The Poor Washerwoman and a Life of Strain
A home periodical sermon laments modern girls abandoning simple play and asks for healthier childhood. A Chicago court note discusses alien naturalization in Recorder's Court. A long moral tale recounts Ada Raleigh, a washerwoman, and a bravely devoted wife who, over years of toil, misses a last visit with her dying husband, prompting a plea to kindness toward workers and a memory of a child’s sacrifice.
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Miss
Mamma
Home Journal
Circuit Court
Chicago
George W. Green
Bremner
Recorder’s Court
Morris
Recorder's Court
Act of Congress
Supreme Court of
Ilinois
R. S. Wilson
Buff. Com
Adv
Susan
Mary
Adaline Raleigh
Land of Light
Mor
Eden
Edward
Adaline
Mrs. Merton
Tun Samaru
Spoons Mystery at Long Island Summer Hotel
A fashionable Long Island hotel hosts four dapper guests who dine lavishly and drink heavily. They trick the unaware landlord into blindfolded “Spoons” theft, abscond with plate and candles, then flee in a carriage. The host later discovers the loss and battles the waiter in a chaotic scene as the prank ends in ruin.
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Long Island
Land of the Living
Sam
Harry
Joe
Bill
Darkey
Ham
Beaufert quotes on gypsy fraud and earthly destiny
A Devon shire paper recounts a gypsy swindle where a mother pays 22 pounds and 20 sovereigns to cure a child believed bewitched, then the impostor vanishes. The excerpt then ponders earthly life versus a higher realm, arguing humans seek a destiny beyond earth with stars and rainbows forever.
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Ry” Gross
England
Devonshire
Gipsey
Earth
Hartford citizens raise funds for suffering poor
Hartford Connecticut residents contributed 3730 dollars through about 100 individuals to aid the city's distressed poor.
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Hartford
Conn
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John G. Whittier
THE
Warren Mail
E. Cowan, Biller
T.d.edwards
Ludlow Building
Trask House
Curtis & Miles
Law
Pastonstrubabuchatas
Waterstreet
Warren, Pa
C. B
Curtis
John N. Miles
J. D. James
Exchange Building
L. T. Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren, Warren Co
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown
S. Warren
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Ludlow
Warren
S. P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Scofield & Brown
Waterst
Glenni
W. Scofield
William D. Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co
H. J. Taylor
Front
Hickory Streets
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
Pennsylvania
M. Williams
I. &Ec
Te Pimperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Dorwin Greene
Mansion House
Summerton & Church
Water St. Warre
H.w.ratabun
Breeze Point
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
Erie
P.R. Bennett
George Sailor
Mayuufacturer
Hall
Mei
Warren Pa
R. D. Ward
Dunkirk
N.Y
N. Y
Buffalo and
State Line
Benjamin Nesmith
Temperance House
P. S. Cour
the Court House
Carver
J. J. Hart
Hickory
E. M. Pierce
Third
L. E. Guignon
G. Hames
Benson & Co
Kapple
Watson & Rogers
Pittsfield
James L. Acocks
Warren, Co
Mrs
Caroline B. Soule
Ada
Dodge’s Literary Museum
MR. Ladle
Sir Robert Peel
Washington
Guizott
Mount Vernon
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