Our Pet Peeve His Change and a Flower Seed Offer
A planter in Alabama greets a former worker in Montgomery after a year. He asks about Uncle Mose who replies he has gone to preach. The planter questions about sermon notes. Mose jokes he no longer needs notes for cash. A florist rivalry follows with seed and earth giveaways.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Mose
Curiosa Americana and Early American Librarian
A humorously punned letter parodies high diction in a Louisiana Virginia dispute. The piece traces Louis Timothee, the first American librarian of the Junto era, who later led the Carolina Gazette printing shop in Charleston. It ends with a 20th century trope outlining the “average American man” and asks readers to compare themselves.
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Sohe
Louis Timothee
France
Holland
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Junto
Timothee
Timothy
Charleston
S. C
Carolina Gazette
South
Rousseau Called to Treat France’s Maladies
In the eighteenth century a widespread belief in the virtues of philosophy persisted and Rousseau, a leading social philosopher, received two separate calls to prescribe remedies for France.
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France
Population Growth Rates Doubling Generations
The text notes population expansion with doubling roughly every third generation globally and about every second generation in the country when excluding immigrants. It emphasizes historical tendencies in demographic change without citing specific years or locations.
Concord's early settlement and name changes through 1853
The Concord area began as Penacook settled in 1725 then incorporated as Rumford in 1733. It later adopted the name Concord and achieved city status in 1853.
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Concord
N. H
Pennacock
Rumford
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