Mabel Weston's Choice in a Northern Resort Romance
In a fashionable hotel parlor, Mabel Weston is praised for beauty and wealth while her heart remains untouched. Capt. Gilmore, a married man with a wife abroad, woos her but departs after revealing his situation. Three years later at Sugar Grove encampment, a revival scene brings them back together. his wife has died, and Mabel agrees to marry him, sealing a union neither regrets.
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Mabel Weston
Tom
Mabel
Miss Weston
Louisville
Kentucky
Ohio
Capt. Gilmore
Mr. Gilmore
Becaisd
Indiana
Sugar Grove
The
Mr. M
Apt. Gilmore
Widow Canter Remarries, Takes Rush in Nuptials
The item reports the second wedding of a widow, with playful verse noting the bride’s transition from Canter to Rush as she enters Hymen’s channel. No other names or places are provided in readable text.
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Thomas Rush
Cupid
Hymen
Truths or Proverbs and Cure Claims in Old Column
An old column fragment advertises Bitters claiming it cures all diseases of the stomach bowels blood liver nerves kidneys and urinary organs with a $500 reward for any case not cured or for impurity found in the remedy. The text also references an adjacent column titled Truths or Proverbs.
A True Gentleman and a Huckster
A vignette where Harry Edman returns a cane after an accidental stumble, apologizes, and explains true gentility by treating the elderly Giles the huckster with respect. The exchange prompts discussion on character and manners among his playmates, highlighting the idea that true gentleness transcends social standing.
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Harry Edman
Harry
Charley
Giles
A Suggestion on Liquor Fairs and State Profits
Ryland Thomas of Indiana argues in a letter to the National Temperance Advocate that fairs should display all industries including liquor. He claims profits from alcohol fund the state and asks fairs to reveal the process of making drinkers, contrasting virtuous schools with vice. He contends honesty requires showing the source of wealth tied to saloons.
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Ryland Thomas
Indiana
National Temperance Advocate
Golden Rule vs Revenge Across Cultures
Prof. W E Grofis contrasts Jesus teaching forgiveness with Confucian and Mosaic notions of revenge. He notes Japan’s historical practice of kataki revenge, children trained from youth in sword and spear, and women taught to use weapons or shuriken to kill or disable an enemy, illustrating stark cultural difference in moral instruction.
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Christ
Confucius
Moses
Son of God
Japan
Beggar's reform tale leads to riches and revival
In a Paris scene near the Barrier de Passy a beggar named Anthony pesters passers by until a well dressed stranger challenges his life of begging. The man reveals a former begging life, warns him to change, and later Anthony becomes a prosperous paper man with a wife and ten thousand crowns a year after he follows the stranger's advice. The tale ends with a moral from the stranger, a comparison to the Good Samaritan and Levite.
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Anthony
Barrier de Passy
Paris
Versailles
Monsieur
Lazarus
Boston abandons ancient public bells signaling time
In Boston the custom of ringing bells in twenty to thirty localities at 7 am, noon, and 9 pm was dropped in the new year. The practice, marked by inexact timing and belated ringers, recalls older signals such as the 11 pm bell that urged drinking. The change follows cheap clocks and the desire to end public reminders of human frailty.
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Boston
Medford
Hancock
Adams
N. Y
Manitoba Lake Mystic Bells Heard by Travelors
The natural sounds from Manitoba Lake island, linked to the Speaking God Manitoba, charm Ojibwa legends. Waves and limestone fragments rub to form church bell tones, heard when north wind blows. Tourists seek the sound, likened to Rome’s nuns, often waiting days for the wind. The Ojibways revere the Speaking God and guard the site.
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Manitoba Lake
Red
Manitoba
Rome
New York Times
A Lapy Refuses More Tea Rolls in Courtly Tale
A playful snippet shows a lady named Lapy declining another hot roll while a young imitator volunteers a count of eight eaten. The exchange highlights a humorous contrast between restraint and exuberant counting in a small domestic scene.
The Art of Education Narrowed to a Fine Point
A reflective note argues learning has been pared to a fine point, likening it to a taut ajhawser and implying education’s complexity is being oversimplified for practical concerns.
Somebody's Child and a Cure for Consumption
A mother mourns a dying child and urges readers to share comfort for consumption. The piece claims transformation through Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery, describing it as an efficient alterative that purifies the blood and lungs, strengthens the system, and has cured many consumptives once deemed incurable.
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Pierce
Nuts and beans sold by measure in Rhode Island law
Public laws from Rhode Island 1879 chapter 727 add to Title XVI the rule that nuts, shelled beans, and all berries sold by measure must be sold by dry measure. Enacted January 22 1879.
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General Assembly
Amendments Place Custody of Law Library With Providence Clerk
Chapter 728 amends Chapter 24 of the General Statutes to state that the Clerk of the Supreme Court for Providence County shall hold custody of the Law Library and prevent removal of books except for use by the General Assembly or Supreme Court Justices or upon their order or the order of standing masters in chancery, while allowing in-library consultation for any person.
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State Library
General Assembly
General Statutes
Supreme Court
County of
Providence
Law Library
State House
Newport
Providence County Court House
Elizabeth Building
Joshua M. Addeman
Newport Juror Draw Provisions in 1879 Act
Chapter 729 amends Chapter 189 governing jurors and juries. It requires sixteen petit jurors for each regular term of the Court of Common Pleas in Newport County with specified allocations: Newport five Portsmouth three Jamestown one Middletown two Little Compton two Tiverton three. The act repeals conflicting laws and takes effect immediately.
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General Assembly
Court of Common Pleas
Newport
Portsmouth
Jamestown
Middletown
Little Compton
Tiverton
Rhode Island Appropriation Act of 1879 Summary
The act appropriates funds for state government for the year ending December 31, 1879. Allocations cover the Governor and executive offices, Supreme Court and clerks, county courts, education including public schools and the Rhode Island State Normal School, insane and dependent care, public printing, military affairs, court houses and jails, jailers, fuel and gas, rents, Narragansett Indians, law and state libraries, and the State Board of Health.
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Supreme Court
County of
Washington
Court of Common Pleas
County of Wasington
Justice Court
City of
Providence
Newport
Pawtucket
Town of
Woonsocket
Quartermaster General
General Assembly
House of Representatives
Senate
Secretary of State
Supreme Courts
Courts of Common Pleas
Justice Courts
Rhode Island State Normal School
Commissioner of Public Schools
Butler Hospital
Insurance Commissioner
Elizabeth
Providence County
Narragansett
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Nineveh
Alexander the Great
William the Conqueror
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Enland
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Purcell
Craters
Hell
Cincinnati
Providence City Hall
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City Hall
Alon
Rhode Island
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Suppets Court
Bristol
Kent
County of Providence
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County of Kent
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