01 Feb 1879
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Newspaper
New Holland Clarion
Location
New Holland, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1879
Page
1
The advertiser invites customers to the Little Harness Emporium for a broad range of horse furnishing goods with a larger stock than outside the city. Prices claim to be slashed to meet current times, urging farmers and buyers to visit and be convinced their harness will pull them uphill.
Notices from Boston Traveler Observer Louisville Courier Journal and Waterman praise Harper's Magazine as a leading American monthly in literature and art. They note its brilliant contributor list and quality and explain subscription timing with current numbers and December dates.
Harper's Magazine Harper's Weekly and Harper's Bazaar offered as a complete 67 volume set in cloth binding for 2.25 per volume by express or freight at purchaser's expense. Single volumes postpaid 3.00. Cloth cases 50 cents by mail. Remittances by money order or draft to Harper & Brothers New York. Newspapers must not reprint without permission.
A reflective verse urging compassion and service as life wanes. It calls for helping others, cherishing love, and forgiving faults to earn Heaven’s pitying regard. The piece emphasizes fragile life, impending death, and the reward of benevolent deeds.
In Livonia on a June night Oscar returns to his manor after a year at school. A tame bear invades his room, misread as threat, then exits with pillows and bed clothes. Petruschka reveals the bear was staged by his father, teaching Oscar that true courage comes from trust in God.
The midwinter Scribner piece by Mr. I C Stedman treats serial navigation as a hobby with buoyant hopes. It envisions art and life expanding through new voyages by air and sea, bringing poetry music and travel to all, with an imagined fleet of graceful airships and floating palaces.
A Godeys Lady’s Book excerpt urges that happiness comes from useful work, not idle pleasure. It argues idlers are among the most miserable, while those in enforced labor or seeking bread are better off. The passage contrasts leisure with productive toil and calls for recognizing this truth.
Frederick G. Mather imagines a Canadian winter of hyperborean pleasures. The piece details snowshoe tramps, tobogganing, icehouse nights on the St. Lawrence, and rink contests near the Montcalm era sites, with vivid, era-appropriate travel whimsy.
The passage urges young men to act from inner truth and duty rather than others. It argues that character surpasses wealth and status, rests on God centered convictions, and grows as the soul serves God. Strength comes from aligning will with God and living rightly.
Dr Eggleston notes a rare virtue among early American writers, praising Bry ant Whittier Longfellow Emerson and Hawthorne for blameless lives. He contrasts this with a breed of fast reckless young writers once seen as genius like Byron, stating that such notions have little authority today.
The saying extols happiness in doing good rather than socializing wealth and fame. Witty maxims fade like pearls, but a kind word rarely goes unused. Kindness is a seed that grows into a flower even when dropped by chance.
A brief remark notes that a single good deed brings lasting joy while a moment of error alters a life. It contrasts rapid progress of some with the persistence of common sense in others.
A collection of light anecdotes and puns from a period newspaper, featuring a teetotaler quip, marriage bon mots, legal and courtroom gags, and misread signs. The items center on social manners, clerical humor, and everyday miscommunications that reveal late 19th or early 20th century wit.
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