Tolstoi as the Most Beloved Man of Russia and His Work
Tolstoi is praised as the most widely read living author and a democratic figure who mixes with the poor. The piece contrasts his public persona with family life, notes his health at eighty, and highlights his peace, nonresistance, and humanitarian influence including urging the first Hague conference.
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Russia
Leo Tolstoi
Tolstoi
Leo’ Tolstoi
United States
Yasnaya Polyana
America
Tolsto
Sone
Sechitarel
Tolatol
Pollo
Bjajle
Nicholas
Calamity Unexpected as Family Jokes
The piece quotes Mrs Silas Bennett a thoughtful neighbor remarks on never predicting misfortune. She humorously notes her family’s many children and long fears about appendicitis, but ends with a self deprecating memory of breaking her leg in two places after falling down rotten meeting house steps.
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Silas Bennett
New York Times
Bennett
No Skin Left on Body Then Born Baby Healed by Cure
A harmed baby covered in eczema endured six months with no skin and blood oozing until Cuticura remedies were used. The guardian recalls doctors giving up, the child improving after three Cuticura boxes and soap, and nearing age three with no further trouble. A dated testimonial from Durmid, Va in 1908 appears alongside other ad snippets about Mitchell's Eye Salve and a dental quip.
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Ares
James J. Smith
Durmid
Not 1 i It Fl Little Freddie and the Stork
Fragmented reminiscences mix nonsense lines about a prince and a stork with a mad dog article description and a child Marlow warned about playing with Willie Burr. The text also includes a miscellaneous verse about appetite and rising prices and a cryptic query about Josea in a disjointed miscellany style.
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Freddie
Freddi
Did God Make You A Bad Boy? The Child's Remark
A five year old boy Robert confronts punishment and questions God’s creations. He asks Auntie if God made her and himself and his father, then blurts that perhaps God made a mistake. The line reflects a child's blunt moral reproof in a domestic moment.
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America
Marlow
Willie Burr
Robert
Carnegie views on tariff shaped by Adam Smith and Mill
In the Christmas Century, Mr. Carnegie says his tariff views were formed in the early seventies by Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill. He adds he has never changed his stance and disputes the idea that Smith was a rigid free trader.
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Carnegie
Adan Smith
John Stuart Mill
A Scientist Opinion From The New York Weekly
Mr Bilkins and Mrs Bilkins discuss Doctor Greathead in the New York Weekly opinion piece. The eminent physician says there is no exercise 80 conducive to health in woman or ordinary housework. Mrs Bilkins retorts with a wary remark about marriage.
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Bilkins
Greathead
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