The Final Reward of an Eng Madale of Privation
The excerpt outlines the hardship of clergy in the 18th century, detailing meager salaries, debts, and social indignities. It contrasts curates with higher clergy, recounts daily struggles from payment delays to hunger, and notes a benevolent gift that transforms circumstance with a generous £50 note and a future living of £300 a year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wakefiel
Goldsmith
Gennan
Betsy
Polly
Mom
An Indian Prince and the English Peer in the Field
A London Gentlewoman anecdote recalls a famed Indian potentate hosting an English peer. The guest misses his shots, prompting the prince to praise him while noting divine mercy spared the tiny birds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Rainmaking, folklore, and autumn tree injuries
A Louisville Cour ier Journal excerpt recounts a tribe’s rainmaking tale where a rain hurdle failed to end the downpour, washing away crops, then notes the harvest damage from early frosts on catalpa and other trees. Iowa State Register explains how left untreated cracks form from water uptake, protoplasm swelling, and recommends moist clay and wrapping to seal ruptures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Droug Hse
Pailayis
Louisville Courier-Journal
Catalpa
Iowa
State Register
Panorama of World History in Twenty Six Portfolios
A grand series of high art portraits and views presents creation to modern times in 26 portfolios totaling 416 pages and over 1000 photographs with full descriptions accompanying each image.
Crawfish Threat to Levees Cited by Missouri Paper
The St. Louis Globe Democrat warns that crawfish undermine levees more than water, burrowing into moist earth and loosening banks. They multiply rapidly and can cause breaches near the top during floods, as seen in historical cases like the 1889 Offut’s break that submerged Greenville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Offut’s
Greenville
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Shakespearean Swearing and Virile Language in Literature
The Philadelphia Press notes swearing is a key element of masculine vocabulary present in many nations. It cites Shakespeare’s oaths and epithets as essential to truthful depictions of common life and argues nineteenth century writers were constrained by conventional norms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Whistling on Shipboard Folklore and Sailor Superstition
The Detroit Free Press notes sailors dismiss whistling at sea as bad luck with vivid anecdotes. It recalls a sea captain who refused a woman who whistled, fearing wreck, and observes women now widely whistle at sea, challenging old superstition.
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Detroit
Free Proress
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Chicago
Bref
West Acton
A. H. Rose
U. S
Acton, Mass
Arthur E. Walker
Maynard
FP. O
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Maynard, Mass
Wheelwright and Blacksmith
Stow Road
South Acton, Mass
Clouch
Vermont
South Acton
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
James Sinnott
Concord
Nicholas Sinnott
Maddiesex
Concord Enterprise
J. McIntire
Esquire
H. Folsom
Register
Horace Walcott
Henry J
Charles H. Walcott
Cambridge
Charles J. McIntire
C. W. Bisbee
No. 1
No. 24
W. L. Douglas
W.L. Douglas
W. KL
Doug
Brockton
Mass
Tuttles, Jones &Wetherbee
So. Acton
C.h-Mead & Co
Geo. Creighton, Maynard
Lewis L. Hawes
Tuttle
Concord, Mass
Hubbard Street
W.C. Croft
Acton Street
Cyrus Barker
Acton
Lucy G.barker
Edwin M. White
Lowell
Acton Enterprise
Esquir
H. S. Hapgood
Anererise
Horace’ Tuttie
W. A. Cunningham
Conner Nason and
Summer’ Streets
Bowker’s
Plaret, Jr
King of the Cornfield
Canada
Rosendale
Mount Vernon
Corning
W. A
Marlboro Dye House
Liberty Street
W. D. Cross & CO
L. N. Fowler
A. D. Russel
Jaynard
Augustus Fletcher
James. Devane
New York
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