Labor dehumanized by clerks in Boston era text
A fragmentary poem-like passage describes a working woman worn by toil and poverty. It portrays a "wash woman" enduring a full day and then being asked to work for less, with faded hands and a plea to a higher authority, implying exploitation of the poor.
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Donnelly, Rayl & OO
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Perelce
Eacrett
Ghostly midnight visit teaches charity to the living
In a haunted cemetery a pale guide urges Mrs Gordon to abandon praise of the dead and confront living poverty. The vision ends with her waking beside Meg, and the lesson that charity, not wreaths, blesses the living as they help the needy.
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Emerson on Women's Suffrage at New England Assoc.
Ralph Waldo Emerson speaks at the New England Women's Suffrage Association anniversary in Boston. He endorses suffrage as a humane policy, calls for honest voting, and urges equal access to education and public life for women, stressing joint leadership with men.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
New England Women's Suffrage Association
Lapigs
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A Woman’s Dream in Moonlit Hope and Choice
A Chicago reader recalls Angeline and Edgar in a moonlit exchange about love, beauty, and choosing a blue fringe for a new walking suit over purple velvet. The scene reveals An geline’s private, holy thoughts and Edgar’s earnest curiosity as he pleads to understand.
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Eldorado
A World Tour Costs and Timings From A London Note
A London paper debates the cost and duration of circumnavigation, quoting Kendal hiring fairs and labor markets while outlining Coffin’s Our New Way Round the World. It discusses wages, social scenes at fairs, travel routes, timing, and a detailed cost table from New York to London and back via Pacific routes.
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Danube
Greece
Italy
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California
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Ceylon
Delhi
Allahabad
Suez
Marseilles
Captain Webster Reaches 104, A Life At Sea And Letters
Capt John Webster 104 born in Dublin 1746 came to the U S in 1778 apprenticed in Georgetown to Noble and Crabtree ship owners. He sailed seventy five years, knew Daniel Webster and Washington, and reads without spectacles at Sailors Snug Harbor, aged 104 with proof in black and white.
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Bride to be laid to rest in bridal dress after smallpox death
A German young woman died at Cincinnati's smallpox hospital as her wedding approached. She requested her fiancé not attend and to be buried in her bridal gown, and strangers laid her in a coffin while dear voices whispered goodbye. Friends marked the burial site for those who knew her.
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