The Thief and the Angel’s Visit in a Store Tale
A young clerk Charles, entangled by debt, steals twenty dollars from his employer Mr. Evered to pay a tailor. The act gnaws at him until his mother’s love and Julia Evered’s presence reveal the danger, but an angelic vision spares him as Evered offers overdue support. Years later, Evered’s trust returns, and charitably, Charles's life improves for both him and his family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morris
Lucy
Johnson Evered
Julia
Mr. Evered
Charles
Evered
Nercelf
Julia Evered
Mr. Everett
Ocean depths and eel shipment stir unusual stats
The Atlantic is described as about three miles deep and the Pacific about four. In a single Massachusetts town last week five tons of eels were shipped to New York, highlighting odd coastal trade activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
New York
Maseathusetts
Beard and manly virtue cited from ancient and modern sources
A long critique arguing for wearing beards as a sign of manliness cites biblical, classical, and historical figures who bore facial hair. It urges young men to abandon dependence on fathers, to work hard, and to maintain a beard as a symbol of vigor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Franklin
Adams
Young
Howard
Newton
Boston Transcript
Hannan
Ammon
David
Jericho
Aaron
Jesus Christ
Moses
Isaiah
Christ
Nestor
Priam
Homer
Peleus
Virgil
Merentius
Horace
Plautus
Socrates
Livy
Ossian
Finval
Cambria
Gerrit Smith Defends Innocent German Murder Suspect
Months ago a poor German neighbor of Gerrit Smith was charged with murder amid strong public belief of guilt. Smith, convinced of innocence, served as counsel, spent nearly a thousand dollars, and secured acquittal by presenting evidence. He then gifted a stall farm and $200 to the exonerated man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerrit Smith
Smith
Ole Bull Faces Ruin and Departure to Norway
The New York correspondent reports violinist Ole Bull, once rich from speculation, now ruined by failed ventures including an opera scheme and a colony project. He appears daily on Broadway with a pale face and frail step, planning to return to Norway to seek health money and reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Boston Journal
Ole Bull
Broadway
Norway
Punch mocks clerks and embezzlement fears in jest
Ponchiana cites Punch on clerks embezzling public funds with wit. He predicts a clerk of the weather may be accused of skimming the milky way and keeping the cream, joking Saturn would count rings nightly to catch missing ones.
Boston Cough Outbreak Noted In Knickerbocker Satire
Jons Pnorsix in the Knickerbocker mocks Boston sickness with a wry take on a pervasive cough. He depicts strangers greeting with cough questions and a graveyard inscription about dying from a cough, illustrating urban gloom and morbid humor of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jons Pnorsix
Boston
Uncanny Death Tale From New York
The New York Times recounts a man who died and showed a momentary change of face as his body lay in the grave. Friends later urged the attending physician to attempt restoration. The doctor doubted but finally believed the tale, noting the deceased’s liver and heart were in a jar on a shelf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N.Y
Immortal mints and immortal principles quote
Daniel Webster writes that marble and brass perish but engraving high principles with the fear of God and respect for others yields inscriptions no time can erase, and they will brighten forever. He argues enduring values outlast monuments and temples.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LP Iaw
Daniel Webster
What a Country Old Soldier and Pension Tale
A humorous court exchange recounts Tom Corwin recalling a veteran who pleaded for his pension. The judge challenges the veteran's age, and the man explains he has lived roughly forty years on the Maryland shore, noting the Lord may not count that against him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Corwin
Mantern
Old
Maryland
Paris Rail Robbery Warned by New York News
A Paris correspondent reports a strange robbery on a French railway. A stranger conversations, offers a drink from a flask with a secret dry liquor chamber, lulls the victim to sleep, then steals money and exits at the next station. The warning cautions travelers to beware of such con artists and imitators.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dwo’t ‘Surie
Paris
N. Y. News
Thorne
Rogu
Mississippi Escapes Exemption for Slaves in Court Bill
The Mississippian reports the Mississippi Legislature adopted, by 20 to 6, an amendment to the Court bill. It exempts a debtor selected slave from sale under execution and if a debtor keeps a female slave under twenty, all such female slaves are exempted. Critics call it class legislation and a win for slavery protection.
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N. H. van Vorhes
Court Street
Jewett
Nodhe
Cne Geee Saee
Israel
Paris
Scientific American
Mississippi
Southern States
South
Odd American names cited from Shattuck memoirs amuse readers
The Boston memoir notes list humorous and peculiar names given to children in early American families. Examples include Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, Truly, Asia, Africa, Europe and America, plus a Detroit family with sequentially named sons One Stickney Two Stickney Three Stickney and daughters First Stickney Second Stickney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Shattuck
Fitchburgh
Shadrach
Meshach
Abednego
Abel Shattuck
Coleraine
Twina
Truman
Thia Truman Shattuck
Tal Ann
Truly Shattuck
Moses Shattuck
Brooklyn
Asia
Africa
Europe
America
Philiahasse
Geraph
Sayneda
Sarepta
Sarada
Shattuck
Detroit
Joseph
Apo
Unclear Medical Claim Sparks Debate Over Practice
Fragmented notes describe a physician in a hotel era handling 3000 to 4000 patients yearly and distributing bread and pills as medicine. The text questions his knowledge and methods, mentioning mortality and alleged reliance on questionable principles in a dispensary setting.
Unclear fragmentary text from a historical page
Fragmentary OCR text mentioning a man and water incident and a wife reacting. Missing key names, places, and dates. unable to determine a coherent event or timeline from the readable fragments.
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Athens Lodge
A &. W. Pickering
N. G
F.H. Stepman
Sec'y
D. Bartlett
Yurniture and House Furnisuise
Main Street
H. K. Blackstone
Athens
Ohio
Wm. McGill
Ehrenreich Buchwald
O. W. Brown
Ohio University
A. van Vorhes
Stillwater
Minnesota Territory
General Land
Ofice
Tillwater
A.C
H. T. Brown
Coldens
Walker
Daguerrean
Court House
H. P. Ambrose
Main St
E. A. Guthrie
John Welch
Geo. S. Walsh
Athens Ouro
S. S. Knowles
Chhoeme
Gini
Seventh Judicial District
Norton
Oo. W. Brown
Justice of the Peace
South End Court St
D. Culley
Athens CO
Vilblsstone
Blackstone’ Clothing Store
G. H. Stewart
Recorder’s Office
J. F. Howe
Pickering & Johnson
Pickering & Carley’s
J.ballard &Sone
N. E
Colege Square
GEO, Walsh & Son
Asn Dry
Pickering & Carley's
A. W. Carley
Queenusware, &c
Clayton, Kincade & CO
Queeneware, &c
Poe
Love
Oneoge
A. Cochran
Paint and
Second Streets
Chillicot
D. T. Evans
INTER
Y. Evangelist
Strabe
India
Byron
Mhomet
France
John de Castor
Goa
William the Conqueror
Peter the Great
Spain
Magland
Alfred the Great
Richard of the Lion Heart
Thomas Moore
Lord Bacon
Earl Surrey
Walter Raleigh
Archbishop Usher
Cardinal Pole
Wickliffe
Gardiner
Cranmer
Latimer
Ridley
Baxter
John Knox
Spenser
Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
Ateles
Chirendon
Chillingworth
Beaumont
John Bunyan
Jeremy Taylor
Mustach
Cromwell
Earl of Warwick
England
Fairfax
Calender
Manchester
Denbigh
Stanford
Essex
New England
John Endicott
Winthrop
John Leverett
Massachusetts
Earth
Gosling
Halla of Congress
Congress
Pacific Railroad
Speee
Chaffee, Hayard and Woodworth
McCormick
Reaper
Hudson's Bay
Puget’s Sound
California
William Shattuck
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