The United States and the World Mediation of Continents
A 1867 front page essay argues America sits at the earth’s center as the mediator of European Asian interests. It cites Louis Napoleon’s map of trade routes, calls for a transcontinental railway, and warns of Mexico and Central America shaping global power. It also discusses centralization, American home life, and emigration trends. It mentions the forthcoming Holy Land history book and subscription publishing plans.
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Europe
Asia
Africa
America
Mercator
Demann
Columbus
Aia
Western
Louis Napoleon
Atlantic
Middle World
Central America
Mexico
Napoleon
United States
Pacific Coast
Union
Maico
Pacific Railway
Massachusetts Population Shift From 1765 to 1865
A Boston Medical Surgical Journal summary notes Massachusetts births drop from about eight to ten per family in 1765 to under three in later generations. It questions long term effects on society as foreign population grows and mortality limits child population, with broader implications for future city and state demographics.
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Nathan Allen
M. D
Lowell
Boston Medical Surgical Journal
Massachusetts
Commonwealth
Somerville
Mass
Tr Correspondencia of
Madrid
Francisco Bru
Elche
James Dixon
Mississippi
Ricuatoxo
South
Virginia
Young Men’s Christian Association of Portians
Eve Long
Maine
Boston
Prices and currency notes from East Texas letter
A letter from Colin county Texas lists prices for pork six cents per pound butter twelve and a half cents eggs ten cents a dozen wheat one dollar a bushel and flour four dollars a hundred weight Corn is fifty cents a bushel. It mentions Texas values in specie and that one dollar in U S paper currency equals two thirds of a silver dollar. It also cites Buk county pork six cents and corn seven cents and praises East Texas as ideal for pork farming.
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Livina
Texas
Colin County
United States
Buk County
East Texas
Defoluation of Ireland Seen By English Statistician
An English statistician warns that Ireland will depopulate as emigration drains away young people to England and America. With few leaving after forty, the island’s population will age, and the next census will likely show a much smaller total, with high deaths and few marriages or births.
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Ireland
England
America
Treland
A New Anagsthetic Use From Paris Dentist
Paris dentist M Preterre reports vast experience with protoxide of nitrogen as an anesthetic. He notes a brief sleep of one to two minutes suffices to extract a tooth or perform short operations. After waking no nausea or fatigue typical of ether or chloroform anesthesia occurs.
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M. Preterre
Paris
American Merchants Plan Colonization in Borneo Grant
A New York and China merchants association aims to settle a grant mate on Borneo, a vast island said to be among the world’s richest after Australia. The land offers spices, camphor, rubber, precious stones and minerals for development by traders.
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Hant
New York
China
Borneo
Australia
Bristol Lecture Ends Winter Course With Notable Address
Tan-Smoruzza-A rich treat featured Hon. William M. Rodman in a poem titled Nature's Freedom of true Nobility. He traced Pilgrim motives and liberty, praising civil and religious liberty, and noting Europe’s gradual freedom. Attendance was weak. Bristol plans a second course if funded.
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William M. Rodman
Plymouth Rock
Europe
Russia
Italy
Crete
Christian Association
Library Association
Bristol
Pursix Osbcary Died In Mendocino Cal
Obituary poem and notice for Mrs. Charlotte Lansing widow of Captain Lansing and daughter of Captain Barnum Whipple of Albany N Y with references to her lineage and the family’s grief. The piece laments her loss, reflects on mortality, and invokes hope of an eternal home.
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Wasurxcton
Grant
Europe
Boston Steamship Company
Portland
Eastport
St. Jan
Boston
Fourty Peranns
Regent's Park
London
Mendorino
Cal
Charlotte
Lansing
Barnum Whipple
Albany
N. Y
John Usher
Bour
Tia
Hope
Unfinished Bourne Street Building Blown Down
An unfinished building on the north side of Bourne Street was blown down during last week's great snow storm. The harsh weather caused structural damage and disrupted surrounding properties as officials assessed the scene.
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Bourne Street
February Magazine List and Beadle’s Monthly Highlights
The Atlantic Monthly February issue features Holmes Whipple and Mazzini pieces among others. Our Young Folks begins Round the World Joe with China anecdotes and skating essay. Beadle’s Monthly February offers stories and articles including The Cry for Help and Diamond cut Diamond. Godey’s Lady's Book February opens with The Lost Money engraving and a fashion plate of six colored dresses.
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the Atlantic Monthly
the Guardian Angel
O. W Holmes
Mona
Alice Carey
E. P. Whipple
George Bodillion
Rebecca EI. Davis
Clawson Shanty
Elizabeth’s Chamber
Katherine Morne—Jr
Herman
T. W. Higginson
J. T. Trowbridge
Mr. Frye
Maine
Prof. L. Agassiz
W. H. Howells
Guerdon
T. B. Aldrich
John Vanderlyn
Bishop Kip
Republican Alliance
Joseph Mazzini
Joseph Dana Howard
Ticknor & Fields, Publishers
Boston
China
Beadle’s Monthly
Edgar Allan Poa
Greenblow
Gotham
Beadle & Co
New York
Godey
Valentines Day Fashions and Literary Offerings
An emblematical wood cut and a variety of work are highlighted for Valentine season. Marion Harland finishes her first story of the year “Entirely at Home” in the literary section offering entertaining reading for all, as noted by L A Godey of Philadelphia.
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Marion Harland
L. A
Amer ican character praised by Chinese merchants abroad
A Hong Kong letter notes Americans are highly regarded by Chinese merchants who control shipping through European houses. It reports easier charters for Yankee ships after Shenandoah actions, rising emigration to America, and expected benefits from a new Pacific Mail China line linking California.
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Hong Kong
Antsidera
Pacific Mail Company
China
America
Influence of the Moon on Weather Questioned
A Geneva weather register spanning 35 years shows only slight support for the popular belief in a lunar influence during new and full moons, with no special effect for first or third quarters. Greenwich observations since 1840 find weather changes occur with equal frequency at all lunar ages.
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Marcel
Geneva
Greenwich Observatory
A Thought For The Discontented At Five Points
In the Old Brewery days at Five Points New York a mother and her daughter lived in a loathsome first floor corner. The mother after gathering daily rags covered the child with boards and door scraps to shelter her from cold. The child asked what poor people do who have no door to cover them.
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Five Points
New York
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Bristol Phenix
Jpesition of America
Esi
Uride
New England
Charles W. Elliott
Mesers J.B. Burr & Co
Hartford
Theo
Woolsey
Joseph Cummings
T. M. Clark
Henry Ward Beecher
Charles A. Stoddard
PF. Smith
Wm. Adams
D. J
Holy Land
Tor
I. B. Burr & Co
Asylum Street
Conn
Providence
General Assembly
Providence County
Sheffield
Judiciary
Senate
House
Ion
Wilkina Updike
Committee On the Judiciary
L. W. Ballon
Cumberland
Woonsocket
Grveenal Assembly
Church
Greene
Assembly
Committee On Corporations
George W Greene
East Greenwich
Committee On Education
Maria Rogers
New Orleans
John Jacob Astor, Jr
Cincinnati
Paterson
Saratoga Lake
Art St. Paul
Minnesota
Tennessee
Nashville
Portsmouth
N. H
Coldwater
Michigan
New Jersey
Lyons
New Bedford
Detroit
Stephens
Crosby Opera House
Chicago
Pereire
P. T. Barnum
Connecticut
Lawrence
Gen. King
Rome
Norwich
Thomas Shields
Sydney
Alabama
Washington Constitutional Union
Congress
S C
Florida
South Carolina
Georgia
Cleveland
Kingstreet
S. C
Charleston Daily News
Jacksonville
Oregon
Fort Klamath
Klamath Marsh
Klamath Lake
Crooked Creek
Louisiana
Nathaniel P. Willie
Wollewild
Local Intelligence
First Baptist Church
T. Snowden Thomas
M. E
Thomas
G.rappe Island Guards
High
Church Streets
Edward Quirk
Thomas Duffy
P. J. McDonnell
Jeremiah O'Brien
William Dwyer
Patrick Malone
Edward Birmingbham
John Heyden
Peter Murphy
Thomas Tobin
Thomas Doyle
James Lowrie
William J. Duffy
John Mahoney
Robert Connery
Thomas FitzGerald
James Lawrosa
Great Southern Inland Navigation Company
Providence Journal of
Journal
Bristol Foot
Poenix
SassatTy School
South Christian Church
R.v. Charles Piper
James P. Pierce
McDonald’'S Cough Cure
Wm. McDonald
T J. Griffin, Jr
A. N. Gifford
Cristadoro
J. Cristadoro
Astor Flonse
Draggists
Brandreth
Isaac Smith
Bing Bing
Saga
Omoe
Brandreth House
B. Brandretr
Tobias
Hiram Wooliff
East New York
Long Island
Revollec
Cortlandt Street
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