Enchanted Dancers Bestow Wealth and Avarice
A tailor and four smiths travel at dusk and encounter little people on a moonlit hill who shave them and fill their pockets with coal. The smiths greedily hoard, while the tailor remains content. The coal proves false gold. the smith’s baldness, humps, and misfortune reveal the cost of avarice. The tale closes with domestic scenes and a grandmotherly knitting moment.
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Smith
Cormibany
Croesus
Ime
I Know How Story of a Little Girl’s Knitting Lesson
Five year old Bessie insists she can knit by herself and watches her mother and grandmother. She breaks a pin to make improvised knitting needles and attempts stitches with wax ends. After struggles and failed attempts, she grows frustrated, learns from her mother, and is visited by grandma who offers guidance.
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Grandma
Bessie
Papa
Mamma
Kitty
A. A. Hayes
State Assayer
Massachusetts
Correspondence from Baileyville urges farming and rail aid
April 12 1879 letter to Freeport Journal details busy plowing sowing and unusually backward season. It warns of Colorado potato bugs threatening crops, suggests control methods and natural enemies, and promotes Baileyville as a favorable railroad and industrial site with potential beet sugar and carriage factories, urging investment for local growth.
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Batiarvius
Freeport Journal
Colorado
Plowboy
Paris
Nature
Baileyville
I Belive
Chicago and Pacific Railroad
Hinkley Road
Porreston
Crane’s Creek
Northwest
Chicago
Pacific Ocean
Freeport
Igin
Quondam
Samson the Deliverer and the dangers of misused gifts
A sermon-like reflection contrasts Samsons of ancient times with modern figures who wield great gifts yet fail morally. It warns against pride, temptation, and overconfidence, noting how harnessed power can become weakness. The piece urges humility and earnest purpose to avoid ruin and sorrow.
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Gaga
Deliah
Philistia
Samsons
Keep to the right and sail on to Fulton Avenue
A Brooklyn editor describes an evening boat encounter where a lone woman dismisses a persistent man with humor about being never alone. The piece transitions to reflections on science and humility, quoting Norbert Spencer and Alcott, urging discipline and learning the meaning of things over words. A Beecher reference notes Rev Horatio Stebbins in San Francisco with a $10,000 salary.
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New York
Heights
Brooklyn
Fulton Ferry
Fulton Avenue
Norbert Spencer
Horatio Stebbins
the Beecher
San Francisco
Cal
Starr King
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Alcott
President Edwards
Beecher
D. P. W. Wares
Spencer
Brattleboro
Rew Imilustratea
Srp
Eiege
Tlustrationa
Oineintard
Louis
psxoHoLoaio
Boutharm
Hamilton
Wil
8Th Street
Hudson River
Cor Water St
Maiden Lane
N.Y
W. Randolph St
James Fisk
Tammany Fraucis
Vanderbilt
Draw
Gould
K. KR
Josie Mangfield
Alien
Edward S&s. Stokes
Poe
Outfit
Lars Free
Union Publishing CQ
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
Dnsexehdon
Hpg
Emma Edmonds
Crown
Philadelphia Publishing Company
Sansom Street
H.W. Collender
Phelan & Collender
Broadway
John Q. Kellogg
Platt St
U. S
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
P.O
Jesus
Far West
Buffalo Land
W.E. Webb
Plains
E. Hannaford& CO
Cincinnati Ohio
Scientific American
Munn & CO
Park Row
Branehouse
Corner F
7Th Sts
Washington, Oy
Brest
London
T . Ft
Kellogg
SK Vintt Street
Howard
Pulladedy
Hovard
Guana
Monsaville,Hapgle & Phoenix
Cottory’ Mills
J. D. Mathewson
General Commission Merchant
Augusta, GA
National Park Bank
Mason& Hamlin Organ Co
Day
Elegart
Mason
Mason & Hamlin Organ CO
Tremont St
Hoston
N. Y
General Agency For the Northwest
Root & Cady
Union Pacific Railroad
America
Nebraska
Great Platte Valley
United States
BEN Land Commissioner
U.P. Bi BR. Co
Omaha, Neb
J. W. Chapman & CO
Madison, Ind
National Publishing Co
Ill
St. Louis
Aed
M.wicknell, Architectural Book Publishers
Warren St
Stump
T. G. Vormans
Walworth
Wayne Co
G. Stinson & Co
Kinerd Publishers
Portland
Maine
Canadas
Ferguson & CO
Roy, N
Fred
Mcombe
Berrien Springs
Mich
Siu
Debing
All Drug
Sireularn
Fy King & cd
Dr. Bonaparte
Rae
Va Ale
Hay Ai Mn
Jai & Erie
Rhewmatiam
N Gia
Dr. Fitler
Ann
Jon. P. Fitler
University of
Perania
Chemis
Fitler
Rey Oing
Philadelpne
South Street
Fitlersr
Emmert & Burrell, Sole
Agi
Buckingham
Ry Px Hall & Nashua
Ori
Ecomb & CO
Batchalor
Immediy Aly
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