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A Words and Wounds Tale From an Old Ledger
In Arthur's Home Gazette a domestic debate unfolds over the hurt power of words. Aunt Rachel and narrator ponder sensitivity, with Mary Lane's rejected marriage offer and a tale of kindness shaping a lasting lesson on careful speech. Ages-old moral threads run through a Glasgow to Greenock coach anecdote.
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Rachel
Mary Lane
Mary
Walter Green
Walter
Glasgow
Greenock
Palsely
Bishopton
Reflection on virtue and enterprise from a moralizing sermon
The piece blends aphorisms on treason to self and world, urging effort, virtue, and perseverance as armor against life’s storms. It contrasts human folly with wisdom, cites devilish temptations and sanctimony, and praises commercial resilience and American ship progress within a broad moral frame.
Jury verdict quotes doubts in guilty finding
An English jury returned a guilty verdict in a criminal case with reservations that the accused might not be the man. The remark reflects the era's cautious verdict style while noting the aesthetic idea that a well-formed soul appears more attractive when in simple dress.
Rules for governing a paper and curious earth layers in Modena
The piece lists duties for readers and editors such as prepaying postage and publishing cards while noting it is proper to pay in advance. It then describes Modena Italy, where digging reveals chalk beds and a buried ancient city, with layers showing preserved trees, leaves, and shells over many depth intervals.
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Modena
Italy
Inventions and Oddities From a Bright Yankee Cooley
A witty Yankee named Cooley touts an iron pipe digging plan for California river bottoms that drains diggers’ gold and earns him a thousand dollars daily. A medical correspondent proposes a washing fluid recipe and a Thompson report estimates global currency and tax distribution. a Boston man notes 149 of 160 pretty girls were seen with parasol handles.
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Cooley
California
Boston
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Happy Hillside
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James T. Fields
Arthur’s Home Gazette
T. G. Arthur
Avery
Aunt Rachel
Jonathan
New England
Jim
Horra
Cunning
C. S. M’kee
Lof Hunt’s Merchant’s Magazine
England
United States
Tue Pemare
Water Cure Journal
Albany Dutchman
Thompson