We Are Sailing On to a Far Land
A short poem recounts a voyage at noon and under moonlight toward a distant shore. The speaker recalls warm days, violet fading, and a ship carried by breezes and stars. Despite changing seasons, the voyage continues under the guidance of an unseen band toward a distant, promised land.
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May Lennox
Boston Transcript
Hero of Saltham Pit and the Saltham Papers
In Whitehaven a mother and daughter seek stake in the Saltham pit. Richard Allenby forcefully seizes the papers. Gerald Peel, businesslike and devoted to Mary Allenby, navigates danger and deceit. After years, a mine accident exposes truth and Gerald's steadfast loyalty yields forgiveness and the papers' transfer.
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Saltham
Whitehaven
Mary Allenby
Gerald Peel
Saltham Pit
Gerald
Mrs. Allenby
Mary
Richard
Louisa
Allenby
England
America
Peel Place
Turing
Louisa Allenby
Malakoff
Vicksburg
Bayard
the Ledger
German lovage a sure grip cure praised by old man
An old man touts German lovage as a cheap, common remedy for the grip. He claims a pinch relieves symptoms within minutes and that a box costs a dime at druggists. The young man tests it and agrees it seems effective, urging others to try it locally.
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New York Times
A Beautiful Island Plantation in New Iberia
Harper's Weekly describes Joseph Jefferson's New Iberia plantation as a charming winter home. The island site features ten thousand orange trees, tropical flowers, abundant wildlife, and fish-filled waters. The Italic villa styled manor sits on a hill with views of the lake and the Gulf.
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Joseph Jefferson
New Iberia
Louisiana
Cleveland
Harper's Weekly
Nothing Mean About Her and Other Fragments
A collage of humorous vignettes and light anecdotes from a 19th or early 20th century humor column. It includes a Maine woman asking for scissors, waiter and stamp jokes, romantic quips, and multi‑panel exchanges ranging from marriage to social manners, with quick punchlines and character sketches.
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Maine
Counterfeit Milk Rumors Stir City Dairies
A dairyman reported to Dr. J. E. Sullivan the City Milk Inspector that a person has been offering to sell a recipe to artificially produce milk using drugs and chemicals. Sullivan notes such methods are old but detectable, and no sale to St. Louis dairymen has occurred. He cautions about low quality milk due to winter shortages, water and coloring to stretch supply, and warns against colored milk from diamond dyes or harmful substances.
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J. E. Sullivan
City
Sullivan
St. Louis
Mik
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Scotch Provers Sayings and Phrases in Scots Speech
A fragmentary collection of old Scottish proverbs and maxims. The text riffs on wisdom about breeding, honesty, aging, and social manners, with phrases like a good word, never growl, fair words break bone, and men at forty. The passage preserves regional idioms and moral adages without full context.
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Amelia E. Barr
Mean
Bingley
Chicago Tribune
Tom
Jack
Mr. Easy
New York Press
Lipsley
Miss Beacon
Lapsley
Harvard Lampoon
New York Sun
Fido
Black
New York Weekly
Ted
Erin
Glass
Panch
Tensoer-Hearted Boy
Willie
Tommy
Father
Juno
George
Boston Herald
Bingle