The Smoking Habit Revealed in a Marriage Tale
A Western editor recounts Mattie a woman who smokes and keeps a hidden habit. Her husband Richard reacts with shocked humor. She defends the practice as shared pleasure and proposes an agreement to cut back. He concedes and dissolves the habit after a single challenged week.
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Mattie
Mattie Lee
Rishard Forest
Tuehard
Mattis
Poe
Aiastie
Sin
Ton
Richard
Mertha
Richards
Thad
Nieh Sim
Weila
Tivan
Woma
A New and Peculiar Literary Fragment Delicately Woven
A fragmented passage on first love contrasts pure maiden feelings with intense awakening passion. It transitions to brief notes about a stock breeders meeting at the Court House on 1907, and a series of moral and poetic vignettes praising virtue, Christianity, and gentle nature.
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Llearwen
South
Astar
Troops Headed to Utah From New Orleans Barracks
The steamer U A Kennett landed at Jefferson barracks with four companies about two hundred men of the 5th Infantry under Captain Sibly. They had been in Florida and are ordered to Utah. The Peter Tellon is expected soon with three more companies for the same destination.
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Uran
U. A. Kennett
New Orleans
Jefferson Barracks
Sth Infantry
United States
Sibly
Florida
Utah
Peter Tellon
St. Louis Democrat
Counterfeit Wine Company Reported by Paris Correspondent
Paris correspondent notes a joint stock company named the General Company of Fictitious or Counterfeit Wines sanctioned by the Prefect of Police. It claims no grape juice or alcohol in its wine, lists two million francs capital, twenty thousand shares, selling at four to eight sous a quart. Dividend rate six percent with reserves.
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Paris
Joural of Commerce
General Company
Letter from Old Suilion on Rollins and Stewart in Missouri
The May 2 1057 Washington City letter discusses Union Democracy, opposing nullification, and backing Col Rollins over Stewart. It notes Benton’s stance, calls Rollins the better Democrat, and urges continued communication with the Lenton Democrat.
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Bexrox
Suilion
Lenton
St. Louis Democrat
Washington City
H. B. Bransh
St. Louis
St Louis
Rollins
Stewart
Mrollins
Ife
Benton
Hollins
Mr. Benton
Fortunate Escape of Judge Treat After Train Fall
Judge Treat of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri fell from the hindmost car on an express train near this city last Friday. He lay insensible for hours, was not found until night, and resumed travel to Cincinnati once able. He sustained bruises but no serious injuries, and no train passed over him while he lay on the track.
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Jange Treat
Judge Treat
United States District Court
Missouri
Cincinnatti
Caciinnatti
Republican
Last Words and Mercy in Final Moments
The passage reflects on end times rhetoric and the last words of biblical figures. It contrasts threats in the Old Testament with blessings in the New Testament and considers how dying sinners often reveal the mercy they once refused. It emphasizes repentance near life’s end and the lasting impact of final moments.
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Jesus Christ
Christ
Wosan's Trane and the Unnamed Period of Growth
In early life a woman may feel moral and intellectual growth pause as the heart seeks an occupant. The essay notes some marry to spur their development, while others wait years, or move forward through humility and noble womanhood, redefining themselves.
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Wosan
A Woman of Strong Mind and Love in Old Advice Bits
Fragmented prose on choosing a wife and the value of a strong minded partner. It contrasts attachments from confidence and reason with feebler understanding, then shifts to miscellaneous anecdotes about manners, jokes, and observations, including a tale of a Persian waiter and a milliner encounter.
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Chile
Lewis
Riyas - Yanef
Saoula
Benald
Wade
Army worm ravages St Marys County crops in Maryland
Farmers in St Marys County Maryland face severe losses from army worms attacking wheat corn tobacco timothy and hay. The Leonardtown Beacon notes widespread destruction across Charlotte Hall and St Inigoes districts with many farmers already cutting grain as a precaution.
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St. Mary’s County
Leonardtown
Charlotte Hall
St. Inivee’s
Sone
Irish Quips in a Dickensian Market Scene
A rough Irish dialogue mocks tobacco, a weekly paper the Comet, and meals from Paddy’s kitchen. A garbled ad claims “Liou bited-steads and bedding” as a Haen sheet iron. Two young Irishmen enter a fracas. one asks if the other is dead, the reply is humorous and terse.
Ireland Letter Plea Sealed With Humorous Postscript
An Irish woman begs her lover for money in a letter and adds a humorous postscript noting Vinson was ashamed of the request, that the postman went after him, but the servant could not catch him.
Courting in the country versus city life differences
The passage contrasts courting in rural areas with city life, noting rosy lips, sweet cider, Johnny cake, and natural girls in the country, against city courting as formal, staged, and focused on appearance with starched manners and finery.
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Ale
Child writes sentence on dis prefix displays clever wit
A young pupil showing understanding of the prefix dis wrote a sentence on the board: Boys love to play but girls to display. The scene portrays a lively classroom moment as students learn about prefixes and meaning.
Youngster Seeks Opinion on Marriage from Dame
A young man asked a young lady her view of marriage. She replied she did not know and invited them to put their heads together to forge a definite answer, signaling wit over ambiguity in the social exchange.
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Fort Wav
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