Family Rebuilds Home After Guardian’s Fraud and Loss
Nell and Aunt Sue relocate from a strained city mansion to a Harlem cottage with Fannie, aided by modest savings and a boarder. John Harris, a kind invalid, helps with expenses while Aunt Sue’s romance unfolds amid the sisters’ trials, finances, and a hidden California-brother reunion resolving a family mystery.
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Fan
Jane
Uncle Hodners
New England
Europe
Nell
Sue
Fannie
John Harris
Aunt Sue
Daly
Harlem
John Harria
Harris
Neil
Mr. Harris
Herbert Norris
England
Garner
Fred. Norris
Fred
Dorrimer
John
California
Susan
Calfornia
MISCELLANY Reflections on character and virtue in daily life
The prose weighs on how bad company harms character and how true benefit lies in thoughtful living. It contrasts natural blessings with the higher benefit of a good philosophy guiding conduct.
Insightful adage on humanity and dignity in adversity
The quote distinguishes three wrongs: insulting misery, deriding infirmity, and ridiculing deformity. It says the first reveals inhumanity, the second folly, and the third pride, urging compassion and restraint.
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The passage reflects on marriage as a source of pain when ill matched and celebrates human nature with both flaws and redeeming virtues, noting that even the best characters carry infirmities and the worst contain some virtues.
Observation on social converse and sharing griefs and pleasures
The remark argues that expressing grief reduces burden while sharing pleasures increases happiness, highlighting communication as a social good and a means to mutual understanding and relief.
Pluck Shown Spelling on Cards Across Regions
It may be that Jack goes up and down the world calling on men and women, but the name has been spelled pluck on all of her cards that have come under our eye.
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Jack
Pame
Hope Guides the Journey to Our End
A reflection on hope as a steadfast yet deceitful companion guiding people through life toward their final destination. The passage emphasizes hope's role in making the voyage more tolerable and humane.
Abstemious Doctor Potter Inspires Sobriety Tale
A bishop recounts how Dr. Henry C. Potter urged a man with a drink problem to vow never to taste liquor again. The sober pledge saved the man from ruin, leading to a godly life, and his death came later when serving an Indian tribe. A tablet honors the memory in Grace Chapel, New York.
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New York
Sue
Nell
John Dorrimer
Fan
Fred
Aunt Sue
Fano
New York News
Henry C. Potter
Dr. Potter
Andel
American Gems and Rest as a Life Principle
The article reviews US gem production in 1884 totaling 82 972 dollars with most value from non gem minerals and notes California and North Carolina as key diamond sources. It recounts the Manchester diamond story and California finds, then shifts to anecdotes on rest from the New York Observer about railroad life, switches, and the need for vacations for health and conscience.
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United States
Alaska
Arizona
Georgia
Virginia
North Carolina
California
Manchester
Richmond
South Carolina
Cherokee Flats
Butte County
America
New York Observer
The
White House
Byron Sunderland
Pierce
Washington
Boston and Maine Railroad
Express
Hudson River
Sunderland
New Hampshire
Senate
Two Women and a Mouse from the Detroit Free Press
Aunt Pennifeather awakens Frances to a supposed mouse in the bed. The scene turns comic as the Captain, Frances, and children chase the intruder, using water and a cane, while the ancient creature resists and provokes disbelief from all.
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Frances
Aunt Pennifeather
Fifty Cent Cigars Sold For Ten Cents In Tax Scheme
A Detroit Free Press story describes a New York shop selling three for a quarter fifty cent cigars. Customers pay ten cents while dealers collect a five dollar bill and keep the change, creating a luxury impression and drawing wholesale buyers from town and country.
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Errect
New York
Detroit Free Press
Salvation Oil Rheumatism Cure Promoted By Dime Store Ads
A promotional note touts Salvation Oil as a cure for rheumatism from old friends and urges trials. It also touts Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as a cure for severe coughs sold for 25 cents by druggists nationwide.
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Salvation Oil
Dr. Bull’s
Dr. Bull
United States
Man’s claim to start a paper ends in editor revelation
In a station waiting room a red faced man proclaims running a paper the easiest business. A meek stranger asks each man their trade and finds none doubt their ability, until he reveals he is an editor and breaks into tears. The crowd realizes the paradox and departs.
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Lynn Union
Ely's Dream Balm Claims Cure for Catarrh
The best medical writers state a non irritating easy to apply remedy that reaches all nasal sores is needed. Ely's Dream Balm is presented as the sole treatment meeting these conditions, praised by physicians and patients for fast relief of distressing catarrh symptoms.
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Ely
Henpecked Husband Inspires Silent Nature Force Said
A witty remark contrasts nature's silent strength with a comical image of a henpecked husband who cannot be believed as a force of nature. The quip plays on contrasts between grand forces and domestic human foibles.
Sulphur Bitters Sent to Catholic Home for Aged
Messrs. A. P. Ordway & Co. donated three dozen bottles of Sulphur Bitters to the Catholic Home for the Aged. Directors and residents highly value the medicine, reflecting the editor's maxim As ye sow so shall ye reap.
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Messrs. A. P. Ordway & Co
Catholic Home For
Catholic Union
May Mansfield's Jealous Marriage to Hartford Coachman
Hartford social figure May Mansfield, famed as a Worcester born beauty, marries her coachman William Whittlesey after a jealous rage over a prior betrothal. The marriage endures briefly as she confesses lack of love and seeks divorce, while Whittlesey vanishes amid the scandal.
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Hartford
May Mansfield
Worcester
Mass
Lexington
Little May
Miss Mansfield
William Whittlesey
New Haven
Whittlesey
Williams & Colbert
Temple Street
Mra Whittlesey
Bribe Claim In San Antonio Trial Testimony
In San Antonio, Jim McSnifter faces trial for attempting to bribe a colored witness, Sam Johnsing, to testify falsely. The transcript shows the witness denying any explicit mention of a fifty dollar payment and noting the bribe discussion occurred only between the two of them.
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Fistasii
Abdresi
Cantina
Rentus
Millones
James Vick
Sezesman
Rochester
Jim McSnifter
San Antonio
Sam Johnsing
Gouge
Sam _ Johnsing
Parrot Describes Profanity Punishment in Hot Water
A parrot named Pol, likened to Koko in speech, had foul language due to early bad associations. To curb it, he was dipped in hot water, an intervention that briefly tamed him. When a wet hen and chicks sheltered nearby, Pol watched them and quipped in plain parrot talk that they too had been cussing.
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Pol
A Pleasant Incident in a Quiet Visit
A young lady away visiting grew homesick and spoke aloud of missing letters from home. A five year old friend replied with deep sympathy saying he loved her as much as a thousand bushels, just as the postman arrived with the awaited letter.
St Paul boy sent to boarding school homesick note
A St Paul boy was sent from home to a boarding school and, after enduring homesickness, wrote to his father asking to spend life together, signing as an affectionate son.
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St. Paul
Swallowing Live Frogs Becomes Boston Oddity
In Boston, a rough looking seafarer named English Jack performs a bizarre feat by swallowing live frogs as a preferred meal, while reporters watch with a mix of shock and detachment. The piece recounts his background as a shipwreck survivor who endured years on a remote island with scarce food.
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Boston
Glads
Hong Kong
Indian Ocean
Madagascar
Avalon
Politeness Wins In Old Debt Collection
An elderly debtor repeatedly avoided payment to a New York area dry goods merchant. A new salesman named Jones insisted on collecting, politely visiting six times daily. The old man finally relented and offered $2000 a year for the diligent collector.
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Dunnine
New York
Jones
Dry Goods Chronicle
Testimony boosts Dr Arnold cough and pill remedies
Prominent Pawtucket resident G. L. Walker testifies January 16, 1885 that Dr Seth Arnold's Cough Killer cured his cold and throat tickle after initial doubt. Advertisement notes sales at druggists and prices 25c 50c and 1.00 while praising Dr Arnold's Sugar Coated Hilium Pills for costive webbs jaun dice and liver troubles at 2c
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Pawtucket
R. I
Seth Arnold
G. L. Walker
Son’s Questions Echo From a Sleep Under the Tree
A fragment from Carl Bretzel's Weekly shows a father asking about a son's health after the boy slept outside overnight. The brief dialogue captures a quiet domestic moment and hints at concern or curiosity within a family scene.
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Carl Bretzel
Bristol Citizens Celebrate Cures With New Discovery
Citizens in Bristol report surprising recoveries from consumption and related lung diseases after using Dr. King's New Discovery. The remedy is said to cure full throat and lung ailments including coughs colds asthma and bronchitis. Free trials available at drug stores with large bottles priced at $1.
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Calcutta
India
Craddock & Co
Race Street
Philadelphia
Jason
Winchester
Wivchester & CO
Dey St
New York
Bristol
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Claremont
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Fox Benson
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York
Fanny
James
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Norris
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Nall
Fred Norris
Susan Dorrimer
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