A Preacher's Stratagem and the Trumpet of Gabriel
A tale recounts Lorenzo Dow arranging a hoax with a colored boy named Gabriel to blast a tin horn from a spruce tree during a South Carolina sermon. The crowd panicked at the imagined trumpet of judgment, and Dow used the episode to emphasize fear of God’s wrath before resuming his sermon.
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Lorenzo Dow
South Carolina
Lorenzo
Ewell
Don
Gabriel
Chhurch Hill
Massa
Hike Zaccheus
Dow
Archangel
Vision of Tam Solomon Under a Linden Tree
An old man toils in his fields when a phantom named Tam Solomon appears. The spirit urges him to learn a second lesson of rest in old age, after a life of industrious labor, echoing a German tale transformation.
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Tam Solomon
Solomon
Fragments of anecdotes and social notes from a 19th century paper
Vignettes recount embalming costs and a widow's protest, farmer’s wife praise of labor, a joke about a broken iron skillet on a suitor, gifts for Mrs. Grant and Nellie Grant, Dickens' deathbed details, a kirk sleep remark, Blanche Butler Butler Ames wedding plans, and a Georgia editor’s update on Mr. Stephens' health.
A Loving Wife and the Sorrowful War Story
In Corning during the war Dan Murphy enlisted and later served as a sutler after being wounded. He sent his pay home, and his wife, a thrifty washer, grew miserly with money from the bank. When Dan died the lodal boys offered to embalm him and send him home, which she eagerly accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corning
Dan Murphy
Dan
Purify Your Blood Claim From Dr Hurley Sarsaparilla
Henry Turner of Louisville writes that after twelve years of hereditary scrofula he improved with four bottles of Dr Hurley Sarsaparilla and plans to continue, stating the medicine healed sores and reduced large glands while inviting inquiries.
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Dr. Hurley
Louisville
Bull
Tehall
Henry Turner
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C. P. Talbot
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J.L. Root
Lurley
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Txn
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IND
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Musical Monthly
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Broadway
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Mnd
Lyinarls
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Cheatnut Street
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Harrison County
Fmchus
Keller & Brown
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Stockholm
Sweden
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