Private Diary Sketch Sparks Famine Mammon in 1764 Boston
Bill Nye lampoons John Adams diary extracts detailing December 4 1764 household chaos with Miss Tooterson as a famine virtuoso. Adams laments pumpkin pie troubles and culinary mishaps while joking about posterity and diary purpose amid thrifty misadventures.
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Tootie
Miss Tooterson
Massachusetts
Mrs. Adams
Medford
Hense
T. Tooterson
Abigail
Adams
Tootersons
Adamses
Scalp adventure ends in mock frontier folly
Boston youth Wentworth, famed for dash and sport on Boston society, travels to the western plains to exterminate Indians. He returns hairless after a fatal misadventure, while his respectable family in South End expresses grim humor at his reckless bravado and the broader warlike mood.
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Boston
South End
New Mexico
Tur Sunpday Glone
William
Prodigal Returns to Find Bald Forever After Hair Restorer
A man returns home to find his father and a renowned doctor, revealed as his late uncle, preparing a hair restorer. The scene ends with the prodigal receiving a pail of mixture, leaving him completely bald. The tale blends humor and a twist of family connection.
Farmer's electric melon trap foiled by ripe fruit mischief
A Connecticut farmer tired of night guards devised an electric alarm wired to his prized melon. The plan failed when the melon ripened and triggered its own alarm, leaving him to admit the theft was thwarted by nature.
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Mount Carmel
Conn
New Haven
Whitney Avenue
Vature
The Small Boy's Revenge on the Newburyport Storekeeper
A Newburyport storekeeper풯s rough handling of a boy who bought a devil's buzz sparked a crowd on State street. Fifty boys then purchased buzzes and serenaded the storekeeper, drawing police protection as the march of noise filled the avenue.
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Newburyport
Newburyport Herald
State Street
Ing
Woman’s Ride Hat Trick Stuns Kentucky Mule
A Kentucky State Journal note describes a woman riding horseback in a silk plug hat to appear male and calm the horse. The piece playfully adds the horse would not be deceived by a similar trick from a mule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky State Journal
Kentucky
Desperate Outlaw’s Fate On the Plains Endures Brutal Revenge
A vengeful man bound for vengeance rides into desert country seeking to slaughter Native people. He camps with a family and is slain by a scalp-knife attack while eating. Captors strip him and march him toward the railroad, beginning six months of hardship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wide Plains
How the Cod Sends Ballast to Weather Guided Mariners
A New Haven News piece explains codfish take in ballast by swallowing stones to stay submerged during gales. The account recounts fishing methods on trollers and shoots of volume, noting large stones and even an 800 pound find. It sketches daily labor, gear, and the coder fisherman’s memories of cod catches and shipboard routines.
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New Haven News
Cape Sable
NEW England Medical Institute
Treemont Row
Boston
Mass
The Bouncer as a Civic Watchdog in New York
A New York Sun essay extols the bouncer as a vital American instrument of order, likening his role to a civic enforcer under a Democratic administration. It attacks Republican corruption and advocates decisive political expulsions and replacements, urging action against party partisans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Worcester
Children’s misfortune cited in travel tale from Kansas foil
A barefoot Kansas boy sobs at a hog pen because his father won’t take him to town. A traveler asks why the boy remains home and the boy explains his father insists on riding with a new red wheeled cart that makes him feel powerful. Nearby San Francisco reports a Virginia City garden cabbage four feet eleven inches wide.
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Chicago Ledger
Kansas
Pap
San Francisco
Virginia City
GEMS OF OLD BERKSHIRE Poems of the Goodale sisters rise from Mount Washington
Mount Washington in Berkshire County becomes known for the Goodale sisters Elaine and Dora whose childhood poetry, collected in Apple Blossoms, gains national notice. Their father Henry Goodale, a failed farmer, supported their talent while their mother fostered education. Uncle William and local gossip capture astonishment at a rural family producing celebrated verse and earning thousands.
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Great Barrington
Mass
Mount Washington
Berkshire County
Massachusetts
Goodale
Mrs. Goodale
Elaine
Dora Goodale
Henry
Chester Goodale
Egremont
England
Sheffield
Girard College
Philadelphia
Capitol
Washington
Egremont Real
Old Coe Place
Harry Goodale
Isses Elaine
Dora
Mr. Goodale
William
Uncle William
Uncle Willam
Vanderbilt
Decker’s
America
Anoth
Hampton College For
Different Ways of Counting in Whist
A New York Sun discussion on whist counting contrasts English short whist five points with American seven point standard whist. It covers honors, Cavendish rules, gambling attitudes, and how rule adoption affects play, plus notes on yachting phraseology among American and English players.
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Cavendish
East
England
Dr. Pole
America
New York Sun
Priscilla
Miss Woodford
New York Yacht Club
Obdurate Genevieve Ward in New Zealand Visit
Miss Genevieve Ward the actress reports that the Maori King pursued her during her New Zealand season. He attended every performance in which she appeared, leaving her greatly annoyed by his attention and interest.
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Genevieve
New York Sun
Genevieve Ward
New Zealand
Hall's Hair Renewer Promises Restored Color and Growth
Advertised hair tonic Hall's Vegetable Sicilian Hair Renewer claims to prevent hair loss restore color and vitality and keep hair glossy and healthy. Readers from Pawtucket Kennebunk Somerville Warsaw and beyond report renewed growth color restored and dandruff removal after long-term use.
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Hall
L. M. Shorey
Pawtucket
R. I
Co. B. Staples
Kennebunk
Ann M. Thompson
Somerville
Mass
A. E. Robbins
Warsaw
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Miss Tootie
Tootersen
Tom
Miss Foeterson
Tootie Tooterson
Tootie Towterson
Tor
Mr. Wentworth
New England
Harvard
Gems OF
Old Berkshire
Goodale Sisters
Sky Farm
Uey
Mount Fees
Aecaonan
Davidsons
Carys
Nazareth
Copake Iron Works
R. P. Hall & CO
Nashua
N. H
U.S. A
Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk CO
Hudson Street
New York
Paris
Vienna
M. Laumaille
Faris
Liebi Company
Voltaber Co
Marshall
Mich
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Samuel Hollyer
Finden
Longfellow
Irving
Milton
Shakespeare
Scott
Byron
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Bowdoin
Concord
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cambridge
George Washington
Bunker Hill
GLOBE
the Weekly Globe
Winchester
Winchester & Co
No. 18
Dey St
T. Nevan
Gloversville
N.J
P. O
Vickery
Augusta
Artiror Sabe
Benley
Omni
Chenley
Richmond
Ind
Marston Bolus
Marston Remedy CO
H. Treskow
West
4Th Street
Tuths
Cavendish Laboratory
wylStill
Bert Gare
Son of & Noted & L
DR. Ward & CO
Louisiana
United States
Omaha
Neb
F. C, Fowler
Moodus
Standard Silverware
Etna Silk Works
W. Seventeenth St
Sloan & CO
George St
Cincinnati
O. l
U. S
Ward
Brondway
N.Y
Responsible House
GAY Bros
Barclay At
He National Co
N. Y
John H. McAlvin
Lowell
A. N. Blair
Laceyville
Garden Wall
Wash. St
Boston Music
V . Hathaway
Eagle Card Works
Morshford
Grover Cleveland
Cglobe
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