Inflation play by Nasby and Gaylor in Buffalo debut
The Buffalo Express describes the new Inflation by Petroleum V Nasby actor Locke and dramatist Charles Gaylor. Produced March 27 in Buffalo, the satire traces Nasby’s rise and fall through a mythical Unlimited Trust company amid whisky, lobbying, and a foiled corruption scheme ending with Nasby’s retirement.
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Petroleum V. Nasby
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Too Poor to Take a Newspaper in Barnesville
The Barnesville Enterprise editor laments readers who drop the paper to save four cents weekly. He argues wealthier habits like smoking burden families and deprive them of local happiness, saying such men should not have families if they cannot support the home newspaper.
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Barnesville Enterprise
Back Pay and Note Sale Tale From Detroit Press
A Detroit man settled a debt with a note of hand. The holder tried to collect for years, then set it aside. Later he offered to transfer the note to an innocent party, claiming he had sold it for seven dollars. The debtor pleaded for mercy, saying he would not repay but for two dollars.
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Detroit Free Press
Remembering Judge Thomas M’Kean in Old Philadelphia
A memorial sketch recalls Judge Thomas M’Kean as six feet tall, with stately carriage and scarlet gown. It notes his bravery in the Revolution, anecdotes of his riot suppression, and his defiant stand for Tilghman as Chief Justice. The piece also mentions his daughter’s marriage to the Marquis de Vroja and a humorous weight anecdote from Lewiston Journal.
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England
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Lieper
Philadelphia
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Pennsylvania
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Rebecca Harding Davis
Harper’s Magazine
Anecdote of Major Andre at Kipp Mansion in New York
A Monticello Iowa correspondent recalls a centennial anecdote from Harper's Magazine. During the British occupation Major Andre visited the Kipp mansion near Kipp's Point on the East River. He teased Polly Kipp with the line Oh, you be hanged, and years later the aunt recalled her remark after learning of Andre's fate.
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Monticello
Jones County
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Jacobus Kipp
Irving
New York
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Harper's Magazine
Husband weighs wife on hay scales in Auburn store
A husband attempted to weigh his wife who weighs about 250 pounds. They stopped at Mr. Dorman's store in Auburn where the team was left on the hay-scales while he spoke at the door. The couple then drove to Lisbon after the weighing incident.
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Han
Mr. Dorman
Auburn
Lisbon
Young Barnum’s cistern escape to Newton romance
A Danbury News reminiscence recounts a youthful P. T. Barnum pursuing a Newton-area romance. To visit a farmer’s daughter, he climbed a cistern ledge by night, dodged the father’s ire, and slipped down to a six inch fall, then fled into a rain soaked street eight miles home. The tale ends with Barnum becoming a Universalist.
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P. T. Barnum
Newton
Danbury
P. T
Phinny
Mr. Barnum
Danbury News
The Value of Tact in a Racially Hostile Setting
Frederick Douglass travels with a friend of color in a hostile region and faces a tavern crowd ready to attack. He quietly notes two horses eating together, sparking a sudden change in sentiment as a spectator laughs and proclaims a moral insight. The simple act dissolves prejudice more effectively than lectures.
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Frederick Douglass
Douglass
Dissolution of Lennan and HP Firm by Mutual Consent
A notice states the firm Lennan and HP dissolved by mutual consent on the i of April. Either member of the late firm is authorized.
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