The Village May Queen and the Silent Tragedy
A village May Day tale unfolds from a tranquil rural parish in Tempe re counties. A young officer courts the May queen, their romance blossoming amid innocence, but his departure to war shatters the girl’s world, leaving her to wander in sorrow by the church. The piece traces class barriers and fragile virtue against a backdrop of old English custom.
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England
Rachel
Ite Predeni
Gret
Ear
Pol
Tove
Joe
Water Bright Water Poem of Spirit and Life
Elizabeth Barber Dy SAS offers a lyric meditation on water as spirit and blessing. The verse invokes summer, mountains, and childhood joys, contrasting light with shadow and praising water as a sustaining river of life from a sacred land.
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Nothawart
Old Printing Terms Describe Type Sizes and Tools
The article explains diverse type sizes like Brevier and Pica, how lines and multiples create two or more lines, and the concept of depth and body width. It notes variation among foundries, measurement standards, and terms such as quads and spaces used in composing newspapers and poetry.
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Agatm
Nowravein
Minion
Baevier
Hoveceoys
Titheiae
Pisa
Boatoo
New England
Dickinson
Pha
Brevier
Ceron
oRiya
Printing office slang and type sorting mishaps
The piece explains printing office jargon such as pied and pi meanings when type is knocked down or misplaced. It notes water used on pi to drive out air, and jokes about apprentices or a restless Yankee mixing letters and boxes, causing further mingling of types.
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Souther
How Good Men Are Made in New England Schools
Dr Drake of Cincinnati laments bad cooking in North America and lists vices from overbaked bread to tough eggs. A Jackson Cass exchange credits New England schools and meeting houses for shaping robust, enterprising men.
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Drake
Cincinnati
Interior Valley
North America
Gen. Jackson
Gen. Case
New England
Vewran
Gen. Cass
Granite State
Farmer Seeks Missing Hundred Pounds in Landlord Pact
A rustic deposits a hundred pounds with the landlord of a public house for safekeeping. After later needing money, he consults the famed Curran who counsels a staged re-entrustment with witnesses, prompting the farmer to test the landlord again and to involve a friend in following the uncanny pattern.
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Headion 8
Randolph
Curran
Elea
Notable deaths in early year list includes statesmen and generals
The Dead or 1850 notes many prominent figures who have died in the first half of the year. It lists John C. Calhoun Franklin H. Elmore Sargent S. Prentiss Daniel King Mathew Davia Jacob Haya General Zachary Taylor General Mason Commodore Jones J. Newan Naty Adam Ramage and others including Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Cambridge.
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Pote
John C. Calhoun
Freakin H. Elmore
Sargeant S. Prentiss
Dania Py King
Mathew J. Davia
Jacob Haya
Achary Taylor
Mason
Commodore Jones
J. Newan Naty
Adam Ramage
S. Margaret Fujter
China
Rober Peel
Duke of
Campuene Explosion injures Mrs Bemis in Wayland
Mrs. Bemis wife of William H Bemis of Wayland was badly burned when a can of burning fluid exploded as she was filling a lamp last Saturday evening.
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Bemia
Wm. H. Bemis
Wayland
Railroad Labor Strife Breaks Out on Section 5
Tue Ciovena is reported to have broken out with iat malignity among the hands at work on section 5 of the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad.
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Tue Ciovena
Nashville and Chattanooga
Drowned Fisherman Morris T Irons and Balloon Trick
Morris T Irons of Barrington drowned Monday after a fishing accident from a bridge near Barrington. He was about 45 and left a wife and five children in Pawtucket. A balloon ascent at Vauxhall by Mr Green ended poorly when a Shetland pony carried the rider aloft and vanished from sight after the rope was cut.
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Daowney
Morris T
Barrington
Waren
Pawtucket Chronicle
Green
Vauxhall
Paris
Secens
Resolutions on Steamer Miantonomi Disaster Adopted Aboard Steamer
About three hundred passengers aboard the Steamer Maseschusetts from Holmes’ Hole to Newport on August 22, 1850 adopted resolutions praising the Massachusetts crew led by Capt James H Barker for rescuing passengers after the Miantonomi accident. They thanked Capt Barker for his prompt efforts and the Camp Ground Landing families for food and lodging, with publication to follow.
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Maseschusetts
Barker
Holmes’ Hale
Newport
Preston Bennett
James H. Barker
Massachusetts
Camp Ground Landing
Samuel James
E. T. Freronen
Pumpkins and Poetry in the New York Sun Ad Column
A bucolical youth seeks a gardener position after showcasing gardening skill in the New York Sun. He claims expertise in forcing fruit and vine culture, growing a wide range of plants to perfection, and supplying sublime vegetables. A light anecdote about a Broadway vocalist ending in a pun about Baltimore closes the piece.
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New York Sun
Adam
Broadway
Baltimore
New-York
Worms Threaten Fruit Trees This Season
A report notes several worm species harming fruit trees this season. Web worms spin webs and cluster on limb tips, ich worms strip leaves, and a red green worm damages trees without nesting. Hand removal is advised as they do not usually return after being knocked off. Boat. Ploughman.
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Theas
Bellethe Hall Dance Described As Humbug
A Newport gentleman called a Bellethe Hall full dress ball a humbug noting many ladies appeared half dressed. The remark may influence others in similar venues, and the newspaper warns the softer sex to heed such hints elsewhere.
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Bellethe Hall
Newport
Yankees Grow White Blackberries in Boston Exhibition
Mr J S Needham of Danvers Massachusetts turned his blackberries white to suit the times and displayed them at Horticultural Hall in Boston last Saturday. He notes the fruit is slightly malattoish this year but expects a green to bring out more white next year.
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Waite
J. S. Needham
Danvera
Masa
Horticultural Hall
Boston
Odd Anecdotes and Snatches of Conversation In A Rural Shop
A morning conversation among workers shows a late arrival plan to quit early afterward. A woman signs a deed while denying spousal coercion. A Paris gambling house proprietor is assaulted. various humorous exchanges reveal playful mischief and stubborn laborers claiming ease in tasks, while others boast about effort.
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Washington Irving
DY Sas
Elizabeth Barber
Patrick
Faith
Tom
Ulster
Jos
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