Nellie Brainard's Charm Traps Banker in Love
In a rural town Nellie Brainard's beauty and fortune spark a cascade of suitors. Frank Gray, left jealous by her coldness, faces financial ruin until a middle aged bank customer quietly pays his three thousand dollar note, revealing Nellie’s hidden generosity and sealing their eventual wedding.
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Cinderella
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Tie
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Bernard
Flo
Nellie Bruninard
Nellie Bruinard
Do I Need You When Sorrow Clouds The Day
A reflective rhyme contrasts Summer brightness with darker fears. It ponders whether love and beauty can endure treachery and ordinary troubles, asking if life’s grand vision outlasts deceit and pain. The speaker weighs dependence on another amid doubt and moral strain.
Female Faith and Enduring Love Through Time
A poem recalls a woman's unwavering love despite changing fortunes and fading beauty. It compares steadfast affection to a star that glows in the night, guiding a traveler who still seeks the light of her faith. The verse praises steadfastness, gentleness, and generous devotion in love.
Lily and Rose Exchange Secret Kiss Imagined Mail
In a fragmented verse from a 19th century page, two flowers the lily and the rose argue over a kiss and a whispered promise. The exchange pivots on fate and unclosing lips as a lover’s bid centers on a floral token. The text ends with a garbled postscript and a 1876 export claim about dried apples.
Ice Cream Romance Ends in Ice Cream Swindle
A park bench scene ends with a young man lamenting typhus fears as a woman clings to him then a saloon twist reveals he gambled away his last fifteen cents on a bet about ice cream, concluding with a boastful deze.
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Solomon Ray
Shade
Darling
Lake Evie
Sweet One
Words of tW Wisdom and social musings from a 18th century prose
A collection of aphoristic reflections on love, friendship, secrecy, and conduct. It ponders how absence shifts passions, how heart and mind share conversation, and how personal restraint shapes virtue. It contrasts male and female tendencies in love and truth.
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Ike
Niy bin
German reformer argues humans are frugivorous apes
Sar Guntav Schlickeysen contends that fruit and bread form the proper diet, claiming human teeth prove man is not herbivore or carnivore. He asserts humans belong to the ape family and that apes subsist on fruit, nuts, and berries, eating flesh only out of necessity.
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Sar Guntav Schlickeysen
Scientific experiment sparks young affection in Brooklyn style
A galvanic battery is used as he holds one hand and she the other. They kiss gently, an improvised display that purportedly reveals inner feelings, described with period tone and lightly veiled wording. The passage blends flirtation with crude science imagery and archaic phrasing.
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Brooklyn
Plain funeral rites critique by W. J. Bell at Marston service
In a Boston Investigator piece, W J Bell denounces costly religious funerals and public displays as degrading to the living, urging simplicity and sincere sympathy. He criticizes ministers for harrowing appeals, mourners wearing crepe, paid Irish mourners, and postmortem praise, calling for ante mortem support and the right to free thought.
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Ile
Navy
Ireland
Burns
Willie
Heaven
Hell
Disease of the heart versus true causes of death explodes myths
An 19th century health column argues that deaths labeled as heart disease often mask root causes like lung congestion. It cites Strasburg data showing few true heart cases among sudden deaths and urges post mortem reporting to expose alcohol, opium, and lifestyles as factors. It contrasts with fires, plagues, and local note about the St Paul Dispatch mocking rowing attire.
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Strasburg
Hall
Journal of Health
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Estimated global usage of addictive substances
The passage estimates vast numbers addicted to caffeine tea opium alcohol and tobacco with hundreds of millions affected. It cites 600 million for caffeine, 500 million for tea, 400 million for opium, 560 million for alcohol, and 700 to 800 million for tobacco.
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