Gourlay Brothers Enduring Bond and a Quiet Love
In a London street near Holborn two brothers John and Roger Gourlay run a prosperous firm. After a shared childhood and a failed romance with Alice Russell, they preserve a close bond. Decades later Alice reveals she loves Roger. John arranges their union, and Roger learns of the plan, finding happiness at last as John dies peacefully.
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Holborn
London
Gourlay Brothers
Cannon Street
John
Roger
Goarlay Brothers
Bernard Russell
Surghine
Alice Russell
Maude Gourlay
Alice
Maudet
Gourldy Brothers
Whilier Street
John Gourlay
Jack
Gourlay
King’s Road
Brighton
Joso
Mr. Gourlay
Miss Russell
Sam
Mr Gourlay
yQqu
Roger Gourlay
Cassell
Moral reflections and maxims from Reverend Rankin
A miscellany of quotes on virtue and wisdom. It includes lines on love and friendship, the danger of deception, and the discipline of a father anchored to family and God. The passage emphasizes truth, restraint, and guiding examples for daily life.
Magnanimous Deeds Endure Beyond Betrayal
A reflective note urges readers to remain generous despite betrayal or exploitation. It champions giving freely as a personal virtue and warns against withholding kindness to avoid being taken advantage of. The message endorses steady benevolence as a righteous stance.
Hidden Sides in Friends and Enemies Explored
Writers reflect on the complex nature of people noting that virtues and flaws exist on many levels. What is visible often masks deeper traits, and interpretations of character can be incomplete or biased.
Benevolence as a Core Duty in Society
The piece argues benevolence must be deliberate and sustained not casual. It calls for duty from home to far ends of suffering humanity, demanding earnest thought, constant care, and zealous effort beyond transient aid.
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Ong Inn
A Child's Moral Choice In Solitude Of The Heart
The speaker notes that a boy hears many voices from family and teachers yet must decide alone if he will steal or lie. He compares collective influence to a single solitary choice, using the image of a seven thousand day custody and a bottle to small acts of conscience.
Wealth by renting in New Jersey a perilous plan
A satirical column advises Mr. Smith to get rich by buying a cheap New Jersey house, leasing it five years, and exploiting tenants to force upgrades at their expense until the property becomes a prized Queen Anne cottage. The scheme ends with the lender moving in and repeating the cycle on subsequent properties.
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Puck
Solemn man and talking dog at western restaurant
A ventriloquist's dog and its master dine in a western city restaurant. The dog barrages the solemn man with witty lines and the squinting spectator offers two hundred dollars for the uncanny act. The deal goes through, but the dog warns of revenge and never speaks again.
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Genilena
Eace Receiver a Lesson at Camp Han cock
A young recruit at Camp Hancock near Atlanta during looming Mexico war confronts an officer after surrendering his Springfield rifle. He pulls a large six shooter from his hip pocket and issues a blunt threat, prompting the officer to end the exchange and take the gun.
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Eace
Camp Hancock
Atlanta
Mexico
Copy of Dr Kaufmanns medical work offered by mail
Advertising notice urges readers to mail three two cent stamps to A P Ordway and Co Boston Massachusetts for a 100 page medical work with colored illustrations described as valuable for every family and to cover postage costs.
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A. P. Ordway & Co
Boston
Mass
Law and nature as orderly phenomena explained
Acland Armstrong argues that natural law is a description of recurring phenomena, not a causal force. People personify law and equate it with divine will, dulling the sense of God behind events. The piece critiques the mistaken view that laws govern rather than describe regular patterns.
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Atkins
Acland Armstrong
Captain Mitchell Finds Relief From Rheumatism With Hood's Sarsaparilla
Captain Mitchell of the Antoine Sala returned from the New York and Havana trade in May fully helpless with rheumatism. After trying the mountains with no benefit his wife urged Hood's Sarsaparilla. He improved at once and two months later his rheumatism vanished enabling him to sail again in command of his vessel. Hood's Sarsaparilla will help you. Sold by all druggists.
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Mert
John
Roger
Alice Russell
Gourlay
Alice
Maud
Mitchell
Antoine Sala
New York
Havana
Hood
Talbot
Lake Shore
Buffalo
P. P. Wright
Wright
Cleveland
Chicago
Toledo
Limited Express
Chicago Iferald
Modest St. Louis Lady Scruples Over Clothes Line
A young woman in St Louis is described as so modest she cannot bear to look at a clothes line with the clothes off. The remark highlights her strict sense of propriety and decorum in everyday scenes.
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St. Louis
Bristol Citizens Hopeful Over Dr King's New Discovery
Citizens report astounding cures of consumption sufferers by Dr King's New Discovery for throat and lung diseases. The remedy claims to cure coughs colds asthma bronchitis and related ailments. Trial bottle free at drug stores. large bottles priced at 1.
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Bristol
Statue of Liberty’s Birth from Paris to New York
A historical recount of the Statue of Liberty from its Paris origins sparked by Laboulaye in 1865 to Bartholdi’s design, fundraising battles in France and the United States, and its 1886 unveiling. It covers key dates, donors, and measurements of the pedestal and statue, including Leetons Island granite and the statue’s height and weight.
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France
United States
M. Laboulaye
Glapigny
Clagaid
America
M. Bartholdi
Sculpta
Roubhd
Bartholdi
Philadelphia
William M .Evarts
Richard Buller
Congress
Edloe’s Island
Froddess
Paris
Ferdinand de Lesseps
Mr. Morton
Isore
Rouen
New York
Pedestal Fund
New York World
American Committee
Shixty
Leetd’s Island
Connecticut
Woolen Smoke Cure In Child Lip Injury
A five year old suffered severe lip wounds when teeth pierced the upper lip after a fall. The mother, away washing, applied woolen smoke as a remedy, using a cent under a pot to regulate it. Within ten minutes pain eased and the child appeared better after an hour, though mouth remained sore and drinking only.
Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup Endorsed by Horsemen
An 19th century style advertisement claims Salvation Oil as an infallible remedy for horses and cattle with strong endorsements from veteran horsemen. It promotes Dr Bull’s Cough Syrup for whooping cough in children, priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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Dr. Bull
Animals in the Earthquake: Horses and livestock flee terror
A Charleston earthquake frightens engine horses that run wild, cows bellow, and stabled animals panic. Reporters note a mastiff seeking help, sheep moan on St John’s Island, and chickens roost early as the quake subsides.
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Charleston
St. John’s Island
Picayune
Dr Seth Arnold’s Cough Killer and Pills Adverts
A testimonial from Rev Jefferson Haskell of Medford Mass praises Dr Seth Arnold’s Cough Killer and notes its availability at all druggists with peg bottle sizes 26c 50c and $1.00. Pills claim relief for coptiveness jaundice and liver troubles priced 25c.
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Seth Arnold
Jefferson Haskell
Medford
Mass
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