That Old Man of Forty and a Moorsville Marriage
Kitty Howell travels with her father to Moorsville where she encounters Mr Scull a quiet scholar in love with her, rejects a wealthy match, and later discovers true affection and fortune with him after inheritance and a reunion. The tale contrasts youth and maturity against money and happiness.
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Kitty
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Eben
Annie
Mr. Scull
Mr. Howell
Moorsville
Scull
India
Witty
Mooraville
New York
The Ragged Boy Who Went to School
A country girl recalls meeting a ragged boy she once befriended at school. Despite scorn from class peers, she grows to love him. Time and success fail to dim their remembered bond. She eventually marries the once ragged boy, now grown.
Dewdrop of Light and a Lover's Woe in Tinsley's Magazine
A poetic fragment from Tinsley's Magazine weaves a tale of a dewdrop longing for brilliance beyond Nature. Phobos warns against seeking excess while a human heart falls prey to desire, love, and loss as the god of love smiles and grants a costly gift.
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Phobos
Phosbus
Phou
Tinsley's Magazine
Odd or Even Bet Ruins a Gambler in Lord Lorne Tale
A famed gambler, after a string of bad luck, challenged Lord Lorne to an even odds wager of fifteen thousand guineas. He hurled a punch-bowl, claiming equal chances. The bowl shattered, revealing an odd piece, and the young man was ruined.
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Lord Lorne
Ophelia Impersonates Hamlet Actress Dies After Lucid Fit
A celebrated actress known as Mrs Montford, long associated with Gay and Cibber, loses sanity after retirement. In a lucid moment she tricks keepers, goes to the theater, and performs Ophelia on stage before the previous actress. She dies shortly after, murmuring a final line.
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Gay
Ophelia
Ephelia
Nature
Sycamore Invests in Centennial Shade with Trees Planted
In Sycamore Illinois residents marked Centennial celebrations by planting three thousand trees. It remains unclear if all planted trees were sycamores. The note describes cleaning windows with a bicarbonate wash and drying with a cloth.
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Sycamore
Illinois
Sycamores
No woman dies of fright, corset stifles scream
The London Lancet reports a startling medical note denying deaths from fright among women, attributing it instead to extreme corset constriction that allows only a single yell before collapse. The piece highlights fashion’s perilous underpinnings and the era’s health concerns.
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London Lancet
A Printer's Dream Darkly Haunts a Struggling Printer
A weary printer dreams of death and torture by Satan in a fiery underworld for unpaid subscriptions. He awakens shaken, recalling vivid images of iron doors, red-hot bars, and grisly punishments for those who skip payments, leaving him uneasy about debt and business.
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Hades
Satan
One of the Vices and the News Gossip Habit
A critique of modern journalism condemns love of personalities over questions. It laments constant gossip and sensational personal items driving daily papers. The author argues readers must curb this taste to restore public discourse.
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Evening Journal
Bone-Black Charcoal Pills Help Against Phosphorus Poisoning
Animal charcoal or bone-black serves as an antidote to phosphorus poisoning. It is given as pills formed with gum tragacanth or other mucilaginous binders.
Little Testimonials to Tilden and the Ticket
A Rochester Union column presents Republican praise for Governor candidate Samuel J. Tilden. Various papers call him an honest reformer and capable leader who aided the anti Tweed movement, with support from the Pittsburg Dispatch Louisville Commercial Detroit News Boston Globe and others. A separate vignette recounts a tense life insurance office encounter ending with no violence.
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Rochester Union
Pittsburg Dispatch
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Louisville Commercial
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Samuel J. Tilden
Detroit Tribune
Democrats of
New York
Boston Globe
New York Democracy
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Cleveland Herald
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Litchfield
Conn
Enquirer
St. Louis Globe
Hep
Washington National Republican
Northern Christian Advocate
Mr. Tilden
Men at their best in the late thirties to forties claim
Dr Beard analyzes a thousand lives across human groups to assert the golden decade sits between forty and fifty while youth and middle age surpass old age in original work. He notes fame comes late, with reputations and positions often held by the old, and urges balanced enthusiasm and experience. Also offers health tips to prevent chills and fevers and maintain warm, dry conditions.
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Dr. Beard
Styles of Paris Garments Under Polonaises Described
In Paris, skirts of dark red silk are worn beneath polonaises made from ivory gauze or grenadine, outlining a refined layering trend. The description highlights contrasting fabrics and color tones as a fashion detail.
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Paris
The Service of Birds and Their Value to Man
Birds provide bedding materials clothing from down and feathers and serve as food through eggs and flesh. They spread seeds, transport messages, entertain with plumage and song, and most importantly destroy harmful insects. Vulture raven and buzzard act as scavengers helping keep the air clean. Spare the birds. their destruction harms humanity and governments seek to reintroduce beneficial species.
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Kamschatka
Whittier Bachelor Poem Sparks Domestic Debate
The text comments on poet John G. Whittier as a bachelor, noting his poetry could improve with domestic focus and referencing his vigilance over his daughter’s suitors. It also cites far Pennsylvania spending $8,000,000 for soldiers orphans during the war.
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Pennsylvania
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