Martha Warren and the Ammonoosuc River Rescue
A White Mountain pioneer Mark Warren leaves for corn but floods and wolves strand his wife Martha and child Charlie on The Pulpit rock. After a desperate night of hunger, cold, and shifting tides, Mark returns to a delirious wife and a saved son. The tale notes the Warren lineage along the Ammonoosuc.
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Martha
White Mountain
Mark Warren
Sen
Martha Warren
White Mountains
Bethlehem
Littleton
Franconia
Mt Washington
Ammonoosuc
Portsmouth
Lord's Hill
Mrs. Warren
Charlie
Papa
Mark
Ammonoosne
Rates of Advertising and Notice Policies
Rates of advertising are stated at $1,000 per square for one week with 25 cents for each subsequent insertion. Twelve lines or less equal a quarter square. Special notices for marriages and deaths cost double. Transient ads paid in advance. Yearly contracts limited to the advertiser’s immediate business. Ads must be submitted by Thursday noon for the next issue. Obituaries and political notices are charged as advertisements.
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Reasonaby V.mns
Miscellany of virtue and wit from classic proverbs
A compact collection of maxims emphasizing honesty, self worth, and moral conduct. It extols friendship as medicine, values true culture over ornate show, and warns that honesty must come from the soul rather than policy. The text mingles quotes and reflections on character and virtue.
Happiness Shared Brightens Like Reflected Light
A reflects on happiness as a sunbeam that remains bright when passed through many, and grows stronger when shared with kindred hearts. The text contrasts this with ideas and youth fading, likening fading mental pictures to inscriptions worn by time and the need for refreshment.
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Jane Porter
Locke
Industry the conqueror of lifewracked by laziness
The piece extols Industry as the cure for life’s ills and the foe of indolence. It argues laziness invites poverty and vice, while steady work makes life easier and healthier. Fuller’s line about rising late, plus Abernethy’s sharp advice to a lazy rich man, illustrate the moral: use effort to preserve mind, body, and character.
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Fuller
Abernethy
Tribune
Bromley
New Brunswick
Garden of Eden
Constantine
John Franklin
Arctic
Turkey
Morocco
Strawer
Earth
Adam
Eve
Noah
Moses
Potiphar
Daniel
Siésen
Beelzebub
Napoleon
George Washington
Zach Taylor
Frank Pierce
Henrietta Robinson
P. T. Barnum
Red Sea
Lion's den
Battle Fields
Sunker Hill
Waterloo
Beauna Vista
Polar Sea
Bay and
City of New York
Hicks
Bedloe’s Island
Bowery
Connecticut
Bromly
The California Pitcher Plant in Mount Shasta Region
A San Francisco Bulletin report details Darlingtonia Californica native to northern California around Mount Shasta. The plant traps insects in a hooded leaf, with downward hairs preventing escape. Henry Edwards counted 36 insect species in its traps. Darwin’s new book on insectivorous plants omits it. specimens photographed by Bradley & Rouleston and shown in the Mechanics' Fair garden.
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California
Mount Shasta
Atlantic States
Henry Edwards
San Francisco
Darwin
England
Robinson
Field
Edwards
Bradley & Rouleston
San Francisco Bulletin
Paris Gift System in Newspapers and Shops Exposed
A survey of Paris advertising reveals a system of gifts and free attractions used to draw subscribers and shoppers. English and foreign shops push incentives from watches to free meals while French papers rely on word of mouth rather than loud notices. An ultramontane backlash targets personal ads as dangerous to morality, with bishops denouncing such ventures.
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Paris
England
France
London
Brosques
London Times
The Doctor’s Questions and a Wet Boots Trick
The Rev Dr Richie of Edinburg tests a student with math and philosophy questions yielding witty answers. A home remedy to dry wet boots uses dry oats to absorb moisture, swell, and reform the boot for morning wear.
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Richie
Edinburg
Most Difficult Words To Pronounce
A minister once stayed with a man who boasted little sense He posed a riddle asking which three English words are hardest to pronounce By morning the minister forgot and the man revealed the answer They are I am wrong.
Charles Dickens Interred in Westminster Abbey
Edmund Yates notes Dickens lies at the foot of Handel and near the graves of Sheridan and Macauley in Poet's Corner. The essay recalls the Abbey’s honored place for England's great writers and laments the public mourning by friends and readers across the Atlantic.
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Wuert Dickens
Charles Dickens
Westminster Abbey
Rochester Cathedral
Rochester
Edwin Drood
Voice of England
Handel
Sheridan
Richard Cumberland
Macauley
Addison
Thackeray
Dr. Johnson
Garrick
Dicken
Shakespeare
Southey
Thomson
Ben Johnson
John Dryden
John Milton
Atlantic
Edmund Yates
Don t Do s and Don ts for a Frugal Time
A fragmented, dated admonition piece offers a stream of parables urging restraint and thrift. It juxtaposes social advice with humorous jibes about spending, gifts, religion, and daily duties, concluding with a prompt to avoid envy and delay.
The Value of Concentration Across Arts and Labor
The author argues against half effort and dawdling, praising deep concentration and sustained work. He notes time wasted daily limits achievement, favors changing tasks for rest, and cites music and other arts as complementary to creative vigor and discipline.
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Blackwood's Magazine
Experiences in Battle From a Soldier’s Eye
A veteran recalls the brutal realities of combat, noting shell and musket fire’s differing demoralizing effects and the brutal shock of bullets. He describes numbness, pain, and oddities like spent-ball injuries and buckshot impacts, drawing on personal experience from battles reported by the New York Times.
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New York Times
Omnibuses Originate in Paris in 1827
In Paris during 1827 omnibuses emerged marking public transport’s early growth. The piece contrasts this with the later rise of a different kind of bosses attracting young men and maidens, a trend noticed several years earlier.
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Paris
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