The Way to Win Follows a Self Made Stationer
Edward Stone visits his wealthy uncle seeking capital to start a business but learns a better path is self discipline. He saves three dollars a week, gains experience, and proves himself, eventually earning a full stake and respect. Polly, the uncle's daughter, becomes a devoted partner as Edward builds a thriving stationery and book store.
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Edward Stone
Dan
Edward
Mr. Stone
Nephew
Polly
Mary
It Don’t Pay To Slings Money Away For Bitters
A Lowell machinist writes that spending a dollar on Sulphur Bitters cured his dyspepsia and saved ten dollars in doctors and druggists’ bills, illustrating the product’s perceived value and savings.
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Lowell
Mass
A Man Learns By Walking Rail Tracks
A man abandons a perilous habit after the first time he fails to hear a train, realizing walking on tracks is dangerous and imprudent.
Terrible skin condition cured by Cuticura remedies
Advertisement claims terrible itching and scaly humors with ulcers and swelling were cured by Cuticura and Cuticura Soap externally and Cuticura Resolvent internally. Urges readers to ask druggists about them.
Sanford's Radical Care Promises Cure for Catarrh
An out-of-town druggist bought a Boston apothecary shop prescription for catarrh treatment priced at $1 while the clerk charged $1.50. The druggist claimed familiarity with ingredient costs, sparking a retort that the price should be seventeen cents higher.
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Sanford
Boston
Hood's Sarsaparilla advertised as vitality booster
Hoops SARSAPARILLA is pitched as a medicine to build up strength boost appetite purify blood and energize the body. The copy claims it works through the blood reaching every part of the body and renews life and energy. It is sold at 1 per bottle or six for 5.
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Hoop
Hood
Tlood
C. I. Hood & Co
TS Revenatiag
Lowell
Mass
Dream Balm Cures Catarrh and Aids Sleep Claims
A 19th century testimonial narrative claims Ely's Dream Balm helps sleep and Ely's Cream Balm cures catarrh. Towanda Pennsylvania and Grand Rapids Michigan figures cited. The note dates May 14 1879 and mentions a price of 50 cents.
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C. B. Porter
Towanda
Ely
L. B. Copurn
Havin
Boston
Roy Bert W. Merrill
Pheenix Manufacturing Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
Habits of temperance and virtue shape lasting success
A miscellany urging gratitude and pure intent as prayers in daily life. It defines wisdom as teachability and self mastery, wealth as contentment, and honors as honoring others. It extols temperance truthfulness generosity as foundations for success, respect, affection, and enduring virtue.
The First Step to Ruin and a Love of Obedience
An Advocate column echoes on single life and ideal love, urging women to honor steadfast faith and warning boys about the fatal first step into wrongdoing. It recalls a State prison chaplain questioning a repentant youth who admits Sabbath fishing led to ruin.
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Orp Mains
Advocate
Tasteing an Elephant From Selous Herdsmen Blood Bath Scene
An excerpt from A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa describes an elephant carcass with skin peeled and internal organs removed. Natives and bushmen crawl into the hollow body to extract fat from the backbone and kidneys while bathing in the blood, a seasonal practice whose purpose is unclear.
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Africa
Selous
Hether
Charm of Reserve and the Value of Mystery
This piece urges restraint in revealing feelings to preserve charm in love. It argues that secrecy protects delicate heart petals, and that overexposure destroys happiness and the mystery that sustains relationships.
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Characer
Counting the Flowers and a Faithful Child Remark
A mother and crippled son live isolated in a city outskirts tenements. While she works, the child endures croup and cold, counting flowers on a faded quilt to stave fear. The mother learns faith in Providence after praying beside him.
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Ark
Rhode Island Public Laws and Amendments of 1882
Public laws from Rhode Island drapary session 1882 enact amendments to chapters on trials justice courts govern or and criminal jurisdiction. Provisions cover removal of trials for fairness, petition procedures, and immediate effect with repeal of conflicting acts.
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Rhode Island
Town Councils May Hold Burial Lands and Funds
An act amending Chapter 88 of the Public Statutes and Section 31 of Chapter 38 authorizes town councils to take and hold lands within their towns conveyed in trust for burial purposes. The councils may also receive and hold funds conveyed to ornament or repair burial lots and execute trusts per conveyance terms. Passed April 21, 1882.
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General Assembly
Public
General Treasury
Amendment to criminal jurisdiction of justice courts statute
The General Assembly amends Section 15 of Chapter 197 to extend penalties for assaults or battery obstructing officers disrupting meetings or worship and related offenses. It preserves options to retry beyond justice court limits if fines or imprisonment are inadequate, applying the same penalties as if the act had not passed.
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Dence
Newport
Woonsocket
Pawtucket
Westerly
General Assembly
Providence
Justice Court of
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Society For
Justice Court
State funds for evening school maintenance enacted
Chapter 312 adds annual appropriation for evening schools under the State Board of Education. The board will apportion the funds among towns and issue orders on the general treasurer. Secretary of State Josua M. Addeman certifies the copy as true.
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General Assembly
State Board of Education
Josua M. Addeman
Why Do You Hide Johnny Why Do You Hide
A brief exchange shows two boys quipping about hiding behind secrecy. One asks why another hides and the reply notes hiding to save his own safety as he runs to a secret spot. The dialogue captures a childlike distrust and playful mischief in a concise scene.
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Horace Greeley
New York Tribune
Newspaper Row
New York City
Greeley
Thompson
Austin
Johnny
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