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Bristol
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Bayley
My Childhood Home recollection by W H C
A reflective verse recalling a childhood homestead with woods a brook and evergreen lawn. The speaker, though aged and distant, finds peace in memory. The piece evokes the old brown house, the singing birds, and dawn walks that remain vivid in memory.
Arctic Expedition Officers Named for Kane Search
The Arctic expedition to pursue Dr Kane will attach Lieut Charles G Simms to command the tender with Passed Midshipman Watson Smith William Lovell Joseph P Fyffe and First Assistant Engineer Harman Newell. Mr S P Griffin volunteer as master and Lovell also served under DeHaven. The party includes the barque Erin Po and a light-boat under construction in Philadelphia to sail around the first of Fond.
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Dr. Kane
Hartstein
Charles G. Simms
Watson Smith
William 8. Lovell
Joseph P. Fyffe
Harman Newell
8. P. Griffin
Navy
Arctic
Lieut. DeHaven
Maste
Lovell
Erinpo
Philadelphia
Cobble-stone house collapses in Brookline
Last fall Mr. Cozzens of Brookline began a cobble-stone and mortar house but paused to let walls harden. Two workmen admired the structure last evening as walls suddenly gave way. The thaw loosened frost acting as the only cohesive force, and the building toppled, narrowly missing burial.
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Cozzens
Brookline
Boston Herald
Supreme Court Sets Coal Ton At Two Thousand Pounds
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court holds a ton of coal equals 2000 pounds, overruling local customs of 2240 and 2268 pounds. The U S District Court in admiralty also sides with 2240 pounds as the legal ton, aligning state measures to the federal standard.
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Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
United States District Court
Admirality
United States
Congress
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Philadelphia Ledger
Hen walker invention to curb scratching by hens
A New York inventor proposes a Hen walker to abate hen scratching. The device is a long spur like instrument fitted to the hen’s hind leg. It prevents scratching by guiding the foot to land gently before the target, prompting the bird to adjust and walk forward.
Know Nothings Attack Episcopal Methodism in New Jersey
A pamphlet from Trenton by a Know Nothing council declares Episcopal Methodism anti American and a threat to republicanism. It argues bishops can control elections through church hierarchy and warns of ecclesiastical despotism undermining political freedom.
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New Jersey
The
Order
Trenton
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Church
Closs
Episcopal Methodist
Anecdote of Chief Justice Hale and the miller judge
A tale describes a defendant in Essex who seeks help from Chief Justice Hale. A lawyer hires the judge as adviser then imitates a miller to attend Chelmsford Assizes in disguise. The ploy hinges on jury exemption rights and bribery, revealing courtroom manipulation and legal boldness.
Miller in Westminster Hall Renews Trial for Justice
A court scene shows a bribed jury and witnesses in a dispute over an elder and younger brother’s estate. The miller reveals corruption and proclaims his identity as Lord Chief Justice Matthew Hale, who returns to the bench in disguise to retry the case and secure a rightful verdict.
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Hale
England
Wey
Chelmsford
Essex
London
King’s Bench
Chelmsford Assizes
Westminster Hall
Matthew Hale
Matthew
The Winter of the Heart Inspires Courage and Faith
A moral exhortation to endure hardship with faith and perseverance. It urges maintaining hope through poverty illness loss and death, to trust human goodness, and to keep a holy trust in heaven despite trials. It emphasizes resilience and steadfastness against despair.
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Earth
Maple sugar crop expected below average in Hampshire area
The Hampshire Gazette reports the maple sugar harvest in the region will be below average due to persistently cold weather. With the season already advanced, a strong flow of sap is unlikely this year.
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Marie Sucan
Hampshire Gazette
Fragmented Verses on Conscience and Sun and Death
A fragmentary poetic line speaks of conscience, grief, and the sun dissolving ice. The imagery pairs spring with weariness and a pillow in death, suggesting existential reflection amid harsh light.
Bereavement Poem On a Wife Foreseen From Heart to Head
An excerpt from Harper's Monthly fills with tender bereavement imagery about a wife’s memory. The verse laments the loss, notes the silent house and ticking clock, and urges the husband to cherish her memory and live righteously. It ends with a moral about guiding spirits joining in life and death.
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Harper'attw Monthly
Marmer
Home and hearth by a warning voice of virtue
A moral prose piece condemns wives who neglect home happiness while praising those who make home a place of warmth. It contrasts a glamorous wife with a loving partner at home and critiques women seeking public reform roles over domestic fidelity. It urges mothers wives and daughters to reflect on their duties.
She Always Made Home Happy
A meditation on a devoted wife who, despite her fretful disposition and daily anxieties, brings warmth to her home. The speech contrasts her care for family with temptations outside and honors her memory with the line She always made home happy. The piece reflects traditional domestic ideals and mourning rhetoric.
Poxcent Preacuria Anecdotes on a Pinch to the Sermon
A collection of brief anecdotes showing how a plain conscience appeals to simple minds. An old man says he wants a pinch to every sermon and a Nantucket sailor wishes the sermon had struck the conscience of sinners with a harpoon.
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Nantucket
Man of Business and Lofty Uprightness
The speaker extols the moral superiority of a businessman who remains disinterested and upright amid trade pressures. He values conscience over wealth or philanthropy, arguing true greatness lies in honesty to oneself, neighbors, and God. The piece contrasts practical virtue with ceremonial authority and riches.
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Thane Mnan
Generosit
The Value of Independent Farming and Its Lessons
The text argues for the farmer's life as patriotic and essential to national welfare. It laments youth rushing to city fortunes, abandoning slow farming, and wasting land while cities grow. It notes generational shifts, impatience, and a decline in prudent, steady cultivation.
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Republica
Fromin Egec
Trate
Gate
Ulate
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