The Storm and a Young Boy's Courage
Frances Henry and her parents face a winter night as a hungry boy, Joseph, endures cold and deprivation to help his mother. He begs for bread, barters salvaged shoes, and scavenges wood shavings to warm their bleak basement home, while coroner's inquests document deaths from exposure and exhaustion.
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Frances Henry
Frances
John
Joseph
Ron
Broadway
Agian
Margaret S
Beggar Boy’s Death Moves Frances to Resolve
In a gloomy city apartment a distressed girl and a young man discuss the beggar boy's death. The coroner's inquest is cited as truth, while a hearse arrives and Frances leaves wiser and more worthy of love.
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Fanny
Frances May
Buckeye in a Dazed State Causes Quizzical Travel Remark
A humorous fragment reports a full grown Buckeye tumbling into a coach near a resident pursuing knowledge while remarking Ohio is a fine country. The text passages include quips on penalties, steam, courting, and ethics, with scattered names and references to period commentary.
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Horkmote
Dveller
Knowlge
Ribvins
Hosses
Ohio
Hic
N. Y
Holden's Dollar Magazine promotion and subscription offer
A vivid advertisement extols Holden's Dollar Magazine as a comprehensive Family Magazine blending American, French, English, and American periodical traits. It touts lively editorials, engravings, and wide appeal, urging subscriptions at one dollar a year with bulk discounts and a bound Vol.1 giveaway for 20 names and $15.
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Gignoux
Durand
Arley
Holden
Quarterly Review
Knickerbocker
N. Y
Dollar
Horace Greely
N.Y. Tribune
Dollar Magazine
Democrat
Bloomsbury N. Y. Holden
Sterling Journal
United States
Republican
Jackson, Tenn
Lowell
Mass
America
Star
Houston
Texas
Holden’s
Cuantes W. Houpen
Reed
I meant to have told you of that hoss
An Irishman recounts a mishap in his garden where a horse creature falls into a water filled pit. His friend Pat wades through mud and water, then declares he has located it. The exchange blends humor with rustic Irish speech in a playful scene.
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Hoss
Pat
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England
Uncle Jer
Bobby
Peorte
David Fender
Mary
D. Fender
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Philadelphia Spirit of the
Geo. Canning
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