Cholera and public notices amid 19th century disease fears
The column reports cholera deaths in St Louis and San Juan de los Remedios as well as related quarantines and shortages. It notes ongoing strikes against money owed, a Rhode Island craftsman Dexter Ballou’s death, and local incidents including an attempted murder in Broome Street and a burglary in Providence.
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Cuma
Collamore
Sarah Nash
San Juan de Los Remedios
United States
Havana
San Juan
Boston Journal
Cholera death and miraculous recovery shock New York
A poor man learns his wife died of cholera and is laid in a convoy of coffins at Potter's Field. He opens a coffin, finds his wife alive, and she soon recovers. The same column notes Polk baptism corrections, flood reports, delirium tremens incident, Barnum patent case, and other 19th century items.
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Rae Corton
Dexter Ballou
Smithfield
Woonsocket
Limeell
Powroaxo
Portland Argus
Joy
King's House
King
Durgin
Husaian
Broome Street
Fernando Dular
Philadelhia
Mea
Potter's Field
Permasion
WN. Y. Mirror
Edgar
Palk
McWerren
Polk
Clurch
Meer Ren
Ridgar
Burs
Park
McFerren
United States
Philadelpha
Seward
New York
Kane
Wilson
Lfe
Barnum
E. W. Staughton
Dressing-room on a steamboat car to aid travelers
A Boston journal describes a Goop Ausaxceurst aboard the New Bedford and Tawston Railroad providing a dressing-room with wash-bowls and mirrors on a steamboat to serve travelers during full speed, a novelty likened to a barber shop at sea. Also instructions on curing and preparing straw for bowler hats with field notes on barley straw processing.
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New Bedford and Tawston
Bvaston Journal
A Beautiful Complexion with Radway Soap
An advertisement extols Radway's Chinese Medicated Soap as superior for skin health and nursery care. It claims benefits for pimples, rough skin, and skin eruptions, recommending the product for all ages with signature verification on each cake and pricing 25 cents per cake. It notes Bristol sale by J.B. Munro, and urges nationwide approval by physicians.
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Con Weis
R.G. Radway
Cohen
Bristol
J.B. Munro
Marriages in Newport Fall River and vicinity reported
In Newport and Fall River two dozen notices announce marriages and engagements. Benjamin Seutle wed Martha Giles in Newport. Nathaniel Nichole to Florana Peery of Fall River. Abiather Snow to Caroline Snow of Fall River. Chiwlei Schilling to Ann Maria Parks of Warwick. George E. Cooley to Cynthia Chapman of Newport. Capt David Miller to Mary Miller of Fall River. John Bigley to Caroline Smith in Sun California. Christopher Layton to Mirth Olterson.
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Livesey
Benjamin
Seutle
Martha F. Giles
Newport
Fall River
Nathaniel H. Nichole
Maverill
Florana Peery
Abiather
Caroline M. Snow
Coleby
Snow Boy
Warret
Chiwlei Schilling
Wawick
Mins Ann Miaria Parks
George E. Cooley
Norwich
Cynthia A. Chapman
Steep Brook
Pall River
David Miller
Mix
Mary
W. Miller
Sun
California
T. Dwight Hout
John Bigley
Caroline Smith
Christopher Layton
Mirth Olterson
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Thin Town
Royal S
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Ann Beeman
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Sir Jane
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James Bennett
Allen
James Gorham
Lewis
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Kit Carson
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George H. Moughan
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