The Stove as a Money Safe Phenomenon
A Boston Transcript excerpt notes a recurring story of households where savings in parlor stoves reach exactly one thousand dollars. It highlights how wives supposedly burn the money without noticing its paper form and contrasts calm domestic reactions with the sensational rhetoric often attached to such tales.
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Five Mothers-in-Law Make a Remarkable Boston Household
A Boston man known as Old Sol B lived with five mothers-in-law across three marriages. He kept peace by hosting, paying a stipend, and letting each mother-in-law share space and family care. After early losses and upheaval, he remarried twice, adding more mothers-in-law, until a large, harmonious blended home formed.
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Hold On Moral Guidance for Youth Preached In Plain Verse
A didactic prose style admonishes boys to restrain anger and impulses and to cling to truth and good character. The piece warns against swearing lying stealing and bad company and urges self control in temper, conduct, and choices to secure lasting virtue.
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