Fire in Northern Central Railroad Cop y's Building
A fire incident is reported at the Northern Central Railroad Company’s building at the northwest corner of Front and Nut streets. The notice includes subscription terms, local business ads, and multiple addresses in Columbia Pennsylvania, dated 1854 to 1860, with various merchants and services listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northern Central Railroad
Davies E. Bruner
Borney
Columbia
Front Street
Union
Perry
Second Street
B. F. Appold & CO
Columbia and Philadelphia
York
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Canal Basin
The Poor Cry For Mercy In Winter Woes
A poem lamenting the plight of the poor, detailing mothers who plead for bread, children shivering by a cheerless hearth, and the enduring misery of those with little hope. It pleads for compassionate action and gentle judgment toward the suffering, urging charity and empathy.
Invocation to Spring Poem Fragment
Invocation to Spring celebrates the season with floral imagery and birdsong. The speaker pleads for spring to bring beauty, fragrance, and renewal to flowers fields and nature, inviting the vernal Grove to reveal its cheerful melodies.
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Pring
Alligator and bear clash on Western Louisiana banks
An eye witness recalls an extraordinary struggle between a six foot alligator and a white foamed bear in a cane break beside a stream in Western Louisiana. The bear presses the attack repeatedly while the alligator backs and counters with tail blows as shells scatter on the ground.
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Louisiana
Achilles
Styx
Ilis
Bruin
Brain
Bruin and Alligator Battle Ends in River Drift
Brain the bear grapples the alligator, biting a leg and pinning the reptile on its back. The two tumble into the river from a four foot bank into seven feet of water, then Brain surfaces and escapes into the cane break.
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Brain
Bruin
Indian trick ends with a red shirt flee tale.
A Texan correspondent recalls a New Orleans Picayune tale of a jealous suitor C being decoyed by Betty’s plan during melon season. Indians roar, shots fire, and C bursts through the yard in a red shirt before fleeing to safety, tempted by a river crossing and a distant settlement. It also notes Morgan manuscript letters in New Orleans descendants’ possession, urging public purchase.
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Ingins
New Orleans Picayune
Betty
James Simpson
George Williams
Jack Parsons
Reader
Morgan
New Orleans
Washington
Lafayette
Greene
Gates
Knox
Steuben
Sumpter
Wayne
Smallwood
Hamilton
Jefferson
My Lost Friend and the New Roof of Happiness
A narrator recalls friendship with a groom who chose a wife over their bond. On visiting the couple, the bride and new partner reveal a calculated, coercive claim on the groom’s life. The narrator learns they will share no more secrets, and the groom’s loyalty now lies with his wife and a future family. The old friend is discharged to the outer gates.
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Spirit of the Age
Spectacle of ruin and a lion and gemsbok clash
A sermon-like meditation on drunken doom contrasts with a vivid Africa chase. The dying drunkard’s hellish end unfolds beside a lion and gemsbok duel where the antelope’s horn decisively wounds the foe. the victor departs unscathed as chaos yields to death.
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Dr. Livingston
Africa
Gemsbok
The Considerate Doctor and the Fair Bill
A poor girl pays seventy five cents to a doctor after two weeks of care while a lawyer’s same service costs seventy five dollars. A rich man later learns the truth of fair charging when he receives a costly bill and recalls his advice. Kind reproofs should be gentle and saved for morning.
What Makes Old Maids and Bachelors
A two-house scene contrasts a widow and her daughter with a shy bachelor. She grows into old maidism while he ages into loneliness and fear of women. A thin six inch wall keeps them apart, denying a possible union and leaving two miserable units.
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Ana
Mannerg
Pyramus
Thisbe
The Beauty of Light Reflected in Earth and Sky
A reflection on how light’s composite nature shapes beauty and perception. The text contrasts a world of color with a hypothetical white spectrum, noting how hues in nature from corn to the sea color life and health, and how absence of color would erase distinction in birth, health, disease, and death.
Every Farmer Growing His Own Sugar
The article discusses the rising demand for Chinese Sugar Cane and the need for cheap portable extraction machinery. It describes Mr. Hedges of Cincinnati showcasing a three-roller sugar mill on a movable wooden frame, powered by a horse, designed to press cane and collect juice for testing the cane’s agricultural potential in widespread cultivation.
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Patent Office
Hedges
Cincinnati
Washington
The World Obsesses Over Others Faults
A reflective meditation on human nature notes that people relish exposing others faults while neglecting their own. It argues eyes ears and tongues serve to pry into neighbors sins, making envy and judgment the common currency of daily conversation.
Singular fascination ends in damaged hand at iron works
An English paper reports a young man at a large iron factory who fixed his fist to a hammer anvil after watching its motions. He felt a morbid impulse to imitate the blows and smashed his hand, losing a good hand in the process.
Editor In Heaven Obituary Echoes A Brother Of The Quill
The closing paragraph from an obituary of a journalist imagines the editor in heaven. It quells earthly abuses and lies, laments typos, and notes the editor’s vast unseen influence while praising his ascension.
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Heaven
Love’s Streatagem from German Lovers in America
A Shippensburg item tells of two German couples who fell in love, faced parental disapproval, and resolved to marry after the men earned money in the United States. The men sent for their brides, who arrived and were united with their lovers at Relacrovs Telenatics in Swrorn. Also notes Sweden's Parliament considering widening religious dissent rights with conditions. Remembering beauty blooms around domestic lore.
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Shippensburg
America
Swrorn
Sweden
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Reiner
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