Boy love the queerest, funniest afterlife fancy
A humorous meditation on boy love as a ritual of growing up and imagining manhood. The piece traces a boy’s transformation from a shy youth to a swooning admirer, complete with fragranced handkerchiefs, grand declarations, and comic raptures, as he worships a beloved and endures a carnival of hopes and heartache.
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Atiatus
Shere
Hisself
Cuina
Wamechatka
Perry Pilbers
Alorstle Angelna
Harry Beil
Darge
Mary Jane
Angelina
Rose Leaf No 2 Oddities and moral tales in a village hall
A fragmentary selection of 19th century vignettes recounts a gay gathering at Col Alton's hall featuring Cora and a playful game that ends in tragedy, plus snippets on moralizing tales from Norwich, temperance quips, and curious anecdotes. It includes a retell of historical proverbs, a trial in New Orleans, and relics of wedding anniversaries, religious satire, and scattered poems.
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Col.Alton
Cora
Dayton
Tipton Adverts and Church Schedules in Iowa Town
The Tipton advertising page lists subscription rates and legal notice fees for a local weekly, with various column widths and durations. It also runs a printer catalogue offering posters circulars pamphlets concert bills and notices, plus a schedule of religious services and fraternal lodge meetings in Tipton Cedar County Iowa.
Administrative notices and officials named for Iowa counties
A fragmented OCR item lists court and county officials for Iowa including Welles AWL BE, JDA of the County Courts and District Court, with names J. W. CATTELL Clerk, H. VIATT Recorder, Tressurer, tax collector S. DANIELS Prosecuting Attorney, M O. H. BIKELY Sheriff, GEORGE HUBER Deputy, JAMES HUFF Coroner, GEORGE WHISLER Surveyor, JOHN STUTHILL Sealer of Weights and Measures, and A. BAGLEY Agent for Sale of Intoxicating Liquors at Tipton. It also references county and district court scheduling notes and mentions connections to Muscatine, Davenport, and other local towns.
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W. TU
Judas
Montay Im Bey Lemper
Welles
Teraor Court
J. W. Cattell
H. ¢. Viatt
Tressurer
BS. Daniels
H. Bikely
George Huber
Siocim James Huff
George Whisler
John Stuthill
A. Bagley
Tipton
GENERAL DIRECTORY Population figures and rail line notes
Population of the county listed as 8000 with Tipton Rochester Cedar Blatt Durant Cambridge Massilon Carlisle and Mechanesville as towns. Post offices total eighteen including Tipton Rochester and several others. Notes on Gower's Ferry Cedar Trutts Welch's Ferry and Rochester Williams Ferry Massilon and a Cedar Vey Branch of the Mississippi and a rail line from Lyons to Iowa City.
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Tipton
Rochester
Cedar Blatt
Durant
Cambridge
Massilon
Carlisle
Mechanesville
Peedee
Springdale
Hicory Grove
Weet Breach
Want Hill
Lacon
Inland
Harwell Muslon
Onion Grove
Pioneers
Red Oak
Tipton Directory Entry Highlights Local Businesses
Directory from Tipton lists numerous trades in a central county area. It catalogs stores and services including dry goods groceries hardware clothing shoes bookshops watches jewelry furniture hotels tailoring boot and shoe shops vin and stove works printing shops wagon and carriage shops meat markets livery stables hardware and saddle shops seam finnings doctors liniments ministers and others.
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Geograpious
Generassorment & Groceries
Deuss and
M Dienes
Flaruoem
Stern Finninks
Fractured OCR List of Fraternal Lodge Meetings
A garbled historical OCR segment lists lodge names, meeting dates, and places. It mentions Rep Croan Longe No 26, Lepaw No 20, and O. PF, with events scheduled at halls on various Saturdays and Tuesdays, plus names like LORE REY and L. FYAN, in a Pierce County area.
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FP & A
Local Inns and Stage Lines Advertisement in Tipton Iowa
An old classified item lists PARK HOUSE in Tipton at the corner of Dubuque and Jefferson, CLOVER HOUSE on Walnut and Secona, and TEMPERANCE HOUSE by Patterson Flemming. It notes Tipton, Iowa, and the Tipton, Marion, Washington and Oskaloosa Stage Lines with baggage service free of charge.
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Park House
R. 8S
Tucker
Dubuque and
Jefferson Streets
Town City
Iowa
Clover House
F. L. Downing
Walnut and
Secona Streets
Muscatine
Tipton
Marion
Washington
Oskaloosa
theBoad
Temperance House
Plodtey and Miscellany Dark Side Poem Fragment
A fragmented poem explores moral contrasts, depicting the pull of darkness beneath bright virtue. It calls for scrutiny of sin within noble hearts, ending with a hopeful refrain that divine judgment and love prevail through struggle and reflection.
Death and Faith Comfort a Consumptive Woman
A consumptive young woman faces imminent death with fear and faith. Her doctor warns she cannot recover, while she asks her mother to speak openly of death to ease the final hours. The mother agrees and they seek solace in religion as seven months pass and she dies peacefully, celebrated by a pastor and loved ones.
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Sam
O'Lers
Gurl
Dr. Ellis
Liv
Amy
Earth
Woulso
Christ
Terrors
Appearance and Education of the Sultan
A portrait of Abdul Mejid, heir to the throne, notes his middle stature, jet hair and beard, pale complexion, and a melancholy yet kind gaze. It recounts his limited formal education, Ottoman tutelage conflicts, self-directed learning, and his later dedication to schools, hospitals, and factories after ascending the caliphate.
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Mahmoud
Abdul Me 'Id
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