Reader Tales and Charity Sparks Across a Plain Locale
A February note shares plain farm life and a charity anecdote about a farmer who received fifty dollars with businesslike gratitude. It contrasts a Buffalo Fourth of July scene where a man gives a half dollar yet rants afterward, then quarters flow as gifts, and ends with a moral reflection on harsh words harming a trusting wife. The piece references the Queen of Madagascar and her successor Horanon, noted for Christian faith.
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Toselis
Sheliene
Buffalo
Mr. B
Black Rock
New York
ford
beng
Madagascar
California
Oregon
theta
Pacific Mail
Navy Department
Astoria
Nesqually
Portland
San Francisco
Willamete Valley
Willamette Valley
Iin ward
Tam
SAM R. PHARSTON
Minsen
Africa
Chicago Tribune
St. Charles
Allen
Story Of John The Uneasy Boy In Mythic Tale
A Newark Daily Advertiser tale recounts John the uneasy son who plays with a copperhead snake on the way to mill, tests his luck against the snake, and wins a dramatic lesson. A moral on dangers of rashness follows, with cautions about vice and crime, and the need for virtue in youth.
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John
Rome
Seville
France
Qurl
Baltairs
Brom the
Newark
Daily Advertiser
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Daily
California
copperhead
dudgeon
comrads
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Rockaway
Nats
Connecticut
Unele Nat
Nathaniel
Nat
Sam
Anickerbocker
Richland county
Calfornia
Mansfield
Richland
Pacific desert
Ohio
Shelby
Sacramento City
Yuba
Willem McNulty
Hedrick
Mansfield adventurers
P. U3
Cornwall
Capt
Sutter
Barton Lee
Sacramauna City
Lee
New York
Oso
Sandusky Mirror
San Trancisco Amusements
San Francisco
Alta California
Minnesota Chronicle
England
Daily News
Despatch
Specter
Gorn
Syracuse
N. Y
Sacramento
wrk
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HURON COUNTY
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Urbana Gazette
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Clackamas
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Willamette
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Mary's river
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Life Tnsurance
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Georgia
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South Carolina
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Sierra Leone
Church Mission Society of London
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Koelle
seth California
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Gov
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Carivonia
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Mexico
Pacific ocean
Pacific
Pacific coast
John Turk
L. McGeee
Sandusky
T. Baker
Monroeville
M. Smith
Milan
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