A Letter From Dakota And The Talk Of A New Home
A fragmentary text presents a love-letter dream of Dakota as a place of home and grandeur. Imagery contrasts domestic wishes with distant complexes, including references to furniture, carpets, and a vast walled landscape. The piece interweaves visions of marriage, travel, and a speculative settlement across regions like Mexico and Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wwe
Mexico
Fexas
Nebrasky
Alexis
Alaska
Pactor
Shaded London youth seeks home as Christmas comes
Wilfred Rolleston, a disaffected schoolboy in a fogbound London square, staggers through a day of gloom then brief elation. After a night of wandering he confronts a bleak reality at his home, reveals a life ruined by drinking, and faces Ethel Gordon, who tries to help as the truth of his broken past spills out in a haunting Christmas eve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilfred Rolleston
London
Longfellow
Rolleston
Lebavye
Um Ling
Lionel
Wilfred
Selig
Gordons
Ethel Gorton
Ethel
Ethelis
Eas
Howe
Iceman
Rodleston
Ethel Gordon
Ethel Rolleston
Longman’s Magazine
Jesus Christ
Messiah
God
David
Herod
Farm and Fireside Advice From a Rural Periodical
A compilation of farm sposób tips and household hints including animal care, crop notes, cooking ideas, preserves, and remedies. Topics cover keeping stables fly free, feeding turnips after milking, hardy Merino sheep, water for fowls, worm damage to wheat, mustard as a break crop, baking and cake fillings, butter storage, cucumber planting, pickling, orange short cake filling, and egg uses for burns and digestion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hera
Ronny Journal
The
Agricultural Gazette
Bostor Globe
Chicago Tribune
Weeds and Cultivation Methods for Farm Crops
The article contrasts garden weed control with field weed management, stressing soil condition, autumn destruction of weeds, and careful plowing. It warns against overreliance on hand hoeing, endorses cultivators or horse hoes for thorough, repeated cultivation, and notes risks to potato crops from excessive hoeing and shallow soil work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
Observer
A Glorious Country and the Golden Age of Politics
A satirical monologue contrasts a mythic republic with a corrupt political scene. It praises a paragon of honesty while lampooning presidential politics and media hype through a Burdette quotation from the Burlington Hawkeye. It references American ideals, public life, and the absurdity of campaigns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Colorado
United States
Telemandias
Too Clever and the Brisk Child to Manhood
A Waverly Magazine excerpt questions pushing precocious children too hard. It notes early talent fades unless nurtured slowly and warns parents against pressuring clever kids beyond their powers. The piece contrasts two Edinburgh schoolboys, John Scott and Sir Walter Scott, illustrating differing paths from early promise to adult stature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edinburgh
John Scott
Sir Walter Scott
The
Waverly Magazine
A Timely Shower Brings Rustic Laughter and Rain
In Texas Siftings snippet, a chatty farmer praises yesterday’s rain. One plans corn, another reveals no crop planted, and a church picnic lunch kept fresh by rain becomes dinner. The lighthearted exchange ends with a refreshed mood and nostalgia for country life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Religious trends and college admissions noted in period report
A periodical summary notes Catholic opposition to public school orders excluded, Princeton College expects about 140 freshmen with nearly 200 total intake. It highlights Mrs Spurgeon’s charity funding 42,000 books over six years for ministers, and Congregational churches in Rhode Island funding Home Missions, with Vermont congregations rising. Brooklyn seen as church-dense yet lacking episcopal growth. Religious statistics across 1800–1880 show Protestant decreases and Catholic rises amid unclassified categories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jowple Parker
Princeton College
Spurgeon
Molls
London
Rhode Island
Vermont
N. ¥. Examiner
Brooklyn
Bi Fy
Chicago Times
United States
Pungent Paragraphs Chronicle Oddities and Debate
A collection of witty snippets and observations from periodicals and sketches. The items range from humorous misreadings of words in glove shops to reflections on law, love, hotel life, and cremation debates. Names, places, and brief scenarios are cited in compact, era-appropriate voice.
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Dakota
O' Brien
Ieee
W.wf, Fink
Century “Magazine
Winehall Times
Psirol
Arkansan Treveler
Tlech
Sn Brishmav
Norristown Herald
Lours
Chicago
Carlo
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