item: #1 of 45 id: 13545 author: Thomas, Edith May Bertels title: Mary at the Farm and Book of Recipes Compiled during Her Visit among the "Pennsylvania Germans" date: None words: 140549 flesch: 81 summary: In the morning, added flour to make a soft dough, kneaded lightly for ten minutes, placed in bowl and set to rise again. Said Aunt Sarah, The lack of system in housework is what makes it drudgery. keywords: add; aunt; aunt sarah; bake; baking; batter; boiling; boiling water; bowl; bread; bread flour; brown; cake; cold; cook; cool; corn; cover; cream; cup; cup butter; cup milk; cup sugar; cup water; cups flour; cut; day; dish; dough; eggs; farm; fat; fine; flavor; flour; following; fruit; german; good; half; home; hot; hours; juice; lard; lemon; light; like; mary; meat; milk; minutes; mixture; morning; oven; pan; pepper; pie; pieces; pinch; pint; place; potatoes; pound; powder; pudding; quantity; quart; range; recipe; rise; salt; sauce; schmidt; set; sour; sponge; stand; stir; tablespoonful; teaspoonful; time; use; warm; water; white; yeast; yolks cache: 13545.txt plain text: 13545.txt item: #2 of 45 id: 14153 author: Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir) title: Westways: A Village Chronicle date: None words: 162391 flesch: 90 summary: Mr. John Penhallow, as they said at Westways, going on seventeen, gathered much of interest in reading and re-reading this letter from Miss Grey. Said John, with something of his former grown-up manner, It appears to me that we never were friends. keywords: ann; ann penhallow; aunt; aunt ann; away; billy; boy; colonel; course; day; days; dear; doctor; face; fell; general; god; good; great; grey; half; home; house; james; james penhallow; jim; john; john penhallow; josiah; lamb; left; leila; let; letter; life; look; man; mark; mcgregor; mean; men; mills; mind; miss; moment; mrs; old; penhallow; people; peter; pine; politics; read; right; rivers; rose; saw; set; sir; squire; talk; tell; things; thought; time; tom; uncle; want; war; westways; wife; woman; word; years; yes; young cache: 14153.txt plain text: 14153.txt item: #3 of 45 id: 15135 author: Hergesheimer, Joseph title: The Three Black Pennys: A Novel date: None words: 94608 flesch: 78 summary: Here's Mr. Howat Penny, she called over her shoulder. This is Miss Jannan and Mr. Howat Penny. keywords: arm; black; brundon; caroline; child; cold; countenance; course; dark; david; day; door; end; essie; eunice; expression; eyes; face; father; feeling; forge; furnace; gilbert; gilkan; gold; good; grey; half; hand; head; house; howat; iron; james; jannan; jasper penny; left; life; low; ludowika; man; mariana; men; mother; mrs; myrtle; new; night; past; penny; place; polder; present; room; rose; saw; scofield; sense; shadrach; silk; stephen; susan; table; things; think; thought; time; voice; way; white; winscombe; woman; years cache: 15135.txt plain text: 15135.txt item: #4 of 45 id: 16797 author: Seiss, Joseph Augustus title: Luther and the Reformation: The Life-Springs of Our Liberties date: None words: 41923 flesch: 66 summary: His memory was a museum of historical information, anecdotes of great men, and old German literature, songs, and proverbs, to the latter of which he made many rich additions from his own genius. Their characters are so massive, and their position in history is so towering, that other men can hardly get high enough to take their measure. keywords: cause; christ; christian; church; commonwealth; conscience; day; diet; emperor; faith; footnotes; general; germany; god; good; government; gustavus; heart; history; holy; human; king; liberty; life; luther; man; men; new; penn; people; pope; power; reformation; religion; right; rome; soul; spirit; state; swedes; things; time; truth; way; work; world; years cache: 16797.txt plain text: 16797.txt item: #5 of 45 id: 17156 author: Lloyd, Nelson title: The Soldier of the Valley date: None words: 56871 flesch: 91 summary: I said that I hoped she would, too, but I didn't tell her that a hundred times a day, as I worked over the books in the office, I vowed that soon I'd take her there myself.' As Mrs. Tim, Mary added, for I was folding up the letter. As Mrs. Tim, evidently, said I. Poor old Tim! keywords: black; bolum; boy; brother; captain; day; eyes; face; girl; good; half; hand; head; holmes; home; house; left; life; long; man; mark; mary; mind; mrs; night; perry; saw; school; teacher; tell; thomas; thought; tim; time; tip; valley; way; weston; woman; world cache: 17156.txt plain text: 17156.txt item: #6 of 45 id: 22297 author: Howells, William Dean title: The Coast of Bohemia date: None words: 73701 flesch: 83 summary: His note enclosed a letter from Dickerson to Ludlow, which ran: Although you are a stranger to me, I feel an old friend's interest in your engagement to Miss Cornelia Saunders, of which I have just been informed. The sight of Cornelia standing bag in hand there, seemed to drive them to a frenzy of hope; several newsboys, eager to share their prosperity, rushed up and offered her the evening papers. keywords: art; believe; burton; care; charmian; come; cornelia; day; door; girl; good; hand; home; know; left; letter; life; look; ludlow; man; maybough; miss; moment; mother; mrs; new; people; picture; right; room; saunders; synthesis; thing; thought; time; want; way; westley; wetmore; work; york cache: 22297.txt plain text: 22297.txt item: #7 of 45 id: 22370 author: Curtis, Alice Turner title: A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia date: None words: 38603 flesch: 84 summary: Hero welcomed Ruth home, and seemed to be trying to tell her something. You need not give me your garland; I don't want it, or anything to do with you, and before Ruth could say a word in reply Annette had joined a group of the older girls, and was evidently telling them her opinion of Ruth Pennell. keywords: aunt; aunt deborah; betty; day; deborah; door; english; general; gilbert; girls; hero; home; house; lafayette; mother; mrs; pennell; play; ruth; thee; thought; winifred cache: 22370.txt plain text: 22370.txt item: #8 of 45 id: 22471 author: Wolf, George D. title: The Fair Play Settlers of the West Branch Valley, 1769-1784 A Study of Frontier Ethnography date: None words: 49772 flesch: 62 summary: Secondly, Fair Play men were members of the Committee of Safety, a fact which suggests that their efforts may have been coordinated. The women, too, exchanged visits and, on occasion, gathered at one place for quilting or other mutually shared activities.[10] Furthermore, the frontier journalists often noted the fine hospitality and congeniality of their backwoods hosts.[11] Further evidence of the egalitarian influence of this frontier is found in the joint participation of Fair Play settlers in voluntary associations.[12] keywords: = =; american; antes; area; branch; branch valley; colonial; community; county; creek; democracy; english; fact; fair; fort; frontier; historical; history; ibid; indian; irish; john; journal; land; life; lycoming; meginness; national; new; northumberland; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; pine; play; play men; play settlers; play system; play territory; right; scotch; settlement; society; state; susquehanna; system; tiadaghton; treaty; turner; valley; west; west branch; william; york cache: 22471.txt plain text: 22471.txt item: #9 of 45 id: 23068 author: Kingston, William Henry Giles title: My First Cruise, and Other stories date: None words: 36021 flesch: 83 summary: And rich men feasted Tiny, and taught him to drink wine: and great men praised him, and flattered him till he believed that their praise was precious above all things, and that he could not live without it! Poor little thing! _ keywords: away; bellerophon; came; child; chimaera; come; day; eyes; father; girl; good; hand; head; horse; israel; man; men; mother; old; pegasus; people; saw; thought; time; voice; water; way cache: 23068.txt plain text: 23068.txt item: #10 of 45 id: 23108 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Chester Rand; or, The New Path to Fortune date: None words: 56844 flesch: 93 summary: Well, Mr. Tripp, she said, Chester Rand's got home. He saw instinctively that his relations with Mr. Mullins were not likely to be cordial, and he suspected that if the bookkeeper could get him into trouble he would. keywords: bookkeeper; boy; business; chester; dollars; fairchild; felix; friend; good; man; money; mother; mrs; mullins; new; office; pay; place; ralston; rand; silas; sir; store; time; tripp; week; work; york cache: 23108.txt plain text: 23108.txt item: #11 of 45 id: 25970 author: Darlington, Richard title: A Full Description of the Great Tornado in Chester County, Pa. date: None words: 11162 flesch: 70 summary: As clouds of smoke and dirt rolled up through the mass and were carried around by the rotary motion, the appearance was that of an immense building on fire. About two o'clock on the afternoon above mentioned, after arousing from a nap, I observed that clouds were gathering and distant thunder was muttering to the north-west. keywords: buildings; cloud; direction; dollars; east; house; loss; property; south; storm; track; trees; west cache: 25970.txt plain text: 25970.txt item: #12 of 45 id: 27669 author: Walker, James Herbert title: The Johnstown Horror!!! or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin date: None words: 121197 flesch: 80 summary: It did not occur to any one until lately to get any nurses from other places to take care of the patients, and even now most of the nurses are Johnstown people who have lost relatives and have their own cares. Johnstown people surviving the destruction appear to bewail the death of the Fisher family. keywords: afternoon; bodies; body; bridge; bris; buildings; cambria; children; city; company; conemaugh; dam; day; dead; death; disaster; family; feet; fire; flood; force; fork; general; half; home; hour; house; hundreds; illustration; iron; johnstown; left; life; like; lives; loss; lost; man; mass; men; miles; morning; mother; new; night; number; o'clock; past; pennsylvania; people; pittsburgh; place; point; railroad; relief; river; roof; ruins; saw; south; standing; station; stone; story; stream; street; time; train; valley; water; way; wife; women; work; wreck; years; young cache: 27669.txt plain text: 27669.txt item: #13 of 45 id: 29313 author: Hitchcock, Frederick L. (Frederick Lyman) title: War from the Inside The Story of the 132nd Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry in the War for the Suppression of the Rebellion, 1862-1863 date: None words: 87926 flesch: 75 summary: JACOB REDFIELD, corporal, mustered in Aug. 15, 1862; promoted from private Sept. 18, 1862; wounded at Chancellorsville, Va., May 3, 1863; mustered out with company May 24, 1863. MICHAEL HOUSER, second lieutenant, mustered in Aug. 15, 1862; promoted from private Jan. 14, 1863; mustered out with company May 24, 1863. keywords: antietam; army; aug; battle; boys; brigade; camp; captain; certificate; chancellorsville; charles; co.; colonel; command; company; corporal; corps; day; days; dec; discharged; division; duty; enemy; feb; field; fire; fredericksburg; general; george; good; ground; head; hospital; james; jan; john; left; lieutenant; like; line; little; long; major; man; march; men; morning; new; night; officer; order; picket; quarters; rear; rebel; regiment; second; sept; sergeant; service; staff; surgeon; time; troops; war; washington; way; william; work; wounds cache: 29313.txt plain text: 29313.txt item: #14 of 45 id: 29334 author: Riley, Phil M. (Phil Madison) title: The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia date: None words: 61646 flesch: 57 summary: This variation in the windows of different stories is by no means an uncommon feature of Philadelphia houses, and, as in this instance, often came about as the result of alterations. Germantown Avenue, 77; of Vernon, 80; of Loudoun, 81; of Solitude, 83; Doric, of Cliveden, 88; of The Highlands, 92; of Bartram House, 94; the dominating feature of façade, 101; have character and individuality, 101; broad range of, in Philadelphia houses, 102; unlike those of New England, 102; high and narrow, and speak of Quaker severity, 102; recessed, 105; the simplest type of, 106, 107; of houses keywords: american; architecture; arrangement; avenue; brick; building; chimney; church; city; cliveden; colonial; cornice; detail; doors; doorway; dormers; entrance; floor; germantown; germantown avenue; hall; house; illustration; independence; iron; john; morris house; mount; number; panel; philadelphia; plate; pleasant; roof; room; round; sashes; second; shutters; simple; south; square; staircase; stenton; stone; story; street; street house; time; type; upper; upsala; wall; white; william; windows; wood; years cache: 29334.txt plain text: 29334.txt item: #15 of 45 id: 3043 author: Fisher, Sydney George title: The Quaker Colonies: A Chronicle of the Proprietors of the Delaware date: None words: 46966 flesch: 64 summary: Lord Berkeley and Lord Carteret had been given New Jersey because they had signally helped to restore the Strait family to the throne. In addition to giving Penn the control of Delaware and, with certain other Quakers, that of New Jersey as well, the Crown placed at the disposal of the Quakers 55,000 square miles of most valuable, fertile territory, lacking only about three thousand square miles of being as large as England and Wales. keywords: america; assembly; british; cape; church; colonial; colonies; colony; country; crown; delaware; dutch; east; east jersey; england; english; family; fort; french; government; governor; great; history; indians; irish; jersey; laws; life; little; modern; new; new england; new jersey; new york; pennsylvania; people; philadelphia; place; proprietors; province; quakers; region; revolution; river; scotch; settlers; state; swedes; time; town; trade; west; west jersey; william; years cache: 3043.txt plain text: 3043.txt item: #16 of 45 id: 31792 author: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell title: An Old Chester Secret date: None words: 24602 flesch: 92 summary: So, obviously, anything which was personal to Miss Lydia was public property. It was with the turning of her front-door key that Miss Lydia made public confession of secrecy--although she had resigned herself to it, privately, three months before. keywords: boy; carl; chester; doctor; father; johnny; lavendar; lydia; man; mary; miss; miss lydia; mother; mrs; robertson; smith cache: 31792.txt plain text: 31792.txt item: #17 of 45 id: 32454 author: Mayer, Brantz title: Calvert and Penn Or the Growth of Civil and Religious Liberty in America, as Disclosed in the Planting of Maryland and Pennsylvania date: None words: 18934 flesch: 58 summary: Can it be necessary for me to say a word, in Philadelphia, of the history of WILLIAM PENN;--of him, who, as a lawgiver and executive magistrate,--a practical, pious, Quaker,--_first_ developed in state affairs, and reduced to practice, the liberty and equality enjoined by his religion and founded on liberal christianity;--of him who _first_ taught mankind the sublime truth, that-- Beneath the rule of men entirely great The PEN _is mightier than the sword? Then, community of sentiment or of risk, bands them together in fervent support, and when the thing contended for is based on conscience and _eternal_ interest, instead of personal or _temporary_ welfare, we behold its pursuit inflame gradually from a principle into a passion,--from passion into persecution, until at length, what once glimmered in holy zeal, blazes in bigoted fanaticism. keywords: america; calvert; catholic; charter; christian; christianity; church; england; english; faith; george; god; history; holy; james; king; law; life; lord; man; maryland; men; new; people; power; protestant; religion; rights; sir; time; virginia; world cache: 32454.txt plain text: 32454.txt item: #18 of 45 id: 32650 author: Thomas, Hampton Sidney title: Some Personal Reminiscences of Service in the Cavalry of the Army of the Potomac date: None words: 13113 flesch: 69 summary: For a while General Sheridan seemed at a loss what to do, and suggested that General Gregg mount his division and try to break through the enemy's lines, so as to draw off the forces attacking our other two divisions, and thus allow Wilson's command to cross the Chickahominy, and that he (Gregg) rejoin the Army of the Potomac the best way he could, leaving his artillery with Sheridan and the rest of the corps. I afterwards learned that General Gregg was killed on that part of the field, and about that time. keywords: army; battle; brigade; cavalry; charge; command; corps; day; division; enemy; general; gregg; left; men; pennsylvania; rear; rebel cache: 32650.txt plain text: 32650.txt item: #19 of 45 id: 34406 author: Berkman, Alexander title: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist date: None words: 146321 flesch: 83 summary: New men are about the cell-house I've always advised new men to interest themselves in some study or fancy work,--it's their only salvation. keywords: act; air; aleck; assistant; away; bars; block; board; boy; captain; cause; cell; chaplain; chapter; comrades; damn; dark; day; days; dear; death; deputy; door; dungeon; escape; eyes; face; fear; feel; floor; frick; friend; girl; good; guard; hand; head; heart; homestead; hope; hours; house; interest; johnny; know; labor; law; letter; liberty; life; line; look; man; matter; mean; men; mind; moment; months; morning; mother; new; officer; open; opportunity; pass; people; place; poor; prison; prisoner; range; read; red; revolutionist; right; sentence; shop; silence; sir; smile; social; solitary; spirit; stand; step; struggle; talk; tell; thought; time; voice; wall; want; warden; way; work; world; yard; years; young cache: 34406.txt plain text: 34406.txt item: #20 of 45 id: 34427 author: Deland, Margaret Wade Campbell title: Dr. Lavendar's People date: None words: 70920 flesch: 88 summary: To no one but Dr. Lavendar--queer, grizzled, wrinkled old Dr. Lavendar, with never a romance or a love-affair that anybody had ever heard of--could Miss Ellen have showed her heart. Dr. Lavendar, cross, unbelieving, protesting, was to be hustled down South by Sam Wright; and the day before he started Mr. Spangler appeared. keywords: alex; alice; annie; barkley; chester; course; david; day; dear; dilworth; ellen; eyes; face; father; good; gray; hand; harriet; home; house; lavendar; look; lydia; man; mary; milly; mind; miss; money; mother; mrs; poor; rebecca; sir; spangler; things; thought; time; way; wife; william cache: 34427.txt plain text: 34427.txt item: #21 of 45 id: 35719 author: Colden, Cadwallader title: The History of the Five Indian Nations of Canada Which are dependent on the Province of New-York, and are a barrier between the English and the French in that part of the world date: None words: 67078 flesch: 75 summary: The Weather continuing very cold, and the _Indians_ averse to fighting, Major _Schuyler_ gave over the Pursuit on the 20th, having lost only four private Men, and as many _Indians_, two Officers and twelve Men Christians and _Indians_ were wounded. [Footnote 28: In the Straights between Lake _Erie_ and _ keywords: albany; belt; brethren; cadarackui; canada; chain; corlear; country; enemy; england; english; fort; french; general; governor; indians; king; men; mohawks; montreal; nations; new; party; peace; people; prisoners; reason; river; sachems; time; virginia; war; york cache: 35719.txt plain text: 35719.txt item: #22 of 45 id: 36126 author: Dwight, Margaret Van Horn title: A Journey to Ohio in 1810, as Recorded in the Journal of Margaret Van Horn Dwight date: None words: 18820 flesch: 77 summary: There are a number of good houses in it- We have once more got among people of our own nation & language- & they appear very clever-- Harrisburg- P- we expected to get good beds & were never so disappointed- We were put in an old garret that had holes in the roof big enough to crawl through- keywords: bed; day; good; half; house; journey; m^r; m^{rs; man; miles; morning; night; oblig'd; place; road; room; set; susan; tavern; thing; thought; time; waggon; wife; young cache: 36126.txt plain text: 36126.txt item: #23 of 45 id: 39998 author: Muybridge, Eadweard title: The Science of Animal Locomotion (Zoopraxography) An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements date: None words: 3561 flesch: 50 summary: E. M. 10 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, _August 1891_. SUBSCRIBERS. The results of this investigation are =Seven Hundred and Eighty-one Sheets of Illustrations=, containing more than 20,000 figures of men, women, and children, animals and birds, actively engaged in walking, galloping, flying, working, jumping, fighting, dancing, playing at base-ball, cricket, and other athletic games, or other actions incidental to every-day life, which illustrate motion or the play of muscles. keywords: -+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+--+--+--+ |; animal; berlin; john; plates; royal; sir; von; | points; | | cache: 39998.txt plain text: 39998.txt item: #24 of 45 id: 41030 author: Hulbert, Archer Butler title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 2) date: None words: 35269 flesch: 73 summary: Taking it through the years, few roads have remained of such constant benefit to the territory into which they ran, and today you will be told that no railway has benefited that mountainous district so much as this great thoroughfare. When we returned to the house I asked Mr Simkins to give me his name & the name of the place he asked me the name of the child I told him he took his pen & ink & rote the following lines Alligany County Marriland July the 14^{th} 1796 died John P Allen at the house of John Simkins at atherwayes bear camplain broadaggs old road half way between fort Cumberland & Uniontown.[29] keywords: black; breakfast; coach; company; country; creek; day; feet; genesee; good; great; half; horses; house; journey; lake; man; march; miles; new; night; north; ohio; people; place; river; road; route; set; state; time; town; turnpike; valley; virginia; washington; water; way; west; western; years; york cache: 41030.txt plain text: 41030.txt item: #25 of 45 id: 41067 author: Hulbert, Archer Butler title: Pioneer Roads and Experiences of Travelers (Volume 1) date: None words: 33693 flesch: 65 summary: And be it further enacted, by authority of aforesaid, that no wagon or other carriage with wheels the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be driven along said road between the first day of December and the first day of May following in any year or years, with a greater weight thereon than two and a half tons, or with more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be seven inches, or being six inches or more shall roll at least ten inches, shall be drawn along said road between the said day of December and May with more than five tons, or with more than five and a half tons during the rest of the year; that no carriage or cart with two wheels, the breadth of whose wheels shall not be four inches, shall be drawn along said road with a greater weight thereon than one and a quarter tons between the said first days of December and May, or with more than one and a half tons during the rest of the year; no such carriage, whose wheels shall be of the breadth of seven inches shall be driven along the said road with more than two and one half tons between the first days of December and May, or more than three tons during the rest of the year; that no such carriage whose wheels shall not be ten inches in width shall be drawn along the said road between the first days of December and May with more than three and a half tons, or with more than four tons the rest of the year; that no cart, wagon or carriage of burden whatever, whose wheels shall not be the breadth of nine inches at least, shall be drawn or pass in or over the said road or any part thereof with more than six horses, nor shall more than eight horses be attached to any carriage whatsoever used on said road, and if any wagon or other carriage shall be drawn along said road by a greater number of horses or with a greater weight than is hereby permitted, one of the horses attached thereto shall be forfeited to the use of said company, to be seized and taken by any of their officers or servants, who shall have the privilege to choose which of the said horses they may think proper, excepting the shaft or wheel horse or horses, provided always that it shall and may be lawful for said company by their by-laws to alter any and all of the regulations here contained respecting burdens or carriages to be drawn over the said road and substituting other regulations, if on experience such alterations should be found conducive of public good. After studying the ground I believe this is more or less incorrect; for what we should call Braddock's route was composed of many roads and tracks. keywords: company; country; day; days; early; good; ground; half; horses; house; indian; kentucky; lancaster; men; miles; mountains; new; night; ohio; old; pack; path; pennsylvania; philadelphia; pioneer; place; river; road; route; states; time; town; trail; trees; turnpike; united; wagon; way; west; winter cache: 41067.txt plain text: 41067.txt item: #26 of 45 id: 41271 author: Johnson, Willis Fletcher title: History of the Johnstown Flood Including all the Fearful Record; the Breaking of the South Fork Dam; the Sweeping Out of the Conemaugh Valley; the Over-Throw of Johnstown; the Massing of the Wreck at the Railroad Bridge; Escapes, Rescues, Searches for Survivors and the Dead; Relief Organizations, Stupendous Charities, etc., etc., With Full Accounts also of the Destruction on the Susquehanna and Juniata Rivers, and the Bald Eagle Creek. date: None words: 93214 flesch: 78 summary: In the gap above Johnstown water has picked up a four-track railroad covered with trains, freight, and passengers, and with machine shops, a round-house, and other heavy buildings with heavy contents, and it has torn the track to pieces, twisted, turned, and crossed it as fire never could. We would then have a total of flood water of three hundred and ninety million cubic feet. keywords: bank; bodies; bridge; building; business; cambria; car; cars; chapter; children; city; clothing; co.; company; conemaugh; creek; dam; day; dead; death; disaster; end; family; feet; flood; force; fork; friday; general; great; half; hours; house; iron; johnstown; june; lake; left; life; lives; lost; man; mass; men; miles; minutes; morning; mother; mountain; mrs; new; night; number; o'clock; pennsylvania; people; persons; philadelphia; place; railroad; relief; river; roof; ruins; saw; south; state; story; stream; street; sufferers; time; track; train; valley; water; way; wife; women; work; years; young cache: 41271.txt plain text: 41271.txt item: #27 of 45 id: 41392 author: Jones, U. J. (Uriah James) title: History of the Early Settlement of the Juniata Valley Embracing an Account of the Early Pioneers, and the Trials and Privations Incident to the Settlement of the Valley, Predatory Incursions, Massacres, and Abductions by the Indians During the French and Indian Wars, and the War of the Revolution, &c. date: None words: 108087 flesch: 64 summary: Allumoppies_, King of the Delawares, Shickallemy, and a number of other Indians of standing and influence, were brought before the council in Philadelphia, when the friends of Armstrong produced the following affidavit of those who searched for the bodies:-- _Paxton, April 19, 1744. In their conjectures that there were other Indians near they were not mistaken. keywords: armstrong; bedford; body; captain; chapter; children; colonel; county; court; creek; day; end; enemy; family; fire; following; fort; french; frontier; general; ground; half; holliday; home; house; huntingdon; indians; james; john; judge; juniata; juniata valley; land; lead; left; logan; long; man; men; miles; mill; morning; mountain; mouth; near; night; number; old; order; party; path; people; place; return; rifle; river; road; savages; settlement; settlers; shot; spring; standing; stone; time; town; valley; war; way; west; white; william; woods; years; young cache: 41392.txt plain text: 41392.txt item: #28 of 45 id: 41799 author: Searight, Thomas B. (Thomas Brownfield) title: The Old Pike A History of the National Road, with Incidents, Accidents, and Anecdotes Thereon date: None words: 179051 flesch: 68 summary: Heretofore in these pages the reader has been introduced to old taverns and old tavern keepers on the mountain division of the road, a long division covering two hundred miles, including the intervening glades and valleys. [Illustration: OLD TAVERN AT MALDEN.] From the Big Crossings to the Monongahela river at Brownsville the road passes through Fayette county, Pennsylvania. keywords: act; baltimore; bed; boys; braddee; braddock road; bridge; brownsville; building; business; chapter; charge; charles; city; clay; coach; coaches; commissioners; company; congress; county; court; creek; cumberland road; daniel; date; david; day; days; death; department; distance; dollars; driver; drove; east; end; father; fayette; feet; following; frame; general; george; good; government; half; henry; hill; hon; horses; house; illustration; inches; isaac; jacob; james; john; joseph; judge; keepers; keeping; late; law; left; life; line; little; living; location; long; mail; main; making; man; maryland; miles; miller; money; mountain; mrs; national; near; new; night; north; number; ohio; old; pennsylvania; peter; pike; place; point; present; president; property; proprietor; public; repairs; report; road; road stage; road wagon; robert; route; rush; samuel; short; sir; son; south; stage; stand; states; stockton; stone; stone house; street; tavern; tavern house; tavern keeper; team; thomas; time; toll; uniontown; united; virginia; wagoner; war; washington; water; way; west; western; wheeling; widow; william; work; years cache: 41799.txt plain text: 41799.txt item: #29 of 45 id: 44569 author: Boyer, Charles S. (Charles Sumner) title: The Diatomaceæ of Philadelphia and Vicinity date: None words: 57327 flesch: 73 summary: Sm., 95 dactylus Ehr., 103 var. Grun., 69 lævis Greg., 66 lineolata Ehr., 66 _mucronata_ H.L.S., 69 obtusa Greg., 67 ocellata var. keywords: apices; area; blue; broad; bréb; clay; cleve; coast; common; costæ; ehr; ends; fig; figs; form; frustules; greg; grun; j. pl; keel; kuetz; lanceolate; lines; longitudinal; margin; median; middle; narrow; navicula; nitzschia; pinnularia; plate; pseudoraphe; puncta; punctate; radiate; river; rows; species; striæ; transverse; valve; valve lanceolate; valve linear; var; water; zone cache: 44569.txt plain text: 44569.txt item: #30 of 45 id: 44579 author: Turner, Edward Raymond title: Slavery in Pennsylvania A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity with the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, 1910 date: None words: 31906 flesch: 80 summary: at L._, X, 72. [180] Martin, _History of Chester_, 480; Watson, _Annals_, II, 265; _Pa. Mag._, VII, 82; Davis, _History of Bucks County_, 798; MS. Cf._ also _Remarks on the Quaker Unmasked_ (1764). keywords: act; chester; co.; county; court; friends; gazette; history; ibid; law; laws; life; master; meeting; men; negroes; new; number; papers; pennsylvania; people; period; philadelphia; pounds; rec; servants; slavery; slaves; stat; time; white; work; years cache: 44579.txt plain text: 44579.txt item: #31 of 45 id: 44970 author: Kieffer, Henry Martyn title: The Recollections of a Drummer-Boy date: None words: 63063 flesch: 77 summary: A lieutenant received an iron slug in his back, while a number of other men were hurt. As we formed in line and marched down the main street toward the river, the sidewalks were everywhere crowded with people,--with boys who wore red-white-and-blue neckties, and boys who wore fatigue-caps; with girls who carried flags, and girls who carried flowers; with women who waved their kerchiefs, and old men who waved their walking-sticks; while here and there, as we passed along, at windows and doorways, were faces red with long weeping, for Johnny was off to the war, and maybe mother and sisters and sweetheart would never, never see him again. keywords: andy; army; away; battle; boys; camp; coffee; come; company; day; days; end; enemy; fall; field; fire; general; good; guard; half; hand; harry; head; home; illustration; left; line; look; man; march; men; morning; night; picket; rear; regiment; river; road; shell; tack; tell; tent; time; tree; war; water; winter; woods; work; years cache: 44970.txt plain text: 44970.txt item: #32 of 45 id: 46025 author: Various title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part II. The Place and Its Social Forces date: None words: 84876 flesch: 62 summary: Under the determined leadership of A. Leo Weihl, a Voters' League has employed such methods for keeping proper standards before the voters as have been successful in Chicago, Boston and other cities. The staff of the Pittsburgh Survey has had the privilege of submitting to many institutions and agencies the accredited results of recent experience in other cities and countries. keywords: agencies; alderman; allegheny; building; bureau; business; cars; cases; cent; center; charities; children; cities; city; civic; commission; community; company; conditions; cost; councils; country; court; day; district; east; end; families; family; fever; filtration; general; good; great; half; health; home; houses; housing; illustration; improvement; industrial; law; life; lines; man; means; mill; need; new; number; office; open; park; people; pittsburgh; pittsburgh district; place; point; power; present; public; relief; river; room; row; school; second; service; social; state; street; supply; system; tenement; time; transit; typhoid; water; way; work; year; york cache: 46025.txt plain text: 46025.txt item: #33 of 45 id: 46029 author: Various title: Charities and the Commons: The Pittsburgh Survey, Part I. The People date: None words: 81405 flesch: 69 summary: Many men also find here their one chance of meeting other men socially. And here, the inventor who works with many men in a great laboratory and scraps a thousand dollars' worth of experimentation at the turn of a hand. keywords: = =; allegheny; american; boys; business; cases; cent; children; church; cities; city; community; company; conditions; country; day; death; district; dollars; english; fact; families; family; father; force; girls; good; half; health; home; homestead; hours; house; illustration; industrial; industry; labor; left; life; living; man; men; mill; money; mother; need; negroes; new; night; number; pay; people; pittsburgh; place; population; public; railroad; room; school; second; slavs; social; state; steel; street; time; town; trade; wages; way; week; wife; women; work; workers; working; years; york; young cache: 46029.txt plain text: 46029.txt item: #34 of 45 id: 4760 author: Martin, Helen Reimensnyder title: Tillie, a Mennonite Maid; a Story of the Pennsylvania Dutch date: None words: 75541 flesch: 84 summary: Well, he said, I'd like wery well to do what you ast off of me fur little Tillie Getz. This is my niece, Tillie Getz. keywords: a'ready; absalom; board; book; day; doctor; eyes; face; fairchilds; father; fur; getz; girl; good; hand; head; heart; help; home; jake; leave; life; long; look; man; margaret; mind; miss; mrs; new; pop; right; room; school; set; table; teacher; thought; tillie; time; wackernagel; want; way; work cache: 4760.txt plain text: 4760.txt item: #35 of 45 id: 47655 author: Taggart, Marion Ames title: Six Girls and Bob: A Story of Patty-Pans and Green Fields date: None words: 80598 flesch: 84 summary: I'm Happie Scollard, and I live--I'm living this summer--on the next farm, the one that used to be Bittenbenders', Happie continued. asked Happie Scollard, a trifle impatiently. keywords: ark; aunt; bob; bradbury; children; day; dear; door; eunice; eyes; face; family; farm; girl; good; gretta; hain't; hand; happie; head; help; home; house; keren; know; laura; life; look; margery; mind; miss; miss bradbury; mother; mrs; new; penny; place; polly; ralph; right; room; rosie; scollard; snigs; tell; things; thought; time; want; way; went; woman; work; young cache: 47655.txt plain text: 47655.txt item: #36 of 45 id: 48631 author: T.B. Peterson & Brothers (Philadelphia, Pa.) title: T. B. Peterson's List of Publications (1857) date: None words: 13574 flesch: 81 summary: Price Fifty cents; or an edition on finer paper, bound in cloth, illustrated. Price Fifty cents; or an edition on finer paper, bound in cloth, illustrated. keywords: .25; .50; adventures; author; bennett; book; cents; charles; cloth; complete; cover; dollar; edition; illustrated; illustrations; life; love; mrs; new; octavo; pages; paper; peterson; price; sketches; volume; works cache: 48631.txt plain text: 48631.txt item: #37 of 45 id: 54350 author: Alger, Horatio, Jr. title: Jed, the Poorhouse Boy date: None words: 58580 flesch: 91 summary: For Jed Gilman, a poorhouse boy. I feel very much complimented, said Jed smoothly. Mrs. Fogson, said Jed, gravely, I am Jed Gilman no more. keywords: avery; bertram; boy; chester; day; dixon; dollars; fenwick; fogson; friend; gilman; good; holbrook; jed; letter; man; miss; money; mrs; percy; place; poorhouse; right; room; roper; sir; squire; thought; time; way cache: 54350.txt plain text: 54350.txt item: #38 of 45 id: 55627 author: Singmaster, Elsie title: Emmeline date: None words: 18504 flesch: 89 summary: At last Emmeline had to lead him to the roadside. I am Emmeline Willing, said she, with dignity. keywords: battle; bertha; christy; emmeline; gettysburg; grandmother; henry; home; house; men; mother; mrs; private; schmidt; soldiers; sound; willing cache: 55627.txt plain text: 55627.txt item: #39 of 45 id: 58315 author: Various title: History of the Fifty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Veteran Volunteer Infantry First Brigade, First Division, Third Corps and Second Brigade, Third Division, Second Corps, Army of the Potomac date: None words: 52898 flesch: 72 summary: Thus far everything went well for our side, but that charge of the troops which was to have followed the explosion, was miserably conducted, and ended with disaster and the loss of many brave men. In obedience to this call other regiments and battalions were promptly organized and forwarded so that by September 1, 1861, Arlington Heights and the environments of Washington were thickly studded with the camps of these new levies, and out of the mass was being moulded, under the hand of that skillful drill master, General George B. McClellan, that mighty host known in history as the Army of the Potomac, whose valiant deeds in the cause of Union and Liberty are co-eternal with that of the Nation. keywords: 1st; 57th; army; battle; brigade; camp; captain; colonel; command; company; corps; day; days; division; duty; enemy; field; fighting; fire; general; hill; house; june; left; lieut; line; march; mercer; miles; morning; near; new; night; officers; order; pennsylvania; picket; position; potomac; rear; regiment; river; road; run; south; time; troops; war; way; woods; works cache: 58315.txt plain text: 58315.txt item: #40 of 45 id: 58859 author: Rush, Benjamin title: Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 1 The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author date: None words: 82753 flesch: 68 summary: by N. | | 3 | 43 | | | | |SE. by N. | | 10 | 60 | | | | |SW. keywords: account; action; age; air; body; cases; children; city; cold; country; cure; day; days; death; diet; disease; doctor; effects; fever; health; heat; indians; instances; life; man; means; medicine; men; mind; nature; new; observations; parts; patients; pennsylvania; people; persons; philadelphia; physicians; practice; produce; remedies; spirits; state; stomach; subject; symptoms; system; time; use; water; weather; worms; years; | +; | | cache: 58859.txt plain text: 58859.txt item: #41 of 45 id: 58860 author: Rush, Benjamin title: Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 2 The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author date: None words: 91135 flesch: 66 summary: I shall not pause to inquire, why a mixture of land and sea air is so hurtful in the consumption, and at the same time so agreeable to persons in health, and so medicinal in many other diseases, but shall dismiss this head by adding a fact which was communicated to me by Dr. Matthew Irvine, of South-Carolina, and that is, That those situations which are in the neighbourhood of bays or rivers, where the salt and fresh waters mix their streams together, are more unfavourable to consumptive patients than the sea-shore, and therefore should be more carefully avoided by them in exchanging city for country air. Such connecting shades, appear between the extreme points of many other diseases. keywords: action; air; animal; blood; body; brain; cases; cold; consumption; cure; day; days; death; debility; disease; dropsies; effects; exercise; faculty; fever; general; gout; great; head; influence; instances; life; lungs; means; mind; moral; morbid; nature; pain; parts; patient; persons; place; pulmonary; pulse; remedies; remedy; state; stimulus; stomach; symptoms; system; time; use; vessels; water; years cache: 58860.txt plain text: 58860.txt item: #42 of 45 id: 58861 author: Rush, Benjamin title: Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 3 The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author date: None words: 91999 flesch: 70 summary: It is known in the southern states of America by the name of _inward_ fevers. The opinion which had been published by several physicians, and inculcated by others, that we had other fevers in the city besides the yellow fever. keywords: -----+------------+-----------+-------------+--------------------+ |; account; action; bleeding; blood; body; bowels; cases; city; cold; day; days; death; disease; ditto; effects; fever; m. |; month; pain; patients; people; persons; physicians; place; pulse; remedies; state; stomach; symptoms; system; time; vessels; water; year; yellow; | barom; | cloudy; | mrs; | ne; | rain; | therm; | weather; | |; | |days.|a; |30; |fair cache: 58861.txt plain text: 58861.txt item: #43 of 45 id: 58862 author: Rush, Benjamin title: Medical Inquiries and Observations, Vol. 4 The Second Edition, Revised and Enlarged by the Author date: None words: 77591 flesch: 69 summary: Inflammations and obstructions of the liver have been more frequent than in former years, and even the pneumonies, catarrhs, intercurrent, and other fevers of the winter and spring months, have all partaken more or less of the inflammatory and malignant nature of the yellow fever. An account of sporadic cases of yellow fever, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1800_ 101 _An account of sporadic cases of yellow fever, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1801_ 109 _An account of the measles, as they appeared in Philadelphia in 1801_ 115 _ keywords: action; air; bleeding; blood; body; cases; city; cold; common; day; days; death; disease; effects; fever; great; iii; inflammatory; letting; life; malignant; means; medicine; month; new; parts; patients; persons; philadelphia; physicians; place; practice; pulse; remedies; state; symptoms; system; time; use; vessels; water; weather; year; yellow; | | cache: 58862.txt plain text: 58862.txt item: #44 of 45 id: 61529 author: Hunt, Benjamin P. (Benjamin Peter) title: Why Colored People in Philadelphia Are Excluded from the Street Cars date: None words: 10038 flesch: 57 summary: Some remarks lately communicated to the New York Anti-Slavery Standard, on the continued exclusion of colored people from our street cars, leave the impression that no efforts have been made here to procure for this class of people admission to these cars. It seems that immediately on their appointment, they called on the respective Presidents of the nineteen street railway companies, and, in a courteous manner, requested them to withdraw from their list of running regulations the rule excluding colored people. keywords: cars; case; colored; committee; good; man; men; people; public; question; race; slaves; south; state; white cache: 61529.txt plain text: 61529.txt item: #45 of 45 id: 792 author: Brown, Charles Brockden title: Wieland; Or, The Transformation: An American Tale date: None words: 83112 flesch: 75 summary: At other times, these ideas seldom intruded. Take refuge in some cavern unvisited by human eyes. keywords: brother; carwin; cause; chamber; closet; danger; death; door; end; eyes; fate; father; fear; friend; hand; heart; hour; house; human; interview; length; life; light; man; means; mind; moment; nature; place; pleyel; power; present; purpose; return; scene; silence; state; thee; thoughts; time; voice; wieland; wife; words cache: 792.txt plain text: 792.txt