My Little Boy and a Civil War of Emotions
A long readerly piece blends a sentimental tale of a mother and her silent son with a life’s arc of love, loss, and faith. It follows a mother’s devotion as her blue eyed child fades, the father’s quiet sorrow, and the eventual acceptance that the child’s legacy lies in memory and heaven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake
Ife
Anofis
Lis
Arthur
Ting
Lesea
Imine
Grace
Leck
Darling
Mother Tevull
Ernest
Gowen
Cnesvios Oyroe
Tomas Rier
Dilitchcock
Albany
Dr.Tr
Wan
Solawas
Ivan
Mrs. S
Sydney Sarith
Portrait of Our Family from a Vermont Family Sketch
A humorous piece from the Manchester Mirror riffs on a large Vermont family. Ten sons and two daughters recount varied lives from clergy to trades, governors to shipboard chaplains, with emphasis on frugality, temperance, and honesty. The narrator, a former doctor, tells of fortune and misfortune, ending with reverence for a venerable father at ninety two and a moral: wealth gifted is not a blessing. Perplexities of a Non-Voter follows, a humorous tale of political apathy and civic life in verse prose.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jasson
Hin
Tsang Hin
Arthur
Lay
Manchester
N. H
G. Q. Colston
Num ‘Bers
Vermont
Blackstone
United States Navy
California
Cartier
Jedge
Syracuse
Hook
Jerook
Watts
Ted
Jackson
Trave
Buchanan
Fremont
Dyutt
Ian
Kansas
Missouri
Lever
John Jones
Ilaz
Pennsylvania
Sivin
New York
Australia
Smuggin's
Smuggins
Cambridge
Preston S. Brooks
Fox
Hold on to the Union a warning from the old man
A dated political sermon urges unwavering support for the Union, warning that its loss would bring anarchy and despotism. It recalls Henry Clay’s era and a sympathetic reminiscence of a fellow Whig, with digressions on quotes, anecdotes, and farmer songs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry Clay
Mr. Fillmore
Gen. Cass
Tippecanoe
A comic train encounter and rural jests unfold
A fragment from a Boston Fashion race era edition recalls a humorous Long Island train scene with a nervous Dutch passenger trying to pass bad money, a comic fare dispute, and a startled conductor. It then shifts to a collage of quick jokes about a swaggering dandy, a clever darkey, a shy young couple, and quirky tales of bear hatching and a tiny sewing machine invention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Long Island
Hans
Han
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Jefs & A
Sonian Democrat
GEC. C. Baker
Empire Block
Police Square
Monroe, Green Co
Wis
Wieke
Wall Coutiante
Artmient
Jools Lang
Mary
Manomet
Bob
Tomassa
Cooper
Freddy
Johnny
West
R. C. Gardner
Detroit
Ray
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