One Way to Gain a Hundred Pounds
A humorous tale from The Country Press recounts Philander Longshanks, a lifelong bachelor, who learns from Dr Marrowsat that marriage can alter health and weight. After a seaside journey and a mishap, Philander witnesses a cured appetite and gains, in a light moral twist, that happiness improves well being more than any diet.
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Crossroads
United States
Fort Scott Monitor
Philander Longshanks
Philander
Abe
Dr. Marrowsat
Tecan
Tory
Horge
Ife
Mollie
Home Is Where There Is One To Love
Poetic meditation on home as more than walls and roof, stressing that true home requires love and welcome. The speaker asks who meets and greets us, asserting that a dwelling becomes sweet only when shared with a beloved companion.
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Robert Dale Owen
Holmes
Philadelphia
Katie King
Mr. Owen
Katie
Meaders
Atlantic Monthly
Owen
Boston
New Lanark
Glasgow
Scotland
Robert Owen
America
New Harmony
England
Robert Dale
Nature
Indiana
Congress
Pierce
Hawthorne
Liverpool
Our Old Home
Naples
Chicago Tribune
Iome
How Dundreary Started and Its Star Makers
A reminiscence of early Dundreary origins in Lord Dundreary with Sothern and Jefferson. Laura Keene produced American Cousin with Jefferson and Sothern, helped launch careers, and was present when Lincoln was assassinated as Booth leaped from the box. Keene’s dress was stained by the tragedy.
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Sothern
Lord Dundreary
Laura Keene
Joseph Jefferson
Thas
Mr. Sothern
Wallack’s
Mr. Stewart
Jenny Lind
Armand
Rip van Winkle
Jefferson
Lincoln
Juaura Keane
Booth
New York Times
Fishing excursion order sent to grocer in Georgia
A group led by Prin Coax asks an Americas Georgia grocer to supply items for a fishing trip. The list includes whisky in multiple forms, salt, pepper, lard, ham, sugar, a demijohn, linen, books, and flasks, to be charged to Jack Brown or Bon Locket. The note notes river conditions and an instruction to enter charges on the books.
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Americas
Georgia
Denar Sir
Jack Brown
Prin
P.S
P.C
Public Debt Warns Against Perpetual Government Spending
Jefferson warns that ongoing debt leads to servitude and heavy taxation, forcing citizens to labor long hours and surrender freedoms. He contends private fortunes suffer when public extravagance rises, and warns that taxation follows debt, bringing misery and oppression. Advertises in Tre Register.
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England
T. Jefferson
Air an Constant Inflow Your Body Breathes Daily
An exploratory note describes the human need for air, noting an adult inhales about three hundred cubic feet daily or two thousand gallons. It compares intake and output of solids and liquids to about five and a half pints per day, roughly one three hundredth of the air volume moving through the lungs, and states yearly air passage reaches about seven hundred thirty thousand gallons with a twenty five pound weight.
Garden Cultivation Advice From The Western Rural
In gardening every hoe and rake should work continually to keep weeds tiny. Weeding early saves half the labor. Earthing up crops gives clear benefits in most beds and is preferred in hot climates, though tests on cabbage show little advantage from flat culture.
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Simmons
J. 10
Zermim & Co
Macon
Thrall & Mursiford
New Flarmony
Ind
Elam
Salle A
Mer
W. F. Gray
Ber
D. M. Selvnee
Dostoffice
Waleray
Ersons
J. W. Davis & Co
Deel
JLW
Davis &O
Thrall & Mumford’s
New Michigan
New California
Yarmouth Sugar Cornes
J.W. Miller
New Harmony, Indiana
Santa Monumental
Arenis
O. Stluron & Co
Portland
Malve
the Register
CoC.v. Slater
Angelique
California
Dundreary
Tre Register
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