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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1864
Page
1
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow reflects on labor and unfinished tasks that persist from dawn to night. The speaker likens persistent duties to a medicant figure at every threshold, bearing down with each passing day. The burden grows heavier, echoing Norse myths of dwarfs who bear the sky on their shoulders.
District and county ledgers list balances due from ex-treasurers across Ames regions and districts, detailing credits paid to treasurers, final balances due, and district totals. It records county commissioners and Alden Marsh items, expenditures by category, and outstanding debts across multiple townships and boroughs with names, districts, and monetary amounts.
A first person account of taking up skating, watching others, and facing the ice with a blend of humor and self deprecation. The narrator recalls shopping for skates, the crowd at the rink, a fall on the ice, and a stubborn resolve to endure the fashionably perilous pastime before conceding its perils and moving on.
The article mixes a portrait of a nurse, likely Florence Nightingale styled, with moral reflections on self‑control and charity. It follows with a collection of brief humorous epigrams, translations and Irish humor about manners, virtue, and social pretenses, including quips on gratitude time eternity God and marriage.
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