Sewing Machines Patent February 1st 1850
SEWING MACHINES patented February 1st 1850 offer a new mechanism with a straight perpendicular needle for a lock stitch that will not rip or ravel on all materials from leather to fine cotton or silk. No cam or cog wheel, minimal friction, described as smooth as glass. Sold at 536 Broadway New York and 350 Washington Street Boston. For merchant tailors conch makers hoop skirt manufacturers and shirt makers.
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United 1 States
Helmbold's Medical Depot
Tenth Street
Assembly Buildings
Philadelphia
Helmbold’s
Saved by the Drift: A New Hampshire Cabin's Narrow Escape
In the White Mountains region a drought preceded a fierce flood. Seth Emerson, toward Rocky Branch on the Saco, risks travel as storms roar. His cabin, swept by a rising Branch, floats away with Emerson and his family aboard, but they ride the loft to safety as the drift carries them, the cottage wedged among trees until the waters subside.
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White Mountains
Willey
Saco
Dover
North Star
Mt. Washington
Fere
Emerson
Breadh
Cma
Noroin
Muiz
Kure
Seth
Conway
Chey
Asela
Ila
Turrente
Ile
Everson
Allen
Susan
Bis
Eattler
Mra Emerson
Seth Enorson
The Call to Work and Honest Labor
A rugged exhortation urges young men to abandon idleness and embrace labor. It argues fathers should not shelter sons from toil and stresses that happiness comes only through industry, asserting manhood requires work and that work is a blessing.
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Manana
United States
Bern
K. W. Beacuee
Meaning of perseverance in sermon dialogue
A reader discusses perseverance via a parable of engineers building a bridge from cord to planks and a path across death. A slave quotes a neighbor: perseverance means take hold, hold fast, and never let go.
Fishermen’s Questions on Salmon and Cod in Ocean and Shore
In The English Formicaiiy Review Sir Charles Taylor asks where salmon go during the months at sea and what they eat, noting empty stomachs in fresh water and the odd lure of a silver and gold fly. The New York Post questions where mackerel go after Thanksgiving and why cod and mackerel seek hard shell clams, observed bait and tides.
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Sir Charles Taylor
Norway
Heaven
Earth
Cnn
New York Post
Cape Cod
Charles Taylor
Curious Facts in Natural History
The text describes battles between rattlesnakes and deer or black snakes. It claims a buck attacks a rattlesnake, attempting to gore its body with hoofs, and the rattlesnake sometimes dies. It asserts a black snake can swiftly coil around and suffocate the rattlesnake, then watches for signs of life before tightening. It also notes the moccasin snake is destroyed similarly.
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Helambold
Lisbon
Vacuo
Etrikon
Editor’s Guide to Manuscript Handling from London Morning Post
Instructions urge note sized paper dark ink plain bold hand and legible MS to avoid printing delays and misrepression. A humorous tale about a loquacious wife offers a wry reminder that timing matters in a newsroom and in burial week.
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London Morning Post
Pitfall of Faiths Told by a Tailor Convert
An old discourse from a Chinese tailor compares Confucianism Buddhism and Christianity. A man trapped in a deep pit is urged by Confucius to avoid reentering, by a Buddhist to half help himself, and by Jesus to be saved and warned to sin no more.
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Treasury Department
Office of Comptroller of the Currency
Washington
National Eagle Bank of
Bristol
Rhode Island
Congress
United States
Freeman, Clark
National Eagle Bank of Bristol
Leh
Confucius
Unruly Wives and Wall Street Woes in a Genteel Scrap
A colorful social sketch portrays Mrs Daah and Lady Brilliant clashing with Sheriff over ornate documents and rival supper taverns. The piece mocks brash Wall Street gamblers whose misfortune is a brainless wife, urging focus on home life over market fads.
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Mrs. Daah
Lady Brilliant
New York
Dash
Woolcock
Lad Brilliant
Wall Street
Language of Lawyers and the Lip Between the Cup
A comic legal glossary passage explains how a formal conveyance would oddly grant all rights to an orange with every peel juice and pulp, then recounts the proverb There’s many a slip between a cup and a lip and its ancient origin with a Thracian vineyard tale.
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Enying
Penelope
Ainsworth
Thrace
Fragments on ugliness, labor, and automated living
The text muses on how beauty can arise from ugliness and moral circumstance, cites Maraarer Fuller and Mr Appold, and imagines an English inventor’s automated house where doors, lighting, temperature, and even daily life operate automatically, raising questions about control and convenience.
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Meet Paine
Mr. Appold
Salindst
Aladin
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