A Mother's Boy Saves Father in Sea Rescue
In Dunkirk a fourteen year old boy named Frank bravely swims to shore in icy water to fetch help after a boating accident that capsizes Capt. Charlie and Josiah Smith. Frank's uncle Charlie is saved, the other man is lost, and Frank earns a Massachusetts Humane Society medal named A Mother's Boy.
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Charlie
Uncle Charlie
Franky
Frank
Josiah Smith
Ines
Siah
Dunkirk
Smith
Capt. Wentworth
Mrs. Smith
Massachusetts Humane Society
Frank P
Something Worth Knowing
A column urges using wool smoke to treat wounds and inflammation. It claims applying heat wool smoke to a wound or bruise relieves pain within twenty minutes and can prevent lockjaw after injuries. The advice emphasizes simple, at hand remedy to reduce inflammation.
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla Promises Health Boost
An advertisement extols Ayer s Sarsaparilla for blood purification vitality and enrichment claiming it aids comparisons and moral weight for traders. It touts Ayer s Hair Vigor preventing graying restoring color cleansing the scalp and stimulating hair growth with grandures.
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Ayer
Miscellany on virtue and charity from a public discourse
A collection of moral reflections compares personal vices to growing nails and extols continuous benevolence. It lauds honest wealth as a community blessing and cites shared religious belief in progressive enlightenment. The final note praises justice and charity as beautiful deeds by a good man.
First Efforts in Service Like Early Wheat Blades
The message urges that God accepts initial efforts to serve him not as perfect deeds but as beginnings. It likens early wheat sprouts to a farmer's joy, and condemns rich Christians who hoard riches like a sealed box or a drowning man clinging to possessions.
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Patmos
Gabriel
Jay
Peter
James
Tam
Motives for Exertion Remain Amid Solitude
A quotation by Bates asserts that awareness of a soul to save and an eternity to secure, with God and angels as observers, furnishes constant motive for effort even in deep solitude.
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Bates
Integrity and Humble Confidence in Adversity
The passage urges maintaining integrity and self awareness to ease business toil and disappointments. It promises humble confidence before God when human ingratitude or era’s iniquity robs other rewards.
Swiss Family Tradition Keeps Peace Each Night
An old Swiss family custom, cherished for centuries, reduces irritation and preserves harmony. The ritual involves the last person to bed reciting the Lord's Prayer aloud, a practice praised as blessed by God and effective in keeping families united.
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Switzerland
Language and culture shaping youth speech and manners
The piece laments slang and casual errors among children and praises careful speech, clear diction, and restrained adjectives. It cites examples from school and Sunday School and recalls Richter’s death and a related anonymous poem about aging, faith, and devotion.
How Astor Became Rich from Astor Lands
A historical sketch credits John Jacob Astor not with fur or tea wealth but with shrewd land speculation in New York. He bought land beyond the growing city early, turning an 8000 dollar sale into eighty lots, foreseeing Wall Street and Canal Street expansion, and creating enduring income from property without additional purchases for fifty years.
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Astor
John Jacob Astor
New York
Wall Street
Mr. Astor
Canal Street
Expression of perfected love and service in finite beings
A quatrain of contemplation on expressing all love and perfected service within finite human capability, imagining an enlarged ability to love and to serve in harmony with divine or universal ideals. The poet contemplates ultimate fullness of affection and duty.
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F. BR. Havergal
Kindness Compared with Water Baths in Gentle Wisdom
A proverb echoes that a single act of kindness can lift spirits more than all the soft water baths ever devised, underscoring moral influence over comfort methods.
Peanuts and People of Southside Virginia
The peanut section of Virginia spans counties south of the James River from Norfolk to Petersburg with the main markets at those cities. Peas and tobacco drive the economy, with May planting, curing in October, and November labor by Black workers earning twelve and a half cents a bushel as they sing and work in the fields.
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Virema
Virginia
James River
Norfolk
Petersburg
Tidewater
Rhode Island Public Law on Care of Curable Insane Paupers
The 1885 act allows two physicians to certify a pauper is insane and may benefit from treatment. The State Charities and Corrections agent with the Governor’s consent may place the pauper at Butler Hospital or another public curative hospital. The State Auditor will fund maintenance up to seventy dollars per quarter per patient, effective upon passage.
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General Assembly
Butler Hospital
Saidospital
Butler
Amendment to Public Statutes on Suppression of Intemperance
An 1885 act amends Chapter 87 Sec 23 of the Public Statutes to empower sheriffs to appoint deputies to enforce liquor sale restrictions and nuisances. The measure takes effect upon passage.
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General Assembly
Act Amending Probate Appeals Withdrawals 1885
The act allows parties to withdraw appeals from probate court orders by filing a withdrawal with the clerk of the appellate court and presenting proof of withdrawal to the probate court. It removes the stay on the appealed order and makes the original order take effect as if the appeal never occurred. It permits modification of bonds and related orders after withdrawal and voids inconsistent acts. It takes effect immediately.
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General Assembly
Court of Probate
Amendment of Public Laws on Foreign Insurance Companies
The act amends chapter 432 to allow a copy deposited with the commissioner and limits statements filed per company. It specifies additions to sections 8 9 and 10 and takes effect immediately. Secretary of State Joshua M Addeman certifies the true copies.
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General Assembly
Jooshuua M. Addeman
Chalk Talk Lecture Upset Milkman In Town Tale
A milkman suspected of adulterating dairy products is confronted by an artist who attended a lecture titled Chalk talk. The exchange ends with the milkman fleeing after learning the subject, highlighting a comic misunderstanding in a local scene.
Vegetine Uses Roots Bark and Herbs in Pleasant Tonic
The advertisement touts VEGETINE as a pleasant tonic made from roots bark and herbs. It claims children enjoy taking it and implies broad suitability as a health remedy.
Davy Crockett Answers Washington Dining Question
The story recounts Crockett after his first winter in Congress in Texas answering local questions about Washington life. He explains dining times for common people, representatives, and the aristocracy, noting the President dines the next day. The anecdote highlights Crockett's humorous take on political circles and etiquette.
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David Crockett
Texas
Congress
Washington
Col. Crockett
They Have Never Famep Use Sulphur Bitters
I have endured ten years of illness with high medical bills until I used Sulphur Bitters. In the last two years my costs dropped to three dollars. The remedy cured my jaundice and saved money, says F. J. Boyd of Hoboken.
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Ayer
West 128Th St
New York
A. J. Crane
Lake Crystal
Minn
Jostin Walden
Byhalia
Miss
Brothers In Law Open Chicago Clothier Venture
In a central depot exchange, a man asks Moses about going to Chicago to open a clothing store. They discuss the family creed of selling on credit and paying cash, and the plan to be insured, with reassurance they have an assignment already set and a firm aim to avoid failure.
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Moses
Central Depot
Chicago
Doan
Parker's Tonic Promises Rescue for Frail Wife
An elderly husband pleads for help as his wife fears hospital or poorhouse due to long illness. The crux of the piece is a sales pitch claiming Parker's Tonic can restore health, cure stomach liver and kidney ailments, and is safe, simple, and effective.
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Parker
Aver
Bragdon
Palestine
Texas
Electric Bitters Sold As Liver and Urinary Remedy
The advertisement touts Electric Bitters as the best blood purifier and system regulator for liver inactivity, biliousness, jaundice, constipation, weak kidneys, and urinary diseases. It promises quick, guaranteed satisfaction or money back and notes circulation by J. H. Young & Co at fifty cents a bottle.
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J. H. Young & Co
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