Installment system praised by Flint Co for home goods
The article extols the French origin of partial payments, traces adoption in Rhode Island by Megars Flint & Co, and lauds their installment plan as a boon to households. It highlights self denial and thrift, notes lower prices than traditional credit, and promotes Flint & Co as leading house furnishing dealers offering weekly and monthly payments on carpets, furniture, and essentials.
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Paris
France
Rhode Island
Megars, Flint & Co
Flint & Co
Mareuver
Flint & Cy
U.S
The Fiddler’s Cheery Song And A Lost Love Tale
In a Victorian tale by Mary E. C. Wyeth a dour fiddler travels city streets singing of God’s rule and nourishment for all, his cracked fiddle earning him wealth of kindness from strangers, while memory of a vanished life and a strange double life unfolds in a narrative about Jerry Donnelly and his wife Sophy Court nay.
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Jerry
Sophy
Courtney
Tartary
Napaul
Calcutta
Mrs. Courtnay
Charlie
Nepaul
Brandley Hall
Weathering Words In A Silver Screen Scene
Flora and her brother discuss moving clouds with whimsy and curiosity. The scene focuses on their imagination as they ponder whether the dark masses will bring thunder.
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Flora
Miscellany quotes on faith and virtue from Hawthorne Robertson West Guthrie
A collection of brief religious and moral maxims. The passages praise Christian faith as a grand cathedral and lamp light for life. They urge trial as refining fire, deny murmuring, and exalt self-denial and service to others.
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Hawthorne
Printing and a boyhood lesson from Garrison
The Boston Transcript recalls a boy learning printing on a Franklin hand press. A mentor called the printing press the most powerful weapon, capable of miracles for good and danger in bad hands, and dreamed of abolishing slavery through it. The boy grew to be the writer and the man was William Lloyd Garrison.
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Boston Transcript
Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
A Beautiful Thought on Youth and Aging
A passage reflects on youth fading into age and the solace found in cherished memories. It notes how a loving home, joyful hearts, and steadfast friends ease the journey, brightening earlier sorrows as life nears its end. Those untouched by worldliness lose the tender chords of the heart.
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Wayfaring
Sisters of Charity in France Under Threat
The Sisters of Charity in France number about 160 000 within congregations aiding distress and 200 000 including unauthorized groups. Some 70 000 serve in congregations, 90 000 in state authorized communities, with 600 such organizations total and about 40 000 in unauthorized associations. The force has grown since 1640, when only two daughters of charity existed, per London Globe.
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Sisters OF Charity
France
Hust
M. Ve Lyder
Ondon Globe
The Ohio River Through Memory and Time
Henry Ward Beecher reflects on the Ohio River during West travels. He recalls five years along its banks, its old commercial glory fading as railroads and freights take passengers. The river remains beautiful yet changed, a symbol of enduring permanence and inevitable change.
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610
Henry Ward Beecher
West
Ohio
Pittsburg
Wheeling
Canton
Welburg
Society at Narragansett Pier and Delaware Peaches
Harper's Magazine items describe Narragansett Pier as a refined coastal scene with fashion, social norms, and leisure rituals among Pierians, contrasted with the bustling Delaware peach trade featuring peach wagons, station hubbub, and the ripening fruit’s aroma. Additional notes recount a telegraph anecdote from 1865 about Richmond signaling to the War Department and a Burmese massacre description with horrific details.
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Delaware
New York
Harper's Magazine
The Paris Toad Market Sells Toads by the Barrel
In Paris a toad market thrives with gardeners buying toads by the dozen to curb insect pests. Traders display slimy specimens from open hands into boxes, consumers select and pay, while toads are sold for profit rather than devoured.
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Paris
Unbound Reason Sparks Liberty in Human Society
A fragmentary philosophical reflection contrasts the rigid cohesion of civilization’s organs with the freedom seen in animals and humans. It argues that humans shed restraint, gaining joyful action and the absolute illumination called reason, yielding true liberty.
Absent-minded mailer dumps funds in street box
A Boston post office box blunder led a man to empty his money and bank books into a lamp post box. He later discovered the error when handing letters to a bank teller. The incident, described by the Boston Herald, left him pale and distressed before the valuables were recovered and returned with his mail.
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Boston
Boston Herald
Strance Causes or Deaths This Week In Odd Accidents
A collection of lethal misadventures is reported across cities. A Boston butcher was killed by a severed artery after striking a knife on a block. A Denver woman trapped by a railroad frog was run over by a train. A Vermont farmer choked to death inhaling a straw. A Michigan boy was fatally injured when a horse kicked him into a well. A Nashville mule kick fractured a baby’s skull. An Oregon girl swallowed her engagement ring and died a week later. An Iowa boy scalded by hot water after a fall from a fence post. A St Louis boy died after glass shards injured him while drinking. A Nashville woman was killed instantly when pierced by an arrow.
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Strance
Boston
Denver
Vermont
Nashville
Oregon
Iowa
St. Louis
Treatment for Poison in Prompt Water Dilution Method
When poison is swallowed, give water quickly in large amounts tepid water best to open skin pores and induce vomiting. If cramps or bowels hurt, perform repeated tepid water injections. Do not delay for warm water. Notify a physician and report actions taken. A brass kettle should be cleaned with salt and vinegar before cooking.
Accommodating Artist Turns Tour Guide at Falls
Thos Hicks the artist, returning from a trout outing near Trenton Falls New York, is mistaken for a house servant by a party of ladies. He guides them, entertains with ease, earns a dollar, and keeps it as a souvenir after the guest learns his true identity.
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Thos. Hicks
Trenton Falls
N.Y
Hicks
Tom
New York
Disgusted Philadelphian on Paris life and cost
A Philadelphia writer laments Paris as monotonous and overhyped for cheap living while praising Philadelphia’s variety. He notes uniform architecture, respectable crowds, bare-bones meals, and a longing for authentic American street life amid perceived Paris pretensions.
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Paris
Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Broad
London
Toe Symbolism or Rings
A Mayfair letter laments fading ring symbolism for engagements and marriages. The author recalls how left hand rings signaled a man’s intentions, urging a revival of the custom to ease courtship for women and clarity for men.
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Mayfair
Interracial marriage described as rare and controversial
An exchange asserts the white race has never lost and the black race has never lost a man worth reclaiming. It states such unions are self-selected, small, and not growing, advising it is safe to ignore them and that alarm is unfounded.
Venard's quick duel with Nevada robbers in 1866
Colorado paper recounts Steve Venard tracking three bandits near Nevada Col. The fight unfolds as Venard uses a Henry rifle to shoot the gang leader at 20 feet and another robber atop a rock. He seizes the treasure, disposes of the dead, then corners and kills the remaining assailant. Also lists a twelve-step health ad.
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Colorado
Steve Venard
Nevada
Venard
Henry
Vensrd
Lost Voice Restored by Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery
The article touts that the medicine can restore a lost voice and cure hoarseness, sore throat, bronchitis and consumption. It claims ministers once driven from the pulpit regained health and vigor after using the discovery sold by druggists.
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Kendalls
B. J. Kendall
Enosbursh Falls
Pierce
Rhode Island Public Law amends juror fees 1870
Public Laws of Rhode Island 1870 amends sections of Chapter 246 and Chapter 343. It increases juror payments for grand and petit jurors to two dollars per day for attendance and ten cents per mile for travel. Writs of venue may summon additional jurors. venue jurors paid two dollars and ten cents per mile. Effective July 1, 1879. inconsistent acts repealed.
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General Assembly
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Amendments to General Statutes on Trial Justice appointments
An 1879 act updates Chapter 185 governing Justice Courts. It sets procedures for electing Trial Justices when offices are vacant and allows governors to appoint Trial Justices in Providence Newport Woonsocket and Pawtucket. The text notes immediate effect and official certification by Secretary of State Joshua M Adderman.
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General Assembly
Providence
Newport
Woonsocket
Pawtucket
Senate
JosHua M. Addeman
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