The Doctor's Daughter Bravely Goes to Aid Dakin's Boy
Hetty Wallis, daughter of Dr. Wallis, braves a storm to reach Dakin's house and aid a gravely ill patient. Her bold venture reveals her compassion and ends in a surprise romance as Dakin's son recovers and earns her trust.
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Berlin
Sibyl Wallis
Solomon
Dr. Wallis
Sibyl
Hetty
Papa
Chokin
Croup
Dakin
Eldwood
N. V
Ety
Netty
Cracy
Sib
Squire Dakin
Bob
Dobbin
Hop Bitters touted as great disease conqueror
Advert says Hop Bitters cures malarial fevers and associated ailments by converting food into rich blood and restoring vigor to the aged and infirm. Claims include relief from constipation liver and kidney torpor nervousness and neuralgia with references to Proverbs.
Pride as root of injury warns against high heels
A speaker recounts a hospital visit with a crippled man whose lameness stemmed from pride and tight boots. She warns readers about high heel fashion causing foot pain and joint injuries, urging caution and reflection to avoid grave constitutional harm.
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Advocate and Guardian
Advice To Drinking Men From Inebriate Homes
A Boston Traveler account describes home remedies to curb drinking using cayenne pepper tea, beef tea, and bromide of potassium. It urges daily use until liquor aversion grows, then stresses lifestyle changes and self discipline to achieve reform with no need for reformatories.
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Washingtonian
Boston Traveler
Moody visits Trinity Church with Reverend Brooks
In Boston Mr Moody tours the new Trinity Church with Rev Phillips Brooks. They discuss its interior and chancel as Brooks asks if Moody keeps track of his converts and recalls a young man named Simpson whose self consciousness and drinking trouble him.
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Augustine
Lord Jesus Christ
Christ
Boston
United States
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Say
Simpson
Mr. Moody
Harper's Magazine
Disputed Geography Book Prints Notable Errors
A Chinese Spring publication titled Ying hai lun contains curious mistakes. It mislabels Sir Isaac Newton as a Jesuit missionary and credits St Paul with founding the Greek church centuries late. Christ is said born in Rome and Cavour’s Italy movements are attributed to Ricasoli. It also wrongly predicts India’s seat of empire shifting.
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Ocean
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St. Paul
Christ
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Italy
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Ricasoli
Prince of Wales
India
Quotations from a rowdy charity column of proverbs
A convoluted list of maxims and wry sayings on charity age thrift and human folly. The collection mocks beggars shopkeepers and moralists with sharp phrases and old time social observations.
Providence privateer owner gives sugar hogshead to poor woman
Mr B a Providence merchant famed for generosity owned a profitable privateer. A hogshead of sugar spilled as it was moved, a neighbor woman filled her apron, and he replied with a sharp quip then donated the entire hogshead to her.
Young Man and the Swallow Moral Lesson
A prodigal youth walks near a brook in January on a sunny day and assumes summer has come after seeing a swallow. He pawns his winter clothes, loses his money at keno, and returns to see the swallow frozen to death. The moral warns beware the first swallow.
Ivy on Prison Walls Suggested by Mrs Swisshelm
Mrs Swisshelm proposes covering every prison wall with ivy and woodbine to mark prisoners’ whereabouts plainly, making it easy to tell where friends have gone without slang.
Young woman scales roof to douse fire shingles
In Lancaster New Hampshire a young woman climbed to a high town roof during a recent blaze and walked the ridge pole to pour water, keeping shingles wet as the fire raged.
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Lancasterr
N. H
A Schoolmaster Describes A Money Lender Ruse
A schoolmaster character critique frames a money lender as a figure who helps in the present, lends under a hypothetical mood, keeps clients in a subjective state, and destroys their prospects in the future.
Swift and the bootmaker with a punctual lesson
A tale recalls Dean Swift sending a bootmaker, Bamerick, to fetch boots. The day arrives late, the dean feigns an ambush in a garden, then reveals the ruse. He offers wine and safe return, noting the craftsman forgot the boots. The scene ends with the quip about Bamerick’s dull punctuality.
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Dean Swift
Dublin
Bamerick
Swift
A. Acheson
Robert
Villian
The Saloon as Enemy of the Laboring Man
The Hartford Post condemns saloons as the chief foe of workers. It argues wages fund drink that yields poverty and crime, feigning labor opposition to capital while supporting barroom politics.
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Hartford J’ost
Drawing Instead of Driving Invites Steam Boat Speed Boost
A Baltimore man proposes using the screw at the bow rather than the stern to raise speed in steam navigation. He insists the bow propulsion yields faster travel than conventional stern screw use.
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Baltimore
Fat Man Reduced by Botanic Mixt Fat Cure
H A Kurvs of Woodhull Illinois sends 3 00 with request for shipment of Anti Fat product by express after reporting a single bottle caused a five and a quarter pound loss. The dated note is from June 22 1878 to Botanic Mept Cine Co Buffalo NY.
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H. A. Kurvs
Woodhull
Ill
Botanic Mept- Cine CO
Buffalo
N. Y
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