Fragmentary Rhyme Fragment Describes Hair and Eyes
A damaged OCR fragment evokes a poetical image of a girl with golden hair and soulful eyes. The lines hint at admiration and beauty, but the passage is incomplete and lacks clear context or full sentences.
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Mae
Ely
The Widow’s Scheme for a Bachelor and the Misogynist
A widow plots to marry her daughter to a famed bachelor by convincing him to rethink travel and settle near home. The plan succeeds through deceit as the man, once the confirmed bachelor, is ensnared by the widow’s stratagem and becomes the misogynist in a tale of virtue, vanity, and social pressure. The Chicago Tribune framing notes the era’s view of womanly cunning and emancipation debates.
Dingbat term recalled with tales from Easthampton
The Boston Journal recalls the word dingbat, noting it as common in western Massachusetts. H. L. N. tells a memory from about eighty years ago at a Easthampton dinner table. A ninety one year old woman mentioned Julia and dingbats while a plate of hard biscuits prompted a witty remark.
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Massachusetts
Easthampton
Julia
Daugther
Boston Journal
Brains in the Fingers Tip Only a future thinker?
Post mortem exams on blind bodies reveal gray matter cells at finger nerve ends matching brain tissue. The arena argues thinking could occur not only in the head but throughout the body, including solar plexus and palm and sole nerve ends, predicting future perception via the whole body.
Not a Bombardment in Netroit Free Cress
A dialogue notes a non bombarding approach by Higginx stating his tactics resemble a passive blockade. Kissaia asks if her father ever fired you and is told he has not. when visiting his daughter, he stays in the parlor for the interview.
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Kissaia
Higginx
Netroit
Cress
Lessons from Mizpeh on Samuel and Israel’s Deliverance
A devotional analysis explains Mizpeh as God’s witness and marks Israel’s fear of Philistines, the power of persistent prayer, and Samuel’s multifaceted role as judge priest and prophet. It notes the thunder of the Lord as a divine signal and Ebenezer as a milestone of God’s help, leading to peace with enemies when the heart is wholly turned to God.
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Samuel
Israel
Satan
God
Egypt
Moses
John Y
Jesus
Mizpeh
David
Judah
Shen
Lord
Ezra
Saul
Plots for Sale in Literary Market Not House or Cemetery Plots
A New York literary journal advertises plots for sale to furnish entirely new and original stories by a well known author. The piece jokes that sermons and speeches may be bought, while questioning if any truly original plots exist, noting that many so called plots are real estate booms on paper and that the literary industry in plots serves as a subterfuge in building lots.
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New York
Mr. Bacon
Shakespeare
Mr. du Maurier
Trilby
Rider Haggard
Harvard
Mitchell Mills
Ayer
Durkee
Tuttle
Worcester County
Acton
Lowell
Taither Conant
Mary W. Chaffin
Luther Furbush
Kinsle Tuttle
Mary A. Tuttle
Maternal Instinct and a Draft Mare Foal Incident
A 6 year old mare Jessie C that won a 2:19 trot heat at Indianapolis had a filly foal. When the filly was eight weeks old she was placed with a draft mare that had lost her foal. The draft mare attacked the filly until skin from the dead foal was grafted onto the filly. After multiple grafts the mare calmed and accepted the young, now changeling foal.
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Jessie C
Indianapolis
British girls to America aboard Frisco ship? notice
Notice reports a group plans to charter the steamship Frisco of 6000 tons to convey disappointed British girls to America for advantageous terms in the States. Sail date set from Southampton to New York on Oct 15. inquiries to secretary at 225 Belgrave Square W. Office hours 10 am to 6 pm weekdays, Saturday 2 pm. London Truth. Also an ad for DeWitt's Little Early Risers pills.
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Frisco
America
Atlantic
Southampton
New York
Belgrave Square
London
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West
Lydia EE. Pinkham
Lizziz
Grand Street
Jersey City
New Jersey
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D. D
Martin Pre
Touttlejones &Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
Boston
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South Acton
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Barre
Scotch
J. Sheehan
Bedford St
Mass
L. T. Jerrs
MM. Stowe
Caleb L. Beika K
Hudson National Bank
United States
Canada
Fred H. Lehy
County of
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Thomas Levy
Adm
Maynard, Mass
Oct
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
Concord National Bank
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C.d.holmes
Maynard and Vicinity
Darling’s Block
W. H. Leighton
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Arthur E. Walker
Best Companies
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Otis H. Forbush
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Mahone
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