Miss Moriarty of Innishogue Wins Love in Barony
In Innishogue Kerry a 18 year old girl Miss Moriarty known as Peggy loves Corney Sullivan. Her father forbids the match due to old Sullivan enmity. A moonlit mountain journey to the chapel leads to a priestly appeal for peace and a family reconciliation. By year’s end Peggy marries Corney Sullivan and their voices return to the chapel choir.
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Miss Moriarty
Innishogue
Kerry
Kerry Wards
Moriartys
Margaret
Peggy
Thackeray
Peggy Moriarty
Cornelius Sullivan Corney
Innisogue
Corney
Dan Kearney
Innishegue
Mr. Moriarty
Sullivans
Sullivan
Darlin
Ar. Moriarty
Barony
Mr Moriarty
Misther Sullivan
Coortin
Crogs-Road
Elisa
Corney Sullivan
Mountain Chapel
Maurice
Cornoy
Father O'Donovan
Colleen
Corney Suullivan
Father O’donovan
Moriarty
Miss Morisarty
Innisshogue
Mrs. Sullivan
Fun For The Children From Danbury Newsman
The Danbury Newsman narrates a tale attributed to Robert Collyer about a mischievous neighbour’s boy who orchestrates a series of pranks. The exploits include a dead mouse in a basket a cat with a split tail vinegar taps a hired girl ghost play blue ink on a bantam rooster tying a boiler to a dog’s tail and slipping in slush. The father is left to decide which problem to chase first.
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Danbury
Robert Collyer
A Gold Dollar vs Paper Promises in Benton Maxim
The quote contrasts tangible wealth with paper promises. A gold dollar represents definite labor and goods, while a promissory note’s value rests on the actions of directors or government, fluctuating with time and control.
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Thomas H. Benton
Present of what is owed selected from employer
Dialogue shows Patrick, nicknamed Surg, expressing duty and gratitude as his employer promises a year’s return of all he is stolen. The exchange ends with mutual wry wishes for generous treatment by friends. The scene hints at a humorous take on compensation and loyalty.
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Patrick
Honer
Pat
Arkansas Coroner's Jury Finds Accidental Bowie Knife Death
A coroner in Arkansas, after paneling the jury, instructed them to decide if the death was due to accident incident or incendiary act. The jury returned a verdict that the man died by accident from a bowie knife wound.
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Arkansas
Mind and Vanity in a Quoted Mirthful Reflection
A miscellany piece contemplates frankness, noble-mindedness, and the danger of judging oneself by others opinions. It likens vanity to echoes and music drawing the heart to speak, warning that relentless nerves and unwavering gaze control triumph.
Penury and despair weigh on the heart in cold endurance
A stark meditation on poverty's grip as the speaker describes penury draining spirit and resilience. The line conveys how hardship tests calmness and reveals despair as a quiet, enduring force shaping inner resolve.
Men and Women of Action and Duty
A compact reflection on human potential noting men receive gifts of talent and opportunity yet often fail to fully utilize them, leaving unspent capacities and unrealized achievements. The quote highlights the difference between innate capability and actual accomplishment.
BewakkE of such food and liquors to temp man
Areflection on how temptations of food and drink can persuade a person like Aman to eat or drink even when not hungry or thirsty. The passage warns against enticing flavors and beverages that override natural restraint and lead to indulgence.
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Aman
Half Hour Reflections End Each Day Sermons Shared
A reflective note on dedicating thirty minutes nightly for self examination and preaching oneself a few strong sermons weekly to guide conduct and mindset.
Observation on pride and fall in life
The speaker notes many tumbles through life and observes that the man who mounts the high horse receives the least pity when he falls.
The Opportunity to Be Happy Probed in Reflection
A reflective line states happiness is rarer than imagined and missing it brings lifelong regret while the choices we make leave a lasting sense of satisfaction or repentance.
Imaginary battles and preparation for misfortune
The saying warns that fighting imagined foes drains strength and leaves you unable to face real danger. It emphasizes staying prepared without dwelling on misfortune, to avoid exhaustion when adversity arrives.
Silent Suffering Across The Earths Surface
A reflective line on how glory and suffering travel together on the earth. The piece contrasts reading glory with recognizing the scars and hardships that accompany human history, urging deeper comprehension beyond surface triumphs.
You Must Do It Or You Are A Dead Man
A stern moral blurt urges decisive action over mere wishing. It compares prayerful hopes to slinging a ball at a lion, warning Providence will not guide the deed. The message presses personal responsibility, declaring in blunt terms that inaction means certain death.
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Providence
Habitual life likened to wall of pictures
The passage muses on life as a wall of pictures brightened by many suns. Removing a single familiar image leaves a blank space that unsettles us. The text warns that losing a familiar object often brings a chill, like a sign of advancing death.
Warning Against Excessive Future Fear
A speaker warns that many people waste effort and resources preparing for dangers that may never occur, sacrificing present enjoyment and security to guard against needs of a future they may never experience.
Dreary Hoses And Neat Front Yards For Farms
The piece laments dreary farmhouses and argues for improving exteriors with lawn trees and a porch. It stresses that small investments, like fifty dollars, can yield five hundred if selling time comes, noting many men lack funds to invest in farms yet value Eleasar surroundings and the amenities they offer to family.
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Eleasars
Chilren
The Uniformity of Compliment
Taine reflects on etiquette provoking aversion as he recalls a Paris season. He describes entering rooms haunted by rehearsed phrases and the ritual of compliments, noting his own shift toward mechanical speech and the idea of hiring a secretary to manage compliments nightly.
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Paris
The Morgan Abduction and the Oak Orchard Mystery
Thurlow Weed recounts the 1826 to 1827 Morgan abduction, murder trial, and conflicting inquests over the body washed ashore near Oak Orchard Creek. He notes Morgan’s print-publishing dispute, the Niagara voyage, and Col. William King’s alleged orders, with later doubts about whether the recovered body was Morgan or Timothy Monroe amid public controversy.
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Morgan
Lake Ontario
Orleans
Oak Orchard Creek
Willam Morgan
William Morgan
Timothy Monroe
Niagara Falls
Batavia
Morgans
Monroe
Thurlow Weed
Detroit court lectured brakeman on rail safety humor
A Detroit police court judged a railroad brakeman who joked about passengers and jail terms. The judge ridiculed rail practices, advised a polite station announcer style for trains, and released the man with a warning after four years of sobriety. The exchange highlighted rail car misbehavior and proposed reform.
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Detroit
Pontiac
Jackson
Kalamazoo
Letter From Mother Solves Seaport Post Office Puzzle
A letter addressed to “My Son” arrived at a seaport town post office causing officials welcome confusion over delivery. A sailor asked if there was a letter from his mother and the query resolved the dilemma, guiding the postmaster to the intended recipient.
Ambitious woman can vex whole street most of year
A wry comment notes that one woman in a thickly settled community with sharp wit and mental activity, if she has ambition, can keep the entire street miserable eleven months out of the year and light up the remaining month with trouble.
Curious experiment oleomargarine factory visit
A New England Farmer correspondent toured a Cambridgeport oleomargarine factory near Fort Washington to see how tallow is turned into butter substitute. The process uses kidney fat tallow, a churned blend with milk, and colorants, with trials to improve purity and color. Readers are told the product is not butter and may be sold as oleomargarine, though some find it preferable to rancid cream butter.
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Cambridgeport
Boston
Fort Washington
Dickson
Vermont
New England
Make Your Own Sunshine and Beat Discouragement
A thoughtful musing encourages those in routine roles such as mothers teachers and workers to counter discouragement by changing thought and action. It suggests bodily cures like sleep and exercise, and for nonphysical causes, engaging with new ideas travel nature and study to absorb the mind and renew spirit.
Marshal of France Dream Fails Before Death
A distinguished man on his death bed recalls a life spent chasing honor. General Neal’s longing for the Marshal of France baton ends when the Emperor places the badge on him, then death follows. The tale urges focus on a higher purpose over earthly possessions as life nears its end.
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Neal
Marshal of
France
McMahon
Magenta
Death
A Newspaper Editor’s Duty Amid Grief and Grudge
The Rockland Opinion notes editors face criticism from those they defend at times yet may show ingratitude. A editor should persevere in doing what is right despite frowns or smiles, even if it risks making enemies of others.
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Rockland
Some One Loves Her at Murray Hill Conservatory
A sentimental young woman at a Murray Hill mansion confides in a gentleman as she laments lack of love. He responds with a moral twist, declaring that God loves her, revealing a wry, unsettling tone in this overheard exchange.
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Murray Hill
Barns
Nellie
Well Dressed Ellenborough Testy Exchange in Court
A bricklayer witness upset the Lord Chief Justice by claiming equal dress standards. The judge urged cleaner appearance, while the witness defended his working clothes comparing himself to the lord chief justice. The exchange highlighted lower courtroom attire expectations.
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Ellenborough
Stock-Raisine in Texas Promises Great Profits
Texas offers unrivaled stock raising prospects due to year round grazing on prairie grass and grass varieties in western regions. Cattle herds yield $5.50 to $7 a head for the stock, fat beeves fetch $20 to $80 per head, with annual herd increases around 3.1 percent. Beef prices vary from five to seven cents per pound in prime towns, two and a half to three cents in stock districts, and one and a half to two cents on the hoop. Rail expansion to St Louis, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Europe is elevating profit, with Texas shipping vast canned beef to Europe and three-quarters of a million beeves sent to northern markets in recent years not lowering city meat prices. The stock-raising business, aided by Texas Pacific Railway routes through Fort Worth to Paso, is set to rise to national importance.
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Texas
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Europe
Texas Pacific Railway
Fort Worth
Paso
Union
Pleasanton (Tez
Stock Journal
Ancient California settlement dated at 180000 years
A California geologist in the Overland argues the Cherokee area hosted a human settlement not less than 180,000 years ago. He cites stone mortars in subaqueous gravel beneath volcanic Table Mountain rocks, some 40 feet deep, with upright pestles in situ, indicating an ancient shoreline settlement predating volcanic activity and the glacial epoch.
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Overland
California
Cherokee
Table Mountain
A Cremona Doctor Proposes Test for Buried Alive Doubt
A Cremona physician suggests a simple postmortem indicator for life. Injecting a drop of ammonia under the skin should not elicit a reaction if truly dead, but will produce a red spot if life remains, offering a clear sign before burial.
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Cremona
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Sne
Wittum Morcan
Rochester
Dyer
Washington
Franklin
Lafayette
David C. Miller
The
Advocate
Canandaigua
de Witt Clinton
Niagara
Col. King
Canada
Elish Adams
Adams
Niagara River
Gov. Clinton
John Whitney
Albany
Simon B. Jewett
Clarkson
Samuel Barton
Lewiston
Ypsilanti
Nagasaki
Japan
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