Americas Union notice on publication terms
Printed and published by W. C. Sucausen and L. Harper the Americas Union appears weekly on Washington and Third street. Subscription is two dollars per year with half yearly advance of three dollars and year end payment. Advertisements run at usual rates. Letters to editors must be postpaid or they will not be attended to.
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the Americas Union
Washington and
Third Street
John Orr
Falk
Belshaz Yar
Ode to Saint Helena attributed to Byron myth or fact
Long controversial ode circulating as Byron’s work is scrutinized as a collaboration by American writer John Agg. The verses praise Saint Helena with grand political and imperial imagery, invoking Byronian fame, historical magnates, and Liberty motifs while weaving claims of authorship and national pride.
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St Helena
Lord Byron
Washington Mirror
Bard
John Agg
England
Saint Helena
Longing for Eternal Fame Through Poetic Memory
A New York Star piece ponders dying to leave no trace yet longs for enduring fame through poetry and memory. The speaker admires past luminaries like Milton and Homer, arguing true immortality lies in lasting influence and verse that sustains the living after death.
Beware of the Cunning Cousin in Silly Victorian Prose
A mock admonition guides a reader to avoid a beautiful cousin described with gleaming eyes and engaging voice. The tale warns of temptation, urging vigilance and self denial in social gatherings, weddings, and country rides.
Cruelty to Animals and a Mother’s Prayer
A pied splintered column of moral observations opens with a caustic tale of draymen’s horse abuse and a rebuke to cruelty, followed by reflections on speculative gain and a solemn vignette from Alexandria Gazelle describing a mother’s prayerful last moment with her twin infants as a spectral figure offers to take them.
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Alexandria Gazelle
Preacher Ma Milton and a Blushing Parson Ages Ago
A Newburyport obituary recalls Rev Maria Milton a colorful preacher famed for auditing hearers during sermons. An anecdote shows him shaming a sleepy attendee with a cry of Miax then resuming the discourse. A separate quip notes a young relative should have blushed on leaving a vice haunt and urges personal safety from evil.
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Ma. Milton
New York Sunday News
Newburyport
Milton
Mark
Beauty in the Human Heart and Creation
A Phrenological Society excerpt from Howe extols beauty as a divinely ordained source of delight. The speaker argues the Creator arranged earth, sea, and skies with varied forms to please perception, questioning uniformity and praising nature’s kaleidoscopic changes as evidence of a benevolent God.
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Howe
Boston Phrenological Society
A Dull New Orleans Evening Amusement
The New Orleans Herald editor laments hot theatres and dull leisure, urging residents to try a quirky pastime: sitting on a balcony after tea and swatting mosquitoes with the left arm to gain relief and a peculiar bliss.
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New Orleans
The
New Orleans Herald
Elegant compliment sent to LBE on grave of Hemans
An elegant compliment was paid to Letitia Eliza L B E. A specimen of bed Landop a hundred leaf Michigan Rose banks of the Ohio was sent to her with a request to plant it on the grave of Mrs Hemans.
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Letitia Eliza
L. BE. L
Michigan
Ohio
Homeward tethered memories echo in distant returns
The Dover New Hampshire Gazette reflects on the enduring pull of home. The piece describes how travelers and separated friends perceive home as a sweet haven, comparing New Hampshire’s charm to Switzerland and praising childhood cottages and domestic fires as symbols of comfort and permanence.
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Switzerland
New Hampshire
Dover
N. H
Hidden Treasure Found in Old Westmoreland Well
In Westmoreland County Virginia a neglected well on a decayed estate yielded a surprise after a cleaning by one enterprising lady and two laborers. Seventy-two buckets removed without clue, a dollar appeared, later three tarred linen envelopes revealed thirty three dollars and fifty cents. The owner said the money belongs to the rightful owner and will pay the workers. Virginia Heralde
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Westmoreland County
Old Dominion
Virginia Heralde
The vast crowd can fit within a small area
A historical passage calculates that four people per square yard would crowd into a square mile, the earth’s nine hundred million population would fit in a ten mile circle, and all mankind could be swallowed by one quake. The text muses about London as a sleeping crowd and a galvanic shock ending all.
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United States
Xerxes
London
Law of Divorce in Massachusetts Court Ruling
At the late Springfield session the Supreme Court held intemperance alone with cruelty or desertion is not grounds for divorce under the current law. It may, however, be admitted as corroboration of other testimony.
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Massachusetts
Supreme Court
Springfield
Mass
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