Foggy River Night Brings Rescue Tale to Familiar Shores
In a misty August night on the broad blue river, a mother recalls a perilous voyage across fog bound waters to reach her home. Her husband and neighbors search by night, Ned found asleep in a wrecked boat wedged in the main channel, and the crew's courage saves their family from peril.
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Norris
Captain Wilson
Wilson
Mite Wilson
Med
Diddék
Teape
Ned
Captain Moore
Jim Lewis
Mrs. Moore
Moore
Jim
George
Sandy Point
Mrs. Wilson
Squire Greene
Squire Greege
Training Memory by Constant Exercise and Focus
The article explains memory strengthens with use across professions and daily tasks. It urges deliberate focus on a single point, fixing attention to convey messages or fulfill promises, and argues willpower can overcome forgetfulness through mental concentration.
Imperturbable Days and Life’s Rough Edges
A meditation on bad moods and daily irritations. The narrator urges patience through a string of misfortunes from cold rooms to faulty stoves and mislaid plans. He suggests letters delayed in irritation worsen trouble and that hardship shapes character for brighter times ahead.
Clerical Embarrassments With Dogs Disrupting Services
An Episcopal clergyman in Connecticut recalls two humorous incidents showing the issues clergy face with dogs in church. A dachshund stole a hat during a sermon and evaded pursuers, while a married couple’s dogs in a wedding caused the minister to cut the service short. He later banned dogs from services to preserve concentration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Ossible
Harpers Magazine
East Anglian Giants: The Norfolk Benjamins Tale
A London Telegraph note profiles Benjamin Daniels of Scratby Norfolk one of East Anglia’s famed giants. At 64 he stood six feet six inches weighed about 136 pounds and could single handedly move heavy loads such as four bushel sacks and wreckage. He was patient good tempered and fond of practical jokes. The piece ends with a jokey health pun about Attleboro jewelry being alloyed.
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East Anglia
Patagonia
Nova Scotia
Benjamin Daniels
Scrattry
Yarmouth
Somerton
Hales
Panter
Rou Ghoglder
Hercules
Londom Telegraph
Dick Johnson's Sign Dream Turns Into Public Law Tale
A quirky note mixes a small town painter tale with a lengthy excerpt of an 1877 act on voter registration in Rhode Island. The piece centers on Dick Johnson's ambition to sign his saloon with a fine portrait and links to a formal legal text detailing registry and canvassing rules.
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Dick Johnson
Fiddleburg
Ick
Pat
Fiddieburg
Nichols
Breuning
Knight of the
General Assembly
Hia Vane
Board of Canvassers
City of
Providence
Cleaning 4 Brussels Carpet Instructions
Detailed steps for cleaning a Brussels carpet including shaking, laying the carpet in place, washing with hot water and borax, scrubbing tough spots with a brush and soap, rinsing thoroughly, drying with a dry cloth, and airing the room to speed drying.
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Brussels
Slip on pavement sparks dramatic reaction at window
A young man slides on a slick sidewalk and nearly hits his head on a roof corner. The image of a smiling face at the opposite window starkly prompts him to show relief and resolve.
Rates of Advertising in the Newspaper
Advertisements priced at $1.00 per inch for one week and 25 cents per inch for each subsequent four weeks. Each twelve lines of Nonpareil type equals one inch. Special notices for marriages and deaths cost 15 cents per line. Prepaid transient ads. Yearly contracts available on reasonable terms. Yearly advertisers limited to their own business. Submissions due by Thursday noon for next issue. Religions obits and political notices treated as ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City of
Providence
Board of
Severnal Boards of
Joshua M. Addeman
The Conflict of Ages and Medical Revolutions
A 1876 letter from Norwich New York argues that medical progress faces opposition yet prevails. It praises Dr Pierce and his Golden Medical Discovery for curing a leg infection after failed treatments, claiming the remedy healed fully after one bottle and lasted years.
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Harvey
Jenner
Pierce
Norwich, Chenango Co
N. Y
R. V. Pierce
M. D
John Shattuck
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