Laughs At Fate A Harpers Magazine Household Verse
A humorous piece from Harper's Magazine about domestic life and a wife who laughs at fate. The narrator holds a preference for a carefree partner over wealth or beauty, praising a spouse who lets him sleep late and keeps the home lively without fuss.
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Jack
Harper's Magazins
Avice
Phil
Helen
Harry
Paris
Troy
Alice
Mne
Goldsmith
Westminster Abbey
Field of Glory
Pope
Aeensea
Imarry for literature and a fool’s fortune
A narrator recalls marrying Alice Clyde, facing Uncle Phil’s skepticism, surviving through debts and failed epic ambitions, and finding unexpected success with a lightly conceived novel inspired by a wife’s ideas. The tale tracks perseverance, humility, and a final shift to leather business for stability.
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North Pole
Uncle Phil
Avice
Harry
Rudolph
Evelyn
Mrs. Radcliffe
Richard III
Betsey
Phil
Ublic
Boston Transcript
Advice Gratis and Other Sayings on Advice
A compendium of maxims on advice and behavior from a newspaper column. Contains scattered anecdotes about temperance, speaking, imitation, manners, and prudence with humorous asides about caucuses, Texan horns, potatoes, and the folly of taking advice. Names like JBasion Transcript appear in quotation.
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Henamin
Jones
Rose
Jackson
Valises and Ventures Across Little Rock to Devonshire
A lively column riffing on travel with valises and misplacements. A Little Rock tale recalls swapping bags on a train yielding odd contents like a bowie knife and a baby apron. It then shifts to brief sketches of figures including Mr. Bell and Brett Warre in England.
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Little Rock
Jnttle Rock Gazette
BgLt
Consolidated
Brett Warre
Glasgow
Roude
Devonshire
England
Hudson
Ardsley
Field
Cyrus W. Field
Marshall O. Rogerts
New York
North River
California
Gotham
Barro
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Alice Clyde
Avicent
Gee
Aince
Pye
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Milton
Advice Gratis
Moline National Bank
Moline, Ill
W Wheelock
Porter Skinner
F. Hemenway
A Barnard
J M Christy
James C Starr
Wright
Hemenway
I. E. Hemenway
Hiram Darling
Chester
Casper Witzthum
H Candee
Main Street
Hoodman Avenue
United Sates
Europe
First National Bank
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Jim Gould
Chas Atkinson
Jok. Gillmore
Directore
J M. Gould
Samuel Bowles
Dgc Pinnock
Jonathan Huntoon
Morris Rosenfield
Hamburg
Bremen
Lon
Guttenberg
Copenhagen
Zara Deere
On Deere
Geo W . Vinton
J.T Browning
Hoa
MOLINE SAVINGS _BANK
Moline
Ill
KR W Wheplock
Jolin Goo
Hemenway, A Stoddard
F. Grantz
M Christy
John Good
Nelson Chester
H W Candee
A. Wright
Tank Pilding
Rodman Avenues
Rock Ieland County
Morgan Park
Military Academy
Cook Co
DR. Marshall
Perry St
Davenport
NEW Drug Store
SMILE
Cigamn
Tobaccoos
N. P. Bergstrom
New Stede Church
W. ST. Devore
Banbrer
Port Byron, Illinois
Anchog
National
Inman
Aalemant
Mitchell & Lynde
Bankers
Rock Inland
Iowa
Firat National Bank
Chicago
Milwaukee
Wis
National Bank of Commerce
York
Union Bank of Philadelphia
P. Allen
Copp & Nesbit
Wat Louis
E. T. Rigby
Cutter's
Cor
G. T. Rehfrens
East 3d Street
Deavenport, Iowa
Scharfenberg’s
I. G. Scharfenberg
Fabanks Seales
Eclipse Windmills
Fairbanks, Morse & CO
Irr
Lake St
Tutt
R. L. Simpson
Louisville
Murray St
Warner
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