Jerry Albright's Clerkship Ends in Mischief
A boy named Jerry Albright is sent away from home to work at Hawkins’s country store. He treks through pranks against customers, frames a kitchen counter trap, and sabotages scales and molasses handling. After repeated incidents culminating in a molasses spill and a tumble, his parents decide not to return him to the job.
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Jerry
Albrights
Tommy
Old Man
Sespe
Chronicle
Hawkins
Carnera
Swigum
Swagger
Eurces
D&c
Thug
N. Y
Courtship in a Louisiana Country Tale
A narrator recalls youth in New Orleans and country visits where he falls for his cousin Mary. He describes her transforming from a lively child to a radiant woman, their budding affection during moonlit walks, a mortifying confession moment, and the revelation that Mary is engaged and destined for domestic life with children, while he faces a solitary future in a boarding house.
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Mary
New Orleans
Moat Providentially
Rente
Harry
B. Street
Autumn’s Requiem among Hills and Tombs in Boston Olive Branch
The prose poem laments autumn as a living force passing through hills and graves. It mourns the losses of yearly guests and loved ones, noting widowed brides, aged heroes, and a village clergyman, while inviting autumn to distant cornfields for replenishment of sorrow and beauty.
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Autumn
Miany
The
Angels
Boston Olive
Nameless craftsman and his fading influence on progress
A reflective piece honors a humble, unnamed worker who devoted his life to writing and teaching. He lived frugally, drew no fame, yet left behind large, unfinished schemes and germinal ideas for national progress that future generations might develop.
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Teward
Immensity of the Universes and distant light measurements
The article discusses Lord Rosse's telescope and the vastness of space, noting light would take 250 million solar years to traverse the gap to the telescope’s furthest reach. It reflects on astronomy’s grandeur and utility for navigation and timekeeping, plus other brief notes on cholera, a California immigration debate, and a Quaker saying.
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Lord Nichols
Lord Rosse
Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide in Chemical Reactions
A fragmentary excerpt discusses oxygen as essential to life and its role in oxidation. It notes oxygen as 21 percent of air and eight-ninths of water by weight, and explains combustion producing carbonic acid. It introduces chemical equivalents and the formula CO2, amid miscellaneous notes on respiration and vulcanization.
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Board of Trade
Amazon
Udig
Scientific American
Itecurtit
Hades Jes United
Astronomer Hindia Wind Discovers Planet and Comets
A fragment recounts the early life and feats of a young English astronomer born in 1823, noted for discovering multiple comets and planets, computing orbits of dozens of celestial bodies, and rising to a recognized position at Greenwich.
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Flind
Wind
Hindia
Somierthing
Nottingham
Mer Royal
Bondan
Greenwich Observatory
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