Public school district act and election details 1854
The document outlines powers for the levy court to supervise school trustees and district books, and authorizes prosecutions for violations. It details expulsions for discipline, use of schoolhouses for public worship, residency rules, and the staged adoption process including a two month report, polling, and ballot voting to accept the act across districts with majority support required. Approval dated August 11, 1854, by Gen G S. Houston.
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Costes
Levy Court
Washington County
Kasie
Sniel
Surly Olsen
Hools
Seboo
Law Court
A Woman's Duty to Her Husband’s Fortunes
A long reflection on marriage duties praises a wife as the stabilizing force of a husband’s fortunes. It argues a wife’s devotion, nursing, restraint from luxury, and support lift a man’s spirits and sustain his endeavors, especially in adversity.
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Tim
Pfover
Pheen
Hep
Rip
Raji
Ray
Erin
Fragmentary Note On Peace Plans And Brotherly Living
A fragment references plans of fair peaceful living and living like brothers. It mentions Alegre and BER, with a quoted line about Our's are the plans of fair delightful peace unswayed by dirty rage. The snippet is partial and lacks clear context or dates.
Death of Nathan Boone among Missouri pioneers remembered
From The St Louis Republican and Springfield Advertiser, notice of the death of Nathan Boone youngest son of Daniel Boone at seventy six. The piece reflects on Boone family lineage and their frontier legacy in Missouri and Kentucky, noting Nathan Boone’s military service and ties to pioneer character. It also mentions population growth in Iowa with an estimate of 75 083 and last year’s increase of 2745.
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Kentucky
West
Totany
Missouri
Bingham
Boone
Vie
Nathan Bognaya
Vail Gu
Mexi- Co
Wats
Lowa
Lowaagas
Fillmore Ieee
Bruelhana’ Simus
Fusion
Buchansen
Fousian
Ttth
Astrish
Oli Buck
Tron Mountain Railroad Open To Local Vote In St Louis County
Citizens of St Louis County Missouri would vote on pledging the counties credit to the Iron Mountain railroad for 6500 to complete the line. The plan envisions extending to Pilot Knob Memphis and an airline route to New Orleans linking with Cairo and Fulton road and creating a St Louis outlet to Arkansas Texas and the Gulf.
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Tron Mountain Railroad
Opn
St. Louis County
Iron Mountain Dlroad
St. Louis Intelligencer
Ron Mountain
Pilot Rnach
Memphis
New Orleans
Missousin
Cairo and
Fulton Road
St. Louis
Arkansas
Texas
Gulf
Gee Gor Adms Charged with Allegations at Savannah Convention
In South Carolina, Gee Gor Adms faces about 170 alleged offenses tied to a convention held on December in Savannah. The article notes the party's scrutiny and mentions the date and location of the gathering.
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Gee Gor Adms
South Carolina
Savannah
Gov Adams urges reopening slave trade to aid South Carolina
Gov Adams’s message to the South Carolina Legislature defends slavery, arguing for exemptions on slave sales under execution and a policy to diffuse the slave population. He asserts cotton demand will rise, requiring cheap labor, and contends reopening the African slave trade is essential to maintain the South’s economic and political system. He cites British and East Indian cotton production and dismisses anti slavery sentiment as misguided. He rejects New Hampshire resolutions on Kansas violence, defending state autonomy and denouncing appeals against slavery.
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Gov. Adams
South Carolina
Poseille
Ttn
W. ZL .Vv
Congress
United States
Great Britain
East Indies
Egypt
Brazil
Peton
France
Algeria
South
Northwestern
Confederacy
Adams
New
Republic
Goa
Revival or the Slave Parade Review of Global Grain Flows
The piece argues Western Europe relies on slave labor for grain and many goods, detailing how Britain and others depend on foreign enslaved populations for cotton, sugar, tea, and clothing. It links rising slave commerce to economic and social strain, noting currency effects and global transfer costs.
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Perade
France
Western
Europe
Great Britain
Che
Australy
California
Eld
Conicmen
Thauws
Vast array of 19th century miscellany and anecdotes
The page offers a collage of prose on democracy, Whig memories, and battle metaphors, followed by political notes, marriage anecdotes, spiritualist tales of two rap responses, wedding mischief, a strange medium session, and short notices on publications and a horse hoof mechanism.
Roxbury native Lizzie Howard’s suicide confession read in church
A Roxbury Massachusetts native Lizzie Howard recently committed suicide in New York on charges linked to abandoning someone she cared for. A solemn church scene featured Hood’s poem The Bridge of Sighs as mourners wept, witnesses recalling her restrained farewell and sobs surrounding the ceremony.
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Lizzie Howard
Roxbury
Masses
New York
Hood
Bridge of Sighs
Man Killed Near Joesborough In Tragic Accident
A young man named Coleman from Joesborough was killed on Tuesday the 27th after being struck by a falling tree tailing from an incident.
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Joesborough
Coleman
Lenn
Notable figure linked to 1852 fraud case exposed in newspaper notes
Fragmentary report identifies a prominent party figure tied to an 1852 fraud involving the Farmers Bank of Georgetown Washington D. C. He was arrested, indicted, and later tried. The piece notes these facts as widely known on Wall Street and in financial circles.
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Mito
Bank of Geonetown
D.C
Wall
Unclear 19th Century Meeting Report Notes
At a late Philadelphia Baptist Association meeting the Union C Charel II reported an unusual habit of a century and two years off. Virginia Sink report in the Richmond Wig highlights white silk handkerchiefs crafted by two young ladies from Ripahannock County Washington, Miss Willis.
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Virginia
Richmond
Rippahannock County
Willis
School reopens first Monday in January terms listed
PMIE subscriber announces reopening of school on the first Monday in January with terms for sessions covering Reading Writing and Spelling Geography Grammar and Parsing Arithmetic Composition Natural Philosophy Latin language including Roman history and Mythology Algebra Geometry Greek terms and Greek prose composition for a total fee of 800 dollars and 1309 dollars and 2006 dollars as applicable.
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PMIE
Administrator's Sale of Land and Negroes
Auction notice by James B. Pavis adm'r of J. M. Cox deed listing enslaved people including Nancy, Becky, Viny and children Anica Ernie Edem Ady and Bol. Some sold for cash, others on twelve months credit with bonds and security. Dec 5, 1855.
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Nancy
Ecliktike
Viny
Anica
Ernie
Edem
Ady
Bol
Perton
James B. Pavis
J. M. Cox
Elks River plantation and lands sale notice
Public sale of several tracts on and near Elk River in Bex County with 123556 57-100 acres described, including dwellings, outbuildings, and improvements. Also on sale will be livestock, farming implements, cotton and grain stock, and household items. Terms credit twelve months with two good securities, full title to lands conveyed after dower relinquishment.
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Limestone County
Athens
Alshams
John i. Cox
Sec
Township 2
Range 6
West
Rik River
Bex Lange
Placksmith
Elk River
Ache
Bel Tracts
Adt
Ck Farms
Ox Lash
Vedit
Tomata
K— Hs
Inter
Black People for Hire In Public Outcry 1856 Notice
Public notice lists hiring of Black people under guardian Wm Levesque for the year 1857 following the late Thomas Tuesday. Document refers to six women three children three men one boy and three additional individuals. Guardian authority granted December 5, 1856. 4t.
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Thomas
M. C. Grieshby
Jesi Martindale
Wm. Levesque
Guardian
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