A Governor in the Woods on a Mistick Night
An early Massachusetts governor, lost near Mistick farm in the sixteen thirties, spends a stormy night near Sagamore John’s empty house. He lights a fire with a match, sings psalms, gathers wood, and narrowly avoids danger after dawn when an Indian Squaw visits the door. the governor returns home safely as his surprised servants witness his perplexity.
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Seston
Massachusetts
Somerville
Mistick
Sagamore John
Heavy Responsibility and the Poem Address Illusion
A frayed poet visits a weekly editor with a comic piece on the Owld Coun try. The poet stalls the editor about his address, joking that his location depends on whether the piece is accepted. He adds his landlady may withhold his world if not.
A Treland native in a country car tell tale
The Boston Gazette recounts a Treland born Irishman aiding two Boston ladies with his seat ride home from work. Also a pair of boys Ezra and Ike flee to a woods beyond their home, encounter screech owls, and return after a frightful hour with the elder guardian. A travel tale notes foreigners underwhelmed by Niagara.
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Treland
Boston Gazette
Pat
New York
Ezra
Ike
Postage Stamps and Postal Peculiarities Recited
A narration of Sir Rowland Hill and penny postage notes the vast use of stamps in Britain. anecdotes include a girl seeking plasters from stamps to mend a feather’s nose and Trollope’s Irish post office visit with a defiant joke.
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Rowland Hill
Post-Office
United Kingdom
B2nes
Ialls
Anthony Trotlone
Postofice
Bear's Close Escape in Southern India Bear Hunt
General Hamilton recounts a bear attack during a Southern India bear hunt. After a dropped shot, the bear charged, gripping Hamilton’s thigh with claws. He drove the bear off with blows to the nose, then fled uphill as his companion shot the bear dead. Hamilton survived but suffered a thigh wound requiring a month in bed.
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General Hamilton
India
Hamilton
Hamiton
Bear
In Mother's Eyen Pierre and Maurice in Eyed Image
The elder Pierre loves his younger brother Maurice and keeps him in sight. While gazing at their mother's face, Pierre sees his own reflection in her right eye and calls out his name, then searches the left eye and wonders where Maurice has gone.
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Pierre
Maurice
Castoria Advertising Slogan and Humorous Ballad Fragment
An old advertisement claims Castoria is for infants and children and notes 30 years of use. It includes a comic scene with a wounded soldier and a Carlisle maid, then promotes Dr Thomas Electric Oil for croup with price points of 30 and 60 cents.
Message Between Sun and Moon Delights Readers
In a whimsical exchange, Mr Sun and Mr Moon trade cheerful messages from distant addresses The Sun receives praise for healing and happiness while the Moon shares a loving note about beauty and Love as lantern A patrol of imagined messengers and committees adds a playful, moral tone to their bedtime chat.
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Mr. Sun
Mr. Moon
Olnce
Moon
Starlit Way
Love Committee
Bastinado described as cruel punishment in war tale
The piece condemns bastinado as a brutal torment used on prisoners in a narrative about French warships in the Mediterranean. It compares the torturous method to spiritual trials, arguing small daily temptations wear down willpower much like repeated blows, urging steady progress in faith.
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Mediterranean Sea
Satan
Turn Mirth into Crime
A playful suggestion shows how punctuation alters meaning from mirth to crime, illustrating wordplay that shifts a man’s laughter into a manslaughter implication through a single punctuation change.
The Best Is Yet To Be Quote by Hillis
Dr Newell Dwight Hillis proclaims the best is yet to be for all men from small to great, urging continual ascent from seed to sheaf and acorn to oak, noting life as a series of rising climaxes and future growth.
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Paul
Earth
Sim
Newell Dwight Hillis
D. D
Tame Barnyard Turkey Incident In Ward Room Dinner
Shiny Jones, a mess attendant, bought a tame barnyard turkey for a special dinner on instruction from a ward room caterer. The bird served had buckshot. Jones admitted the meat was from the turkey he purchased with cash. The caterer noted the plate showed a tame bird, while Jones claimed the buckshots were meant for him.
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Shiny Jones
Ward Room
Shiny
Golden Rule Inspires Street Brawl Remark
Two men clashed in the street and their hats toppled into the dust. A bald man grabbed the hair of his opponent and dragged him as bystanders quoted the saying about living by the golden rule and doing to others as one wishes to be done.
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Splelen
Niagara
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You
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Shining Street
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