The Blue Door and the Pastor’s Painted Woes
Rev Milo Milner returns to Simpson Terrace to find the blue door now green after Mrs Chipley and her daughters repaint for hospitality. A comic mix up leads Milner to eat lunch at the Dean home and later propose to Mrs Chipley, asking to restore the blue door as a wedding gesture.
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Milo Milner
Yaas
Deacon Philpott
Squire Simpeon
John Vassar
Lois
Micken
Belt
Mr. Milner
Arethusa
Florida
Simpson Terrace
Equire
Maud
Marian
Martin
Dixeye
Mamma
Macd
Joe Dean
Joe Tom
City Comppaey
Moerias
Yarg
Mrs. Chipley
Joe
Francesca Dean
Dean
Chipley
Ress
Mila
Sam
Plumb
Miss Maud
Pastor Milner
Francesca
Opium Addiction Blights Juzerat Villages
In many Juzerat villages Hin doos display the dull, sleepy gaze of opium eaters. A crude preparation uses opium on cotton, water, and a dirty hand to deliver a brown liquid. Opium addicts are unfit for work, with neglected fields and little appetite, while opium smugglers drive much province outlawry.
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Juzerat
Lindua Globe
General Harrison an Expert Carver in a Quiet Dinner
A Washington Star tale portrays President-elect Harrison as a capable carver who hosted guests at a modest boarding-house era dinner. Quail were plentiful for others, while his family largely dined on toast, a humorous detail noted by the hostess.
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Harrison
Senator Jones
Senator Harrison
Washington Star
A Workingman’s Tribute to Newspapers
A Albany Journal quotation from a workingman argues no one is too poor to read a paper. He credits subscribing with saving money, improving home life, and fostering instruction, noting sacrifices like quitting tobacco to cover the cost. The piece defends newspapers as a cheap, essential family investment.
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Albany
Journal
Rarest Black Fox Skin Fetches High Prices at Hudson's Bay Auction
The Youth's Companion reports that black fox fur, especially the pelage with a heavy cape-like fur around shoulders, commands 200 to 300 dollars at Hudson's Bay annual London sale and up to 500 dollars privately. It notes extreme rarity, with only a few specimens seen in North America and Siberia over decades.
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Hudson's Bay Company
London
North America
Asia
Siberia
York Factory
Hudson's Bay
I Have Seen A Mother's Shame And Redemption
An old religious piece recounts a mother's sorrow as her son sinks into drunken ruin, followed by tales of alcohol as medicine and personal reform. It includes a Jersey City anecdote, notes on Paris green poison, and temperance reflections from Barnum and others.
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Maine
Wisconsin
Missouri
Kentucky
Louisiana
California
Christian Homes the Hope of the World
A devotional essay extols Christian homes as centers of life and progress urging that good homes nurture mind and conscience, align with Providence, and sustain mission work. It argues God guides life paths, shapes outcomes, and that providence explains varied fortunes from humble orphans to prospering individuals.
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God
Moleero
Israel
Fragmented pleas and notices from a bygone issue
A jumble of excerpts notes a UK alkohol trend with rising cocos revenue, poetic quotes on sorrow, a wool shortage warning, and early 20th century medical ads claiming cures for epilepsy catarrh and other ailments with mailed samples and free recipes from named doctors and locations.
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Maan
India
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Helo James Gorman
Mary Gorman
Paris Green
Annie McMasters
Montreal
Dominion
Martha Washington
Chicago
Bridewell
House of the Good Shepherd
8. Joseph's Asylum
Kersten
Charles E. Johnson
New York
Kansas City
Semebody
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Pouth
Jexperance
Eros
Arisa
Gian
Magus
Steen
Sea
Mountai
Bonar
Peter
Johnson
T. Hodgkin
D.C. L. Paith
Southampton
Pal
Edinby Bere
Gladstone
United Kingdom
Jesus
Scott
Pam
Alabama
G. Root
M. C
Pearl Sn
Achan
J. A. Lawrence
Warren &J
Teaac Thompson
Sica
Re. Ereafin Ee A. Semple
Charles A. Vogekr Co
Battimore, Md
Ely
Henry C. New York
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Swift
Will
Oan
Speer
Texas
Fort Worth & Couver Iy
Lowell
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Woman's Direxsaxs Medical Associacmes
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Abe
Pia
Ottelne Co
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Asa
Dad
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