Marion Wins Over In-Law Hope With Mary Smith
In a rural tale, Marion Clements reveals she is George’s wife as her mother-in-law and father-in-law react with shock. The story follows the clash of city bred impressions, Mary Smith’s quiet competence, and Marion’s determined love, ending with a warm family reconciliation at supper.
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George
Marion Clements
Marion
Pet
Birdie
Mary Smith
Mary
Hannah
West Garret
Deacon
Truth cannot be captured by a single reply or sermon
The passage argues that truth is infinite and cannot be reduced to a sentence or formula. It presents truth as an inward life and divine character rather than external verities, stating Pilate’s question is best answered by a life that guides how to live and die.
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Pilate
Christ
God
F. W. Robertson
Man's Insignificance in Life and Death
The piece reflects on the trials of life and fading dreams as humanity’s insignificance. It notes that fame and wealth end at graves alongside the poor, with generations feeling the same as predecessors and nature and beauty persisting after departure. The heavens remain bright over graves as the world holds steady for future generations.
Peaceable Living in Intercourse with Men
The text urges avoiding not only overt selfishness but subtle harms in daily dealings. It compares a small irritant like emery in a shoe to harsher offenses, noting that quiet, continual chafing harms peace and urges living peaceably with all and not provoking others.
Purity of Character and Fleeting Youth
A reflective meditation compares youthful purity to delicate blossoms and dew coated glass. It warns that once touched or defiled, beauty and character cannot be restored, like a bloom or frost picture altered by a touch.
New Type Setting Machine Invented in Des Moines
A new type-setting machine is announced in Des Moines Iowa claiming 5000 cms per hour output for any type size and column width. It can be operated by a boy and costs only a hundred dollars.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Editing a Newspaper Like a Poker Showdown
The editor compares editing to a high stakes poker game where one person holds the pot and others think they can do better. The analogy underscores control, judgment, and risk in newsroom decision making.
The Revised Woman and Healthier Living Ideals
A 19th century advocate urges mothers and teachers to reform fashion norms by teaching girls to value health over vanity. She promotes breathing, posture, head hair, and natural beauty, criticizes corsets and high heels, and urges practical dress choices aligned with bodily well being and respectable womanhood.
A Cheerful Home and Its Gentle Influence
A cheerful home lightens the day with kind words and smiles while an unhappy house breeds strife. Gentle maternal grace echoes in daughters and sons, shaping future homes and temperaments. troubled beginnings lead to misery for themselves and others.
Kind Horse Feeds and Comforts Injured Dog
An intelligent horse in Mr Edward Kilpatrick's stable befriends a mistreated dog with a broken leg. The horse makes a straw bed, feeds the dog with bran mash, and shelters him nightly, forming a deep, compassionate bond that highlights humane instinct.
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Edward Kilpatrick
The Manufacture of Dolls Shoes and Accessories
The piece notes that doll shoe making has grown into a sizable business over six to eight years, using scrap morocco from shoe and bookbinding trades. It describes improvements in style and construction, including soles, heels, buttons, lacing, and decorative slides. One major maker produces 50,000 pairs yearly from scraps and stock, selling to findings dealers for 1.50 to 4.50 per dozen. There are two doll shoe grades, including a refined wax-doll line.
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Morocco
Poisons and Their Antidotes.Learnings from early chemists
The article explains that poisons are deadly because they affect life functions and notes that poisons can be rendered inert by antidotes. It warns about oxalic acid and corrosive sublimate and gives remedies such as magnesia or lime water and the white of eggs or pearl ash to form inert compounds in the stomach.
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Christ Isson
Great Men and Their Musical or Animal Tillers
A collection of anecdotes on famous figures such as Socrates Epaminondas Nero Luther Frederick II Milton Bentham Gainsborough Byron Goethe and others detailing their unusual pleasures with music flowers animals birds and even serpents and parrots. The list presents playful contrasts between intellect and pastime across ancient and modern personalities.
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Philosphic
Socrates
Epaminondas
Nero
Rome
Luther
Frederick II
Prussia
Milton
Bentham
Gainsborough
Byron
Italy
Goethe
Augustus
Tricks With Molten Iron and Cold Hands Experiments
A 19th century discussion challenge cold hot myths as scientists recount molten metal stunts. Historical notes cite Rose in Sweden observing copper touched to walls, glass and iron experiments, and a Maryland blacksmith’s feats. The piece playfully questions whether heat perceptions can be defied.
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Rose
Boutigiay
Maryland
Esparto Grass The New Economic Fiber For Paper
Hundreds of readers may not know Esparto grass a Spanish grown fiber now a principal industry in Spain. Its paper making quality surpasses other materials and demand in the United States rises with Philadelphia as a major consumer. Britain paid over $5 million in 1871 for this grass and is testing its culture. It thrives in many soils with a strong summer heat as the key growing requirement.
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Portland
Oregon
Joseph Thomas
Wraslin
Joe
St. Louis
Illinois
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Missouri
Willamette River
Bullen
Esparto
United States
Philaelphia
Great Britian
Wit Remarries Despite Aged Sir Reputation
Friends expressed surprise at his marriage given age and fondness for drink. He explained a wife was necessary to counter talk that he drank too much for a single man.
Mrs. Stowe Explains Real Love as Self Sacrifice
The piece argues love is self sacrifice not flattery or affection for self. It cites Mrs. I Beecher Stowe praising giving over receiving and warns women risk losing noble love by indulgence and ease.
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Mrs. Stowe
Beecher Stowe
Frontier farmer clings to well as railroad nears
A Missouri farmer on a four thousand acre plantation resists but grants right of way as R S Stevens pushes the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway southward. The old man hauls forty barrels of water daily to a leaky rock well rather than dig a new one, while the railway booms toward Mexico.
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R. S. Stevens
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Missouri
Gwine
Sedalia
Kansas
Indian Territory
Texas
City of
Mexico
Enterprise
A Vermont Governor and a British Officer Tale
In a Vermont anecdote from earlier times a British officer asks to see the Governor at his home. A servant points to the pig-sty and the officer is invited to wait in the yard while the Governor remains busy, highlighting old fashioned simplicity and a comic mix up with the horse hitching.
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Vermont
Hallo
Gov. Chittenden
Brock
Rome Was Not Built In A Day Exchange
A school committee member asks when Rome was built and a bright first class pupil answers in the night. The examiner is astonished and the girl explains that Rome wasn’t built in a day as the reason.
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Rome
Editor's clash with traveling salesmen over sewing machines
A Cleveland Leader excerpt describes a chaotic home invasion by agents delivering a double treadle sewing machine. The narrator details damaged garden beds, a barking bulldog, roof work, and his wife in tears over the purchase. He and Angelina end with a wartime household security plan.
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Patch
Angelina
Old
Cleveland
Beautiful chemical experiment for tea party
A simple cabbage based experiment shows acid and alkali effects on a vegetable blue. Boil red cabbage leaves to extract a blue dye, then split into four glasses with vinegar, soda, alum solution, and empty. Combine with the extract to reveal red, green, or unchanged colors and demonstrate acid base indicators.
New England Agriculture and the Vision of a Garden Land
A Philadelphia journal disputes claims of exhausted New England soils and argues that with proper cultivation they can yield 75 to 100 bushels of corn and 40 to 80 bushels of wheat per acre. It praises rock blasting, stump removal, land drainage, and the resolve to transform rugged soils into productive fields.
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New England
Philadelphia
Old England
Boston Journal of Chemistry
Franklin and Wis Pater Defended Public Satire
A Philadelphia anecdote recalls Benjamin Franklin declining defaming pieces for personal gain. He chose modest living over selling his press, comparing to Socrates who valued sustenance over luxury. The tale links Franklin's restraint to ancient counsel on virtue.
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Franklin
Wis Pater
Philadelphia
Socrates
Archelaus
Athens
STRETCH IT A LITTLE LESSON ON SHARING
A windy frosty morning finds a girl and her younger brother poorly dressed on the way to a store. The girl offers her cloak to keep Johnny warm and stretches it to cover both, imparting a moral about sharing comforts beyond oneself.
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Johnny
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