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Newspaper
Columbia Spy
Location
Columbia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1857
Page
1
A Harper’s Weekly fragment notes the fiftieth birthday of naturalist Agassiz with Longfellow verses read at a birthday dinner. It also includes a poetic piece about lovers and a moonlit meeting, set in a city scene with streets and river nearby.
In Harlem Holland a rich shoemaker's daughter and a tulip prized by the Deckers cap off a marriage plot. Mr Deckers and his son pursue Miss Van Selkirk while the shopkeeper guards a rare tulip and a nest egg of gold. The tale unfolds with a union and a flower that outlives its owners.
A rambling tale follows Sut Lovegood recovering from a bizarre shirt mishap with Betts Johnson’s cottage craft and a stubborn legal shirt that ends in a dramatic escape. A Ithaca lawyer’s letter to San Francisco yields a biting local response detailing a cutthroat market and brutal living costs. The Indignant Boy in Boston Court shows a wine theft case ending in a $5 fine, and English anecdote closes with Sheridan Knowles’ library mishap and a sharp retort to a bookseller.
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