Speak No Ill and Seek the Good in All
Poem urging kindness and restraint in criticism. It promotes leniency toward others faults, urges speaking only of the best in people, and reflects on the brevity of life guiding humane conduct. The verses advocate a noble mindset and self-control in speech.
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Dr. Moore
Richmond Va
Gamaliel
Tarsus
France
John Calvin
Europe
America
Bacors
Seldens
Hales
Joneses
Mackintoshes
England
Jays
Boudinots
Marshalls
Kents
Maxwells
Sargents
Chaunceys
Prestons
Frelinghuysens
A Startling Confession and a Magnesia Cure
A saddler Mordecai Paine learns his wife Barbara attempted suicide to confess a string of hoaxes. She admitted breaking a pitcher, pawning silver spoons, swapping a razor, eloping with a boarder, and poisoning him with the wrong cup. The apothecary’s magnesia remedy saved her life. Paine ejects him in anger before officers arrive.
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Mordecai Paine
North Ninth Street
Barbara
Sentee
Mr. Paine
Mordecai
Mrs. P
Simeon Drake
Jade
Paine
Rascal
Phil. Press
The Horse Tamer in France Impresses Nobility
An American horse trainer, Mr Rarey, astonishes French and English elites with his methods. A government commission tests Rarey on a violent four year old, then a stallion at Tattersall's, showcasing calm restraint and effective discipline. Spectators, including M D Baylen and M Mackeni Grieves, applaud. Rarey requests three days with the horse.
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Gallignani
Rarey
France
Fleury
Mackendis
Havas da Cluny
M.D. Raylen
Chef de la Division Des Haras
Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce
Jockey
Cavass
Jockey Club
Mr. Ra
M. D. Baylen
Mackeniie
Vast London food appetite painted in grand tale
A late writer imagines London consuming vast food quantities. He describes cattle seventy two miles long, wool twelve miles, pigs ten miles distant, a cloud of poultry over fifty acres, and fish in billions. If all hams and smoked meats were piled they would form a pyramid two hundred feet square at base and twelve hundred ninety three feet high.
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London
Hyde Parks
Thames
Plan to destroy smut in wheat by lime boil method
An old reader shares a home remedy for killing wheat smut. Use five bushels wheat in a box with one peck lime, boil in water in an iron kettle, pour boiling mix on wheat, cover overnight. The correspondent claims the procedure safe after forty eight hours and effective.
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Prairie Farmer
A Wirn s Prayer for Marriage Blessing and Unity
A devotional prayer asks for blessing on a future husband and enduring union. It seeks long life, holiness, mutual support, and happiness in a devoted marriage, asking for humility, gentleness, obedience, and shared love of God.
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Ruth
Naomi
A Virelia Picture Debunked as Virginia Tale
A Wheeling Intelligencer item recounts a bizarre scene on the road toward the upper ferry. A four-animal team pulls an ordinary wagon with a white man, a crippled enslaved person, and a tamed skunk bound with straw. The improbable tableau is labeled as possibly untrue.
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Virelia
Wheeling Intelligencer
Virginia
Upper Ferry
Itinerant Actor Aspirant Fails To Weigh In
In Jersey a lanky hopeful, claiming to do any paying work, sought engagement with a traveling troupe. He shuffled in shaggily, boasted stage experience and landlord roles, but the manager declined, noting the company was already full. The tale ends with the aspirant not being hired.
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Jersey
Yaas
Seth Smith
Lady of
Four traits for a wife in a dated maxim
The piece quotes a Chinese maxim defining four qualities for a woman. It then posits a joking addition by a John Chinaman about intelligence and self knowledge, calling it a “veedag” view in the current era. The tone mocks dated stereotypes.
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John Chinaman
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