The Story of Fort George Island Mistress
A fragmentary historical piece portrays Fort George Island on the St. Johns River Florida with a planter and a native princess who rules the island estate. It details enslaved people, education of some children abroad, and the disciplined management by the princess who enforces order among field hands each day.
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Fort George St John’s River
Flori
Sean
Africa
Isits
Planter
England
Irregular Nevada Chronicle Seeks Justice For Sleep Disturbance
Fragmentary OCR from the Nevada Chronicle shows a court scene with phrases about wakefulness and a defendant facing trial. Silhouetted by garbled dialogue, the text hints at a courtroom banter and a potential sixty day sentence, though details are unclear due to damaged source text.
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Inginia
Wile of
Tory
Oses
Cy Joy Teady
T Bay
Dow
Enders
Terrible voyage after shipwreck ends with rescue
Captain Hardy of the schooner C J Van Name survived after thirty six hours adrift on a frail raft with six companions. Sharks loomed near as the raft held by improvised timbers carried seven men, finally rescued by the schooner Minnie Pippelier off Aspinwall after vain signals to passing vessels.
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New Haven
Conn
New York
Captain Hardy
C. J. van Name
Baracoa
Matilda Assurus
Freddie Assurus
Walter Gill
Aga
Poe
Minnie Pippelier
Pippelier
Henry L. Burton
Aspinwail
Osman Pasha the Enigmatic Turkish Commander
A Jewish Pesth paper details Osman Pashas origins as Wolf from Hungary born to Jewish parents renamed Farkes on adulthood. He joined 1848 revolution, fled to Turkey embracing Islam, led education of sultan’s children, served in Crimean War, later posted in Montenegro where he was captured, and maintains letters from brother Bernhard Wolf.
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Osman Pasha
Clay Crawford
Asia Minor
Mussulman
Pesth
Pleyna
Hungary
Wolf
Farkes
Turkey
Constantinople
Osman
Montengro
Bernhard Wolf
Perth
Novel Los Angeles Suit Over Sick Horse
A man sold a dying horse to a livery keeper for five dollars who could not kill it. The keeper then hired another man to kill it but the horse was treated and recovered. The owner later saw the horse with the man who doctored it and recovered possession suit. The jury ruled for the man who doctored the horse. appeal expected.
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Los Angeles
Camel Hair Shawl Weaving Demands Long Labor
The article notes a camel's hair shawl requires from five hundred to four thousand pieces to complete. It adds that as many as twenty men may work daily for twenty years to finish a first class shawl, with the highest wage averaging four con cents per day to the most dedicated workers.
Timeline of Mormon History from Smith to Brigham Young
A condensed chronological list tracing key events in early Mormon history from 1790s births through Brigham Young’s death in 1877. It covers visions and revelations attributed to Joseph Smith, the Book of Mormon, church organization, migrations to Kirtland and Nauvoo, polygamy, persecutions, and the eventual establishment of Utah with governance changes through 1858 and Young’s death on August 29, 1877.
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Joseph Smith
Ontario
County
Angela the Lord
Sidney Rigdon
Smith
First Mormon Church
Manchester
N.Y
Kirtland
O. C
Independence
Rigdon
Brigham Young
Mormon Church
Orson Hyde
Heber C. Kimgall
England
Ohio
Missouri
Illinois
Nauvoo
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Deseret
Congress
Utah
Young
Fillmore
United States
Church
Steptoe
Buchanan
Alfred Cumming
A. 8. Johnson
Locust Bait For Sardine Fishing In Europe
The French sardine fishery reportedly uses large quantities of cod roe as bait. Algeria sent 1,000 kilograms of prepared locusts to France as a substitute and the bait shows promise. British and Norwegian traders note grasshoppers prepared as bait spark excitement amid France Norway trade in cod roe.
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France
Washington
Algeria
Christiana
Norway
Pique Dresses for Very Small Children
A fragment discusses children's attire noting pique dresses. It mentions dresses being cut in small styles with short sleeves and ruffles. The text blends garbled phrases about fabrics and garment features without clear events or entities.
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Sharon
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