Fortune is Made Sparks a Cora and Edward Apart
A serialized tale from LED From the Ladies National Magazine follows Cora Lee and Edward Douglass after marriage. She neglects home dress while he clings to neatness and pride, prompting conflict over appearances and shared duties. A social gathering endures a blunt marital lesson.
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Cora Lee
Cora
Edward Douglass
Douglass
Gay
Edward
Thas
Sho
Mr. Douglass
Sam
Edward Himelf
Miswken
The Gift of Good Temper and a Sheep Sealer’s Fall
A moral tale on good temper as a priceless gift, contrasted with a sheep sealer who hides past crime. A youth’s reform leads to public service, only to be ruined by accusatory politics, driving him from life and society. The account, from the Bos ton Journal, warns of harsh consequences for a single past deed.
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Mra. Rogers
John
Tate
Adam
Townships
Legislative Hall
Boston Journal
Innocent Man Falsely Charged Then Cleared of Grindstone Theft
A young man in western New York was fined for a theft he did not commit and later proved innocent when a companion confessed. The accuser died, but the false record later surfaced during a debt oath, triggering a push to restore civil rights after decades of exemplary conduct. The incident sparked outrage over cruel reputational harm and the justice system's potential for malice.
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Court of Common Pleas
Congregational
Justice of the Peace
Salem Register
New England
Connecticut
Courtesy in the Street and Honest Politeness
In crowded cities and small towns courtesy in encounters fosters recognition and safety, with even a country boy’s bow earning esteem. A Navy captain once reciprocated a shabby beggar’s bow, proving kindness transcends status and may reveal a better character in hardship.
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Drus
Navy
The Am elia Fishery and John Quincy Adams Reflections
Ice bound amelt fishery stories unfold from Boston and Dorchester wharves as 200 fishermen work the fall season near the Milldam and Fall Basin. A Carolina planter lauds John Quincy Adams for living his professed principles, practicing duty, piety, and republican virtue in Congress church and daily life.
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Carolina
John Quincy Adams
South
Mr. Adame
Adams
Washington
Quincy
Adatbe Keopa
Ebow
Smelts and Fin Bait Economics in Boston Market
The Boston Transcript notes that thousands of small speckled frogs are gathered each fall for smelt bait, commanding high prices when scarce. Amateurs pay up to twenty five cents per frog. wholesale belies 4 to 120 cents per dozen, with a skilled smelter catching up to 150 dozen daily. The city’s annual smelt value tops ten thousand dollars, while the fish resemble the Cape lion and other bait species in Newfoundland cod fisheries.
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Newfoundland
New Jersey
Cape Cod
New York
Our
Boston
Commercial Point
Dorchester
Middlesex Canal
Charles River
Milldam
Pebreary
Boston and
Roxbury
Abua
Mother Carey
Boston Transcript
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Cambridge Chronicle
John Ford
Main
Magazine Streets
Joseph A. Holmes & Co
Cambridgeport
Geonoe Burr
East Oa Nbridge
Ward 1
T. J. White Shoe Store
Harvard Row
Ladies
National Magazine
Mary Alexina Smith
Chettfare
U. S. Gazette
Earth
Taro
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