God Knows Title on a Drowned Child’s Tomb and Echoes of Loss
A sobering tale follows an emigrant shipwreck off the Kent coast where two hundred twenty perished and a lone child survived to drift ashore. A speaker asks for a name, and the reply is God knows, a phrase later carved on the child’s headstone. The verse recounts the sea’s fury, a girl found in a nightgown, and villagers placing a white cross. The piece closes with a striking vignette of a personal interview about love and hardship amid stories of loss and longing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reat
Impecunious Edward Ferguson Seeks Maria Mumm
Edward Ferguson, a poor but ambitious suitor, woos Maria Mumm of South Side society. He plans to marry, meet Maria’s father, and present a hopeful future while navigating financial strains and social expectations. The scene shifts to a broader call for honest governance as public officials face scrutiny.
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Edward Ferguson
Michigan Avenue
South Side
Maria Mumm
Edward
Maria
State Street
Mum
A Simple Cord Makes Wild Horse Obedient in Mexico
An article describes a vicious horse subdued by tying a narrow cord like a bit across the mouth and securing the left ear, enabling handlers to lift his feet and shoe him. It notes the method is said to be practiced in Mexico and South America for managing wild horses and praises the improvised restraint.
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Mexico
South America
Cough Echoes Through Church In Sympathetic Outbreak
A fragmented account describes a cough spreading through a church from the rear to the front, touching ushers and the choir, producing a ripple of reactions among congregants as the illness spreads unnoticed.
Mountain Elkins The Artist Of Chicago Rises In Art
Henry Arthur Elkins born May 80 1847 in Vershire Vermont grew to be a renowned landscape painter known as Mountain Elkins. He moved to Chicago as a child, favored mountain scenery, studied Rocky Mountain subjects in Colorado, and gained fame with works like Morning in the Valley Mount Shasta Crown of the Continent and A Glimpse of Gloom.
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Chicago
Mountain Elkins
Henry Arthur Elkins
Vershire
Orange County
Turner
Elkins
Green
Vermont
Union
Mr. Ord
Rocky Mountains
Colorado
Schuyler Colfax
Rankin
White Mountains
California
British America
Europe
Mount Shasta
Continent
Male and Female Love of Adornment in Society
The essay notes Darwin and others claim men are more conceited and gaudier in dress than women among less developed animals, then argues 19th century civilization has shifted this. It describes men's desire to imitate women in colors and fabrics, mentions lace, Venice paint, and La Fontaine, and concludes industry and pollution push men toward frieze over gold cloth.
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Mr. Darwin
Oliver Goldsmith
la Fontaine
Venice
London
Expensive Politeness and the Sofa Ball Rescue
A humorous piece on a man kneeling under a sofa to retrieve a dropped ball of zephyr. He endures a red face, torn clothing, and an awkward exit as onlookers titter. The scene contrasts the refined ladies’ man with the comic, ungainly moment of wardrobe mishap.
Teach Your Boys With Honest Work And Respect
A father urges teaching boys to value calico over velvet, a solid common education, mastering a trades, honesty, respect for elders and the weak, moderation in smoking, humble dress, and moral restraint. He stresses God’s impartiality and the path of integrity over present wealth through vice, guiding them to the way they should go.
War of notes ends in sea coast shop war
In a south coast resort a pair of rival stationers fought a price war over shilling packets of note paper. Underselling escalated from 11d to 1d then back to 1s as a massive placard exchange ridiculed each shop. The stunt fizzled when both returned to 1s.
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England
Wax Tree Candle Wax in Japan Reveals Local Resource
The article explains a wax yielding tree in Japan, resembling a sumac, common in western provinces. It grows to about 25 feet, blossoms in June, and yields berries by year three or four. seeds contain wax, with annual wax output near half of fifty pounds of seeds per tree. Waxing methods include pressing and boiling. Bleaching in sun and air yields pure white wax for candles.
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Japan
Origins of Genius Hidden in Family Trades
A historical list traces famous figures and their fathers trades from bakers to tailors, weavers, innkeepers, and grocers. It links writers, philosophers, scientists, and artists like Shakespeare, Franklin, Cromwell, and Halley to humble parental occupations across Europe and Britain.
The Dyspeptic Diners at the Figuns Table
A Lawrence dining scene from the Adrian Times describes a man with chronic dyspepsia ordering a long meal at a local restaurant. He repeats that he cannot eat everything yet samples oyster soup, fish, roast turkey, beef, chicken pot pie, ham, macaroni, chicken livers, vegetables, veal, onions, bread, celery, mince pie, plum pudding, and ice cream before requesting milk and bread to finish. The episode ends with the landlord hoping the man will return only when well.
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Hare
Lawrence Figuns
Saya
Adrian Times
The Gift of Song and a World of Psalms and Sailors
A touching tale from The Child's World recalls a girl sent from Spain to England during religious persecution. Her ship sinks on a stormy coast but saves her through heroic efforts, leading to a joyful reunion as her parents arrive. A Scottish youth’s psalm singing aids a release after years in captivity, a tale of faith guiding peril to hope.
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Spain
England
Kirk
Zion
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Moliero
Cervantes
Tromer
Nfesiod
Demothenes
Terence
Oliver Cromwell
Troward
Hogarth
Dean Tucker
Oxford
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Exeter College
Edmund Halley
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ATNCN
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Virgin Islands
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Atlantic
Rhine
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Coe
Ioc
Toile
GIL
Main Street
ST. Louis
DR. P
Steele & Price
Jamaica
E. Mantrs
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