A House with Modern Conveniences Becomes a Comical Trap
Nehemiah Pollard an army contractor amasses wealth supplying the Western Department and moves into a fully equipped mansion. The tale follows his frightened reaction to modern comforts, the chaotic night, and a misadventure with spring locks and a police rescue, ending with a satirical note on art versus nature.
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Nehemiah Pollard
Western Department
Mr. Pollard
Pollard
Nehemiah
Angela
Margaret
Peggy
Vulzar
Jane
Mrs. Pollard
Hee
Muah
Miah
Villian
Lurdy
Esquire Pollard
The Nose as a Moral Mirror in Restoration Surgery
A historical discussion on artificial noses and facial reconstruction detailing methods from silver prosthetics to rubber grafts. It describes placing a regenerated nasal structure using a forehead flap and arm tissue, noting improving techniques and limitations while touching on lip repairs and hearing restoration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dame-Nature
Yankee schoolmarm and conquest in the South
James Parton argues in the Atlantic Monthly that Yankee troops and teachers will reshape the South. He sees the schoolmarm as the advancing agent after soldiers, heralding New England town organization across states like the Carolinas and Georgia while capitalists eye lands and resources. The piece critiques postwar reeducation and settlement patterns.
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Tae Yaxxger
Iit
San Francisco
Julius Cisar
New England
Carolinas
Georgia
Texas
Louisiana
James* Parton
Atlantic Monthly
Women establish de facto government led by woman
A Chicago convention on August 5 debated federal reform and created a women's league with an oath to support a theocratic democratic government of Church and State. Mise Buffon proclaimed society reshaped by recon struction and the birth of a female led administration drawing philosophers and scientists while debating who should rule Earth. The text notes men and women as loyal subjects under a female headed state.
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Txsaxnk
Chicago
America
Mise Buffon
Women’s Rights Movement Sparks Derisive Challenge
The piece mocks women’s rights advocates, claiming they would not yield their position and describing a imagined league of women as near insanity. The narrator dismisses the movement as an extreme outcome of female advocacy.
Lost pocket-book tale reveals human nature
A Cortlandt Street man finds a pocket-book on Greenwich Street containing forty five dollars a quarter and a few personal items. After a chain of mistaken identifications, a middle aged woman claims the purse and the finder declines payment, noting the lesson learned about human nature.
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Cortlandt Street
Greenwich Street
Sam
N. Y
Vision of Doomsday Comet of 1712 Is Recited
Whiston foretold a 14 October 1712 dawn appearance and a Friday fire apocalypse. Thames boat departures, stock declines, a Dutch captain dumping powder, 7000 men marrying after lent mistrasses, and Sir Gilbert Heathcote ordering fire offices to watch the Bank of England.
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Whiston
Thames
Lambeth
Gilbert Heathcote
London
Bank of England
Southy
Social Arithmetic Puzzles Spark Family Evening Chats
A Chambers Journal styled note presents two social arithmetic brainteasers. The first asks the relation of the second brother to the invalid after the first visits a sick niece. the second involves a counterfeit five dollar bill used to make change for four dollar shoes, with the shoemaker ultimately bearing the loss.
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Chambers‘ Journal
Patronage of newspapers described in curious lecture
A speaker explains newspaper patronage by detailing diverse reader behaviors. Subscribers pay in advance and read aloud, advertisers seek notices, and postmasters or editors note refusals or churn. Varied patrons range from loyal, paying readers to those who read elsewhere or demand discounts.
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Abia
Lou Yapest
Hood
Old Kalamazoo hotel grudge tale of bedbug siege
An old man recounts a harrowing night in a Kalamazoo hotel. He describes bedbugs swarming the bunk, a grease circle on the floor, and a dramatic escape using improvised stilts and straw bridges. Reportedly observed by others at a camp meeting, the episode ends with disbelief from listeners.
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Honflani
MiciGax
Buas
Kalamazoo
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