Newspaper as lifeline saves farmer’s family
An aging farm couple quarrels over a yearly newspaper. The wife’s insistence on keeping it leads to a small family rift but ultimately uncovers their missing son Alfred in the city, ill and far from home. The episode convinces the husband to value the paper and its news as a vital investment.
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Richard Heath
Millicent
Darling
Millicent Sleath
Aiusian
Alfred
Mrs. H
Richard
Mr. Brown
Mrs. Heath
Heath
Ceylon
America
The Broken Hearted or Crime Its Own Avenger
A Boston era piece contrasts marriage declines with population growth, citing 1850 4557 marriages versus 1808 2818. It discusses moral reform, recalls a Ceylon scene with a repentant husband and dying wife, and ends with health advice on sleep and rest for youth.
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Boston
Ior
Evasive Answer and Editorial Reflections from a Newspaper Page
The text recounts Father Conley instructing Patrick to offer an evasive reply to a Protestant minister and a humorous exchange about whether the minister was told the priest was at home. It then discusses the role of a newspaper editor, arguing editors are born to the calling and must judge what to publish to serve public ends rather than private interests.
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H. H
America
Pat
Rare O'neil
Father Conley
Calliog Patrick 4
Patrick
Riverence
Fragmentary Note Cites Mismanagement in Niger
A brief fragment attributes issues in Niger to ill management, noting no vice or folly. The readable text is sparse and lacks concrete names or dates.
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Niger
Men of Literary Genius in Conversational Portraits
A catalog of authors and poets describing their talkativeness or silence. Tasso Gray Dryden Dante Virgil La Fontaine Chaucer Dryden Ben Johnson Southey Kipling Bentley Goldsmith Burke Curran Leigh Hunt Carlyle and others appear as conversational portraits within a social frame.
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Tasso
Butler
Dante
Gray
Hogarth
Swift
Milton
Kirkwan
Virgil
la Fontaine
Chaucer
Dryden
Corneille Peesereayi
Ben Johnson
Southey
God
Iiditus Goldsmith
Curran Waga
Leigh [Unt
A River of Moral Influence Across the Alleghenies
The passage describes a spring in the Alleghenies growing into a vast river along Ohia then Mississippi, feeding villages, cities, farms, and steamboats, and finally joining the ocean. It likens the moral influence to a river boundless as eternity, swelled by time and purpose.
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Alleghenies
Ohia
Mississippi
Whimsical Fragments on Virtue and Folly From Old Writings
A collection of moral tales and quips: sermons, anecdotes, and satirical comments about vanity, duty, and human folly. Includes remarks on drinking, courtship, wealth, purity, and the limits of knowledge, weaving religious instruction with humor.
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Depo Worster Ou Atv
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Nue Flour West American House
Wooster
J . Winebrener
Fe. de Ou Lean
Co. Brauch Bank
Weested
Ohio
Harvey Howard
Wholes le Pats
Perfomery. &c
Merchant's Emporium
Wogster
Isaac N. Jones
Wittlesalebang
Exchung
Holl
West Literty Street
Wooater
Gee
Rochiabace Ji
Kauke & CO
Uardware
Cost Thouse
Juhuu
Wuulesala
J. H. Baumgardner & Co
Stuuvsary
Birkin
Waseter
Philo
A. H. Pierson
Woe Mater
Mitte
Oods & Cox
Wancracteres
Aradetne
Aalnu
Joan Huffstott
Wane Factures
Boots and Shore
West Lite
Ty Street
Exchange Hotel
My Uuster
Hunk & M
Paiuily
Cormer
Rael Gray
Alek
D Robison, Jr
Block
Weanster
RK. Donnelly
Willie
Frou Nails
Mammoth
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Frost & CO
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Froite
Ubi
Bose , Kaupman & CO
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Tron Block
Ohiv
H. Styler & CO
Wave
Boots
Sona Wesabe
Public Square
Obiu
Imgard & Brother
Talloch
Deyttare
Storrs & Lake
Pubia Square
Wonter
M'Donald, Laughlin & CO
WAVER
Euica
Wholegate and
Hetail
West Liberty Street
Wiaoter
B.R. Harrison
Wanleacturer
A. Wheester
Obie
William B Botsford
Jeet
West Liberts Street
Woostar
Howard House
Wooster, Obi
Iam Spear
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Barniture of All Ninds Wasdean
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Steve
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Two Miley Taf Wovster
Water
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Liberty
Dean
Wayne
South Market
Burget
Veater
Ubin
Henry Lehman
Aturney
Lan
Johnson
Republican Ofice
Ohlo
Martin
W. Keedsburgh
Wagon County
D. Holliday
North East
Lucas Flattery
Imgard
Wurater
JONES
Edgenh Pardee
LAAV
Kauke’s
Trou Block
Lenaoux
Martin Welker
Welker
W. Wooster
Plumer
Joen KE
Irvine
Groys
Po Jepyries
Charles Jeffries & Parsons
Holmes
Ashland
Medina
Stark
Suare
Wooster C. Parsons
VOX
LAW
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Smo
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Crney
Lamy
Linpe
Philadelphia
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Phree
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Furf
Thiat
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Boston Watchwan and Reflector
Case
Tam
Shakespeare
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Henry E F
Henry E. F
Hell
Clinieom
Nelly
Winney
Aed Th
Heven
Mary
Ata Tica
Great Wide Sea
Vance
Hall
Journal of Health
Parson Twiss
New Hampshire
Bsbe
Als
Besnela
Bumantte Ja Dhearyer
Pep
Yan van
Brorld
Amon Tas Elowe
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