A Sister's Sacrifice in the Castle of Theix
In the Castle of Theix three women endure a brutal wait as Paul de Turgis fights for life after the Quiberon campaign. Marie disguises as a soldier to save him, trading her own life for his and dying at Vannes during the execution. Louise and Madame de Turgis mourn, while Paul recovers in secrecy, blessed by a sister’s selfless act.
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Castle of
Theix
Bay
Morbiban
Everes
Paul
Louise
Marie
Madame de Turgis
Ileari
Henri
Yves
PE Queke
Charette
Sombreuil
France
Maria
Enri
Soimbreuil
Penthievre
Quiberon
Sombrenil
Auray
Howie
Tallien
Madame de Targis
Mademoiselle
Cay
Vannes
Matthew
Rhe
Mano
Paul de Turgis
Madame Turgis
Pan
Brother
A Severe Lesson in Tidiness From a Wife’s Resolve
Christine Terhune Herrick recalls a girlhood habit of slovenliness and a severe illness that opened her eyes. She describes her mother’s frantic searches for clothing and a vow to never go to bed with clutter, promising lifelong tidiness and orderly habits.
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Christine Terhune Herrick
Sulphur Bitters Save Life, Iowa Bank President Testifies
The president of the Bank of Waverly Iowa credits Sulphur Bitters with curing ten years of catarrh and liver trouble. He weighed forty five pounds lighter and nearly failed, but after six bottles he recovered fully. The testimonial appears from Smith P Hunt of Waverly and notes his prior health decline and restored strength.
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Bank of
Miscellany reflections on faith virtue and effort
A collection of quotes on faith prayer and morality. Observations compare angels and blessings to a reward for steadfast effort, stressing that belief alone saves nothing without action. The passages urge self-denial and discipline as essential to intellectual growth and character formation.
Wiscon sin Senator Spooner and temperance claim
The Galveston News reports Senator Spooner of Wisconsin does not drink and has never discussed temperance in public. When pressed, he says he has three boys he loves and they have never smelled liquor on his breath, a pledge he repeats as his temperance argument.
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Spooner
Senator Spooner
Wisconsin
Galveston
Christian Earnestness and the Call to Faithful Life
The piece urges steadfast effort in devotion, condemning vague ritualism and laxity. It warns against half measures and urges persistent self-denial, cross bearing, and labor for eternal life, echoing the call to be faithful unto death for a crown of life.
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Strait Gate
Kingdom of Heaven
Parlor Rooms and Home Tone Shape Happiness
Dr. Johy Hall argues that home happiness rests less on wealth learning or status and more on tone and temper. He believes good sense and grace forge a decent life, whether in town or country, as the opening stage of an enduring moral temple.
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Johy Hall
Pillars of Love and Faith Mark Human Sacrifice and Scripture
A Russia tale recalls a lonely pillar inscribed with Greater love hath no man than this as a loyal servant sacrifices himself to save his master from wolves. Another pillar cites Herein is love not that we love God but that He loves us, the Bible as the noble pillar of scripture.
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Russia
Strikin
Pittsburg
The Chisel of Affliction Shapes Our Latter End
Spurgeon speaks on God's ongoing work within believers like a sculptor carving a marble block. He suggests humans are rough drafts now and will be transformed in eternity, becoming more holy and glorious as God completes His design.
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Spurgeon
Armour, Chicago Packer, a Driven Lifelong Worker
A Chicago Herald piece profiles Armour, a 50 year old Chicago pork packer with 5000 payroll, 180 clerks, daily 5am start, 6pm finish, and $60,000,000 annual sales. He lives plainly on Prairie Avenue, prizes charity, and keeps Ogden in the firm. Absent-mindedness tale follows.
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Cariaco
Armour
Chicago
la Salle Street
Packer
Office Palace
Prairie Avenue
America
Ogden
Packie
Philadelphia
Chicago Herald
FataL EFFecTs OF ALCOHOL
Dr Richardson argues alcohol causes 1000 deaths weekly in England and Wales and questions why, if other deadly agents existed, medicine would not act with urgency. He urges removing alcohol as a preventable cause and condemns medical apathy toward this fatal evil.
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Richardson
England
Wales
Esculapius
Army of Medicine
Immigrant at Castle Garden Quips About Dakota Territory
An immigrant asked about Dakota’s size and received a comical reply: pull Dakota up by the roots and toss it into British possessions to create a hole large enough to bury Minnesota Wisconsin Rhode Island and what the tornadoes left of Iowa. Cut the vacancy into knot holes and fill with lumber for houses for the United States and part of New Jersey.
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Sime
Dakota
Castle Garden
Dakota Territory
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Rhode Island
United States
New Jersey
Blunder of the Geographies in Golden City Map
The Boston Transcript notes a long running map error in Colorado where Goblin City on the White River near the state’s western edge was misdrawn as a real settlement. Expedition notes from Fort Bridger to Fort Massachusetts sparked the idea, leading mapmakers and official offices to perpetuate the fake town despite no actual settlement existing.
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Colorado
White River
Golden
Goblin City
Fort Bridger
Old Fort Massachusetts
United States Engineer Office
General Land Office
Goblin
Golden City
Boston Transcript
End to bone scraping urged by Harrisburg man
Edward Shepherd of Harrisburg Indiana reports a long running leg sore healed by Electric Bitters and Bucklen's Arnica Salve after doctors warned of bone scraping or amputation. He used three bottles of Electric Bitters and seven boxes of Arnica Salve, priced fifty cents and twenty five cents respectively, sold by J H Young & Co.
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Edward Shepherd
Harrisburg
Bucklen
J. H. Young & Co
Money Doesn't Make The Man Says Yonkers Statesman
The Yonkers Statesman quotes an old maxim that money alone cannot create character, and character cannot be earned solely by wealth. The paper frames wealth and virtue as distinct, noting money does not define a person.
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Yonkers Statesman
Beechers Praise for the Weekly Newspaper Tradition
Beecher argues the weekly paper brings communal life to country families. He describes a rural household reading aloud after supper with questions, discussions, and lasting value today and tomorrow. He notes country readers know city life better than urban visitors and that newspapers educate and unite households.
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Beecher
A Humorous Tale of Fifty Coursers and a Shawl
An elderly, wealthy man grants his second wife a wish for 1500 dollars. She asks for a shawl and he brings home 1500 silver dollars, weighing nearly a hundred pounds. She marvels at the sum and vows to save it, leading to her depositing the money in the savings bank. He swears, on his honor, the incident changed her requests. The tale claims to be true.
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Hussanps
Shaw
Hood's Sarsaparilla Drives Rising Sales
The sale of Hood's Sarsaparilla climbs rapidly due to its claimed positive curative value and conclusive evidence of remarkable cures. Readers are invited to request a book from C. I. Hood & Co. in Lowell, Massachusetts detailing numerous statements and figures.
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Hood
C. I. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
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