Looking Ahead from Monotony to Fulfillment in Work
A mother reflects on her dull home duties versus bird and flower study, stressing long term rewards. She urges dissatisfied workers to envision future benefits, seek promotion, save, and choose work that yields lasting happiness. The idea of divine discontent motivates seeking better paths.
Hot Weather Comfort for the Woman of Limited Means
A guide urges women with tight budgets to adapt homes for summer relief. It suggests inexpensive steps like staining floors, removing excess ornaments, using white curtains, window boxes, and minimal coverings. The piece argues such improvements improve rest, health, and efficiency during hot weather.
Girls and Their Careers in Search of Happiness
An editorial warns young women against chasing city success without self reflection. It argues that home and love often offer real happiness, while distant ambitions may lead to loneliness and regret. It urges measured planning and sober judgment before leaving home.
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New York
Is discontent with occupation a common plight
The piece argues many workers feel dissatisfaction with their jobs due to overwork monotony or lack of variety. It counsels evaluating one’s fit, seeking meaningful tasks, and considering a change to align work with temperament and abilities.
Student chooses steady path to steady work
The speaker notes that starting at the bottom of a career ladder is acceptable if it leads to the right long term fit. He will enjoy the effort and pursue careful study to ensure a correct choice, then show no further discontent with the occupation.
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Existenica
The Woman Who Lives Superficially
An essay on fashionable conformity, arguing women should think for themselves rather than imitate trends. It urges individuality in dress, entertaining, travel, and daily choices, warning that surface living dulls life and hampers true happiness.
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Bridge
Thera
Maine
Lin
First Messenger Boy Exchange Sparks Inquiry
A brief dog-zag dialogue between two messenger boys hints at a man of fine presence, with one noting the figure never gave them anything, prompting curiosity about his identity.
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First Messenger Boy
the Boas
Second Messenger Boy
Dancing Girl Epitaph by Nora Hopper
The verse laments a dancer’s end with farewell lines in a tombside tone. It references Sayonara and Bayonara motifs, notes of gold and lilies, and a final rest. The speaker Nora Hopper signs the epitaph, marking a life of dance ended.
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Death's Gate
The Lie and the Result From the Boston Traveler
A West Somerville man named Smith argues about fashion costs and generosity to his wife. A neighbor’s remark about spring purchases sparks a quarrel when the wife learns of the spending. Smith and his neighbor stop speaking after the tense exchange.
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Boston
West Somerville
Smith
Bor
Monuments Honor Indian Chieftains Across the States
Federal and local efforts mark monuments to Uncas Miantonomoh Tendoy Sakajawea and many other Indian chiefs with statues in Cooperstown Boston Baraboo Portland Washakie Keokuk and Chicago burial sites and council rocks detailing colonial era history and the Pickering council.
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Wm. B. Curtis
Chicago
Fenimore Cooper
Cooperstown
N. Y
Norwich
Conn
Miantonomoh
Minnesota
Yellow Thunder
Baraboo
Wis
Court Horse Yard
Canandaigua
Six Nations
Timothy Pickering
United States
Catherine Te-Kak-wi-tha
Aublesville
Montgomery County
New York
Sakajawea
Lewis and Clark
City Park
Portland
Ore
Washakie
Wyo
Bismarck
N. C
Peru
Ind
Pa-lonz-wa
Francis Godrey
Twin Lake Station
Vandalia
Marshall County
Indiana
Menominee
Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Tedyusking
Blue Hill
Sunbury
Shickalimy
Colonial Dames of America
Savannah
Tomochichi
Georgia
Morris
Shabbona
Pontiac
Congressional
Washington
Pushmataha
Mississippi
Jackson
Logan
Fairlbal
Auburn
Washackle
Fort Washakle
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White Cloud
Mahaska
Oskaloosa
Wapello
Bacs
Foxes
Agency City
Keokuk
Capitol
Paducah
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Daughters of the American Revolution
St. Louis
Eighteenth Street
Helm
Black Partridge
Fort Dearborn
Lincoln Park
Martin Ryerson
Forest Lawn
Buffalo
Red Jacket
Buffalo Historical Society
Joseph Brant
Brantford
Ont
Osceola
Charleston
Pennsylvania
Cornstalk
Court House Yard
Point Pleasant
Kanawha River
West Virginia
Crispus Attucks
Boston Common
Leatherlips
Tecumseh
Scioto River
Columbus
Ohio
Wyandot Club
Waban
New Ora
Monuments mark historic spots and Tendoy tribute
The piece notes General John Sulivan and the Continental Army near this spot in September 1779 and records two monuments funded by Dr. B R Burrel. It describes Tendoy the Lemhi Valley leader, his cooperation with settlers, protection of whites during the Nez Perce era, and burial ground plans. It ends with a poem excerpt from Morning of Life by Tom Moore.
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John Sulivan
Power of Music Report From Hartford Times
A manufacturer who made his fortune with his coat off was coaxed by his daughter to attend a Wagner concert. The next day he recalled the night, saying it reminded him of youth, but his friend teased him about a country scene until the man added his memories were of working in a boiler shop.
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Hartford Times
The Sting of Death in The London Spectator
The piece discusses death as experienced in water incidents and anesthesia, noting contradictions in death’s nature. It frames death as both gentle and grisly, beautiful and terrible, with those near unconsciousness interpreting death in varied, ambiguous terms.
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London Spectator
Things to Forget Poem Fragment
Fragmentary poem compares memory to a skeleton kept hidden in a dark place. It warns that revealing painful tales would crown the head with anguish and urges forgetting as a plan to avoid sorrow. The piece evokes fear and pride, urging concealment of past hurts.
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Woloset
Famous Fakes and Newspaper Hoaxes Across History
The piece surveys fake stories used for promotion in theater and literature, citing staged quarrels among actors, a German novel boom via personal letters, the Waterloo Bridge Mystery of 1857, libel cases from false arrest reports, and Lord Brougham's 1839 hoax. It notes editors’ reactions and the risks of deceit.
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America
Germany
Berlin
Waterloo Bridge
Penny-Almer
Lord Brougham
London
Brougham Hall
Brougham
Journallsts
Farmer love of work and a Sunday sermon tale
The United States secretary of agriculture says the successful farmer loves every detail of farming. A comic tale follows Squire Plowhinds who, while not a good theologian, is a grand farmer. He asks his tenant Hodge about a sermon on Joseph going to Egypt to buy corn and the sermon’s view on corn value.
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Louis Globe-Democrat
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington
Squire
Hodge
Joseph
Egypt
Gambler Kluge and His Superstitions Revealed
The London Telegraph reports on a gambler named Kluge who displays extreme superstition. He claims luck favors his play and refuses to spend money he has won, once even traveling from Paris to Berlin without eating to avoid touching £1000 won during a baccarat spell.
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Ferlin
London Telegraph
Kluge
Paris
Berlin
In Doubt
In a Washington Evening Star exchange a statesman weighs mending political fences versus jumping the fence. The piece suggests vacations arose from fatigue and the desire to pay for the privilege of doing something.
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Washington Evening Star
Statesman
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