Marriage expectations and social duties in a private life
A discussion on the ideal of marriage highlights openness, courtesy, and forgiveness as essential to happiness. It warns that hidden vanity and lack of small courtesies can erode affection, urging couples to share concerns, listen, and avoid wounding each other with harsh judgment. It also references a mining venture tale about misled investment and its fallout.
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Lam Pat
Aithar Pushin
Fife
Qld
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Conraa
Tver
Vreata
Naying Courteone
Ua Cao
Travel for Consumption and Outdoor Life in Bowditch Study
Henry L Bowditch analyzed a family history of consumption noting that a 1608 journey by open horse and 7483 miles through New England revived his health. He credited daily outdoor exercise as crucial, leading to sustained vitality in his descendants who took long morning walks, country life, and camping as lifelong habits.
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Henry L. Bowditch
New Rogisnd
Wditch
Ache
Epchiare
Phihisis
Bowditch
School Days of Long Ago in Mohawk Valley
Gen F B Spinner of Treasury fame recalls his Mohawk Valley schooldays in College and School. He describes rudimentary discipline, worn boots, blunt discipline, and early teaching by induction. He notes salaries eight dollars a month, board, and the old primers Webster spelling book and Murray grammar.
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F. B
Treasury
Mohawk Valley
Spinner
Ho Wae
Nes
Rule
Handy
Zor
Solomon
Mohaws
Redway
Waa
Thors Dayn
Webster
Cabol
Findley Murray
Nicodemus
Wild pet turns savage and kills owner’s hand
A sign hunter named Conrad kept a tame baby wombat cub from Africa. The once-sick cub grew, then attacked his hand in sleep, biting through skin and drawing blood. He shot the beast to save himself as it turned deadly during a moment of sudden transformation.
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Conrad
Africa
Bella
Tramp Tales and Oddities From a Local Page
A fragmented clipping traces quirky lines about a “tramp” and Uncle Bill, mentions Jack Dolliver and a humorous exchange about a tramped mil, then shifts to brief notes of a garden bed, two trams, and a Marne woman revealing a fall remedy with ammonia.
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Jack Dolliver
Bill
Bil
Ag Tt
Gray & Lo
Influence of literature on women and moral impression
A passage from Ladies' Home Journal argues that a single immoral book can permanently shape a woman's mind more than a lifetime of virtuous influence. The author recalls a reader who, despite fifty years of association with refined thought, cannot forget a novel read in girlhood. The piece asserts that art and words imprint vice more enduringly than images or sermons.
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Ain
Saturn
Ladies’ Home Journal
Golden Mean Blood Purifier Promises Purity and Quick Results
Detroit Free Press reports Hibbard's Adbeumadlo Syrup by Charles Wright Medicine Co of Bigelty claims to strike the Golden Mean in treating blood diseases. The ad touts purity, home use, and speedy removal of impurities, urging all families to buy through druggists.
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Hood Purifier
Detroit Frea Press
Hibbard
Charles Wright Medicine Company
Bigelty
They Wanted Vlotets at the Waban Avenue Shop
A Chicago Tribune vignette shows a girl and her brother choosing flowers from a shop window in a Waban Avenue setting. The girl selects white flowers while the boy prefers red blossoms and they question the blue Shuwmsera. A policeman identifies the blue flowers as violets, and the kids explain their mother’s death as their motive.
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Waban Avenue
Alub
Rosen
P Prairie
Vilite
Jimmy
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Chicag Tribune
Hosteller's Bromeach Bitars Promises Urinary Benefit
An 19th century style medical advertisement touts Hosteller's Bromeach Bitars as a remedy for kidney and urinary issues. It links prevention of severe organ decay to regular urination, claims improvements to liver stomach and bowels, and asserts reductions in gout dropsy and other malaises through diuretic action.
He Was a Good Boy
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a boy on Charlott y Avenue attempting to climb a shade ties to reach a robin’s nest. When asked by a pedestrian why, he says the nest would save the robin time and trouble, revealing a child’s well intentioned mischief.
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Charlotty Avenue
Iea
Detroit
Confidence Beget of Success
Confidence Beget of Success extols Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for chronic catarrh bronchial and throat issues and consumption claiming cures in trials. It promises refunds if not benefiting and urges use of Dr. Pierce's Pellets for consumption or sick headache as a fully vegetab le remedy.
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Pierce
Lee Otits
Bank Robber Fumbles Bank Policy in Philadelphia Heist
A tall man entered a bank in Philadelphia to collect cash from Amidll shack knowledge. He attempted to bluff the teller who insisted on standard identification as required by bank rules. After being unable to prove identity, he left in a huff, returning days later for a meal but still unable to login as a customer.
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Philadelphia
Big
New York
Grand Opening Planned for Colfax Motel Resort
Colfax Springs resort motel on the site of the Old M. mineral spring announces a grand opening for the 1890 season on Saturday June 7. Suited by Frank Stewart renowned for dining car service, the hotel aims at first class operation with attentive service and high comfort. Early securing of accommodations is advised before summer rush.
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Collas
Colfax Springs
Minera S Pring
Frank Stewart
Oateieo
Koon Tetanoc& Paczere Br
Girls Would Surpass Boys If Shared College Study
Professor Taylor of Vysaar College argues that coeducation with equal opportunities would let girls compete with and surpass boys. He cites superior application, noting girls would study in the evenings while boys frolic, reflecting a belief in women’s intellectual potential.
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Sro
Taylor
Vysaar College
Atudeath
Hibbard's Rheunadé and Liver Pilly Advertisement
An assortment of patent remedies and cures dominates the page, touting Hibbard's Rheunadé and Liver Pilly for all ages, claims of universal safety, and assurances of no equal for headaches, constipation, and dyspepsia. The piece references Sir Walter Scott memorabilia, book listings, and a peculiar fly sample, with various sellers and postal offers interwoven.
Marriage or single life for a daughter debated by Oliva Thorne Miller
Oliva Thorne Miller argues the daughter faces loss of personal choice in marriage and the complexities of surrounding relatives. She praises single life’s independence but notes social conditioning and home dependence. The London literary figure Arthur B. Krðpurng is cited for his poem They're Hanging Danny Deever in the Morning, noted for its stark realism.
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Saya Oliva Thorne Miller
Aruvrarp Krpurng
London
Danny Deever
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