Edith Weldon's Wedding Night Misadventure
Edith Weldon awaits her fiancé Dick Strong for a New York wedding. He is detained after being mistaken for a thief in a Broadway crowd, later cleared by police, and the ceremony proceeds with laughter and relief as Edith embraces her groom.
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Clarke
John Weldon
Weldon
Weldon & Grey
Mr. Weldon
Mrs. Weldon
Tam
Twenty-seventh Street
RicHarp
Edith
Charlie Strong
In friendship and love we view only our faults
A reflective meditation on how friendship and love reveal faults that harm others and how spiritual vision must grow to behold divine glory. It contrasts a temple bright with danger to the Heavenly inheritance, urging belief in radiant destiny.
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Tyrone
Diana
Insect Songsters and Their Fiddling Chirps
The cricket and grasshopper do not sing but fiddle by rubbing wings and legs. The katy did is highlighted as a prime instrumental performer with wing tambourines creating the distinctive katy-did she did sound heard afar.
Sermon Preachers Urge Laughter Over Gloom and Grief
Emerson, Beecher, and Talmage urge readers to avoid gloom and gloomy talk. They advocate laughter, lightness, and humane comfort instead of harsh judgments and overbearing sorrow.
Seek a Healthy Mind and Beauty in Harmony
A reflective quote by Beecher on choosing harmony over discord in art affairs and social life. It links health of mind with beauty and right conduct, urging sensitivity to the beautiful and true in plants, society, and mental economy.
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Beecher
Moral tale warns that neglect harms on street life
Dr Guthrie quoted a boy who said the police would raise a child left by parents. The address suggests parents must invest time, patience, and resources in home training or risk loss of the child to street life and police intervention.
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E &E
Providence
Mike
Borders
Thames Street
Bristol
Joan Bo Fisu
Feild
Sunday Y A Day Of Gladness
A 19th century sermon urges joy on Sunday, calling it the glad feast of the resurrection. It counsels quiet worship and gentle social fellowship, stressing heart over rigid ritual and warning against portraying Sunday as dull or gloomy. It affirms that piety includes geniality and joyous, restful living with God.
House Work and the Rise of Women in Domestic Roles
The piece argues daughters trained as perfect mistresses of all home duties can rise socially when placed in unknown communities, while unprepared women fall. It urges American mothers to educate daughters to manage household duties to secure respect and stability.
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America
New England Women by Fanny Fern
A humorous portrait of the New England woman describing her prudent dress choices, practical wisdom, and strict virtues. The narrator, identifying as a New England woman, extols thrift, self reliance, and measured taste over ostentation.
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New England
Fanny Fern
The ancient origins and uses of glass revealed
The article traces glass from its ancient origins and imitation of natural crystals to its early luxury uses and eventual shift to practical objects. It notes Egyptian relics proving early manufacture, the shift from ornamental to utilitarian, and glass’s pivotal role in optics and science.
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Esquimaux
Meteorological Observations on Weather and Wind
A humorous survey notes three in five conversations open with weather remarks and describes tendencies around wind, dew, and moods. It cites an eminent actuary’s two year data collection, mentions morning and mountain dew, and jokes about Washington’s lack of knowledge on wind halves.
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Washington
How To Bore Holes In Glass With Oil Soaked Tools
The article explains cutting glass easily using hard steel tools kept wet with camphor dissolved in turpentine. It describes drilling or hand methods, enlarging holes with a round tile, smoothing edges with a flat file, and sawing flat glass with a watch spring saw aided by this solution.
Nighttime Mothers and Bees in a Village Chronicle
In a quiet village a mother keeps vigil as a son returns at midnight and a bee study notes instinctual bee behavior. The piece contrasts maternal devotion with natural hive duties, describing a mother's anxiety and a truant youth reconciled by a loving embrace.
Pleasant anecdote about Reverend Alexander and a tailor
A London correspondent recalls Rev. Thomas Alexander, an English Presbyterian minister who died recently. He once saw a poorly paid curate shivering in the cold and commissioned a tailor to craft a warm coat anonymously, trusting the tailor to measure discreetly and send the garment to the curate. The coat fit perfectly when the curate passed by.
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Thomas Alexander
London
The
Presbyterian
All Have Influence Even a Child Says a Drunkard
A London lecturer recalls a man who carried his daughter to the public house. The girl pleaded for him to stay, tears on the father's cheek, and the man quit drinking. He says the child’s influence saved him and he has not returned to a pub.
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London
Answer Your Boys Questions
Parents should answer a boy’s questions even when trivial to unlock learning. The child’s curiosity opens the treasury of the world and guides teaching. Engaged parents meet them halfway, shaping truth in an eager mind.
Curious Fire-Resistant Trick Outlined by 1809 Spaniard Lionette
Records recount how Lionette astonished crowds by surviving red hot iron, molten lead, and boiling oil. Professor Sementem tested and found skin insensibility could be achieved with sulphuric acid solution, alum paste, and soap rubbed on skin and tongue, then repeated by other scientists.
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Mons. I. Fontelle
de la Societe de Sciences Physiques Et Chimiques de Paris, &c
Lionette
France
Germany
Italy
England
Naples
Sementem
Ile
Faith As Remedial Agent In Health
A passage from Science of Health argues that a merry heart aids circulation and health while firm faith provides steadiness and willpower. It claims doubt wastes energy and unbelief dulls hope, whereas belief in God’s rule and eternal life enables endurance and triumph over adversity.
Debunking Iconic Figures Repeatedly Across History
A skeptical column notes how famous claims about inventors authors and leaders are often challenged by later scholars. It cites Fulton Shakespeare Howe Morse Washington and predicts future reassessments of public figures and their legacies.
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Robert Fulton
Shakespear
Howe
Morse
Washington
Mr. Greeley
Tribune
Diversity of Wild Flowers and Mosses Across North America
The passage notes forty wild violet species east of the Mississippi, about one hundred thirty asters and ninety goldenrods in North America, nearly a thousand moss species globally, and over fifty feather moss species.
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Mississippi
North America
Johnson Quote On Doing Good In Small Steps
A historical proverb attributed to Dr. Johnson emphasizes that gradual acts of kindness accumulate more effectively than delaying to accomplish a large good at once. The saying urges steady effort and consistent virtue.
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Dr. Johnson
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