Lost Lovers Reunited After Thirteen Years
Herbert Payne receives a secret sealed letter deep in his mantelpiece aftermath. Leda Morrison, presumed dead penniless, reveals long hidden birth and lost love. A bold newspaper ad prompts a return to Paris where Leda teaches, and a renewed matching between two hearts.
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Herbert
Leda
Payne
Herbert Payne
Mr. Morrison
Morrisons
Morrison
Miss Tieda
Lepa
Asmodeus
Paris
Leda Morris Son
Two Lovers by a Moss-Grown Spring Poem
A lyrical scene follows two lovers by a moss-grown spring blending gentle affection and nature. Children cradle a newborn life as two parents, then aging, sit by the evening fire as red lights fall and the family fades, ending with a farewell to the past.
Finding Faults At Home Then Others
Poem urges self examination before judging others urging readers to avoid gossip about others faults. It warns that everyone has flaws and that speaking ill of others can backfire. The piece emphasizes patience, charity, and restraint in speech to prevent harm.
I Have Seen An Old Man Of Experience
An old man reflects on lessons from life. He recalls a young man selling a good farm, a farmer who travels endlessly, a girl who marries badly and repents, and a spendthrift who wastes family funds. He notes trials of candor, parental poverty caused by folly, and a prudent wife who saves the rope’s end. He also mentions a spouse disdaining counsel leading to poverty and a Swiss watch invention that glows at night. He ends noting high pottery production in the United States.
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Lomeworth
Herbert
Rue Mont
Paris
Leon
Leda
Flerbert
Leda Waits for Tidings and Two Senators Depart
A fragment from a Norfolk Virginian piece recalls Leda awaiting news of a beloved, her life narrowed to mail arrivals and enduring affection. It also profiles McCreery and Oglesby, contrasting the eloquent, refined senator with the blunt, uneducated but beloved ranter, noting McCreery’s wit and Oglesby’s rustic humor.
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Oglesby
McCreery
Senate
Dick Oglesby
Richard
Hamlin
Merriman
Norfolk
Virginian
Fashionable Gallantry in Charles II's Court
The essay recalls a gallant custom in the reign of Charles II where a gentleman drinking a lady's health burned part of his attire. Friends followed by sacrificing items, as Sir Charles Sedley did with a rich lace cravat. A later scene had a dentist extract a tooth from each man, all complying to a test of camaraderie despite protests.
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Bia
Charles Sedley
Sir Charles
Child’s playful quip on paddling own canoe provokes mock debate
A wicked youngster asks if he is a canoe and, hearing the mother’s remark about seeing people paddle their own canoe, ponders if the boy might be hers. The boy exits with more speed than grace, leaving the exchange in lighthearted tone.
Abbreviated notes from a 19th century periodical
Fragmentary OCR items reflect varied topics from liquor consumption and locomotive life spans to tribal sayings and relics. Notable snippets reference engine water use per mile, blanket horses, and exhumed Aztec relics in California, all presented as isolated lines with minimal context.
Advantages of Crying and Groaning in Recovery
A French physician argues that crying and groaning relieve anguish and speed recovery after accidents and operations. He cites a case of pulse reduction from 126 to 60 within two hours through emotional release. He urges allowing natural tears for both adults and children, warning against excessive suppression of grief.
Tweed and Robeson in Naval Fraud Report
The Atlanta Constitution notes Tweed’s local disgrace pales beside Robeson’s national scandals. The House naval affairs committee has completed its long awaited report detailing vast frauds in the navy department. The figures are described as absolutely appalling and highlighted as greater wrong than Tweed’s conduct.
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Tweed
Robeson
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Atlanta. Constitution
The Romance of Lamartine's Marriage
The article recounts French poet Lamartine's marriage to English heiress Miss Birch who, enamored after reading his Meditations Poétiques, offers her fortune to relieve his finances. Lamartine accepts, moved by her generosity and intellect, and credits her sustaining love with much of his later success.
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Lamartine
Birch
Geneva
Misa Birch
Alphonse de Lamartine
Arm, Head and Shoulder Sen tenced
Judge Kent presided over a burglary trial of Thomas Cowdry. Evidence showed he cut a hole in a rubber tent and took items while only exposing an arm, shoulder, and head. The jury found him guilty as to those parts, and he was sentenced to two years hard labor in the State Prison. The judge quipped about the remaining body.
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Kent
Thomas Cowdry
Bangor
The Musk Ox A Size and Woolly Hide Described
The musk ox stands about five and a half feet long from nose to tail root and weighs roughly 700 pounds though travelers overestimate its heft. Its woolly coat obscures bulk, with long outer hair brown to black and inner soft blue-gray wool prized for fabrics.
Dangerous Nettles Across Regions Highlight Lethal Potential
A fragment describes the Giant Nettle in northern New South Wales reaching 120 to 140 feet with broad prickly leaves, and mentions Timor, Java, and India nettles such as the Daoun Setan or Devil's Leaf whose stings can cause long lasting pain or death, especially in moist conditions.
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New South Wales
Timor
Java
India
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