The Granada Mason and the Vault of Gold
A poor mason in Granada gains two nights work with a priest to loot a secret Moorish vault beneath a mansion. He hides the gold but is deceived into maintaining the hoard, and after years returns to poverty until a new master offers a repair job. He then amasses wealth, funds the church, and reveals the vault only on his death bed.
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Granada
Magon
Xenis
Prigats
William
Vanity Fair
Thomas Jones
Herald
Notes on the Wing Washington Indiana and nearby towns
A column from Aurora Commercial discusses Washington Indiana on the Wabash with its growing streets and modest churches, the county Knox’s potential for trade, and contrasts with Princeton Gibson County’s neat town, then ponders Indiana’s grand future and state identity. It lists several lightweight textual items and humorous adlike pieces.
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Washington
Vincennes
Indiana
Harrison
Wabash
Knox
Princeton
Gibson County
Evansville
Crawfordsville
Gibson ‘County
Echo
Mary's Deathbed Visit and the Vanished Chickens
The tale recounts a girl Mary receiving a gold dollar from her uncle and distributing small amounts to neighbors before a hospital stay. A white chicken sits by the bed, then a jet black chicken joins, both vanish as the girl dies, leaving locals unsettled by the superstition. No living chickens were known to belong to the household or neighbors.
Yearly Advertising Rates and Notice Policies
A local column notice outlines quarterly changeable rates for ads. It states that candidacy notices and all transient ads must be prepaid, with township city and district candidates charged in advance. Ads continue by default until ordered out, with quarterly settlements for all others.
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Honne
Portrait in the Attic Eyes Ever Looking
A dusty attic houses a fading portrait of a woman whose living love faded into death. The painting’s eyes remain alive with sad surprise as years pass, ever watching the man who lost her and the memory that haunts the room. The image outlives former loves and echoes with distant laughter and cobwebbed echoes.
Vanity Fair Juvenile Library opens new moral series
Publishers announce a Vanity Fair Juvenile Library aimed at youth with works signed for the rising generation. They exclude Peter Parley productions and will submit every volume to American Tract Society managers for rating before publication.
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Peter Parley
Tribune on Debt and Poverty Cited as Foolish
The Tribune warns readers to avoid debt but mocks the advice as impractical for those with nothing to live on and large families. It parodies a French landlord line about the poor building their own house when unable to pay rent, calling the philosophy sound but faulty.
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the Tribune
Tribune
Ma dame Fabri to Appear Here Says Local Review
The newspaper notes Ma dame Fabri, the prima donna, will perform here with several good qualities and singing with great warmth. It praises her uncommonly large register and anticipates a strong vocal display.
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T'az
Madame’ Fabri
How should a father bring up his children to avoid depravity
A fragment prompts advice on parental guidance to keep children from moral danger. It suggests upright aims in life improve outcomes, warning that success in this world does not guarantee moral steadiness or safety from future missteps.
Fragmentary Read on Consistency in 4 Jewel Apt
A fragment refers to consistency as a quality or concept in a literary or philosophical context. The text appears damaged and lacks full context or identifiable names. No clear event, date, or place is discernible from the visible portion.
Food for superstition in a St Louis deathbed scene
A young woman of about twenty with consumption lies dying in a Morgan Street house. As mourners gather around her bed a small pure white ball chicken hops into the room through a half opened door, a bizarre superstition event that unsettles those present.
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Morgan Street
Thirteenth
St.‘Louis
Pewes
Lafayette Courier
Murder of Butcher Suspect in Thuringia Enters Trial
A German woman, after twenty one years with a Frankenhaused butcher, left with two hundred thalers. She was found murdered in a wood, a butcher’s knife nearby. An officer exposed the killer, the butcher, who confessed and returned the stolen sum. He is ordered for trial.
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Frankfort
Frankenhaused
Thuringia
Bible in America Early Col onies Indian Language Translation
Fragmentary passage discusses the first Bible printed in the colonies in 1663 translated by John Elliot at the expense of the Corporation. It notes the labor of translation into an Indian language with examples of words and phrases including Our lusts and Jehovah, and mentions related sources and annotations.
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Jno. Elliot
Charles
John, Elliot
Shepard
Ander
Thomas Sheps
Fey
Indian Language Bible Translator and Sisera Tale
A historical note recalls Elliot translating the Bible into an Indian language. He struggled with a long unpronounceable term for eel-pot as the mother of Sisera looked out the window and cried through the eel-pot, later learning the natives’ true word.
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Rived
Abel
Kennai
Canaan
Awah
Kora
Cora
Jennois
Jannon
Elliot
Sisera
Lou
Carl Schurz in Wisconsin Milestones and Odd Bits
A Madison paper excerpt traces Carl Schurz from his Rhine castle youth through revolutionary escape, service in politics, and settling in Wisconsin. It notes his legal practice and eloquence in Milwaukee, his Republican stump speaking, and high regard among supporters as a noted statesman.
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Madison Courier
Carl Schurz
Prussia
Switzerland
France
England
United States
Shurz
Philadelphia
Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Republican
Northwest
Leeds Chamber of Commerce Previews New Woolen Fabric Machine
A Leeds chamber report states a French inventor offered a 72 inch wide cloth at 3s per yard, claiming a machine wraps woolen threads around cotton to mimic wool at low cost. The plan includes testing the machinery. An amusing anecdote follows about a countryman and doctor prescribed remedies.
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Leeds
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