The Country Lady and the Hidden Elopement Tale
A reflective narrative follows a curious observer who watches a stately society window tale unfold. A graceful stranger courts a wealthy woman, an elopement is thwarted by arousing family, and a dramatic reveal ends in a surprising marriage to the housekeeper respectably reclaiming fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sarrate
Board of Misses
Nee
St. John’s Church
Canal Street
Jane
Thad
Mywife
Havre
The Rural Household as Model of Industry and Frugality
The narrator portrays a farming family rising at dawn to labor in fields, weaving, and dairy work. Children contribute at appropriate ages, daughters assist daily tasks, and elders are honored. Self-sufficiency, shared labor, and prudent spending bind the household in harmony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Sigour- Ness
Dioclesian
Cultivate Toads for Garden Help Says Maine Farmer
The Maine Farmer urges readers to foster toads in gardens and cornfields. The writer argues toads are useful and harmless, recommending shelters and relocation of large numbers from potato holes to protect crops and aid natural pest control.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davy Jones
Uncle Sam
Sam
A Curious Anecdote Chorus from an Old Almanac
A ragged narrative recounts a schoolyard kiss averting a fight between siblings and a long mock memoir of Lady Susan with a Major Ogilvie. The piece then shifts to a jocular tale of a parish carpenter famed for ingenuity, ending with a sly parson joke about a devil and a blade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Gazette
Ileve
Major Ogilvie
Heigho
Parinelli
Gluck
Major
Susan
Franchette
Quote from Youth's Cabinet on ending war and violence
The passage urges all people to adopt a principle of nonviolence to end suffering. It envisions a world where nations do not wage war and families and communities live without further blows.
Silk Bounty Act Passes Ohio General Assembly 1839
The Ohio General Assembly enacts a silk culture bounty offering ten cents per pound of cocoons raised by individuals not in corporations. Affidavits sworn before a justice certify the quantity, with county auditors issuing payment orders and the state reimbursing funds. Three year term and future amendments allowed. Also notes a stage conversion tale and a Quaker sermon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. Bell
General Assembly
State of
Ohio
Wilder
James J. Faran
House of Representatives
William Hawkins
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Emente
Dhood
Gabove
Maine
Toads
Mr. Holmes
Society of Toads
Boston
Louisville
Charles J. Parson
Mr Parsons
Mc Malli
Shakspeare
Charley
Chicago Democrat
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