The Spring and Moral Essays in a 1855 Aurora Issue
A miscellany page from the Aurora prints spring verses about nature and meeting loved ones. It shifts to legal and political reflections, noting the Indiana legislature's temperance and school bills, railroads, and governance issues with critique of funding and constitutional restrictions.
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Adams
Jefferson
Munroe
John Quincy Adams
Gen. Taylor
Congress
Madison
General Jackson
Washington
State Board of Agriculture Plans Executive Meeting and Awards
Indiana State Board of Agriculture held its January 1855 meeting and urged County Agricultural Societies to send delegates to the March Executive Committee session in Indianapolis. If unable to send, societies should submit names of qualified persons for State Fair Awarding Committees and supply grain and crop data to improve premium lists. The board also opened an Agricultural Room in the State House for samples and outlined detailed grain evaluation questions. John B. Dillon, Secretary.
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Indiana State Board of Agriculture
State Board
State House
Indianapolis
State Board of Agriculture
Indiana
John B. Dillon
Citizenship and liberty arraign naturalization dangers
The Governor Gardner inaugural quotes Chancellor Kent on citizenship as a privileged mark granted by successive assemblies. It warns that expansive naturalization weakens republican government and risks foreign influence, contrasting English restrictions and continental limits with American liberalism. Sugar making tip follows.
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Italy
England
Not a Drop More Sweetened Story Behind a Southern Folly
A tale from North Georgia recounts Fillens and Dew berry keeping a barrel of sweetened liquor for customers. Joe Denny and wife drink heavily, with the wife near drowning in a creek on the way home. The line Not a drop, Mr. Fillens, bout it's sweetened becomes a famed local saying. Nearby note on blue flames from riverbank gas ignite when boats churn leaves, a harmless river oddity.
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Georgia
South-west
Fillens& Dewberry
Joe Denny
Killens
Montgomery Maillon
Green River
Havensville Journal
Strange request in a city lawyer's office shocks witness
A stranger sought counsel and asked how to handle a family offense tied to big sums from a will. He hoped to extort money from his own brother and father through secrets of past marriages, while the lawyer warned of prison consequences.
Matrimonial Advertisers Draw Harsh Satire from London Paper
A Punch cartoon described an 18th century London Morning Post ad seeking a wife with at least 100 pounds a year income. The piece mocks the mercenary tone, noting that a portrait would be required and that beauty would suffer under the market logic. It lampoons material matching and the sale of spouses as if goods, highlighting the absurd emphasis on income over character.
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Bubby
Monteviedo
South America
Denville
Virginia
Oey
Rachel H
Rachel
England
London Morning Post
Ender
Gray
Punch
Housewife duties and idle minds in republican society
A 19th century analysis contrasts German and English noblewomen with American wives who neglect household tasks. It argues neglect causes ennui and health decline, urging wives to embrace domestic duties. A related note cites butter making with fresh milk to remove rancidity and improve purity. Love as a weapon to win is noted.
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Wikl
Journal of Industrial Progress
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