Dick's Oranges Bring Hope To a Poor Family
In a cold Crawford March, Dick Pearce loses steady work and rents threaten his family. He sells oranges on the street to feed his mother and sick sister Nellie. After hardship and a sympathetic gesture from Mary Stokes, his honesty earns trust, a chance at steady work, and a better home for the Pearces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Crawford
Dick Pearce
Mother
Nellie
Roper
Nell
Mr. Stokes
Jenny
Mrs. Pearce
Mary Stokes
Rascal
Mary
Stokes
R’aps
Polly
Swans Worm Syrup and Kidney Care Ad Blurbs
A vintage ad fragment touts Mother Swans' Worm Syrup as infallible and tasteless for feverishness restlessness worms constipation priced 25c. It pitches Bucuv-Parpa as a quick complete cure for kidney bladder and urinary diseases priced $1.Druggist listed.
Five Cents a Glass and Postal Notes in New York
A vivid excerpt covers a barroom murder hint with the line Five cents a glass. It then details the new U S postal notes issued Sept 8 in New York City with 500 notes per book and stamped post office addresses. Notes pay to bearer, usable nationwide, and are designed to deter forgers with lemon paper watermarked U S Postal Note and intricate vignettes. The Homer Lee Bank Note Company received the engraving contract, bonds totaling 2 000 000 posted, and a secure vault storing plates. The piece ends with a St Nicholas recount of raiding sutlers in Civil War camps, describing raids as sport and occasional scolding by officers.
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United States
New York City
Macdonald
U.S
Post Office Department
Homer Lee Bank Note Company
Te Company
F. Raymond
United States Postal Note
A. G. Lathrop
Bank Note Company
Broadway and
Prince-street
Veery
Nelson
St. Nicholas
The Value of Social Connection and Skill in Daily Life
The excerpt argues that sympathy strengthens the heart and sharing grief reduces burden while sharing joy increases pleasure. It warns that infidelity threatens religion and property, and asserts that practical manual training sharpens mental faculties, with the trained eye and hand enabling orderly, accurate, and effective execution of plans.
Abolish the parlor and enjoy home
A persuasive essay argues against formal parlor rooms and ceremonial living spaces. It advocates opening shutters to let in sun and air, preferring cheerful, bright homes over tomb-like reception rooms. It condemns hypocritical family mottoes and stresses simple, charitable living.
Sulphur Bitters Promoted by Grand Army Leader
The commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic Major George S. Merrill endorses Sulphur Bitters. The product’s sales are wide in the region with many reliable reports of beneficial results and recovery.
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Grand Army of the Republic
George S. Merrill
The Wading Habit in Women on the Beach
A historical observation notes that women prefer wading in salt water and dressing on benches, with a narrator recounting its persistence across generations. The piece treats the behavior as an ingrained habit traced to Eden and passed to daughters.
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Eve
Eden
Lion Calls Beasts Primary Convention for Heir
The lion, ruler of the forest, convenes a meeting to nominate his own son as successor. The animals question the need, but the lion explains it funds the nomination process by passing the hat. The tale ends with the moral to attend the primaries.
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Aeuce “Tam
Giraffe
Parrot Warns Dog Then Shuts Up With One Liner
Noon on Seneca street scene shows a parrot sunning by an open cage door as a strange dog pads onto the lawn. The parrot curses sickly and the dog lunges. Feathers and fur fly and the dog bolts for the street. The parrot surveys itself and declares Polly you talk too much.
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Seneca Street
Parrot
Polly
Cleveland
Duelist Recounts Provocation and Threat on Field
The duelist recalls that after an on field quarrel the opponent worsened the insult and then fired not at the heart but at his boots, asserting intent to threaten. He claims the other meant harm by targeting his footwear during the confrontation.
Japanese Whale Hunt Along Koza Coast Then Ship Carries In Prize
Japanese whaling is a regular industry on both coasts with Koza villagers maintaining lookout towers. Teams of five to ten men in lightweight dress use nets and harpoons to entangle and tow whales ashore, where the carcass is butchered and distributed for food.
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Tas
Japan
Koza
Rowin
Thousand Islands Archipelago Housed in St Lawrence River
The Thousand Islands lie along a fifty mile stretch of the St Lawrence River with about eighteen hundred in ordinary seasons and over two thousand in good years. This year high water leaves about seventeen hundred islands above water, most cottages on American islands while Canadian ones remain government owned.
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Thousand Islands
T. Lawrence River
Canada
New York Times
How Perfume Is Extracted Through Maceration and Absorption
The article explains perfume extraction by maceration using marrow fat heated in a water bath plus alcohol to separate grease and perfume. It notes alternative methods with inodorous acids and refined olive oil, and describes absorption with lard layers and glass or wire boxes, stacking and pressing to release scented oil.
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Europe
Anced to key syrup praised by Ponca agent Boone
A.G. Boone U.S. Commissioner I dian Department Washington D C endorses a syrup as the finest remedy for a prolonged cough from Sioux Commission exposure. He calls it the only relief he ever found and notes his official position supporting the claim.
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Sioux Commission
A.G. Boone
Poncas
U.S
Indian Department
Washington, D. C
To one is human to pay up divine
A fragment suggests a saying about human nature and owing dues, implying a moral about settlement or payment, but lacks clear context or identifiable figures or events.
Time and clocks through human history
The article traces timekeeping from sun dials and clepsydras to pendulums and modern clocks. It notes sun dependence for true time, cites travel across time zones as evidence, and argues time is made by use, not devices, with life measured in moments.
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Arizona
Yuma
Jefferson City
San Francisco
Grass developing into snakes in Bad Land ravine
A Yellowstone and Bad Lands correspondent describes finding green grass in a ravine with water. Roots moved, crawled from a pail, and grew to about three feet long with grass-like color, an extraordinary natural curiosity with no known precedent.
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Yellowstone
Where is the girl of long ago in this verse
A reflective vignette recalls a girl from the past now aged with gray hair a wart on her nose and missing teeth. The speaker addresses Joaq and notes the changed appearance including wearing spectacles.
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Joaquin Miller
Joaq
Brown's Iron Bitters Endorsed by Rev. J N Beck
The advertisement claims Brown's Iron Bitters aids 13 persons recovering from wasting diseases like malaria and fevers. In Owenton Kentucky Rev J N Beck calls it one of the best tonics, and in Coporus Pennsylvania Rev J D Zehring cites paralysis recovery via the tonic.
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Owenton
J. N. Beck
Coporus
J.D. Zehring
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