The Doctor De La Belle and the Rouen Mystery
A British clergyman, Edward Lambert, travels to Rouen seeking relief from melancholia and meets a French doctor, Dr. de La Belle, who offers a tonic. Lambert travels with a mysterious patient, a supposed madwoman, and becomes entangled in a criminal plot. The supposed doctor is revealed as a murderer, and Lambert survives to learn the real culprit is the suave villain Bocage.
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Paris
Ates
Lambert
Dr. de la Belle
Rue Antoine
Mademoiselle
Monsieur Lambert
Mr. Lambert
Rouen
Dr. de la Bellé
Mr. Kert
Champs Elysees
Sergeant de Ville
Monsieur de F
Blanche Villiers
Monsieur de Bocage
Josephine
M. de Bocage
Thanor
Emoiselle Blanche Villiers
London
Quotations on Virtue and Responsibility
A collection of maxims on virtue, justice, selflessness, and obligation. It contrasts diligence with envy, warns flatterers prey on the great, notes tears as a sign of strength and consequence, and links privilege to obligation through grateful action beyond words.
Move in the image of God and cheerful living
The speaker reflects on a divine image guiding human thought as vast and summitless. A cheerful spirit brings blessing, sunshine, and visible happiness. Joyful people become powerful agents of good, uplifting others across all latitudes as blessed joy-makers.
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God
Curist's Manhood Reveals Strength in Brief Life
A reflection on Curist as a mature figure formed in a full manhood, whose words and works gain depth from a life neither prematurely short nor aged. The passage weighs how timing alters the perceived gravity of his cruciform example and its meaning.
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Curist
Remembering Youth Harder Than Time in Old Age
A grandmother explains to her granddaughter that aging brings a clearer recollection of youth. In middle age faces fade to the wall while in old age the mind roams, rubbing and polishing memories until every detail becomes distinct.
First Step to Ruin Warns Boys on Sabbath Fishing
A state prison chaplain questions a young inmate about his mind state in prison. The boy recalls that his first step to ruin was fishing on the Sabbath, knowing it was wrong. The tale warns that choosing a bad deed, even small, leads to criminal paths despite good teaching.
Tragedy on Stage During Wheeling Play
In Wheeling West Virginia during a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin Eliza the escaping slave is pursued by trained Siberian bloodhounds on stage. The dogs bite she retreats and the hound is muzzled after Legree intervenes. Eliza is frightened but unharmed and remains anxious for the rest of the play.
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Wheeling
West Virginia
Ohio
Eliza
Legree
Pawned Baby Story Highlights Unusual Credit Gamble
A Baltimore man jailed for disorderly conduct prompts his wife to plead mercy. She pledges their baby for $175 to cover the fine and costs, then hurries to borrow more money to redeem the infant. The tale unfolds as she secures a citizen to stand as security and frees her husband.
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Baltimore
Lecture at Victoria Institute on vital power and materialism
Professor Lionel Beale spoke at Adelphi Terrace on May 15 defending vital force against materialism. He argued living beings cannot be explained by ordinary matter and energy alone, noting no evidence links non living to living states and asserting a distinct vital power. Several new Australian and American subscribers increased the institute's total to 960.
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Lionel Beale
Victoria (Philosophical) Institute
Adelphi Terrace
London
F.R.S
Microscopical Society
Ower
Humorous Patient Claimed No Right to Complain
A severely injured man in a Philadelphia hospital recounted his gruesome injuries with dark humor saying he had no right to complain after multiple amputations and surgeries until a fire started and police evacuated the rest of his body. A separate testimonial touts Sulphur Bitters curing persistent facial pimples after two bottles.
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Philadelphia
Fall River
Circumstances Alter Cases in School Hair Debate
A classroom moment has a girl braiding another’s hair in front of the class. The teacher asks why and cites home as the place for hair grooming. Susan appears ready to question, but a girl accuses Mary of saying the hair is false and that the teacher would not braids here.
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Edward Lambert
Church of England
England
France
Rouen
Mont St. Catherine
Mr. Lambert
Monsieur
Ile
Jie
Paris
Susan
Garfield
S. Holter
Middlebury
Blaine
Guiteau
Holten
Boston Journal
Elegance and Purity Hair Balsam Grows in Use
Ladies who value elegance and purity favor Parker's Hair Balsam as the best product to restore gray hair to its original color and beauty.
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Parker
Rhode Island Liquor Suppression Act Amendment 1882
The 1882 act amends Chapter 87 to require towns to vote against licenses for intoxicating liquors. It details ballot procedures, clerical counting by Moderator and Clerk, and notes exceptions excluding Providence and several towns. The measure takes effect upon passage and repeals conflicting acts.
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General Assembly
Providence
Pawtucket
North Providence
Cumberland
Amendment to school committee powers and attendance rule
Chapter 327 amends Section 18 of Chapter 56 to require actual service performance before payment and a minimum average attendance of five. If attendance falls below five, the committee may suspend the school and reassign students to another public school without forfeiting public funds. It also allows students to attend in other districts and repeals Chapter 294 of the Public Laws.
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General Assembly
Militia Enrollment Act Enacted By General Assembly
The act amends Chapter 258 to require town councils to prepare an alphabetical list of residents aged 18 to 45 liable for enrollment and deliver it to town clerks within sixty days. Clerks must transmit a certified copy to the Adjutant General, who will file it. The 1882 militia enrollment remains valid until a new enrollment is required. Signed by Secretary of State Joshua M. Addeman.
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Ceneral Assembly
United States
Adjutant General
Joshua M. Addeman
Hoops Sarsaparilla and Ely's Dream Balm Ads
A mash of medicinal claims for Hoops Sarsaparilla promising health, appetite, and vitality with testimonials and a 50 cent price tag for Ely's Dream Balm used to treat Hay Fever. Readers are urged to apply balm into the nostrils and a Chicago resident referenced.
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Ely
W. P. Andrus
Metuchen
N. J
E.R. Raven
Carbon Co. Democrat
Mauch Chunk
G. Schreiber
Cordage Co
Elizabeth
Hair Dye Question Sparks Grim Chemist Retort
A young man displeased with his hair color wrote to a chemist seeking the best dying recipe. The chemist replied with a blunt warning, saying Fool With a loaded gun, implying danger in the inquiry.
Cutiura Remedies Promoted Amid Quack Claims
A satire on parental blame and illness branding, warning of quack cures as risky. The tale shifts to a late night scene where a man returns home drunk after overwork and mistakes a gas burner for the faucet, earning a wife’s quiet critique.
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Ifk
James
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