, while idle retirement drains energy and risks a slow decline. An active, steady pursuit gives life purpose and steadies the mind.
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J. G Holland
The Seven Wise Men of Greece and the golden tripod tale
The story explains how the seven fifth century BCE Greek sages Pittacus Bias Solon Thale Thucydides Chilon Cleobulus and Periander came to be known as the Seven Wise Men Through a fable involving sailors a golden tripod and a dispute over its rightful owner the temple oracle and the idea that true wisdom reveals itself in distress.
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Greece
Christ
Pittacus
Bias
Solon
Thule
Chilon
Cleobulus
Periander
Miletus
Helen
Troy
Apollo
Thales
Paradoxical House Calls and the Reluctant Debtor
A fragment reflects on a class that questions why you do not visit but never asks you to do anything. It likens them to a man who always has a bill to collect when you try a simple favor.
A Fashionable Folly and the Waist Controversy
The piece questions the obsession with small waists and notes that both men and women prize slender figures. It cites Empress of Austria and Chinese footbinding as examples, discusses past corset trends and health harms, and predicts reform only with loose garments in fashion.
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Venus de Medici
Venus
Austria
Grave Frumboldt
Java
Av arice and Longevity in Dr Richardson’s Defence
London physician Dr Richardson argues in Diseases of Modern Life that avarice promotes longevity. He claims the avaricious man’s frugality shields him from worry and risk, keeps regular hours, and aligns life with nature, favoring abstemious living over excess.
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Dr. Richardson
London
Unquoted Horace Bushnell on Joy as Inner Fire
A compact reflection states joy as a prize found within not earned by heaven as a place. It argues joy requires inner presence a well ordered soul and holy purpose fueling personal springs from deep depths.
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Heaven
Horace Bushnell
Howling Child Sparks Train Carrow Debate in Delaware County
In a Delaware County American snippet a sleeping car crowd argues over a noisy infant. A fat man claims he travels and encounters children everywhere while a mother defends parental rights amid seething tension aboard.
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Sue Thorngcut
Delaware County
Grass and Leather Dispute Sparks Fence Clash
A Cass farm resident finds a man mowing fenced grass despite signs. The owner insists on property rights while a boy loads the grass into a wagon. The incident ends with the owner urging a rapid retreat and a tense departure.
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Cass Farm
Deitroit Free Press
Living on the Company A Shipboard Heiress
A Liverpool steam packet company bought land from a woman with a life travel clause allowing her and a companion free passage on the company's ships. She sold her furniture, left her home, and has since lived aboard the first outward bound vessel, collecting passage money for her companion and herself, totaling over 10,000 dollars.
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Liverpool Steam-Packet
Serious Cask Exhibition Prank With Night Blooming Cereus
A Portland Times item recounts a joke about inviting a doctor to witness a rare night blooming cereus. A Falmouth woman told her physician she would bloom that night and asked a neighbor to invite the doctor and his wife. Rainy travel led to a misunderstanding, ending in a laugh when it turned out to be a harmless misread.
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Portland Times
Falmouth
True humility and confession as virtue examined
The passage argues true humility relies on self examination and secret contrition rather than confession. It warns confession can mislead the conscience like a Roman feast emetic and bath, noting words may fail to express fault and guilty pleas may impair judgment, while concealment fosters real correction.
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Rome
Harbor Chart Guides All Souls Through Life's Seas
A vivid metaphor presents a chart of harbors in the sea of life to guide travelers, ensuring no one loses their way or drifts ashore. The piece likens safe havens to destinations of hope and resilience for readers navigating uncertainty.
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Pyrenees
Imare
S. Baring Gould
Sea of Life
Astry
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England
Schloss
Althoug
Dorothes
Lisbesheim
Charles Ross
America
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KR. V. Pierce
Ofuffalo
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Ile
Buffalo
People’s Common Sense Medical Advisor
Pierce
The
Fogy
Fairbank
A. T. Stewart
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