Brave Pete Gives Up Fishing to Help Others
Pete plans a day of fishing with Jim at Beach Creek but chooses work over play to help a big wood pile. He learns from his mother that hard things can lead to good, and by noon he pursues the wheel chair fund for Ben. After a detour to help an old woman and gather wild flowers, Pete ends with a quarter and ten cents for Ben, while Jim misses out on a fair catch.
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Pete
Beach Creek
Jim
Ben
Groods
Farmer Mills
Beech Creek
Mrs. Brown
Bob Hill
Marlborough
Bletheim
Wellington
Napoleon
von Moltke
Lord Wolseley
Walter Scott
Mr. Gumter
Mark Twain
Bronson Howard
Zola Sardou
Dandet
New York
Grevy
France
Manchester Ship Canal
Cradley Heath
Bromsgrove
England
Olbia steamer joins Franco-Canadian Line
The Olbia, a 2700-ton, 340 foot steamship with quadruple expansion engines and 1800 horsepower, sails from Rouen to La Pallice Rochelle on the new Franco-Canadian service. It will carry up to 36 saloon and 24 second-class passengers with about 500 steerage and aims for a ten day Montreal service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Olbia
France
Fabre Line
Marseilles
Rouille
Henri
Francoe Canadian
Martigny
Quebec
Canada
Rouen
Board of Commerce
Ferliet
St. Pierre and Miquelon
Montreal
la Pallice-Rochelle
la Rochelle
Pallice
America
St. Pierre Miquelon
Halifax
Portland
Boston
Sydney
Atlantic
Pallice-Rochelle
Brest
Bayonne
The Leech Bite and Old Coin Imagery Across Cultures
The passage describes the leech with three semi circular jaws and 80 to 90 teeth each, its biting action, and its selectivity based on intoxication and moisture. It notes a Hildesheim hatchery producing 3.5 million annually and mentions the open hand emblem found on coins across India Phoenicia Mexico and Rome and on skin currency of indigenous peoples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hildeshein
Germany
India
Phoenicia
Mexico
Rome
Household: The Children's Room at Night
A lullaby like vignette describes a mother tucking in children. The speaker asks whose hands and heart care for each sleeping child as the mother’s love fills the room with quiet grace and blessing as good night is whispered.
Women Pursue Intellectual Growth Through English Studies
A mature mother describes how she keeps pace with her children academically by reading Homer and classical translations. She balances mind and body, choosing plain dress and simple living to sustain mental growth and guide her family as they reach adulthood.
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Bohn
Page
Home Education and Honesty in Labor
The text urges tailoring education to each child, teaching truth, honest labor, and a strong work ethic. It advocates early business involvement, a purposeful life, health and morals as capital, and girls receiving arts plus thorough knowledge of housework as a valued accomplishment. It notes historical changes in domestic work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of Labor
Seven Rules Codfish Dishes From Common Place Materials
A historical home recipe piece describes broiled cod with melted butter and water for tenderness and health benefits for invalids plus cod fish balls made from chopped fish and potatoes fried in lard. It advises soaking a tail end in water overnight, drying, broiling slowly, and generous butter. Cod balls mix fish with potatoes, cook into cakes, and fry in hot lard, avoiding butter and milk.
Tips and Receipts from a Past Era
A collection of household hints and recipes including washing black cotton prints with warm water and castile soap, mice control with cheese, jelly from elderberries, spiced cake with aromatic spices, beet salad with hard boiled eggs, ants deterred by tansy or pennyroyal, and angel cake with meringue, vanilla, and pastry flour.
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Angel &Ke
Iron blast furnace from 1400 BC hinted in Palestine dig
At a Palestine Exploration meeting in London Mr Bliss claimed Tel Hesyix mound findings could unlock Genesis sources. He highlighted an iron blast furnace showing a hot air blast descending toward tuyeres, suggesting iron manufacture used hot air 1100 years before Christ, a concept later modernized by Neilson in 1828.
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Palestine Exploration
London
Bliss
Tel Hesyix
Palestine
Tuyeres
Christ
Neilson
Chicago Herald
An Enemy to Books and the Gift of Light
A historical note explains gas as a serious threat to book bindings and library collections. It cites readers recalling decayed bindings from gas exposure and notes librarians shifting to electric lighting to protect volumes. It mentions foreign libraries like the British Museum preserving books by avoiding artificial fire risks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
British Museum
Emperor William I lauds German unity and princes support
A Berlin event celebrates Emperor William I and German unity as the Grand Duke of Baden and other princes are praised for rallying troops and aiding in national strength. Charles de Lesseps is released after appeals shorten his Panama Canal related imprisonment. Other items note strike votes in Derbyshire and South Lancashire and friendly Russian German frontier interactions. Reports also survey economic pay scales from notable figures to labor wages and health myths.
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Berlin
Baden
Carlsruhe
Coughtila
Jen
William I
Frederick
Empire
Germany
Heimdal
Paris
M. Charles de Lesseps
Court of Cassation
Bail
Chorzele
Poland
Agricultural Remedies and Soil Care From a Historical Guide
A fragmented early field manual discusses methods to clear obstructions, manage livestock issues, and improve soil. It covers drainage, manure use, and crop rotation with emphasis on practical farming practice, including feeding and breeding considerations for calves and crops.
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Hast
William
Cam
Charles DE Lesseps
Derbyshire
South Lancashire
Maneuvring
Flan
Ford
Advan
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