The Story of Some Hot Water
A narrative blends a Providence line train disaster that killed engineer William Guild with family fall from wealth to want, sibling charity, and a later revival via Grace Genlis’s rescue and Walter Genlis’s invention. It also weaves in a travel anecdote, Beecher and steam power anecdotes, and a brief look at steam’s rise from kettle beginnings to Fulton’s steamboat.
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Bret Hart
Tribune
William Guild
Meadow Brook
Stonington & Providence
Guild
Providence
Grace Genlis
Gustavus
Grace
Walter
New York
Genlis
Worcester
Ireland
James Watt
Scotland
James
Robert Fulton
Hudson River
England
Two Grace and Myra Payne in a winter parlour scene
In a dimly lit sitting room Grace and Myra discuss marriage to mechanic Walter Genlis and a Wall Street broker, debating class and happiness. Grace insists on choosing love and practical work over wealth, promising a content life in modest comforts with her future husband.
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Grace
Walter
Love
Mr. Linley
Genlin
Myra
Grace Genlis
Queen Victoria
Gustavus Linley
Walter Genlis
Gustavus
Aemeda
Mrs. Linley
Myra Payne
Wall Street
Sam
Peat Dealer Defends Braying Cart in Scots Quip
A Scotch peat dealer replies to a minister that his donkey brays when friends meet. The minister calls the animal a stupid brute, but the dealer answers with neighborly warmth, saying the heart is warm when friends meet.
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John
Do Not Shout at A Stumbling Horse Saysoft Voice and Kindness
The guidance urges calm, quiet firmness when a horse stumbles. It warns against shouting or whipping, noting the horse’s sensitive nature and tendency to panic. Instead, reassure with gentle voice to restore confidence and teach the desired behavior.
Names, usury laws, and a self-joke in a 1870s column
An Illinois editor sought senators and congressmen who refunded back pay. General Spinner notes 77 757.77 dollars returned, with many asking privacy. The New York Legislature tweaks usury law while Arkansas reports a man shooting himself over wife whipping. A Philadelphia Quaker quips about naming liars. A riddle puns on years 1870 and 72.
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Illinois
Treasury
General Spinner
New York
Danbury
Washington
Abraham Linkum
William Seward
Chile
Indiana
Waterbury
West
Sharon Times
Mercer Dispatch
George
The Enervation of American Women in Urban Life
Observations warn that prolonged indoor life and limited exercise cause pale, frail bodies. The text notes early aging from motherhood and contrasts American girls with English ladies, blaming hot-house living and dim rooms for rapid bloom and long-term thin, wrinkled appearance.
Humorous Fragments From A Bustling Era
A jumble of quips and anecdotes from a Connecticut paper noting oddities about eggs, funerary stones, divorces, clerics, and politicians. It blends jokes about authority, fashion, and social mores with regional dialects and curiosities, ending with a playful scene of a couple parting at night.
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