A Timely Shot
In the summer of 185-, Gorham recounts joining the barque Bloomer under Joe Calder to the Guinea coast for palm oil cargoes. He discovers a slave-trade plot, resists complicity, aids a British pursuit, and after a dramatic battle, the captain is killed by a thwarted explosion and the voyage ends with liberation of the enslaved and return to home shores.
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New York
Gorham
Joe Calder
Coast of Africa
Gambia River
Calder
Africa
Kroomen
Cook
Guinea
Atlantic
Mr. Gorham
St. Helena
Depopulation in New England Hill Towns Prompt Reform Call
The article notes dramatic population and wealth declines in Berkshire County hills and similar New England trends in Connecticut New Hampshire and Vermont. Extravagance and fashion drive smaller families and farm consolidation, threatening perpetual decline. Dr Allen estimates Yankee homelands fading, urging reforms to preserve towns and lineage.
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Massachusetts
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Vermont
Brias
Brambles
Gale
Lee
Berkshire County
Jean Congregwien
Maassachusetts
Allen
Lowell
New England
Palmer Journal
Warming a Room Tips From Old Fire Advice
The piece explains why heated air rises and cool air sinks in a room after a fire. It suggests using a palm leaf fan shawl or towel to stir the air vigorously to mix hot and cool layers. The aim is faster comfort as temperatures equalize between the upper and lower parts of the room.
Tweed and the Crowd: The Allure of Smartness in Politics
The passage notes that even eminent statesmen lose appeal when faced with the crowd's desire for bold bragging, loud talk, and shameless impudence, suggesting public favor rests on surface swagger more than steady principle.
Boston dry goods merchant tests boy with toy problems
Clerk Pickernel tries a smart Boston boy with arithmetic teasers about fabric, beef price and change from a two dollar bill. The lad hesitates, guesses, and finally Pickernel concedes the candidate is not fit, sending him away with a dismissive note.
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Pickernel
Boston
Pickernel's
Mr. Pickernel
Youngster
Wesley Dream at Gates of Hell and Heaven
A short moral tale recounts a dream of the preacher John Wesley wandering to the gates of hell and heaven. Asked about sects including Roman Catholics Presbyterians Congregationalists and Methodists he finds all inside are Christians. The dream ends with a message of unity beyond denomination.
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Wreerry
Wesley
Hell
Heaven
Hotel Barroom Conversation Highlights Slavery Escape
In a Canadian hotel bar near the line a group questions a bright looking Negro who says he fled from bondage and now enjoys freedom. He explains he had clothing meals and no punishments while enslaved, and he remains wary of who may pursue him as he contemplates his uncertain destination.
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Louisville
New Albany Ledger
Wourn
Shirley Brooks
London News
Prince of Wales Ely
Hull
Wilberforce
Canada
Darkey
French Doctor Links Apples to Fewer Dyspepsia Cases
An eminent French physician credits rising apple consumption in Paris for a drop in dyspepsia and bilious ailments. He calls apples an excellent prophylactic and tonic and easy to digest nourishment. Parisians eat about one hundred million apples each winter.
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Paris
Governor and committee visit reform school prompt students
Governor Faircamp and the visiting committee toured the Wisconsin Reform School. He avoided giving a speech and asked the boys the purpose of the visit. A student replied the committee came to be reformed.
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Hope Street
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W. B. Simball
MUNRO
High Breat
Cay Waldron
Otis Munro
Hope
P J Bradford
Kimball
Munro's
JA Miller
Caine
C8 Cummings
Fileurs
Tow
Priras
Miller
Nyms Werriball Choice
Hyson
Excelsior
C &E
Bbl
Thames
Franklin Streets
Son W Pearse
Ppark's Island Salt
Otis Muneho
Ss. Hite Havanna
Sys. CA Waldron
Pearse Ould
State Street
Cummings
Eaxtra
NICE
E &c
Michigan
Chadwick
People’s Literary Companion
E.C Allen &Co
Augubta
W. H. Macy
Monster
Pacific Coast
Sluniton
White Pine
South Aurora
Stanford Mill
Gold Hill
Dayton
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