Engaged Seat on a Busy Train Moral Tale
A crowded Eastern railcar sees a large man claim a seat by placing his bag beside him. A tired stranger sits in, holding the bag for him. The bag travels through Somerville Everett and Chelsea with the large man powerless to reclaim it. The stranger exposes the theft, returns the bag to Boston, and the owner must identify it next day. The tale ends with a moral from Boston Glove.
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Redkenchia
Fisly
Foxy Lynn
Somerville
Everett
Chelsea
Lynn
Boston
Boston Giocte
George Sand the Woman Behind the Velvet Veil
The article recounts George Sand from youth to later life. It notes her gray overcoat costume and boots, her Indiana era at age 29, and Heine's praise. It covers her birth in Paris in 1804, birth family anecdotes, pen names Aure Duplan and George Sand, collaborations with Jules Sandeau, and her later life as a contemplative, secluded writer who smoked and wrote late into the night.
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George Sand
Paris
Indiana
Henri Heine
Venus of Milo
Jules Sandeau
Rose Et Blanche
Jules Sands
Jules
Arore Dudevant
Aurore Duplan
Madame Dunplaon
Aurora
Maurice
Nahant
Chateau
Madame d’Agoult
Puritanism in the Nineteenth Century
The piece argues that Carlyle's fierce pessimism Emer son’s thin optimism and Henry James's thin pessimism trace a descending line from old Puritanism after faith in revelation faded. Darlye’s Puritanism retained some faith, remaining not entirely emptied of belief as a central critique.
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Carlyle
Emerson
Henry James
Daryle
Quarreling with God as Man Fails Spiritual Life
A London Spectator passage critiques arguing with God over the creation of a different being, noting fault with human tendency to mechanical habits and to dwell on ancestral thoughts rather than thinking anew for oneself.
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God
Mr. Ruskin
London Spectator
The Stirring Times and a Womans Earnest Deception
A Southern town once used as a war shuttlecock sees a wounded officer buried with honors. A housekeeper, who died after a fall, is later found buried with the officer, then exhumed to reveal she was a woman masquerading as a soldier. The mix up ends with the woman restored to her kin and the officer reburied as before.
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Eople
Mother Faith
Harper's Weekly
Indian Fighting Tactics by General Crook
Gen George Crook praises Apache cunning and discipline contrasting them with soldiers. He notes Indians exploit terrain and surprise, each warrior acting as a general, with superior eyesight and stealth. He recounts a 1871 ambush on a wagon train where Apaches attacked rear teams after hidden approach.
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Cesar
Napoleon
Hannibal
Arizona
California
George Crook
Luxurious Paris Bucharest Rail Cars Describe Comforts
Luxurious cars run between Paris and Bucharest feature Smyrna rugs two fches thick and compartments clad in embossed Japanese leather paper and Gobelin tapestry. Dining cars serve French cuisine with clocks damask curtains and Venetian mirrors. Breakfast has five courses and dinner eight. Sleeping cars are splendid with hot and cold water. Average speed is forty miles per hour.
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Paris
Bucharest
Summer Tourist's Dictionary Ant Boldly Defines Everyday Terms
A humorous dictionary excerpt by Robert J. Burdette from the Philadelphia Times compiles playful definitions of common items and everyday words. The lively entries lampoon country life and urban quirks with witty, oddball etymologies and farcical notes.
Who Killed Tecumseh Campaign Debate in 1836
In the 1836 campaign, Van Buren and Johnson faced rival claims over Tecumseh’s death. Johnson supporters argued he killed the Indian leader in battle, while Whigs ridiculed that boast and pointed to other claimants. Colonel Skinner claimed credit with a pistols boast, leaving the crowd uncertain.
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New York
Col
Richard M. Johnson
Kentucky
Tecumseh
Johnson
Col. Skinner
Texas
Queston
Teccumsey
Tecumsey
Boy’s Sunday School confession sparks home concern
A Boston Sunday School tale told by Dave Pulsifer centers on a single boy who fears being “burned again” to reach heaven. The boy’s distress at home follows a minister’s line about being born again, with the boy crying and muttering that he might be a girl next time.
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Durham
Robert J. Burdette
Philadelphia Times
Dave Pulsifer
Boston
Kingdom of Heaven
Boo Hoo
Chicago
Deacon Dumpy Carpet Tact and a Farm Bell Sale
A boy teases his father with plans to hear Deacon Dumpy deliver a carpet takedown while the parent doubts the humor. The Commercial Advertiser notes Georgia sales of large farm bells for country alarm use as neighborhoods grow thick, enabling a dozen families to respond to tramp activity.
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Deacon
Hearken
Commercial Advertiser
Georgia
Stalwart Dr McNames Virtually Recovered by Warner’s Cure
An Iowa man described as a powerful figure recounts a collapse from Bright’s disease after a dangerous decline from 208 pounds to 170. Six doctors offered no help until Warner’s Safe Cure was tried. He credits its use with restoring strength, reducing overexertion, and restoring health, urging others to seek early treatment and cautioning against excessive strain.
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Waterloo
A. W. McNames
Goda
Bright
Athore
John L Clark
Warner
Ann Arbor
Mich
Hostetter
John Woodbury
Hunt
W. H. Stilson
Boston
Mase
Alarming Health Remedies and Odd Advertisements
A mixed page features medical quackery and sensational claims from the era. Items tout German Hop Bitters for blood poisoning and indigestion, Voltaic Belts for nervous debility, and Brown's Iron Bitters for digestion. It promotes travel and hotel rates, piano sheet music offers, a pest product, and other patent medicine pitches amid period notices.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Relief for Scrofula
A promotional note asserts that sor comfort is possible for all forms of scrofula through Hood's Sarsaparilla healing remedies. The piece includes a curt tragic tale told by a stoop relative.
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Hood
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