A Terrible Revenge Ends In Tragedy For Lovers
Bessie Wilmaire and Richard Tremane wed quietly in a village ceremony. Their social gap, meddling gossip, and a vengeful Leonard Johnson lead to Richard's last train run in a catastrophic wreck. Bessie mourns at his grave, blaming Johnson, now imprisoned, as she clings to memories and sorrow.
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Richard Tremane
New York
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Richard
Bessie
Leonard Johnson
Miss Bessie
Bessie Wilmer
Gessie
Baltimore
The Use of the Hands in a Maine Boy Printer
A Maine farm boy buys a printing press and launches a tiny home press. He builds skills, earns for better equipment, and issues a small newspaper with his mother and sister as editors. The piece argues hands-on trades train youth as vital education for the republic.
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Maine
Ilis
republic
The Crabs and the Forward-Walking Proverb
A fable recounts crabs debating reform to stop walking backward. An elder orders the young to walk forward, but the child mirrors the parent, proving behavior is learned by example. The tale ends noting crabs still walk backward despite the law and lectures.
Baltimore in August 1579 Bright fall hopes rise
Balt imore gossip notes a mild early autumn with rising fall trade, crowded theaters, and new store openings. It reports deaths of Chas I Waters and Thomas Wilson, a $2,000,600 estate, and a traveler inflow from the South as distillations of city life mix with moral reflections on cleverness and a fox trap parable.
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Charles
Old Dominion Line
Salisbury
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Chas. I. Waters
house of Hamilton, Easter & Sons
Madison Avenue
Thomas Wilson
Hamilton, Easter & Sons
Slaverly
Georgia
Lords Grand Opera house
Grand Circus
Allbaugh
ML Holiday Street
Lex'neton
Almost Up A Soldier’s Death and a Sermon on Faith
A wounded sergeant near death recalls his near collapse in battle while clinging to the flag. The narrative shifts from field sacrifice to a spiritual exhortation urging Christians to seek salvation and follow Jesus, ending with a prophetic call to rejoice in victory and peace.
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Jesus
Satan
Old Darkey Woman Reflects on Mistress’s Sins
An elderly woman on her death bed admits she has been a great sinner for over eighty years, unaware of it. A longtime darkey woman responds with bemused certainty, noting she knew it all along.
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darkey
Tors
Alphabet Journey Go to Albany parlour game
A Pacific Rural Press description of a children's parlor game where players take turns announcing journeys to places starting with A and answering with verbs and nouns beginning with the same letter. The dialogue travels through the alphabet with players like Ellen Louisa Frank Susan Sarah Russel Grace Howard and others, with penalties for slow or incomplete answers.
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Albany
Ellen
Tam
Louisa
Boston
Frank
Susan
Dover
Sarah
Pacific Rural Press
Freeing a Tobacco Slave The Fulton Testament
Reverend Fulton told of becoming a tobacco slave at a June temperance conference in Brooklyn. A five shilling pipe and a $36 meerschaum sat temptingly on his desk, but after six weeks without, temptation returned at the pulpit. He prayed for strength, conquered, and for 16 years has abstained, praising example as power in enforcing purity and sobriety.
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Dr. Fulton
Brooklyn
Ife
Justin
Tremont Temple
yeelean
Sausage Price Dispute Overcharged at Schmidt’s Stall
Fragment from a local market scene shows a price quarrel over sausages with a vendor offering twenty cents a pound after another stall lists twenty-five cents. The exchange hints at competition and shortages in the street economy.
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Levi achiem
Schmidt's
Schmidt
Man With Brass Chain Shows No Wise Wit
A sharp observer jokes that a young man who keeps a watch in his coat pocket and wears a yard of brass chain may not be a philosopher, yet he should see the folly in his display of ostentation.
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Billaboro
Pennsylvania
The Arlette Story of Faith and Courage in Cologne
An early days piece recalls five worshipers in Cologne nearly seven centuries ago who refused to renounce Christ. Four fathers died at the stake while a daughter, Arlette, chose faith over life, clinging to her father and dying together in a heavenward bond.
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Cologne
Christ
Robert
Arlette
Disraeli’s Door Kissed by a Wife and Stocking Hoard
A past incident recalls Mr Disraeli as a husband who helped his wife from a carriage and a finger injury. A Maine obituary notes a woman who left behind 102 knitted stockings, mocked as a life spent piling objects rather than rest and joy.
A Bright Child Quips On Good Works And Prayers
A four year old, son of a Nourishing church pastor, in Sunday infant class, sees the lamp not lit yet lights a room in effect. He jokes about the minister praying long enough, after his mother explains the verse Pray without ceasing.
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CPayrinn
pearl
Character Defining Through Time and Folly
An old reflection on how character endures beyond wealth and reputation, noting that true self is chosen by personal consent. A Sunday school joke questions backbiting. A Dallas fashion quirk imagines red eyes as flattering, but practicality matters.
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CuaRnactrer
heaven
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