Prodigal Bon Faces Fate In The Den
The speaker recalls a life of wealth and pleasure lost to crime and drink. A vision of boyhood home and mother returns as remorse grips him, admitting courage is needed to face fate and the wreckage of his life at twenty eight. The piece contrasts past riches with present ruin and emptiness.
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Billy
Villian
John Rogers
Biddy
Tennyson
Tom Moore
Peck’s Grove
Arminaria
Sul
Clara Vere de Vere
Mr. Rogers
Celina
John Ruger
Ghostly confession in a nineteenth century romance tale
A narrator recalls a dramatic youth when the milk boy John Rogers proposed, was rejected, and died of heartbreak. Years later, aboard a riverboat, the narrator unexpectedly meets Rogers’s wife and learns the ghostly truth is finally laid to rest.
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John Rogers
Mrs Garfield on Woman's Work in a Student Essay
The latest issue of the Student from Hiram College presents Mrs Garfield’s letter to her husband about labor and bread making. She describes rising from toil to choose a joyful, purposeful labor and finding bread a sign of regal mastery over work.
A Jamaica Breakfast Belgravia Style
A Jamaica Breakfast in Belgravia describes West Indies meals shaped by hot climate. The author notes large breakfasts around ten or eleven with coffee in the bedroom, cassava cake from arrowroot, and a table heavy with tea coffee claret rum and a wide variety of dishes. Dishes include curried chicken crayfish Bombay ducks and ample meats and eggs. The piece highlights peppers flowers and a generous abundance of meals per family in planter homes.
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Belgravia
West Indies
Hunter
Indus
The Power of Influence On a Childs Early Life
A reflection on how influence shapes a child through chosen companions, environment, and especially parental example, shaping moral and future life from youth onward. It discusses early conditioning and the lasting impact of surroundings and guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl Keechings
Forest Tree
The Moral Power of Home on Youthful Growth
A reflective piece on how parental virtue shapes a child’s future and deters wrongdoing. It contrasts a thriving sapling nourished by a loving home with a stunted life from arid roots, citing a man who renounced wine after a remembered prayer and a would be murderer redirected by heavenly influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saprisius Ucaisee
The True Test of Religion in Action
A Religious and medical forward view argues true merit lies in real effects on lives. Prominent clergymen endorse Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Cure for Bright's disease and allied ailments, citing Rev Rankin and Rev Harvey among others and noting the product's broad attention.
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Arabia
Ganges
Chas. Craig
Metropolitan Scientific Association
Aew
J. E. Rankin
D. D
Washington
Rankin
New York Independent
Boston Congregationalist
Chicago Advance
Genesee
Lake Ontario
Warner
Craig
D. W. Bartine
Bright
C. A. Harvey
Howard m University
Washington, D. C
Tom
A. C. Kendrick
LL. D
University of Rochester
N. Y
A. Bramley
Arsenal Street M. E
Watertown
A. P. Hill
Shocheel
N. C
P. F. Marklee
Montgomery
Als
H. H. Warner
Himelf
Warner Wns
Warner Astronomical Obseeratory
Rochester
America
Countess in the Circus Dies After Ride Trap
A Paris hippodrome acrobat known as Mile. Fanny Gyika, reputedly a real countess and wife of a Bucharest official, died after a riding accident. Her foot became stuck in the stirrup as her horse Sultan bucked, dragging her and causing a fatal leg injury amid mortification.
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Circus
London Globe
Ecuyeres
Hippodrome
Mile
Fanny Gyika
Sally Scroggins
Ada de Montmorency
Bucharest
Paris
Mr. Zidler
Sultan
Youngest Miller Daughter Undergoes Major Leg Surgery
A. J. Miller of Osage county Kansas reports his youngest daughter was treated at Kansas City Surgical Institute where surgeons Dickerson and Stark removed much of the leg bone to save the limb. The note also includes multiple patent medicines and promotional lines about Hare's Honey or Horehound and Tar drops Carter's Liver Pills Carboline and other tonics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. Miller
I Opcorn
Osage County
Kansas
Cny Surgical
Hare
Carter
Carter Medicine Cqo
Park Place
New York City
Dry Goods and Millinery Trade and Bitters Ad
A promotional notice for Cruickshank & Co. Omaha shop touts a large dry goods and millinery stock across fifteen departments with patterns and gloves plus samples and prompt orders. Also promotes Goodman's Mt Herb Bitters as a tonic improving appetite sleep and health and resisting fevers.
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Chicago
Butterick
Harris
Croicxs Hank & Co
15Th and
Douglas
Omaha
Neb
Joan B. Detwiler
Unsettled Health Claims From 19th Century Advertisements
A collage of 19th century medical ads and testimonials tout various remedies and tonics. Claims include cures for bedridden illness, dyspepsia, kidney and liver ailments, worm infestations, and paralysis. Several products are endorsed by doctors or publications, with pricing and brief farmer quotes.
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Cuariet
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Howe
Celina Tompkins
John
Mamma
Papa
Europe
New York
John’ Rogers
Martha Jane
Sally
Peter
David
Celina Tomkins
Plankville
Gran’ther
Samantha
Pittsburg
Bishop.Gilmour
Cleveland
Ohio
Chas. S. Strickland
Boylston Street
Boston
Mass
Paul Boyter
C. O. Duplessis
Ake Gymnasium
Ill
Wm. H. Wareing
Thomas L. James
Stacy Hill
Mt. Auburn
Ypsilanti, Mich
Minerva
Sarah
Worth
Kate Greenaway
Robinson
Niton
Cretonne
Jamaica
Swolensker
Russian Empire
Jackson
A. Cruickshank & CO
Osoever
H. W
Detroit
Mich
Free Press
Philadelphia Times
J. H. Connex
Augusta
Druggista
Beecher
Wells Health
C F. Goodman
London World
Prince of Wales
Waterloo
Caswell, Yazard & Co
Wagner & CO
Freeman
L. N. Bonaparte
Perry Davis
Scovinn
Roger
Michigan
Ita Elaine
A. Vogeler & CO
Baltimore
U. F
Holman Pat
Holman
HOLMA
Panco
Broadway
Wolastow
Izen
Bt Mang
Jobn
Thompson, Sons & Cuork
Pre - Troy
Newce
Best
Aultmanseme & Taylor Company
Mansfield
Han Tite
Smole
Actus
All Express Charlies Jit
Miverdi
Miia Nu
Uiport
Rfve
Beta Debone
Fitzgerid Paten
Atvys
Lucas i
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Muthling
Giowds Boupaucse
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Freity
Nervettien
Peneral
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Frentress
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W. Sessed
East Dubuque
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Burns
Drugzcista
Eugene B. Stork
Junction City
John Arnall
MM. B. Goodwin
Chardon
Anna L. Jarrett
South Salem
John B. Lawrence
Richardson & Co
Aurlington
DAL Paper
Wholzeai and Retail
Henry Lehmann
Meteinis
Hores
Loomis & Nma
Minneso
Minnesota
Murry
Ceonetut
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