Advertising Rates and Rules for Local Notices
The notice outlines advertisement costs at 1 002 dollars per square for one week with 25 cents per square for each additional insertion. A square is twelve lines or less. Special notices for marriages and deaths cost double. Transient ads must be prepaid. Yearly contracts are allowed on reasonable terms with limits for advertisers. Ads due Thursday noon for next issue. Obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
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State OF
Rhode Island
Providence
United States
Unite States
Joshua M. Addemen
The Little Shoe Binder and Hetty Ray’s Sacrifices
Hetty Ray, poor yet brave, binds shoes to care for her invalid mother in a lakeside cottage. Her boyish hope for Benjamin’s return sustains them until Auntie Nowell brings aid and Benjamin returns after years away. Hetty dies, and Jack the horse mourns her.
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Hetty Ray
Hetty
Jack
Duck
Letty
Benjamin
Netty
Ile
Notty
Benny
Owell
Auntie Nowell
Mrs. Ray
Benjamin Ray
Schoemaker’s
Prosperity and adversity virtues in evolution misquotes
A miscellany line asserts prosperity requires temperance and adversity builds fortitude. It claims evolution could do nothing without a divine sower who first sowed. The tone reflects a reflective moralizing aphorism.
Death Opens Gate to Fame and Douses Envy
A short meditation notes that death clears paths to lasting fame while extinguishing envy, suggesting moral reflection on mortality and reputation beyond worldly gain.
Man’s Revenge Study Keeps Wounds Green
A reflective line notes that dwelling on revenge keeps wounds fresh and delays healing, suggesting that harboring resentment hinders personal well being and recovery.
The Quote on Wrongdoing and Self Gain
A concise remark asserts that no man harms another purely for harm’s sake but seeks personal profit pleasure or honor from wrongdoing. It emphasizes motive over action and frames vice as self serving.
Courage and Care Amid a Contagion Warning
The speaker urges imparting courage and health, avoiding despair, and preventing spread. While appreciating flowers along the path, avoid spending excessive pilgrim time gathering them or seeking strength by lingering too long in one place.
Freedom From Sin and the Way of Heaven Quote
A reflection by W. H. A. Murray expressing a desire for a pure state free of sin and a world free of it, valuing the birthplace or origin as the finest heaven. The tone is contemplative and meditative.
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W. H. A. Murray
Past Matters Trifled By Wise Men
A terse reflection notes that what is past cannot be changed and warns that wise men should focus on present and future concerns rather than dwelling on bygone events.
Twofold aim of punishment described
The proper office of punishment is twofold. The punished should become better or serve as an example to deter others through visible consequences.
The Lighthouse Commanded Bravery in Storms
A call to faith and courage urges steadfastness like a lighthouse in night and fury of the sea warning mariners of danger with a bright guiding light.
Liberty’s heavy weight on conscience and duty
A compact reflection on freedom’s burden as liberty frees the body but binds the conscience and inverts law into duty, echoing Victor Hugo’s view that liberty augments responsibility and imposes moral obligations.
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Victor Hugo
Mind needs nourishment and guiding principles
The creator-forming mind requires sustenance for growth like the body. It also needs proper principles to feed its development. without them, evil results inevitably.
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Tuhe
Fairs and Revivals Drive Science and Religion
The text argues that fairs energize science and that every revival of literature philosophy and intellect stems from a revival of religion. It presents a view connecting public exhibitions to intellectual and spiritual renewal across history.
The Bubbles of Youth and Lost Brightness
The essay uses childlike soap bubbles as a metaphor for fleeting loves in life. It recalls childhood joys and the swift vanishing of the brightest dreams, noting how the most splendid hopes often fade first, leaving tears behind.
How To Have Beautiful Hyacinths In Winter
Late in December after stock was sold, a dozen hyacinths of various colors were planted in pots and kept in an outbuilding with little light for three months. They were watered occasionally and appeared pale green. Brought into full sun, each spike quickly returned to its natural color, producing red purple yellow blush and white blooms with all bulbs large and perfect.
Detroit Youth Plans Independent Weekly Amid Iron Sale
A 13 year old Detroit boy sold fifty pounds of iron and a lead pipe to fund a cellar office for a proposed Michigan wide weekly. He hired his sister, printed seven copies, and aimed to publish items about family life and schooling. His father and mother disrupted his start, and the plan faces a mob atmosphere and a dubious future.
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Detroit
Michigan
Cleansing Cellars to Ward Off Household Ills
The article urges thorough cellar cleaning to prevent sickness from hidden poisons. It warns that old vegetable matter and decay can harbor typhoid and scarlet fever risks, advising a monthly sweep with lime, ventilation, and disposal of unfit tinned or wooden ware.
Presentiments of Truth and Youthful Prophecy
The piece urges youths to savor spring vitality and forecast a glorious future while remaining pure and mindful of God. It warns against despair as exultation fades, cautions against regret for lost youth, and reflects on the danger of self-doubt when past dreams fade.
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Slopford Brooke
Female Extravagance and a Frugal Husband
A wife asks for two dollars to buy calico, but the husband cites an editorial on female extravagance as ruinous to men and the nation. He then gives ten cents for hair-pins, smokes a ten-cent cigar, and leaves to gamble, returning after losing three dollars at billiards.
Patience described as virtue and divine likeness
The passage extols patience as the sound of peace and the closest kin to heaven. It praises sufferers as ideal men, noting quiet, meek endurance and tranquil spirit as the mark of the first true gentleman.
The Cave or Death and Old Cregol’s Treasure
In a pioneer Mississippi region fifty years ago a rich trader named Cregol built a hospitality house near a cave. Locals enter the cave and uncover skeletons of doomed explorers and a blue coat. Cregol’s wealth came from murdering men for their money, ending with his own death.
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Mississippi
Tuchapaw County
New Orleans
Kentucky
Illinois
Ohio
Rocky Mountains
Cregol
Old Cregol
Pigs Devour Rotten Wood Dust to Fatten on Carbon Diet
The Turf Field and farm notes that pigs instinctively eat decayed wood for its antiseptic carbon. A 40 pound pig fed 16 ears of corn daily was gradually given charred carbon, reducing grain to eight ears, and after nine months yielded 205 pounds of prime lard and meat.
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Hoas
Reverence as the Path to Moral Elevation
The text argues that longing for a purer ideal drives humans toward higher levels of conduct. We imitate the admirable once found, kneel before the sun of righteousness, and progress through reverence for virtuous qualities shaping civilization and ongoing advancement.
Edwin Booth Demonstrates Generosity in Parlor Car Tale
An 19th century newspaper recounts Edwin Booth sharing a $100 bill with a poor emigrant after a boisterous lady in the same parlor car boasted she would pay $100 to kiss him. Booth then humorously turned the moment into a practical joke, gifting the money and asserting the punch line with a quiet act of magnanimity.
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Edwin Booth
Booth Tuer
Divine Booth
Omaha
California
Hamlet
Mr. Booth
Dane
Booth
Apsour Oysters and the Growing New York Oyster Trade
The article notes a rising English oyster scarcity fueling a large New York export trade reaching France Germany and Albion The best oysters come from East river beds while seed from York bay is shipped to California for reef development Oystermen report fivefold growth in annual harvests over twenty years with tens of thousands of workers and multi million dollar investments The Baltimore canning industry dominates the oyster canning sector
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New York
France
Germany
Albion
Continent
Ian
California
San Francisco
York Bay
East River
Baltimore
Wages, labor, and prosperity amid strikes and trades unions
Country Gentleman argues that universal productive effort should yield general prosperity. It claims wage levels influence hiring, profits, and enterprise, warns that unemployment rises when labor is suppressed, and cites the Chicago fire’s economic ripple as proof of national impact.
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United States
Union
Seneca on time and virtue urging swift living
The quote warns that delaying leads to lost opportunities and wasted years. It contrasts the best hours slipping away with a future period when one finally chooses virtue, noting rarely do people reach an age of meaningful living.
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Seneca
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