Young Harry Melvilles Rise and Fall in Business
A 21 year old, Harry Melville, starts a firm with $10,000 from an uncle and rapid growth to $150,000 yearly. He ignores his father’s caution, buys a house, then faces bankstringency, loses credit, and by 23 is bankrupt with creditors paying 20 cents on the dollar. The tale warns young men to curb spending and wait for wiser judgment.
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Harry Melville
Larry
Mr. Melville
Harry
Market Street
Melville & Morris
Pomiarry
Harry Crew
Warry
Larry Melville
Melville
Sam
Marty Melville
Kirin
Pat
Over the River and Hill In a Dreamlike Village Scene
A poetic scene contrasts two villages by a river and hill. One lies quiet with thatched houses and silent clocks while the other glitters at night with smithy fires. Wanderers dream of joining loved ones, hearing pitying voices urging patience as fate keeps them apart.
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Sand Howe
Vignettes from a Brooklyn paper on love and politics
A collage of brief notes citing social scenes and political opinions. Gerritt Smith doubts the Civil Rights bill’s passage and warns it could fracture the Republican party. Other items mention temperance, a Florida fire, a windstorm in Illinois, and local incidents across New England and Georgia.
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Yer Gerritt Smith
Kentucky Mountains Tea Tale and Miscellany Observations
A Maryland style miscellany about rural Kentucky life contrasts thrift and risk for salaried workers, with a missionary tale of a tea cannister lost to mountaineers. continues with quips about Ralph Waldo Emerson, Franklin and Fillmore, then notes Schuyler Colfax’s political fate, a London soldiers’ health experiment, a bone boiling inventor asking for funds, and horse prices in New York amid a dull Philadelphia season.
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Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer
Dtc
Enquirer
Desoto
Mississippi
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Enquirer Almanac and
Fparan & McLean
Cincinnati
Ohio
Breith
Thrall & Blumford’s
Jacob Breith
Wendel Schmitt
Merchant Tailor
Lichtenberger & Sons
Postoffice
New Orleans
Thrall & Mumford's
Thrall & Mumford’s
Ieerite
Circuit Court
Posey County
Indiana
George W. Johnson
Thomas J. Johnson
Erastus Damon
Lyman Damon
Court House
Mount Vernon
Alex. Crunk
HTH
TVS
Arters
Thrall & Mompord S
Scientific American
Eine Ployers
Sclantieic Amricann
Slotellia
Sicam
Parmei
Ronan Dirsprop
Munn & CO
Park Row
N.Y
Cor. F and
7Th Sts
Washington, DG
the Register
Co. WW. Slater
Onc ingerWon
JearAll
Nos Terry
Saturday Evening Post
Max Adeler
Tur
Evexine Post
Zig
Our Lady
Olive King
Daisy Eyebright
Ella Wheeler
Sinclair & Co
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getTen
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Vier
John
Chianlain Sunderland
Satan
Elizabeth Oakes
Emith
Long Island
He Utier
Ear
Florida Neero
Pes Sartoris
Washington
Kansas Senate
House of Representatives
Utah
Seer
Jacksonville
Illinois
Mrs. Dowst
Suncook, N. H
Herschel V. Johnson
Georgia
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Portland
Henry W. Longfellow
Edward L. Pierce
Francis V. Balch
Senator Sumner
Brooklyn Park Theater
Rison H
Kentucky
Suast
Amolke
Lawsville Courier-Journal
Ralph Waldo Fimerson
Priend Ley
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Fillmore
South Bend
Ind
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler
Credit Mobilier
London
Per
St Louis
New York
Sar
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