The Honest Man Who Pays
A fragment reflecting on the virtuous old fashioned man who keeps promises and pays debts. The speaker praises a steadfast, trustworthy figure who honors bonds and upholds traditional morals even in hard times.
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Newspaper
Henry Republican
Location
Henry, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1874
Page
3
A Churning Song
A playful verse by Silas Divewore shows Apron on and dash in hand as a churner protests the tiring work. The speaker notes butter forming and the churn rings sounding, acknowledging fatigue yet celebrating the butter’s arrival and the music of the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas
What a Woman Did for Me
A man recalls a transformative woman who guided him from a rough youth in New York to a disciplined, hopeful adult. She mentored him, secured work, and shaped his morals, dying shortly after revealing her illness, leaving him to face the world and the phrase that “there’s a woman at the bottom of it.”
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John Haviland
John
New York
Birs Haviland
Grant
Louisiana
Kellogg
Judicial Tribunals
Texas
Davis
Congress
Carpenter
General Grant
Chicago
Ryder
Sullivan
Trinity Episcopal Church
Belin
Wabash Avenue
Tam
Bullivan
Episcopal Convention
Illinois
Dr. Sullivan
Dr. Ryder
Chicago Journal
A Boston Girl’s Vengeance and Family Struggles
A Boston engagement ends after a father’s death leaves a young woman supporting a mother and several children. Her former fiancé manipulates her brother into crime, placing him in juvenile reform, while she bears the burden alone. The Globe notes similar social issues and advances to other topics.
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The
Boston Globe
The Secessionville appointment hoax and public dinner row
A Charleston area tale recounts a railroad station appointment hoax in Secessionville. Bascom and the Deekin paid a debt to free Nasny, who faced arrest and public exposure by Pollock and Joe Bigler. Nasny laments politics and vows to stay to repay debts while awaiting better times.
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Bigler
Kentucky
Secessionville
Deekin Pogram
Bascom
Yssaker Gavitt
Deekin
Wunst
Bas. Com
Captain McPelter
Remo Deekin
Troo
Deckin
Petikelerry
Emil
Posighens Uv Trust
Pollack
Joe Bigler
Pollock
Elec
Odd anecdotes and village vignettes from Danbury News
A Danbury News round of humorous snippets from New York and nearby towns. Tales include a barber with a joke about putty and a groom, a whooping cough mule on Colonel Selden’s Miry Brook place, a money-changing crossing sweeper, molasses candy pull antics, and a Flushing marshal’s glove sting ending with a family reveal.
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de Quincey
Wicks
Bertone
Rome
Marshal
Flushing
L. I
New York
Danbury News
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Rob
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Boston
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Delmar
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Ea Pat Ao
Esaker
Prrroitrox V. Nasny
Tuunville
Charles
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