Child Mother in Poverty Lures Four Girls to Theft
Polly, a frightened child, escapes a cruel keeper, Mrs. Brown, who forced four girls into theft as play. A compassionate Mrs. Fowler recognizes Polly as her missing child. police recover stolen goods and arrest Brown. Brown serves a long sentence, the girls go to reformatories, and Polly, renamed Mary Fowler, grows up valuing lessons learned from hardship.
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Mrs. Brown
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Polly
Hern
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Mary
Costentenus and Goshen in Barnum Dressing Room Clash
A collision broke out between Col. Goshen the Arabian Giant and Capt. George Costentenus the tattooed Grecian after an arena introduction. Assistant Manager Nathans separated them. Costentenus claims injuries but Goshen boasted of past wars and said he only bruised his adversary, noting he could have killed him but spared the tattooed man.
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Barnum
Col. Goshen
George Costentenus
Nathans
Two Worlds: Tarry Forever and the Life Ahead
A reflective line contrasts two realms of existence one fleeting and the other we must soon begin and never exit. The text ponders time and departure with a philosophical tone.
Knowledge in Pleasure and Power A Moral Maxim
This excerpt contrasts worldly wealth and fame with enduring knowledge and virtue. It argues that knowledge provides ecstatic enjoyment and perpetual fame, while honor, justice, reason, and equity drive prosperity. if they fail, they offer honorable retreat and consolation.
Love or Home and the Call to Daughters and Sons
A call to nurture love of country in children beside honor and home. The author argues that teaching patriotism ensures women share in sacrifice and that recalling fallen soldiers or village heroes makes Our Country concrete and vital rather than abstract.
Pay Your Disis. A Moral on Debt and Gentlemanly Conduct
The piece condemns borrowing without repayment as genteel scoundrel behavior. It argues clean hands in money matters are essential to true gentlemanliness and criticizes well-meaning people who shirk repayment or exploit others.
The Medicine of Sunshine Then and Now
A compact plea for sunshine as a universal remedy across life and health. The author extols sunshine as soothing pain, lifting mood, and improving character, citing historical figures and urging its spread to all people and places.
Sublime thoughts and prudent deeds in austere prose
Goop AdricE urges charity to any asking, inner counsel, and seeks honest justice over law. Reflects on nature as teacher, medicine as insufficient, and language as amber for ideas. Elevates virtue, piety, and the allure of glory even unto death.
Man and Growth Against Evil by James Freeman Clarke
Clarke argues that while removing evil tendencies is rare, growth through life and love can conquer vice. He compares human nature to a geologic process, with opposing powers and hopeful balance. Self reliance, sympathy, courage, and reverence shape progress and virtue.
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God
James Freeman Clarke
The Vision of the DymnG A Consolatory View of Death
A contemplative piece argues that dying Christians awaken to heaven as consciousness loosens from earthly ties. It describes dimmed hearing and vivid spiritual sights, including visions of departed loved ones and guidance from spiritual beings. Families often share such near death testimonies supporting belief in the spirit world.
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Earth
Heaven
Memorial Service for Wyoming Battle Centennial Promises Grand Pageant
A newspaper piece details a planned two day centennial memorial for Wyoming massacre victims, with a living pageant tracing history from Leni Lenapes to Moravian missions and the Revolution. The event includes a 50 000 strong procession, grand music, a three hundred voice choir, and prominent guests.
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Wyoming
Fair Valley
Wilkes-Barre
Wintermoor
Bloody Rock
Staney Woodward
Zinzendorf
New York
Judge Fell
Jeff Swainbank
Iron Horse
Ollowing
Grand Army
Reublic
Pennsylvania
Allcome
United States
Theodore Thomas
Battle Field
Old Forty Fort
Valley
Tenben Jenkins
Hollister
Experience of half a century endorses newspaper advertising
Lord & Taylor of New York state that after nearly fifty years in business they find newspapers the most economical persistent and effective method to bring goods to consumer attention. They claim advertising in papers yields best reach and results for merchants.
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Messrs. Lord & Taylor
New York
Growing smilax in the house a winter climber note
The article praises growing smilax as a decorative winter vine suitable for greenhouse or house use. It covers seed sowing in boxes or pots, slow germination, transplanting to three inch pots at three to four inches height, annual rest, partial sun preference, and simple training on threads or strings for wreaths and lighter work.
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Iouse
Boston Florists
Cured by Hop Bitters, Patient Given Up by Doctors
Doctors had given up on Mr. Godfrey but he was reportedly cured in ten days with Hop Bitters. A companion notes the remedy and hopes it will help her own husband George, praising hops as beneficial.
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Ashley
Washington Co
Ill
H.R. Stevens
Carrie Deforrest
Mrs. DeForrest
S. H. Flowers
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