Bless dear papa and make him good and happy
A young mother fears for her absent husband as their child prays at bedtime. In a related city scene a man tempted by wine chooses not to drink, and a kneeling child’s prayer follows him, moving him to seek repentance. He returns home to a purified family, aided by the child’s faith.
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Yeal
Birdie
David
Riaing
Iaat
Danger
Leas
Inez
Jheobe
Iisa
Pope
Bun
Thia
Uncertain Faith Asked for Strength in Trial
A troubled speaker seeks resilience from divine mercy in face of unknown future pain. The verse asks for strength to bear hardship and for prayers to help reach a safer, healing path, trusting in a higher care.
Paris Quay Dog Ponto and the Loyal Rescue Plot
An uncle recalls a Paris quay tale of a dog named Ponto bound for drowning by his master. The canine fights back, saves his master, and earns mercy as a bystander buys the dog, then a kind woman feeds him. The dog becomes beloved and spared, ending the story with the dog’s contented old age.
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Paris
Ponto
A Word to Parents on the Value of Home Music
A lengthy exhortation urging parents to invest in a musical instrument for the home. It argues music elevates morals and intellect, relaxes anger, and strengthens family bonds while offering future earnings for daughters as teachers.
Conjugal Friendship and the True Value of a Wife
The passage extols intimate friendship with a wife as the highest form of partnership. It contrasts men's friendships, often business shaped, with women's generous fidelity. A wife becomes a true friend through mutual trust, intelligence, virtue, and continuous self cultivation aligned with her husband’s values.
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Tillawan
Bieg
Uhso
The Importance of Sleep for Family Health
An American Indy correspondent urges every family member to value sleep as essential for vitality and well being. It contrasts voluntary and involuntary body functions, notes sleep's role in restoration, and discusses habits, noise, maternity fatigue, and the need for adequate rest across ages.
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Stearns
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Ctias A Smith
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Boston
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Liggett & CO
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Wade
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Meraldry
Evening News sardonic column on election aftermath
A late night window vignette describes a moonlit street scene on C street with a gin mill and apple stand, then pivots to election aftermath and humorous bets. The piece mocks political factions, local gossip, and public display as it names figures and events in a satirical tone.
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Evening News
Felix McCluskey
H. G
Felix
Andy
Tammany Hall
New York
Sam
Hors du Combat
Cassia
What Breaks Down Young Men
A lecture warning on college vice and overwork cites Harvard mortality data to claim early deaths rise among lower scholarship groups. It links late hours and indulgence to rapid bodily decay, noting the dangers of dissipation and “amashes” on brains, heart, liver, and bones.
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Harvard University
Pierce
Morpheus
Euclid
Sayings of Dean Swift on life and humanity
Wry meditations on happiness and folly. Swift notes that merry faces lie in mourning, marriages fail from distraction, ambition pulls men toward base acts, and small setbacks derail the mighty. Death comes for all, yet memory fades quickly as time moves on.
Fattening Poultry Diet Itinerary and Care Tips
The article outlines fattening fowl feeding with sweet oatmeal or barley meal mixed with milk or water, fed three times daily. It stresses clean troughs, constant fresh water, gravel, occasional greens, and fattening aids like fat from mutton suet. It notes a 2–3 week fattening window and proper humane slaughter timing.
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States of America
Household Recipes and Remedies From Plain Language Guide
A collection of kitchen and household instructions includes a breakfast batter with milk eggs and flour, tin cleaning advice using suds and whiting, a Boston gingerbread style mix with fruit and molasses, rust removal for tools with lime, a puff pastry bake with apples, a perpetual paste recipe, and a salve recipe using resin tallow and beeswax for sores and cuts with step by step preparation.
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Fragmented excerpt blends poetry and society notes from the era
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Somers
Stockbridge
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