Prayer on the weary road to service
A devotional poem expressing fatigue yet devotion to follow Christ. The speaker asks for strength to continue in faith, to bear burdens, and to serve despite weariness, seeking grace to persevere until reaching the promised home.
Fragmentary OCR note on Lazarus and resurrection themes
The readable text references Lazarus and a resurrection theme with scattered fragments about Jesus teaching, dates, and tempera notes. Names and precise details are unclear due to corrupted OCR, leaving only hints of religious discussion and dated entries.
Quarrelsome People and the Strength of Conflict
A long prose reflection on quarrelsomeness as a persistent flaw in humanity and society. It cites a town’s decline from fighting, notes neighbors in perpetual petty feuds, and argues that even amid wit and culture, the impulse to argue persists. The piece ends urging sober reflection and grace.
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Lot
Growline
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Abrahamic resolve against quarrels urged in religious advisory
A religious reflection warns that quarrels bring misery to all, especially children and women. It urges moderation, conciliation, or emigration if peaceful coexistence with a neighbor fails, citing Abraham’s example to avoid fights. The piece emphasizes life’s preciousness and warns against beginning disputes.
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Abraham
N. W. Christian Advocate
How to Enjoy Life and Be Actively Useful
A dated moral lecture on youth developing habits for lifelong happiness. It urges earnest purposeful activity, early mornings of steady work, and gratitude. It warns against excess amusements and bets, praising recreation and prayer as essential.
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Sisyphus
Joseph Cook
Jo M. Sturtecant
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Choice Elections and Moral Resolve in Christian Union
A reflective column quotes pastors and writers urging self awareness, duty, and service. It emphasizes bearing burdens with faith, prayer's power, and Christ’s example of loving the outcast, urging steadfast moral effort in daily life.
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van Bradley
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Farm and Fireside Horticulture and Home Economy Notes
The item compiles short tips on farming and household topics from various periodicals. Advice covers underdraining for dry soils, resting workhorses on Sundays, common chick leg weakness causes, treating fowls with lard and sulfur, weeds draining moisture in dry seasons, moss as a fire starter, and a pudding sauce recipe. Also notes on potato vine lifting, cabbage seed selection, and a tea biscuit recipe.
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Toledo Blade
Permanent Meadows and Proper Seed Covering for Grass Sowing
Henry Stewart argues for fall sowing of grasses with seed fully covered in fine soil to ensure root development. He describes soil preparation, depth of plowing eight inches, harrowing, and a sowing depth of about one inch to protect seedlings from dry weather.
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Henry Stewart
New Yorker
Clothing transmission of scarlet fever reported in Bath
A Bath Maine girl contracted scarlet fever at a boarding school. After recovery her clothing was stored in a garret. Six months later two children playing in the garret fell ill. one died. No other cases occurred in the community.
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Bath
Nutritive values of grains and clover analyzed
A cor respondent publishes a table of digestible nutritive values for grains and clover. It notes clover shows higher nutritive ratio than grains though water content is much higher, and emphasizes balance of albuminoids to carbohydrates. It discusses ration forms for cattle, including wheat, peas, oats, corn meal, and German standards, with practical feeding guidance.
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Stewart
National Live Stock Journal
Dangerous Counterfeits Warned by Treasury Circular
The Treasury Department warns of strong counterfeit protections on modern notes and fiber paper. It urges refusing unsure greenbacks or those printed on nonfiber paper, notes the risk of dangerous imitations in £ offerings and specific counterfeit types in 1875 dated greenbacks and brownbacks. At Conneaut Ohio a youth organization promotes politeness and helpfulness.
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Milwaukee
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United States
Treasury
The Hole of Death and the Alkali Sink Hole Peril
A San Francisco Call recounts a deadly alkali mud sink hole on the prairie. A rider and horse vanish as the paste swallows them with a chilling suction. ropes and ponies fail to pull free. The lurid tale warns that even familiar grass can hide a fatal trap.
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San Francisco
Wages of Cloak Models Declared by Downtown Maker
A cloak maker explains pay scales for models noting height weight and bust as factors. The top star model earns £15 weekly for nine to six fittings while others receive about ten dollars. eight dollars is a fair weekly rate for some in fitting or cutting departments.
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N. FL Malais
Language in Slippery Form Across Quotations and Notices
A collage of quips and brief items from 19th century papers, noting writers on similes and speech, a New York tradesman Amos Robbins recognized for fifty years of service, and assorted jokes and anecdotes about thieves, marriages, and nautical talk. A miscellany humorous and observational in tone.
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Tea request and eye remedy notice in old shop dialogue
A Paston shopper asks for a pound of tea to a shopman who offers black or green. A maid comments on a blind Miss and a garbled line mentions “Tee gram.” A later fragment suggests eye trouble and promotes Dr Isaac Thompson’s Eye Water sold by druggists.
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GMD
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