Draught woes in parlor spark windy misadventures
A narrator recounts a Boston style tale of a severe parlor draught. The aunt complains of chilly air while improvised remedies fail and the landlord’s faulty windows provoke a battle with weather strips. The account blends humor and hardship as ventilation mishaps drive a family to drastic measures.
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Isis
Boston
Howard
O'Ecord
Aisk
Alea
Sant
Sava
Wind River
Gopteman
Praquire
Agy Aant
Maude
Maud
Brooklyn Bridge
Greenwood Cemetery
Howard Frecorse
Apparitions And Imagined Visitors Across Histories
A fragment discusses belief in supernatural visitors and echoes a literary essay on famous figures who purportedly met specters. References range from Goethe and Pope to Descartes and Cromwell, noting how visions influenced thought and temperament amid a restless, haunted imagination.
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Goethe
Pope
Byron
Spector
Count Emmanuel Swedenborg
Lorela
Pampeluna
Descartes
Bin
Olver Cromwell
England
Bon Jonson
Bostock
Geures
Duty of Capitalists and the Wealth Gap Debate
A speaker argues that wealth growth outpaces population, noting rising wages for workers yet vast poverty at the bottom. He urges education, thrift, and associations to reform urban life, stressing duties of the rich to alleviate suffering and foster an educated public for just governance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna S. Hewrtt
The Adventuress in New York City Exposed as a Dangerous Femme
A moralizing 19th century portrait describes the New York adventuress as selfishly driven by vanity and pleasure. It traces her rise from a village belle to a city rambling coquette who manipulates lovers, forges letters, and seeks wealth, then faces social ruin and violence when confronted by a protective husband or suitor. The piece ends warning that men value beauty over virtue, while criticizing both society and morality.
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Laot
New York
United States
Tom
Minnesota
Texas
Joaquin Miller
Data
Syracuse
Restling
Albany
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Woward
Maede
Ede
Adram
Hewitt
House of Lords
House of Commons
Poeresses
Eddie
Angelina
Edwin
Sir Joshua Reynolds
AURAM
Itewitt
NYMN
Crinele
Eve
Tulie
Tulia
Broadway
Hera
Essex Street
Kankakee
Galveston
Dames
Ibly
Rember
Hood
Johnson
Acitar Voles
France & Ottman
Medical and Surgical
Smasiveta
Gol Shaan ‘Ouio
Yiait Bridgeport
Sherman Hasen
Teasday
Dosever I
Ems Bellaire
Windsor Motel
Tharday
Geter Wor
Oa Ae
Ottman
Otratax
Thea France Medical and Surgical Institute
Vikay
W. Gay
Biate House
Colunsbum
Chia
Jedical
Atin Kan
Pack W. Kuen Johnson
Furniture
Alex
FREW
Sera Sones
Alex Anggr
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