Angelic Visitor Inspires Lisette Bernard Piano Feats
A Indianapolis paper recounts Lisette Bernard, a French orphan in New York’s Children’s Aid Society, performing flawless Handel and Bach piano pieces at a Midwest family home. The child’s ethereal talent astonishes the hosts, who fear telling her mother and watch as Lisette’s nightly concerts continue, hinting at a latent professional gift.
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Indianapolis
Lisette Bernard
Ateloa
New York
Children’s Aid Society
Fnedgen
Washington Street
Lisette
Orhpan
Randall's Island
Absorpion
Handel
Chicago
Bat
Lasette
Mr J
Lisettes
Lisetta
Luszt
Cate
Fragmented Wit and Worn Words From a Distant Page
A jumble of quotations and aphorisms appears to chain together literary snippets and social musings. The text blends reflections on learning, life, death, and society with odd spellings and garbled phrases. It includes mismatched quotes and a Connecticut sign joke, plus lines on silence, speech, and grief.
How to live cheaply in hard times
The Golden Age argues mid class households can reduce costs by rejecting showy luxury and embracing simple, prudent living. Focus on contentment, thrift, and dignity, and teach families to value health and love over display. Those who start modestly build steadiness and happiness.
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Casey
Woman's Determination In Coal Business Shocks Conservative Judge
A determined woman runs a coal agency for a large firm, solicits orders from merchants and households, and supports infirm parents and a child. An old gentleman protests women in business but finally concedes and buys a year's coal. Also included are humorous anecdotes about married life and parson mishaps.
Reflections on Character and Time from a Bantering Muse
A fragment of advice and anecdotes on living honestly, patience, and self‑possession. It ponders dignity, secrecy, and virtue, compares wealth devotion and worth, and ends with a funeral clock tale and a note on forgiveness and love.
Beech er on Grammar War and Town Gossip
Lesson recounts Henry Ward Beecher as a precocious boy in a school exercise with his sister or mother testing grammar rules. It moves to a tale of a mayor in Colchester teased by a clerk, a mock recipe for tattlers, and light social anecdotes about religion politics and manners in a late 19th century tone.
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Simmons’ Liver Regulator
Hi. Pemlin & CO
Macon
Philadelphia
Mai Post
Raculel
Massillon
Strong
Henry
Byron
James the Second
Colchester
Hs Majesty
Cleri
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