Patriot Thomas Paine Memorial and Private Letter Found
Washington Post reports the discovery of Thomas Paine’s memorial to Congress seeking 3000 and a supporting letter to George Clinton Jr. from 1808. The documents, stored in the House files, reveal Paine’s poverty plea, his resignation from the foreign affairs committee, and a committee report questioning service merit while noting Paine’s essential contributions to the American Revolution. The papers, preserved in good condition, include Paine’s signatures and the old Congress’s unresolved grant.
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Washington Post
Thomas Paine
American Congress
New Republic
Paine
George Clinton, Jr
New York
Congress
House of Representatives
Clinton
Sin
Committee of Claims
England
Charleston
Peterdale
New Rochelle
Washington
Eldridge Gerry
Silas Dean
Beaumarchais
Committee For Foreign Affairs
Europe
Arthur Lee
France
Stormont
Paris
Cape
Cape Francoise
Br. Franklin
Dean
Dunla
Morris
Laurens
Committee On Foreign Affairs
Thomas Painnr
Con- Tess
United States
Board of Treasury
John Wilkes Booth Confession Details From Matthews
John Matthews, Baltimore born actor, recalls Booth confession sealed in envelope given to Matthews in Washington on Lincoln murder day. Envelop reading never opened until Lincoln's death revealed Booth as killer. Matthews describes Booth as brave yet unstable. mentions Booth's family, Baltimore home, and a poignant room opposite Ford's Theatre.
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John Matthews
Gath
Cincinnati Enquirer
John Wilkes Booth
Matthews
Wilkes Booth
Washington
Lincoln
Booth
John Booth
Baltimore
Mr. Matthews
John South
Sol
Johnny
Blue Dicks
Newmarket Hose
Plug Ughes
The
Cock Mobins
Killers
Pescara
Unclear Event: Object Rises Through Mill Roof
A 30 foot long object crashed through the mill roof, rose 150 feet in the air, skimmed the roof of Mr Hill’s two story house, struck a rear woodshed roof, exited through the back wall and buried itself 600 feet from the start.
Insurance Against Matrimony the Latest Ohio Idee
A Cincinnati firm planned to pay members to marry, a scheme echoed by others. Attorney General Nash warned the plan violates public policy and law, as it coerces a life decision and ties benefits to remaining single or delaying marriage, triggering legal concerns and prohibition.
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Ohio
Columbus
Chicago Times
Cincinnati
State Department
Nash
Higgins Seeks Recovery Of Property From Wife In Insurance Scheme
George H. Higgins of New York sues his wife in the New York Supreme Court to reconvey his property. He says she invested his funds in real estate and in her daughters and grandson, had him jailed at Bellevue and in Middletown Lunatic Asylum, sent him to Chicago, advised him to take laudanum, and planned to profit from life insurance. Mrs. Higgins denies the allegations. case pending.
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George H. Higgins
New York
A. T. Stewart & Co
New York Supreme Court
Bellevue Hospital
Middletown Lunatic Asylum
Chicago
Jie
Higgins
Bad Dreams and Disturbed Sleep Vanish with Hup Bitters
Complaints of bad dreams, disturbed sleep, indigestion and stomach gas are reported as all symptoms vanish after taking Hup Bitters, a remedy claimed to relieve gastric discomfort and improve rest. The note highlights rapid relief and ties to a patent medicine promotion.
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Brown Carmical Co
Prown Chemical Company
Home, Sweet Home in Various Poetic Excerpts and Voices
A collage of verse and prose celebrating home across styles and eras. From Swinburne and Harte pastiches to Goldsmith Pope Whitman and a narrator Walt Whitman, the piece threads lodgings and hearths as refuge, contrasting exile with domestic peace, illustrated by eclectic scraps and reader notices.
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J. C. Bunner
Lerbner
John Honard Payne
Algernon Charies Swinburne
Walt Whitman
Correction to Game No 1160 in The Globe paper
In the May 3 1881 issue of The Globe the checker editor notes a printer error starting with the 12th move in game 1160. The correct sequence should read waren 31.26 821.17 14.21 and fixes four moves after the 12th move.
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James F Adam
Amot
PENN
O& l Ita
Og Bee Wo
Adam
Glasgow Herald
James Wyllie
White
Ayrshire Lassie
Glasgow
Mr. Wyllie
J. Nelson
Nelson
Cardiff Draughts Club
Messrs
Drinkwater and Bell
Sunderland Weekly Echo
Oysters Mistaken for Mexican Silver in Drexel Scam
Francis Drexel, a Philadelphia banker, buys Mexican silver dollars at sixty cents. A plain man brings a hundred coins, claiming they are all that remain. Drexel agrees to pay the same price if no holes exist. The man deposits a cracked tray of oysters instead, proving the coins were real oyster shells in disguise.
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Francis Drexel
Philadelphia
Mexico
United States
Noel Exchange
Mr. Drexel
Frank
DR. Joys
America
Wagne & Co
Michigan Ave
Jackson St
Chicago
Winter Street
Bohannan
U.A
Bohannat
N. St. St
St. Tonis
de. B
Stinson
N.Y
BUC
Stevens Bros
Box
Northford
New England
Stowe
Vermont
Mount Mansfield
Summit House
Lowell
Concord
Northern
Vermont Central
Waterbury
E. C. Bailey & Son
The Woman in Black and Other Titles Review
A mixed catalog blurb noting The Woman in Black a mystery tale about a sharp ambitious woman seeking a rich English nobleman. Bellah by Octave Feuillet a patriotic love story with chivalric tones. Mrs Burnett stories from Peterson’s Magazine priced in paper and cloth editions. Also an endorsement for D R V G remedy from Isaac T Stoddard of Charter Oak Life Hartford Conn.
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Price
Jarl
Lindsay
T. B. Peterson & Brothers
Philadelphia
Penn
Isaac T. Stoddard
Charter Oak Life
Hartford
Conn
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Austin
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Fultonville
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Lebanon
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Portland Me
RON Bitters
Kimoro, Md
J. W. Daughaday & Co
Nuit St
GLOBE
Arthur’s Home
American Dairyman
New Subs
Art Interchange
American Poultry Journal
Appleton's Journal
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American Naturalist
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Army & Navy Journal
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Barnes Educational Monthly
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Rays of
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Country Gentleman
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Germantown Telegraph Gardener's Monthly
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Home Circle
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Home Journal
Indiana Farmer
Independent International Review
Iowa Homestead
Journal of Microscopy Journal of Chemistry
Lippincott's
London Lancet
Methodist Magazine
American History Mining Record
North American Review N.Y. Medical Journal
N.Y. Sportsman
Puck
Portland Transcript
Phrenological Journal
Prairie Farmer
Peterson's Ladies’ Magazine
Popular Science Monthly
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Practical Farmer Rural New Yorker
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Owil Sunday School Times
Scribner’s Monthly
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Sunny South
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San Francisco
Vick’s
Wide Awake
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Waverley Magazine
Watchman
Western Stock Journal Youths’ Companion
Omaut
Egnniar
Tames
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Weekly
J. H. Reeves
Chatham St
Englanu Medical Institute
Tont Row
Jys
T. W. Saxe
Wansaw
Inn
G.M. Hanson
Pottter & Co
Montennese
B. Husted
Nassau
Royal Card Co
Globe Card Co
Card Factory Co
Clintonville
Ely
VictorCo
Ucase
Star Card Co
Higganun
Ch Wylst
Chromo&acquaintance Peards
G. W. Bocemsaes
West Haven
W. Austin
Fair Haven
Branford Printing Co
Branford
E. Nason & CO
Nassau St
Coun
G. A. Spring
New Haven
S. Tulson
Onawa
Iowa
L. Clark
Wiscoy
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Hallett & Co
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