Martyrs of the needle and the wage fight for women
An impassioned sermon and rally cry decry the exploitation of sewing girls and housewives, arguing for women's economic rights, fair wages, and equal opportunities. It cites workers in New York and Brooklyn, oppressive employers, and calls for social reform and justice.
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Department of Merchandise
Miss Hosmer
Getius
Rosa Bonhest
Miss Mitchell
Odie
Lucretia Mott
Washington
New York
Brooklyn
Man Asked To Learn Piano On Scaffold
In a grim exchange from Texas Siftings, a condemned man asks the priest to fulfill his last wish. He requests instruction in piano playing as the gallows loomed, and the priest offers to try to grant the unusual final request.
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Texas
The Wit and Humor Satirical Poem of the Week
A humorous weekly piece presents a collage of witty lines about family and social behavior. It features a father commenting on a son’s behavior, a mother reacting to a confectionery habit, and a colored grocer’s remark about a fashionable son. The cartoon-like vignettes mix humorous dialogue with rural and urban social scenes.
How He Lost Her Tenderly
A man releases his embrace and asks if she swears to truth then denies baseless claims. After he leaves she sits in despair and wonders who might have seen her near the time she struck her Sager.
Love Clara and the Brooding Poet in Cut News Pages
Three pages of dialogue reveal Dora and Clara discussing a man who wrote poetry for three months after they met. He has since stopped writing and giving presents, and Dora suspects he is now collecting cooking receipts. The household pages of their newspapers have been clipped severely, amplifying the sense of a fanatical, earnest suitor.
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Clara
Dora
Latter-Day Etiquette and Hospitalities From 19th Century Notes
A compact, period tone fragment lists etiquette for visitors, noting names, voices, and health cues. It references Mrs De Science-Hereafter advising hosts to greet with caution, while anecdotes touch on a Kentucky factory dream, cork screws, and social talk among farmers, a wife’s education, and a Ladies’ Literary club meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Science
Remedies and jests from a damaged health column
The excerpt presents medical quackery and humorous dialogue. It attacks laxatives and praises Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a safe remedy. Ads and pseudo medical claims mix with jokes about debts, widows, and social quirks, reflecting a chaotic late era newspaper fragment.
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Mixckie
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Madame de Stael
Ori
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Gma
Sen Yor
Lati
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