The Ghostly Coachman of the Midnight Ride
Uncle Ben recalls a hundred year old legend of a headless coachman who travels yearly at midnight. He accepts a ride and converses with the specter, learns London lore, and returns to find the carriage and riders vanish, leaving him dazed at a milestone.
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London
Joe
Ben
George II
Sol
Uncle Ben
Knights of the Road
Bow Street
Finchley
Hogarth
Heaven
Uncle Ben and the Ghostly House Tale
Uncle Ben asserts belief in ghosts over modern wealth while family gathers for a winter ghost story. Joe, a skeptic and secretary to Mudborough’s debating society, challenges the tale, prompting a clash between belief and doubt as the night deepens.
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Ben
Sry
Joe
Literary Debating Society
Mudborough
Are Fat People Healthy
A recurring concern is raised about obesity and health. The text argues obesity results from imbalanced nutrition and notes fat individuals are weak and prone to disease, claiming Allan's Anti-Fat as a harmless remedy that cures obesity.
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Earth
Allan
Right living is the best road to right dying
A Miscellany excerpt emphasizes inner virtue and daily devotion. It cautions that envy harms friendships and that preparation for death comes through wise living, faithful obedience to God, and fulfilling duties to self and others.
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Ricut Livine
Our Record For ouR ANCESTORS
A reflection on the forgotten details of family lineage and the desire to preserve names of ancestors. The piece notes many people cannot recall great grandmothers and forebears without written records, yet curiosity about origins persists across social ranks.
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Burke
Popular Science Monthly
Children and the World We Must Prepare Them For
A piece arguing against isolating children from society by private schooling. It says children are not blank slates but heirs of human nature with varied dispositions, and that they must learn the ways of the world to judge practical affairs wisely.
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Faith Rochester
Greece
Rome
Miss Stuart of Newport A Portrait and Parlor Tale
A Newport visit with Miss Stuart, daughter of Gilbert Stuart, reveals a cultivated hostess in a cottage garden setting. The article details her arts, portraits in her hall, rapid wit, social gatherings, and links to Washington portraits and lace from Mrs. Washington.
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Guserr Stuart
The
Cincinnati Inquirer
Newport
R.I
Stuart
Order of St. Francis de Sales
Mary
Miss Stuart
Alphonse
Chatelaine
Scribner's Magazine
Washington
Mr. Peale
Lady Washington
Portable Prussian horse biscuits令 for forage and men
The Prussian government after the war with France developed a biscuit mix with flour pea meal rye flour and linseed meal that yields four pounds of food equal to about twelve pounds of oats. It can be carried on a saddle and fed to horses and men. A separate note extols the spirit world as a tangible, personal universe with distinct minds and loves in heaven.
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France
Vision of a Coffin Foretold by a Dream
A man recounts a near sleep vision at his bedside where a tall figure lifts a coffin and vanishes. His seventeen year old daughter then reads aloud from The Life of Marie Antoinette describing the same incident he just witnessed.
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Pather
Marie Antoinette
Louisville Journal
Woman in Constant Fragments Terrifies Train Travelers
A fragile woman on a train repeatedly loses her ticket, hat, and hair, bursts a collar button, tears her dress pins, and struggles with a bulging valise. She arrives at New Prague in a flutter, with fellow passengers left in suspense about her next breakdown.
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New Prague
Death Toll From Fever Strikes New Orleans Family
In a New Orleans cottage on Custom House Street, a family battles yellow fever. A father loses his $10 and saved jewels to robbery while arranging a burial for his child, then both parents and the child die within days. A negress is arrested on suspicion. The fever claims the father, then the mother, one after another.
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Harrison Jay Otis
Washington
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Germantown
Peeene
Athenaeum
Boston
Stuart
Farnel Hall
Custom Illouse Street
New Orleans
Armoir
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Bristol Phoenix
Phenix Building
Hope Street
A. Greene
Emporium
Rerkey & Gay
Kitty Trevylyan
Thea
Cove
New England
Flint & Company
Broad, St., Cor. Eddy
Providencer, R. L
Vegetine
J. P. Ludlow
Baltic Street
Brooklyn
N. Y
H. K. Stevens
James P. Ludlow
Calgary Baptist Church
Sacramento
Cal
Poland
H. R. Stevens
Albert Ricker
George M. Vaughan
Medford, Mass
Okey Lea Stree Boss
H. RE. Stevens
Sir
N. Wormell
T. Walker
Providence
BR. I
Transit Street
H.R. Stevens
O. T. Walker
Bowdoin-Square Church
South Salem
Mass
Lizzie M. Packard
Lagrange Street
Laura Boston
Ma. Stevens
Monroe Parker
B. Stevens
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