Madge Ellison Tries Life With the Brand of Cain
A middle aged Miss Wetmore influences her niece Madge Ellison to test life as a discharged prisoner. Madge mimics the label, faces rejection in jobs from maid to teacher, begs food, and ultimately returns home. The experience fuels her later humane work aiding ex felons and earning community respect.
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Miss Wetmore
Madge Ellison
Madge
Isabel
Madre
Chen
cause of humanity
Alcohol and Marksmanship in Bavarian Military Tests
The Bavarian ministry of war reports experiments showing alcohol harms rifle accuracy. In tests of over 30,000 shots, soldiers given forty grams of alcohol or about a pinprick of beer made 3 to 10 percent more errors than those who drank none.
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Bavarian
ministry of war
Peregrinating Pedestrian Baffling Athens of America Remark
A Baltimore American quote asks what a man meant by calling himself a peregrinating pedestrian. The passage says he intended a tramp beating his way from Boston, contrasting grand travel with simple wandering.
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Athens
America
Boston
Baltimore
Contentment Gives A Crown Where Fortune Ford
A fragment notes contentment brings reward, with fortune described as bestowing a crown in the context of a Ford reference. The line appears as a reflective aphorism within an older text, lacking clear events or identifiable people.
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Ford
Daring Sea Rover Read’s Campaign of Terror
A young Confederate naval officer, Charles W Read, led a commerce raiding cruise in 1863, capturing and burning multiple vessels from the Clarence to the Tacony, Umpire, and other ships near Cape Henry and off Massachusetts. He bonded crews, burned ships, and escaped pursuit, with no confirmed deaths, as his actions sparked widespread panic in the Union shipping lanes.
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United States navy
Mobile
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New Orleans
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Clarence
Rio de Janeiro
Baltimore
Tampton roads
Maffit
enterprise
South Carolina
Philadelphia
Alfred H. Partridge
Mary Alvino
Boston
Hampton Roads
Cape Henry
Tacony
M. A. Shindler
Kate Stewart
Arabella
M. A. Shhindler
Nate Stewart
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Newport News
New York
Umpire
Isaac Webb
Liverpool
fshing
Micawber
Byzantium
Goodspeed
Newark
Readrow
Massachusetts
Shatemuc
Archer
Portland harbor
Caleb Cushing
Ready
Forest City
Fort Warren
Richmond
The Drama and a Clever Retort in Pittsburgh Post
A fragment from the Pittsburgh Post presents a wry exchange where a student is challenged about his study habits and replies he is gathering material for a clinical play. The piece ends with a quotation about justice and decency attributed to Cicero.
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Pittsburgh Post
Wither Warts by a Nightly Paste Formula
A London Answers note describes a wart treatment claiming rapid withering. Mix sulphur 5 drams, concentrated acetic acid 2.5 drams, glycerin 2 ounces, apply as a paste to warts on small pieces of new or spread with a brush at night and wash off next morning. Reapply until warts drop off.
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