Scene of sisterhood and escape told at Chicago bridge
A Chicago Times reader recalls a dramatic morning scene near a river bridge. A 17 year old girl, fleeing poverty and tragedy, is aided by a wealthy woman who discovers she is the sister Lizzie. The pair, torn by past losses, reunite as the crowd watches, and two young boys are placed into care. A parallel tale follows a courageous mother guiding eight fugitives toward Canada, aided by sympathetic locals.
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Clark Street
Chicago
Boston
Lizzie
Wisconsin
Ailwaukie
Fathr
Brother George
Willie
George
Lake Street
Remankasre
Canada
South
North Star
Bondigo
Chiildren
North
Waa
Trenton
Choice of Pursuits in Life and Post Office Misery
A late Sedgwick passage extols choosing vocations by talent over social status, praising artisans and farmers as equal contributors. On a Mississippi steamer a Hoosier fiddler provokes chaos, a Kentuckian drowns his rival’s racket with a bray, and a French passenger laments the jarring noise. A St Louis post misroute causes a widow to kill herself and her child, while public charity aids the bereaved husband. Debates in Congress over Kansas and Whig-Republican lines frame the political backdrop. The Zanesville to Cincinnati rail line advances, celebrated as a regional milestone. An English frog deep in a limestone quarry adds odd note to the page.
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St. Louis
Texas
Mississippi
Himeef
Russian Storms and Clocks in an Old Journal Sketch
A traveler describes Russian weather storms with three stages the Wing a deadly last day wind and its devastation. then a section on clocks tracing history from Charlemagne to pendulums, and notes on punctuality and timekeeping in old English tales with figures like Washington Harrison and a nobleman.
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Russia
Filmself
Orient
Heroses
Euffer
Eider
Soibe Duye
Haromel Raschild
Charlemagne
Kemple
New Engisus
Washington
Board of Longitude
Harrison
le Atep
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Athens Messenger
George 8S. Walsh
Court Street
Jewett's
Ner
Ted
Inser
A. Guturie
John Welch
Athens
Oil
Walsh
Jbwett
Aturis Onio
A.G. & Hi. Te. Brown
Law
Ohio
Fr. S- Knowles
Uneos
Seventh Judicial District
Court House
C. W. Brown
Justice of the Peace
South End Court St
O. Ad
D. Culley
Athens CO
Blackstone
J. F. Towe
Washington ,J
Pank Arurds
Pickering & Johnson, Ealers
Pickering C. Carley's
It. W. Carley
Kessinger’s
Pickering & Brown
O. J.barnard &Sons
N. E
Walker's
Daguerrean
Weheting & Carley
Main St
O Des
Mary Fuller
Fuller & Walker
Valley EY House
Licothe
Allston & Roads
W. H. Duglas Jr. & Co
Stesdyto
Union Hotel
Hoda
GEO, Walsh & Son
Pickering & Carley’s
H. K. Blackstone
Kessinger
Madeira
Malaga
Bar
Castile
Windsor
Ferina
Ida
R H. Stewart
Main Street
Kellard
Lelow Waida
Che Messenger
The
Chicago Times
Birtorye
Bhutan
Josiah Quincy
Harvard University
Ama
Ananisi
Anthon
Democratic
Kaiutack and
the Fiddler
Indiana
Ao Hoocher
Orleans
Hoosier
Queeck
John van Buren
Albany
Washington Union
Jobn
Kansas
Weedington
Congress
Whitfeld
Reeder
Zanesville
Wilmington
Cincinnati
Leeds
Bngland
Beedine Lake
Russien
Smith
Great West
Ruede Ivland
Auatia
Jackson
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