Grip Tight and Claiming Right in an Old Ballad
A rugged verse recounts urging a man to seize his rightful home and love with a strong right hand. It echoes provincial pride and the call to persevere for land and domestic happiness, urging the listener to grip tight and secure what is theirs.
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Ber
Roy Sny
Lis Cancinent
Landa
Aga Seid
Sen Robert
Papa
Houseold
Mary Anni
Tommy
New York Star
Italy
Hyen
London
Ani
Apemantus
I am Jacob Allen the Congressman of Turtle Creek
A memoir in first person traces Jacob Allen’s rise from lazy youth to Union officer, politician, and congressman. He recalls his grandmother’s harsh discipline, his military service, and his later political ascent aided by a village’s memory of his boyhood misdeeds. The story ends with his hopeful tour speech in Turtle Creek and a wish for his grandmother to witness his success.
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New York
Mary Ann Eliza
Australia
America
Pennsylvania
First Order
Congress
Jacob Allen
Turtle Creek
Jackson
Mme
Congressman Allen
George Washington
John TL. Sullivan
Boston
Jake Allen
Jake
Republican Party
Turtle Creek Rounds Up Mock Congress Votes in Village Meet
A quirky village report recalls a mock election in Turtle Creek where John Sadler led with two votes and eighty-nine others received one each. The piece notes local figures, a New York visit by a pastor, pensions for an old schoolmaster, and the town’s shifting world view as villagers dream of higher offices.
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Jake Allen
Turtle Creek
Crean
Allen
Aid
Jacob
Sya
Joan
Sam
Macy
John Sadler
Deacon Smith
New York
Metropolitan
Congress
New Jersey
State Department
White House
Haunted Slouse Ghost Tale On a Milwaukee Train Car
A recollection on a Pullman car prompts a St Paul Globe reporter about haunted houses. The speaker recounts Missouri childhood, a neighbor’s murder suicide, and a family move into a reputedly haunted frame house. Doors opening at night were due to warped green timber. new doors and flooring ended the haunting.
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Milwaukee Limited
St. Paul Globe
Kentucky
Missouri
Palmyra
Woman Gossip and Amatory Chestnut Quips
A collage of light verse and quips centers on women, fashion, and marriage. Bits about boots and allure, jokes on dumb bells versus flat irons, and a joke exchange about husbands reflect early 20th century gossip and social stereotypes.
Courtship Tales and Civil War Anecdotes in Old Papers
A miscellaneous compilation of anecdotes and observations from early newspapers. It includes courtship scenes with humorous misunderstandings, reflections on women’s virtue, social expectations, a tale of a Maine lover and his proposal, and a long illustrated Lincoln vignette. It also references legal notices and reporter etiquette with satirical asides.
Quips on Love Fashioned in Odd Civic Tones
A collage of cheeky snippets and jokes from various papers. social mores mix with jokes about marriage, kissing, and wife versus horse tales. It notes how habits and slang shift in playful vignettes, referencing poets, goofs about butter and goats, and overworked terms.
Vienna Medical Fees and a Concealed Disease Case
In Vienna a doctor and tailor faced legal action over fees and a concealed illness. A tailor’s child with fever prompted a non diagnostic visit. later police found children in a toilet house suffered from smallpox. The doctor was acquitted while the tailor received ten years imprisonment.
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Vienna
Nedlictien
Cost of Raising Children Across Five Classes in Athens
The Boston Globe analyzes family expenses by class in modern Athens, dividing society into the wealthy, businessmen, salesmen, mechanics, and laborers. The inquirer finds that across ranks, costs of raising children appear roughly double in higher income groups.
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Boston Globe
Athens
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John
New York Sun
Ain
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Slimpkins
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Maine
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Mercer County
J. C. Whekside
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Powl's Valley
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Spyerville Journal
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Chicago News
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