Broadway Menagerie Costs and Practices Revealed
An 19th century account details the renewal and travel costs of a Broadway menagerie. It notes daily travel expenses, high purchase prices for lions and bears, and the extensive effort to keep healthy animals, with brokers in London and American owners like Hannibal the elephant.
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Broadway
London
England
Clayton
Africa
Hannibal
Bowery
van Amburgh
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
The Grey Girls Learn Brought Up to Help Till Death
A Springfield Republican reflection on Mrs Grey and her daughters the Grey girls, who relied on her labor, delaying help until too late. The piece warns mothers and daughters to share duties, lest neglect shorten a caregiver’s life and ruin a family.
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Springfield
Unknown Woman of Bragg Era Buried in Saltpeter Cave
Cincinnati correspondent from Chattanooga relays a soldier’s tale of a lone unknown woman killed during Bragg’s occupation. Her husband, a New England loyalist, faced rebel conscription and death. hunger and brutality left a widow and two children to perish, while she sought refuge in a mountain cave near Chickamauga and died there.
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Cincinnati
Chattanooga
Lookout Mountains
Tennessee
Sth
Ohiio
New England
Bragg
Chickamauga
Thayer’s Minstrels Tale Reflects On A Woman’s Death
A fragment from Thayer’s Minstrels recalls a woman dying from a cold that settled in her chest and trunk, a crude joke about sin and misery linked to her eating. The lines reveal era attitudes and sensational moralizing language.
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Thayer
Novel Turkey Stuffing and Prisoner Smuggling at Camp Douglas
Report details covert items found with rebel prisoners at Camp Douglas Chicago including pistols money and tools hidden in food and racks A subsequent camp inspection revealed more smuggling methods such as a fifty dollar greenback concealed in a vial a twenty dollar bill in cheese and ten dollars in a cake Also recounted are Civil War skirmish tales including desertion incidents near Elk River after Bragg’s move toward Tullahoma with colonial bravado and wartime clashes implied.
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Camp Douglas
Chicago
Kentucky
Audubon Relates A Strange Self-Skinning Toad Display
An eyewitness account describes a toad peeling its own skin in a sequence of deliberate rubs and pulls. The creature begins by massaging its sides then sheds skins from the legs and torso, swallowing the loosened tissue as the process progresses. The narrator notes the act as efficient for both back and belly.
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Elze
An Eccentric Infidel and the Gallipolis Debt Saga
A Northwestern Advocate correspondent recounts a Gallipolis circuit anecdote where a Methodist preacher receiving hospitality from an infidel faces a bill for board and horse keeping. The host tallies credits for sermons blessings prayers and kneeling which exceed the debt, ending in mutual friendship.
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Northwestern Advocate
Ohio
Gallipolis
É&C
Equal distribution of clothing for balanced body heat
Dr. Dio Lewis argues that fabric weight and cut must distribute warmth evenly across the body to maintain steady circulation. He notes that excessive material can fail to provide true warmth, causing uneven heat with comfort only if garments are balanced and non compressive.
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Dio Lewis
Amusing Inebriates Debate Sun and Moon at Tremont
An account from Tremont Temple recounts a lecture on Peculiar People and a humorous scene where two drunken men argued over whether the sun or moon lit the morning sky. They sought a sober passerby for judgment, who similarly failed to decide, leaving the question unresolved.
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Tremont Temple
Sol
Moon
A Bed to Himself at the Pavillion Hotel
In New Hampshire during peak summer travel a Boston swell is denied rooms at the Pavillion Hotel in Wolfboro. Landlord Danton leads him to a garden bed as the yelled guest resists, while his dog Jack guards the would be escapee through the night. The tale ends with the guest released at dawn, wiser for the ordeal.
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New Hampshire
Pavillion
Wolfboro
Dover
Gizette
Boston
Danton
Jack
Dunton
Verbal Scrambles in a Rural Garden Exchange
Fragmentary dialogue shows a rural mother and child arguing about bees and swimming. The garbled lines reference a creek and hair, with a boy named Charlie caught fibbing and climbing a fenos, all in a tense household moment.
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Wiinne
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Foulval
Glice
Ense
Wisconsin
Murphy
Mary
Eeecéa
Georgia
Jane
Mark
Mrs. Grey
Jennia
Parson Chaplin Quint
Amusina
Tullahoma
Elk River
Lower
Charlie
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