Aunt Agatha's Conversion and the Parson's Valor
In a village tale of social clashes and gradual change, Aunt Agatha defies a grand visitor and clashes over garden trespass with Miss Tipple. The new rector Frank Jordan forges respect through concern, saves Miss Payne in a cottage crisis, and bonds with Aunt Agatha, shaping village life and a surprising marriage.
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Miss Tipple
Betsy Ward
Betsy
Hilderstock
Miss ‘Eipple
Agatha
Aunt Agatha
Gayfer
Jayfer
Lilderstock
Frank
Blackmans
Wilkinses
Wakelings
Miss Gayfer
Mr. Jordan
Jobson
Agatha Gayter
Miss Payne
Payne
Miss Agatha
Missayne
Eut
Evangelical
Jordan
Nancy Gimpson
Parsons
Lucy Chalk
Bonnet
Miss Firthin
Red Lion
Job Chalk
Howard
Stallybrass and Ward
Bob Howard
Dr. Holmes
Frank Jordan
Barham House
Ilderstock
Moral maxims on virtue and conscience by D. L. Moody
A selection of aphorisms contrasting impudence with independence and praising conscience. It extols moral decision, politeness, humility, charity over covetousness, and the virtue of a holy life. Moody emphasizes that true merit speaks softly and conscience seeks what is right rather than popular.
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D. L. Moody
Live and Learn From Misfortunes and Enmities
A reflective fragment urges resilience after personal faults and injustice. It counsels living to grow wiser, reject reproach, outlast aspersions, withstand spite, cherish true friends, and prepare for immortality through virtue and perseverance.
Shake Hands at Church Show Warm Gospel Spirit
A church note extols hearty handshakes as a sign of real interest and feeling. It urges greet one another as Paul urged, to share warm Christian warmth, benefiting both giver and receiver and making visitors feel the church is welcoming.
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Coleridge
A Child's Path and the Hope to Protect
An excerpt from the Southern Cross reflects on the tender bond between child and parents. It laments how a child’s missteps threaten a mother’s heartbreak and a father’s sorrow, urging action to guard youths from evil paths and perilous influences.
Christianity Not a Failure in the Nineteenth Century
A reflective sermon argues Christianity endures amid attacks from vice, intemperance, crime, and misguided science. It contends that critics misjudge Christianity by a narrow view and insists the faith remains vital and true despite prevailing doubt. The speaker, Derrick Johnson, cites broad human behavior to defend religious truth.
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Eavil
Errick Johnson
Bitter claims on hop bitters as cure-all for kidney and liver diseases
An advertisement proclaims Bricatt's Disease of the Kidneys and Diabetes as common fears and asserts Hop Bitters is the sole reliable permanent remedy. It dismisses other so called cures as temporary and dangerous, promising lasting health through the tonic.
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Bricatt
Unnamed Heart and Toyed Fate in a Window Tale
A reflective tale of a frail child and a limping old man, where a window view and a growing bond soften a grim wall of loneliness. The child’s death blooms a tearful moment as the stranger reveals he kissed the deceased, a quiet moral on human connection and unseen treasure.
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Ife
Sanford’s Radical Cures for Catarrh Sold At $1
An advertisement touts a pure distillation of witch hazel fir marigold clover blossoms and healing balsam and pine as a complete treatment for catarrh priced at one dollar. It emphasizes wholesome ingredients and a complete cure within a single purchase.
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Sanford
Parents Guilty of Two Wrongs Branded By Disease
A historical public health admonition urges parents to avoid exposing children to scrofulous humors, warning that such neglect brands families with a loathsome illness and recommending Cuticura Remedies as a cure or relief.
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Bristol Phenix
C. A Greene
Phenix
Skope Street
Oya
Royal Baking Owdet Co
Wall St
N.Y
Ausly
James Pyle
New York
Auvardias
Tie
Bristol
Marry Eliza Bows
AJL
Lis Sid Wood
Sami
Bowen
Jelitin
Roente Cour
Sune
Martida SD Wanche Siler
Martha O. Manchester
Owlok
Phanix
Jehumy
Herbert F. Bennett
Tile Town
Evevie
Ann W. Bradford
Anne W. Bradford
J. M
Bristol Phoenix
Jehu
Hnerbert F. Bennett
William Farris
Samuel M. Lindsey
Elizabetas A. Diman
Elizabeth Byron Diman
Elizabeth A. Diman
Herbert Flennett
Robate Court
Tyne Std
Moses B. Wood
Moses Wood
Ristal
Saoensei
Sail
Ain
Trristol
Jierbert F Bennett
Lesz
Sandforum
Pearse
Elisha M. Wardwell
Sandford M. Pearse
Ph.nix
Charles C. Irarne
Frankfort St
Ted
Young & CO
Salesparke
Island
Berlin
Victoria
Countess Perponcher
England
Great Britain and Ireland
London Society
Parker
CourTeEsy
C. &K.D. Fall River
Hood
C. J. Hood & Co
Lowell
Mass
McEssrs
Waite & Burpick
Ithaca
N. Y
Ely
T. Kenney
Messrs. Wa. Rust & Sons
New Brunswick
N. J
E.L
Suiisehure
Theody
Raynaam
C. I. Hoop & Co
Tanta
Gotga
Edgar FP. Whitman
Pittsfield
Messry
C. I. Hoon & Co
Hover
B Nash
Hood & CO
Jay
Hoop
Powel
J. G. Sparks
John G. Sparks
Bristol County
Hope Street
RK I
State Street
Freeman’s Bank
Jell R. Arnold Gladding
Waldron & Spencer
George Tilley
Bradford Street
Jowest
Japan
Lewis B. Waldron
Frank E. Spencer Bristol
BR. L
A. Geisler
Mount Lane
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