Eden of Wildwood: A Tale of Wealth and Redemption
Paul Renford, heir to a million, loses his fortune to Lovett but degenerates into dissipation until his uncle Anson Betterman engineers Lovett’s return. Lovett restores the wealth, revealing a plan to turn Wildwood land into a thriving community for city workers, the Eden of Wildwood, with Paul and Delia thriving in a life of virtue.
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Paul Renford
Paul
Anson Bettermin
Lovett
Anson Betterman
Porter Lovett
Delia
Delis
Iaid
Wildwood
Eden of Wildwood
Betterman
Reflections on Loss and Time in Family Life
A literary excerpt contemplates how young, lively family members fade with time. It contrasts the sorrow of losing babies with the melancholy of growing children and changing loved ones across six months and six years, noting the inevitable progression from youth to adulthood.
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Col.pren
Philip G. Hamerton
A Little Girl's Answer Moves King in Village Visit
A king of Prussia visiting a village is welcomed by schoolchildren. A girl names kingdoms of orange and coin, then cleverly declares she belongs to "God made man in his own image" thus moving the king to tears. The tale ends urging children to keep words kind true and right.
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Prussia
Tored
Enduring Faith in 19th Century Palsy Stricken Woman
A Chicago Tribune feature profiles Mrs. Pithey of 68 William Street who has lived years in palsy after her husband John Pithey died in 1868. Fed by faith and supported by Centenary Church, she endures with the motto Crust in the Lord and memories of a brighter past.
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Elijah
Mrs. Pithey
William Street
John Pithey
Centenary Church
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Bea
Chicago Tribune
Farmer’s charity tale and reflections on readers
An old peasant explains his eight groschen a day kept as two for himself and wife two for debts two for children schooling two for his sick sisters and two for the Lord. The King rewards the moral with fifty gold pieces and departs. The piece then contrasts ancient mass warfare harms with modern civilized limits and ends with a note on varied newspaper tastes and the need for concise news.
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Frederick
Prussia
Anecdotes of Crockett the Frontiersman Politician
The story outlines David Crockett a self taught leader who rose from backwoods hunter to magistrate and legislator. It notes his arrest warrants unrecorded yet effective authority in early Tennessee, election to the State legislature in 1821, meeting Polk, and three terms in Congress.
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Crocktt
David Crockett
Nashville
Tennessee
Crockett
President Polk
Colonel Polk
Congress
Adversity as a Blessing in Reverend Murray Speech
The speaker reflects on hardship and slander as tools shaping character. He credits poverty, grief, and criticism with forging patience, charity, and wisdom, asking listeners to see adversity as a true, needed ministry for growth.
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Mr. Murray
First Lady Voters in Wyoming Vote After Dog Mocking Sex
In Colorado, a columnist recalls a pioneer woman voter in Wyoming who voted after overhearing men joke that a dog named Jack should be allowed to vote if women could. The anecdote shows the era’s suffrage debates and a woman’s resolve to exercise her rights.
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Colorado
United States
Wyoming
Jack
The Time Economy and its True Meaning
The essay argues that economy begins with wise use of time and money, condemning stinginess as opposite to real economy. It asserts saving should not harm health or life, and true economy means proper allocation of resources to sustain well being and longevity.
Do Everything Well for Boys Beginning to Plan for Life
An exhortation to young men to pursue precision and effort in all tasks. The speaker argues that careful work on simple tasks foreshadows success, warns against seeking easy, unchallenging subjects, and notes that fast but shallow youths rarely earn trust or hold responsibility.
Ingenious cafe dog hoards sugar for patrons in Paris
Under pressure of hard times a Paris cafe keeper trains a Newfoundland to take sugar from every customer. The dog returns the sugar to a storeroom basin for reuse, earning a ten percent commission, impressing patrons with its appetite and the clever scheme.
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Paris
Dream Illusion Spawns Realistic Night Fire Duty
A correspondent recalls dreaming during the camphene era when lamp wicks and extinguishers created a vivid scenario. He awoke exhausted from imagined fire brigade work that lasted only moments, while the real fire alarm and bells were mere reflections of the lamp and extinguishers.
Heat for House Plants
Plant care advice from Vick's Guide recommends keeping general house plants in rooms near sixty five to seventy degrees by day and about fifty at night. Emphasizes fresh air sunlight and moisture via evaporation, suggesting a separate bay window green area for best humidity and reduced dust exposure.
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Vick
Gathering Borrao Bones in the Valley
Settlers in the valley supported families by gathering buffalo bones during winter and spring. Prairie remains near the railroad yielded heads ribs shins shoulders horns tips and hides sold to various markets. Horns fetch thirty dollars while other parts are sold to fertilizer refineries glue and factory trades.
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Philadelphia
Kansas City Journal
Terrors of the road and con games in old New York
A historical narrative contrasts highwaymen with modern swindlers who pose as honest men. A New York incident shows a young impostor using a staged errand to obtain money from a shopkeeper, who is duped by bank notes later revealed as forgeries. The tale underscores the persisting craft of thieves against the vulnerable poor. Also recounted is a California creek struggle where a large watersnake battles a nine inch trout, ultimately dragging it onto the bank before being killed.
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Judah
Jerusalem
Nebuchadnezzar
Zedekiah
Babylon
Marius
Jugurtha
Rome
Carthage
Corinth
Joshua
Jericho
Siberia
Archangel
Atlantic
Christendom
Paris
Europe
Italy
Holland
Napoleon
Times
Chevalier D'Industrie
New York
Ile
Lud Amaoney
Thelette
Dupe
A. W. Chase
United States Coast Survey
Popular Science Monthly
San Francisco
Angier
California
Reform the lines and attack them again at daybreak
General Slocum recounts a Civil War tale of General Grant's response to a dire Pittsburg Landing day. McPherson carried bad news then, Grant planned a dawn assault and drove the enemy from the field. The lesson: reform lines and attack at daybreak.
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Slocum
Independent Democratic Committee
McPherson
West Point
Academy
Pittsbury Landing
Grant
A Dangerous Enemy of the Bedroom Washstand
Clarence Cook argues in Scribner's for January that fixed washstands should be banished from homes. He cites sanitary risks and pipe-related diseases, noting drains in bedrooms spread illness. People replace fixed stands with movable furniture and pitchers for water and slop jars for waste.
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Clarence Cook
Scribner's
Gallant Hussar Saves Child At Maria Teresa Review
A Vienna review of 30 000 cavalry for the Maria Teresa order anniversary ends with a hussar leaping from his horse to lift a terrified four year old girl from the field. The emperor bestows the Order of Maria Teresa on the rescuer as praise pours in from mother and empress.
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the Ledger
Vienna
Maria Teresa
Hussar
The Gospel of Merit for Family Medicines
An advertisement extols R V Pierce M D World’s Dispensary Buffalo NY products as proven cures for catarrh coughs colds bronchial and nervous conditions. It touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Pleasant Purgative Pellets and The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser as superior remedies and invites readers to obtain the illustrated 1000 page guide for $1 50 postpaid from R V Pierce Buffalo NY.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Sage
Dr. Pierce
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