City of Rest the final stop in life’s long journey
Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox reflected as life’s journey from youth to old age. It urges patience through trials and valleys toward a celestial “City of Rest” where worries fade, trains converge, and reunions with loved ones occur. The piece frames death as a grand terminal station and a resting place beyond hardships.
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Valley of Tears
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Eitla Wheeler Wilcox
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Faithful and True Jack Saves Express Crew
A mother recalls her son Jack, raised around railways, who becomes a trusted engineer. After a fatal accident on the Jersey Express, he shows bravery to save passengers, and a grateful community honors him with a public tribute and a curl from a fallen child’s hair given as a token.
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Will Brown
Lorrow
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James Watt
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Strang
Jack Gimetong
Mr Withers
Tom Gray
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Jersey Express
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Deen
Jenny Brown
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Jim Flaherty
The True Christian Manhood and Moral Strength
A reflective essay on true manhood, urging openness to all truth, humility, and duty. It contrasts the virtuous, worldly self-restraint with the vain, arrogant ego, urging self-examination, restraint of pride, and steady effort across life. It stresses unity, honest labor, and restraint from flattery.
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Buttermilk Ad A Beverage Girls Favorite Drink
A fragment from a Philadelphia Chronicle item mentions buttermilk becoming a girls favorite drink. The garbled text references a Chesnut street store and a clerk, with scattered quotes about taste and age.
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