The Laughing Hero in Texas Battle and Escape
A dramatic 1836 vignette follows Col. John Neil at Goliad as Mexican fire erupts. Neil disables pursuers with revolvers, escapes by river, and laughs at danger, a legend of daring and humor in Texan history.
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Goliad
Santa Anna
United States
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Fannie
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Allen
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Tichleton
Star
Seth Allen
Cumberland River
Tennessee
Texas
Rangers
Miliia
Petition urges Congress to fund Adams life and works edition
Messrs Little and Brown urge Congress to subsidize 1000 copies of Life and Works of John Adams in ten volumes. They argue the volumes contain unique Revolutionary materials and autobiographical writings essential to American history, comparing with prior government support for Washington Jefferson Madison Monroe.
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Messrs. Little & Brown
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Joan Adams
United States
John Adams
Wasuvidtos
Jefferson
Matison
Monrosg
Washington
Madison
Monroe
Jonx Apams
Little & Brown
Idle Manhood and the Fault of Idleness
A 19th century column condemns idleness for young men, arguing that in a world filled with incentives to exertion idleness is absurd and shameful. The writer likens idle people to bivalves and warns that inherited wealth fosters contemptible sloth and a culture of idle American and English elites.
Modern courting advice for young ladies
A moralistic essay urges girls to abandon deference to parental approval in marriage proposals. It counsels embracing suitors with warmth, kissing them, and openly accepting a worthy offer instead of lingering with hesitation or asking permission from fathers.
Humorous Knickerbocker Quip on Curfews and Housework
A curfew quip from Knickerbocker mocks old fashioned discipline linking missing nights out to breaking legs or enlisting a calling card to do housework. The satirical line reflects juvenile behavior and gendered chores in a playful warning.
Industrious Poor Shaped World Figures French Leaders
The Biographical Dictionary notes five thousand distinguished people from various nations, mostly French and English, many rising from poverty through self effort. It cites figures like D Alembert, Burns, Defoe, Harrison, Bunyan, and Davy as examples who began life in poverty and achieved fame. Wealth is praised for general good, yet condemned when used to oppress.
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Edinburgh Journal
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England
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Heyne
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D’alembert
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Naples
Richard Arkwright
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Edmund Saunders
King’s Bench
Charles Second
Ben Johnson
Kepler
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Lorraine
Sir Humphry Davy
Isaac Milmer
Cambridge
Burns
Cap. Cook
Daniel Defoe
James Ferguson
Geo. Fox
Society of Friends
Guilford
Quarterly Review
John Harrison
H. Mann
Hot beds from lime heat and soil layering method
A historical note explains making a lime hot bed by burning lime to produce heat then burying it four inches deep with soil. Moisture and careful watering control heat. the method claims quicker potato slips and earlier harvests, with a 1850 Tennessee reference.
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Clarksville
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Theory of Marriage and the Two Halves
A humorous ancient tale attributed to Plato describes man as a whole split by Jupiter into two halves. Each seeks the other, forming loving unions or, lacking a match, miserable unhappy marriages. The story likens love to a quest for the original partner, with mix ups as people swap hats and partners.
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Plato
Jupiter
Goop Retort From A Circuit Rider Tale
An old Methodist teacher recalls a dialogue with a country magistrate who jokes about riding an ass as Jesus did. The minister replies that people have taken them all to make magic tricks, highlighting a humorous exchange from a circuit rider era.
Public rebuke of divorce testimony sparks moral debate
Mrs Lydia J Pierson of the Lan caster Liberty Gazette denounces the Forest divorce testimony as a foul blow to women and society. She questions the treatment of accused men and condemns society for condemning a suspected woman while excusing her alleged male accomplices.
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Lydia Jane Pierson
Lancaster Liberty Gazette
Forest
Bryan’s plan to build four steamships for Liberia voyage
Me Bryan’s project before Congress seeks government aid to build four 4000-ton steamers capable of New York to Liverpool in eight days. Each ship costs 890000 dollars, with two thirds funded by the U.S. in five percent stock. The plan envisions military use, colonization transport, and 64000 free colored emigrants annual capacity, amid debate over resettlement policy.
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Me. Bryan
Congress
Liberia
United States
New York
Liverpool
American Colonization Society
U.S
Bryan
Mr. B
Uncle Extra's Rugged Maine Plough Tale
The Yantee Blade prints a humorous tale attributed to an uncle in Maine who stretches the truth about breaking ground. He describes splitting a nine and a half foot stump with eighty oxen, the pantaloons saved by a clever reflex, and a wife sewing the cloth, ending with a quip about suspenders.
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Extra
Sadoks
Maine
Amd
The Duchess of Albans recalls a Liverpool theater incident
The Duchess recounts working as a poor girl in a new piece where a heartless creditor seeks prison for debt. A sailor leaps from the gallery to offer bail, causing uproar as the manager feigns rescue with theatrical notes.
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Sartor
Duchess of Albans
Liverpool
Grats Counsel on Chats Warn Against Cliches
The writer scolds the Grats for using tame phrases in conversation remarking that expressions like I vow and vum betray their refined speech. They warn that such talk deprives conversation of charm and liken it to a basket of chips.
Golden Query of Dr. Franklin on Paine Letter
A fragment reflects an exchange praising Dr. Franklin and addressing a letter from Thomas Paine. It questions how wicked men would be without religion and notes the value of a golden query in the discourse.
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