Monaco Prisoner Outwits Death to Grow Old Abroad
A fortified parable from Maupassant about a Monaco murderer condemned to death who cannot be executed. After trials with France and Italy fail over guillotine costs, the court imposes life imprisonment in a private jail. The prisoner refuses to leave and remains in place until a pension is offered to live abroad.
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Paradise
Try
Monsieur
Monaco
Supreme Court
Paris
Morlaco
Sie
Guy de Maupassant
Advertising and fortune tales from a Chicago Times Herald excerpt
Major Handy recounts businessmen who build wealth through advertising profits, noting firms with modest start capital, rising earnings, and lavish outcomes. He cites cases of drug clerks turned millionaires, heavy ad spend, and success without direct sales, promising to publish more stories with names.
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New York
Chicago Times-Herald
The Kangaroo Shows Maternal Bravery in Australia
An Australian drought tale recalls a kangaroo mother feeding her joey at water pails near a station balcony. The scene contrasts her natural timidity with bold courage as she stood near observers to protect and nurse her young before retreating.
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Australia
Prisoner Claims World Sprint Title on Open Road
A quoted exchange from the Brooklyn Eagle features a prisoner boasting he is the champion sprinter of the world and would run a mile in a time to astonish observers if given a fair chance on an open road.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Elvira A. Parsons
John W. Parsons
M. Barrows
Middlesex South
Acton
County of
Middlesex
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Great Road
E. J. Robbins
Said. Robbins
Said
Harris
John P. Rouillard
Rouillard
Said Rouillard
John. P. Rowillard
John P
Willshole
Thomas McCarty
John P Rouillard
Middlesex South District
Penas
Lord of hosts and Samuel’s early call in Shiloh
A reflective sermon on Samuel’s call in 1 Samuel chapters 3 and 4, tracing how God speaks to a child who ministers to the Lord, Eli’s dull ear, and the readiness to respond with Here am I. The piece links to Isaiah and Habakkuk, urging awake faith and a servant’s obedience to hear and say Speak Lord.
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Eli
Samuel
Shiloh
Babes
Isa
God
Abram
Jacob
Moses
Joshua
Paul
Phil
Israel
Jesus
Job
Gemini Poem Reflects Longing for Lost Twin Stars
A reflective verse by Clemard 1. E. A. Jenks in Granite Monthly compares a pair of twins to mischievous Gemini figures roaming the world. It laments their absence, hints at journeys through night skies, and describes celestial longing as stars fall like tears.
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Gemini
Leda
Clemard
E. A. Jenks
Granite Monthly
Unwelcome Guests A Conventional Social Visit by Indians
A Sierra Nevada camping party recounts a tense encounter with fifteen Indians who visit in silence, study the narrator, and leave after exchanging a venison token and a flannel strip. The scene underscores the uneasy dynamics between settler and Native groups in a poised, ironic vignette from Youth's Companion.
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Sierra Nevada Mountains
Youth
London writer attacks women journalists cutting medical section
A London author argues women should be barred from medical columns, except when a woman is a medical man. He notes a poor female art critic pressed to answer medical queries, recalling a failing answer about district mortality and a morbid joke referencing strychnine.
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London
Daisy
Jay’s
New York Times Notes Chinese Sleep Custom Verse
A New York Times excerpt describes a Chinese custom where mothers pin a translated verse on four corners of the house to soothe a restless child. The lines praise brilliant sparkling heaven and earth and promise peaceful sleep until daybreak.
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New York Times
Dinner that filled the bill at the Indianapolis hotel
A guest remarks that the dinner filled the bill and the hotel keeper agrees. The hotel keeper notes the meal also filled the bill for him, but this time the boniface remains silent. This note appears in the Indianapolis Journal.
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Boniface
Indianapolis Journal
Birds Follow Coins Horses For Feeding In Pasture Observed
A passage notes birds track coins and livestock to feed on insects stirred by moving animals. It cites Scott’s Heart of Midlothian and the Laird o Dambiedikes planting trees. Nebraska’s growth over 15 years on sterile plains boosted its valuation to 90 585 782 dollars.
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Scott
Nebraska
Coe
Lydia E Pinkham Passes On Lifes Work To Daughter
In a reflective scene Lydia E Pinkham entrusts her records to her daughter Mrs Charles H Pinkham. The volumes document her lifelong mission to aid women and promote Lydia B Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a standard remedy. The transfer signals the continuation of a noble effort to educate and assist women.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Charles H. Pinkham
Lydia B. Pinkham
Woes and Sorrow in a Quotation from an Era
An OCR fragment presents a Shakespearean or religious paraphrase asking who bears woe sorrow and wounds with a cause. The line suggests themes of suffering and justification within historic or devotional text.
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