Advertising Rates and Policies from a Friday Paper
The notice outlines payment terms for advertisements, including frequency discounts and rates for transient ads. It specifies costs for candidacy announcements, obituary notices over five lines, and instructions for paid placement, with all communications directed to the newspaper proprietor.
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Zere
Our Darling
A portrait of a lively child who bounds through the home causing mischief and joy. The poem describes constant activity from table to floor, toys, and the family’s affection. The child’s energy lifts the mother’s heart despite the chaos.
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Dolly
Pussy Cat
The Vacant Chair and Light in the Quiet Room
A reflective poem on a missing loved one with memories of the absent presence, the room and objects left behind, and the ache of their vacant chair. It contrasts tender recollection with admonitions about everyday etiquette from a rural youth almanac.
Simple Carbolic Acid Removes Warts
To remove warts simply apply carbolic acid a few times for a few days. There is no pain.
How to Succeed in Life and Do Many Things
A speaker urges boys and girls to master several practical skills, not one trade. Lessons include self reliance, learning chores like cooking bread and harnessing a horse, and expanding work options to avoid distress. The piece emphasizes versatility, warning against relying on a single skill.
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West Point
State University of Georgia
E. M. Pendleton
Job
East
Uriah
Judah
Carmel
Laertes
Ulysses
Ithaca
Ciicinoalus
Rome
Washington
United States
Union
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
New Orleans
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Louisiana
Mark Twain on Foster pardon and trial by jury satire
The piece quotes Mark Twain venting about Foster's pardon petitions, denouncing jury prejudice, the justice system, and the burden of pardoning power. It weaves in a humorous parable on a sleeping man and a long critique of agriculture’s value versus urban pretensions, with assorted anecdotes and notes.
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Foster
Mark Twain
Judas Iscariot
Lemons Aid Feverish Thirst In Sick Rooms
The piece advises using lemons sprinkled with leaf sugar to allay feverish thirst and aid sleep for invalids. It notes two or three lemons daily and a lemon at tea time can substitute for supper, improving appetite and night rest, with a remark that sorrow stems from covetous desires.
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R. T. Trall
Philadelphia Star
Sle
Jupiter
Saturn
Neptune
Earth
Character Versus Reputation and Reflections on Life
Discussion contrasts character with reputation noting that character is the intrinsic truth while reputation is public opinion that may diverge and eventually align with character. The piece includes reflections on sorrow, life’s trials, and the enduring nature of beauty in nature after death.
Paper borrowing and poor man at the circus
A man coming from the circus offers to borrow a newspaper claiming poverty. The editor contrasts the cost of time, drink, and the paper, noting the irony of saving at the spigot while losing at the bunghole in a sharp, humorous critique.
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Newsparek BorrowEks
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