The Register Ad Rates and a Tale of Rena Lewis
Classified rates and rules open this fragment, followed by a fictional tale of Rena Lewis a foundling raised to a governess role in Georgetown Heights. The piece intertwines ad copy with a dramatic social life and a brief glimpse of Harold Reede. It then shifts to a moral essay on age and passion and includes a humorous Edison anecdote about an engagement request and a late-night lab scene.
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Rena Lewis
Clara
Rena
Mrs. Brown
Chorgetown Heights
Eden
Mrs. Alen
Leo
Olie
Miss Clara Alen
James Alen
South
Miss Clara
Irena
Harold Reede
Lamarque Rosea
Miss Alen
Rena Lewi
Tam
Alice Harland
Croquet
Harald Reede
Reede
Misa Alen
Miss Lewis
Mrs. St. Jerome
Nena
Reva
Frank
Georgetown
Edison
Mr. Isdison
Newark
Western Union Telegraph Company
New York
Tom
George
Keep a Kiss for You in the Storm of Fate
A verse expresses steadfast love despite world weariness and separation. The speaker vows to keep a kiss for the beloved through cold winds, missteps, and trials until the moment of reunion and lasting bliss. It envisions future happiness when plans succeed and sorrow ends.
Young San Francisco boy hints at future Congress
A San Francisco street boy shows early talent as he debates politics with his mother. The exchange ranges from candy and teeth to Rotterdam and a classmate named Mary Dawson, ending with a moral lesson noted by the San Jose Herald.
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San Francisco
United States
Willie
Rotterdam
Mary Dawson
San Jose
Cal) Herald
The Virtue of Waiting and Deliberate Action
The piece argues patience and steady waiting yield true outcomes. It contrasts anxious feverish waiting with calm, confident patience, noting plans may run but success often requires long, disciplined waiting before results appear. It cites a Boston Transcript quote emphasizing measured anticipation.
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Ateady
Boston Transcript
Advertising and Publicity Fuel Theatrical Success
Harperly and Barnum credit public notice as the key to crowds. Both emphasize advertising as the main driver, combining a genuine product with liberal printer's ink to build demand and financial success.
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Barnum
Ile
Danbury News
Courting in a Forfarshire Farmhouse Sat Night
A rural Forfarshire ploughman spends two silence filled hours courting on a Saturday night. He fails to find a topic while Jenny holds quiet, recalling a Scots song that the man should speak first. John finally breaks the tension with a feather on year aprop remark, prompting Jenny to quip about a goose.
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Forfarshire
Mayo
John
Jenny
Extremes Meet With A Table of Exotic Dishes
A local feast showcases a table laden with oxtail soup and beef tongue among other dishes. Diners sample mixed regional flavors as hosts highlight diverse cuisine and cultural dining traditions.
Farm Hands and House Help Conduct and Care Rules
The article urges clear terms with farm and domestic workers, outlining duties, hours, and pay. It stresses prompt payment, humane treatment of animals, proper tools, and strict discipline for disobedience, plus thorough workmanship, fair meals, and kindness as essential to farming success.
Marriage Gambles and Fortune-telling in Calico Talk
The piece voices arch observations on marriage, suggesting hurried matches by Sum and Sam,恐 fear of scarcity, and the idea that marriage is a gamble. Calico, dry goods, and circumstance shape unions while lovers seek love without fortune or lineage.
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Sum
Wim
Min
Sam
Calico
Jist
Story of Crockett’s Monkey Remark at Washington Adverts
A tale notes David Crockett visiting a Washington menagerie and praising a grotesque monkey as resembling an honored Mr X. He is startled to find the praised man nearby and offers a humble apology. The episode ends with Crockett debating whether to apologize to the man or to the money involved.
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David Crockett
Washington
Mr. X
Congress
Democracy in the American Spirit and Its Moral Elevation
A political declamation praising democracy as noble and universal. The speaker asserts democracy as a defender of liberty, equality, and property, denouncing despotism and urging continued commitment to the revolutionary ideals chronicled by the nation’s forefathers, attributed to William Allen.
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Wiliam Allen
Satirical reflection on salvation and murder in Seymour Ind
A Seymour Indiana piece criticizes religious notions of salvation by contrasting priestly cleansing with sudden deaths. It argues that the innocent victims, even if outraged or murdered, end up in heaven without priestly intercession, while murderers may escape moral accounting. The essay twists to claim heaven fills with scoundrels while pure victims depart unprepaid.
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Satan
Heaven
Seymour
Ind
Pimes
Noble title inheritance and princely prefixes in Galicia and beyond
The report notes that in Russia and parts of Germany Austria and northern realms noble titles pass to all sons with male succession. Many Count Zichys exist in Hungary, few are wealthy magnates, others hold minor state roles. In Galicia some villages allow peasants to prefix their names with Prince.
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Russia
Germany
Austria
Zichys
Hungary
Galicia
Necessity and Law Confronted by a Child’s Question
A bar member recalls the saying necessity knows no law and questions a 4 year old daughter asks about law. The child quips that Mr Spear says the parent knows nothing about law, provoking a moment of silence.
Electioneering Fund The Great Political Standing Army
A New York Sun analysis describes vast election funds and covert resources behind U S electoral influence. It cites federal payrolls, conditional appropriations, deputy marshals, and powerful banks as channels, with John Sherman at the center guiding patronage to shape Ohio and 1880 ambitions.
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Pension
John Sherman
Treasury
Washington
New York
Grantiam
Louisiana
Returning Board
Ohio
New York Sun
Noahs Family a Sunday School Guess Game
A Providence Journal excerpt recounts a teacher asking a class of young girls who entered the ark with Noah. One girl, unsure, guessed that Noah went with his sisters cousins and aunts, provoking amusement in the center city Sunday school setting.
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Providence Journal
Norristown Herald Quips About Odd Cures From Falls
The Norristown Herald recalls a Detroit man cured of neuralgia by a fall down stairs and a Norristown youth who stopped swearing after falling from a cherry tree, a broken neck ending the habit and a sharp, local joke about bizarre remedies.
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