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Newspaper

Erie Observer

Location

Erie, Pennsylvania, United States of America

Date

Aug 24, 1850

Page

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The Runaway Match and Its Bitter Outcome

Caroline Warren, urged by a handsome libertine named Collins, elopes against her father Mr. Warren’s strict counsel. Her marriage proves ruinous. Collins wastes, abuses, and abandons her, while Caroline’s perseverance ends in near poverty and a fatal, icy homecoming fulfilled by forgiveness and death.

Mr. Warren Young. Collins Louse Caroline Garon Collins Mr. Warrom Colling Jonos Carolina Tito Aslam Mrs. Warren Caroline Collins Warren

The Value of Self-Directed Learning and Character

The author argues knowledge comes from the mind’s actions not colleges. He urges youth to study nature and people, read widely, travel on foot, and ask questions. Wealth should not force elite schooling over labor, as true growth builds character and health. A church minister tells a moral anecdote about temptation.

Cambridge Yale

Epidemics and Night Air Theories From 17th Century to Modern Remarks

A collection of historical observations on epidemics noting 1665 London plague deaths and Sennacherib, then linking night air to disease spread. It cites Hamburg cholera fears, fires warming air, and Sierra Leone huts kept alight to ward fever, with later European adoption and commentary from contemporary papers.

London Hamburg Sierra Leone

The Orphan Boy in a Midnight Shipboard Dream

On a schooner at sea a dying orphan boy named Dick is tended by a loyal crewman and a surgeon. The narrator recalls his prior failure to aid the child, and Dick entrusts a Bible to the narrator before a quiet, starry farewell and a plea to be buried beside his mother.

Lad Hong Litle Dick Felow Mr. Danforth

Fragmentary Verse Of Longing For Mary By A Stream

A lyric reminiscence recalls a past romance beside a stream and wood. The speaker longs for Mary, hearing her voice in the wind and bells, and laments that such dreams must fade as time ages the heart.

Angelic Voices Heard After Child’s Death

A veteran hears music and imagined angel voices as a child dies nearby. The scene conveys grief and awe, with the National Intelligencer noting the haunting moment and the veteran’s tearful reaction.

Imo Angel God National Intelligencer

Splendid Pacific Surges Awe Monterey Coast

Readable excerpts describe Monterey surf as deep and solemn at night with thunderous crashes and emerald walls of water. A quiet Sunday scene shows twelve foot high green breakers and a mile-long advancing wave, followed by a metallic jingle as spray erupts. Also includes brief humorous pieces about love across faiths and a Jamaica joke.

Monterey Atlantic Pacific Elsavis Gila Anchorage Bay Bayard Taylor California

A Consistent Servant in Boston and a Witty Exchange

A Boston household employed a country youth to announce visitors. He told an intimate friend the servant claimed the mistress was not at home. The mistress, Mia, questioned the reply and the boy swore he never laughed when delivering it.

Berlin Hreslay Minna Breslau Jamaica Ofer Ifo Union Course Indy Boston John Mia Joli Johns

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