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Tee Eprred
Evelinn
W. C. M'Causlen
L. Harper
American Union
Market Street
South Side
F. & M. Bank
Coronation of Queen Victoria Draws Global Admiration
The article recounts the 1838 coronation of Queen Victoria with vivid detail on her dress, the grand ceremony, and courtly pageantry. It notes an amusing mishap when Lord Rolle slipped on the steps, and praises the event as the most splendid in English history while urging reflection on republican concerns.
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Victoria
Rolle
Europe
London
England
Sour Moons and Vinegar Magic at New Orleans Plant
A Southerner in New Orleans reportedly can turn cider into vinegar with a single look. He recently soured a hogshead of molasses in three minutes, prompting a recruiter from a large cider producer to hire him for the unusual talent.
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New Orleans
Buried in Sweets
A humorous gossip item from The New Orleans Picayune recounts a Black man dancing on a molasses hogshead on the levee, slipping as the head broke and he sank into the molasses with only his woolly top-knot visible.
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N. O. Picayune
Dream of Ice Wife Haunts a Bachelor’s Winter Night
A fifty year old bachelor recounts a dream where memory and love melt into ice. He wanders a palace of frost and meets his former beloved Caroline as a cold statue, then awakens shaken. He vows to marry now to avoid solitude and the chilling specter of loneliness.
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Anon
Caroline
Christendom
He Keeps His Word And Becomes A Happy Husband
The speaker notes a man has married, gained a loving wife, and blessed children. Since the marriage there are no further complaints about his earlier unfulfilled dreams, portraying a contented family happiness.
A Romantic Incident on the Erie Steam Boat
A couple follows a lover to a voyage from Buffalo to Detroit on the Superior. A young man pursues his beloved Mary against her parents wishes as they depart by boat, with Mary choosing love over filial duty. The scene ends with a dramatic farewell kiss and crowd applause.
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Erie
Buffalo
Detroit
Cleveland
Sandusky, &c
Superior
Sherman
Land of Promise
Michigan
James
Mary
Mine Own Beloved From the Knickerbocker June
From the Knickerbocker for June. MINE OWN. Thou art mine own my best beloved. A poem on enduring love and future scenes after youth fades. The speaker finds music in presence of beloved and imagines brighter months ahead despite fading joys.
Here you little rascal walk up and account for yourself
A father questions a boy about his whereabouts, noting a past pattern of mischief and urging accountability. The exchange emphasizes parental authority and familiar conflict as the boy admits to following girls. The scene conveys a domestic moment of discipline.
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Rascal
Steamer Ozard Strikes Snag and Leaks Near Sand Bar
The steamer Ozard traveling from New Orleans to the Arkansas struck a snag, tore a hole in her hull, and ran onto a sand bar. She filled to her guards as her freight was unloaded and the leak stopped, enabling her to be floated again.
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Ozard
N. Orleans
Arkansas
Poetry in the Shape of Everyday Wonder and Eternity
Portry defines poetry as a universal force found in love memory nature and spirit. It links poetry to smiles tears glory longing and the harmonies of wind rain thunder waves stars and seasons. The speaker declares poetry animates earth heaven and the sea and breathes through all existence.
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Eden Land
Death at Patent Office Hoist Crushing Warren Mitchell
Warren Mitchell, while at work at the new Patent Office building in Washington, was killed Monday when a rope broke while he was being hoisted to the summit on a block of stone. He was crushed to death.
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Warren Mitchell
Patent Office
Washington City
Editor Buys a Race Horse to Catch Runaway Subscribers
An editor in the West purchased a horse for two thousand dollars to aid in catching runaway subscribers. When asked why a journalist would own a racer, he explained the horse would be used to physically pursue missing readers.
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West
Parliament Consider Replacing Postage With One Penny Rate
The British Parliament weighs a major reform in the English Post Office to reduce letter postage to one penny across the kingdom, a shift that would lower costs for communications nationwide.
Appointment Fill at Western Reserve College Chemistry Professor
The Professorship of Chemistry Mineralogy and Geology at Western Reserve College is filled by Samuel St. John formerly of Yale College. The appointment has been accepted.
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Western Reserve College
Samuel St. John
Yale College
Railways boost passenger transport, Prof Lardner notes
Early remarks cite Dr Lardner proving railways raise passenger flow four to one after construction and fare hikes. A Missouri fatality from Independence dated the 16th is noted, Buckley blamed. A Boston inventor creates a piano tuning key for women. Grand Jury in Detroit fails to indict Dufort and M Kinny on neutrality charges. Miami University hears F W Thomas speak on the 8th proximo. Picayune reports Alabama cotton crop doubt. Wabash Erie Canal near completion in October 1839.
Appointment of Aaron O. Dayton as Fourth Auditor
President appoints Aaron O Dayton to be Fourth Auditor of the Treasury Department replacing J C Pickett who becomes Chargé dAffaires to the Peru Bolivian Confederation. The action updates key posts within treasury and foreign service.
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Senate
Aaron O. Dayton
Treasury Department
J. C. Pickett
Peru
Wealthy Canal Critique in Congress 1838
In the House, July 7 1838 Mr Duncan denounces excesses in public spending and a series of costly projects from 1835 to 1836. He attacks the Georgetown and Alexandria Canal, the DC debt liquidations, and turnpikes as wasteful, urging economy and exposing alleged profligacy by the opposition and its pamphlet ally Mr Bond of Ohio.
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House of Representatives
Bono
Ohio
Duncan
Cuntaman
Senate
Cumberland
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mr. Williams
Clay
Treasury
District of Columbia
Holland
Washington
Chesapeake and Ohio Canal
Demerara
Bank of the
Potomac
Alexandria
Bond
Virginia
Democratic
Administration
Col. Hopkins
Little Miami
Sycamore
Union
United States
Mr. Bond
New States, Population Rise Spur Public Office Growth
The passage argues that state expansion and population increases drive higher public expenditures and more clerks across the New York customs house Land Office War Department and post offices. It challenges Federal Bank reformers to prove retrenchment is possible and defends ongoing growth as unavoidable, urging reform only of ineffective clerks rather than elimination of offices.
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Pub ‘Lic
New York Custom-House
War Department
Bank Federal
Absalom
David
Supreme Court
Miller
Niagara Frontier
Colonel Benton
Cambreleng
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Whittier
Christian Sentinel
Knickerbocker
Dr. Lardner
William Yocum
Independence
Missouri
Buckley
Boston
Messrs. Dufort
M’kinny
Great Britain
F. W. Thomas, Esq
Erodelphian Society of
Miami University
the Picayune
Alabama
Wabash and Erie Canal
Lafayette
State Line
MR. Duncan
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