Our new Boston church warms by five immense stoves
A Cedar Town Georgia newspaper item describes a $750,000 Boston church with a heated basement chamber feeding warm air through about 300 floor openings under the pews. It notes Rev Dr Wills of Washington on Alexander Stephens dying and reflects on charity, manners, and personal conduct.
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Boston
Jack Livingston’s mountain passion and a fateful love
In three letters from New Hampshire to Rev. Daniel Delany, Jack Livingston recounts a broken leg, the awakening of love for Hetty Bilby and Miss Mary, and a remote mountain life that tests faith. Hetty’s illness, a looming departure, and Livingston’s philosophical musings frame a tale of longing, danger, and a tragic end as he faces a harsher climate and a restless heart.
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Dan
Jack Livingston
New Hampshire
Daniel Delany
Mary
Mertha Marks
Hetty
Pappy
Hetty Bilsby
Hotty
Child
Tamin
Tin
Tim
Joe Livingston
Whittier
Mej
Miss Mary
Clement
Jack
God
Christian
Heavenly Gates
Blisby
Adam
Paradise
Bilsby
Tam Grim
Metty
Newport
Spiris
Din Delaney
Atlantic
Martha
Hetty Bilby
Jairus
Anil
No Inherent Female Inferiority Says This Truthful Debate
A discussion argues that women possess equal or greater capabilities when given education and opportunity. Citing Mary Somerville, Elizabeth I, Joan of Arc, and others, the piece contends that intellectual strength, will, and virtue are not confined by sex and that confining social norms, not brains, limit women. It calls for harmonizing human and divine laws to end the notion of the weaker sex.
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Mary Somerville
Caroline Merscher
Queen Elizabeth
Mme
Roland
Charlotte Bronte
George Eliot
Joan of Arc
Burdett-Coutts
Tayi
Sausage Inquiry Sparks Debate Over Genuine Article
A man questions a butcher about his sausages asking if they contain dog or cat meat. The butcher denies using such meat and asserts sincerity. The customer, unsatisfied, leaves announcing he wants the genuine article. The narrator reflects on honesty and temptation.
German Life Insurance Company Phrase Inspires Candid Quip
A German term lebensversicherungsgesellschaft is noted for its length and suggests a jab about how a prying agent prompts a casual listener to flee. The quip imagines a person escaping over a fence and hiding near a barn during pronunciation.
Fragmented Readings and Sermon Snippets From Moody era
A collage of verse lines and prose passages including romantic laments, social satire, and quotations from Moody sermons. It contrasts love poetry with sermonized morality and social thought, weaving references to Boston, Christianity, and Universalists within a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper fragment.
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Presbyterian Church
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Seunebler
Planta
Bezold
Pro
W. Draper
Vogel
Pfeffer
Selim
Placentim
Royal Institution
Tyndall
Franklin
Ainger
Mio
Newry
Livingston
Lng
Sharp
Groanwood
Outakirta
Danbury News
John Chinaman
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Mintonk
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Oil City
Charity
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Mr. Moody
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Guizot
Universaliss of
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