The Prodigal Son of Brazil in a Seafaring Tale
A long story from Youths Companion recounts Joe Brazil, a sailor who deserts to join a man o war during England's opium era. After years of silence his parents receive hopeful letters, his shipboard illness, and a planned return. A mistaken reunion with a stranger leads to months of doubt before the true Joe returns to his mother and sister, ending in joyful recognition.
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England
Brazil
Joseph
Joe
Norval
China
China Seas
Navy
J. B
Joseph Brazil
J.B
Handwork and Headwork in Industrial Life
Columbus Ga Enquirer argues for combining manual and mental training. It claims improved machinery complements handwork, but stresses handwork builds discipline, accuracy, imagination, and judgment. Properly taught, hand and mind reinforce each other for lifelong independence.
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Columbus
Enquirer
Supposed Counterfeiter in Paris Arrested in Dry Goods Shop
In Paris a 60-year-old widow in deep mourning offered counterfeit five franc coins in payment at a large dry goods store. After two refusals and evasive replies, police arrested her. a search disclosed a bag with 240 in silver five franc coins, four other money bags, 20,000 in bearer securities, six $200 bank notes, 200 in gold, and many keys. The money changer found no counterfeits, and she admitted owning several Paris houses and living alone.
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Paris
Paris Cor
Farm and Household Tips and Recipes Digest
Practical notes on horse care glove powder and corn starch use. Hay processing for poultry feed and dry smoked flesh for sale. Fowls avoid manure to protect garden seeds. Light cream dessert with lemon, sugar and wine glasses. Hog fatness versus quality pork and blood health. Simple cookies recipe with eggs sugar butter milk and spices.
How to Raise Calves from a Winter Calf
A Boston Mirror correspondent describes calf rearing starting with allowing early suckling then gradually reducing nursing. It covers timing for removing the calf from the cow, encouraging drinking by guiding milk to the mouth, feeding with a rigorous hungry phase, then introducing a trough with meal and hay, and finally transitioning to oats and corn mix with skimmed milk at four weeks and meat-in-milk after eight weeks.
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Boston Mirror
The Husband's Part in Home Harmony
A column urges husbands to share home burdens and greet wives with cheer. It cites Governor Jewell’s practice of carrying worries away at the door and argues unselfishness sustains marriage. The piece notes divorce law changes in New England and cites a Lynn, Massachusetts shoe factory with thirty divorced women.
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Jewell
Laicus
New England
Vermont
Connecticut
Maine
Lynn
Mass
Light in sorrow's gloom and Christian influence
A poem frames evening sorrow and starry hope, then a Union Signal piece reviews Charles Brace on Christianity’s early social impact. It traces how Christ’s ethics transformed law and society, from slavery and marriage to charity and public wells, praising Christianity as a persistent force for reform across two millennia.
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Union
Charles L. Brace
Plato
Christ
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Jesus
Plutarch
Flaminius
Constantine
Japan
Fragmented reflection on faith and moral decay cited by observers
A quoted observer laments the decline of the old faith and rise of selfishness and licentiousness. The note compares the Roman Empire before Christ with heathen nations today, suggesting Christianity's restorative ability amid unpromising conditions.
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Aga
Roman Empire
N. S
The Peace of Death and the Quiet of the Grave
A reflective meditation on death as a peaceful state, contrasting living care with tombs. It presents death as a sleep in dust where the dead rest with calm, awaiting a reunion with the living. The piece invokes Longfellow and spiritual imagery, praising graves as angels' footprints.
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Procetal
Longfellow
Beginning to moral character and self restraint
The excerpt argues that to maintain moral character one must start at the beginning and avoid small temptations. It warns that allowing first slips leads to larger faults like miserliness drunkenness falsehood and profanity. It concludes evil brings its own punishment and quotes Dr. F. A. Noble on accountability.
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God
F. A. Noble
Choice extracts illuminate faith and kindness in old quotes
A collage of aphorisms from Longfellow to Zion's Herald urges philanthropy action over inclination, social compassion, and living for others. It includes a Truckee letter about boys parading and heading to New York, plus wry notes on ghosts, servant gossip, and a Missouri girl’s imagined destiny.
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Presbyterian
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Kingdom of Christ
Zion’s Herald
Truckee
Cal
San Francisco
New York
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