Lovers and politics entwined in a Maryland life tale
A biographer recounts a young Lancaster lawyer engaged to a beloved, torn apart by a lovers quarrel and a later haunting death. The survivor, once cautious about politics, enters Congress as he preserves the departed memory, while village gossip shapes a broader national history through decades of public life.
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Lancater
Buchanan
America
Congress
United States
Wmn. C. Prime
Harper's Magazine
Education and farming in the Grange sense discussed
N O Devries reads a State Grange address urging strong support for agricultural education. He argues American farming depends on practical science taught in schools, noting the lack of agriculture texts and the need to connect study with nature and the earth’s “silent powers.” He emphasizes proper treatment of the land and the farmer’s duty to educate sons for industry.
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N. O. Devries
Household Tips And Recipes From A Bygone Era
A mix of kitchen hacks and simple recipes covers lamp chimney cleaning using boiling water steam, a cake with sugar butter eggs and flour, eye care wash with camphor borax solution, meat preservation in Japanese practice, rye toast method, a roast with stuffing and gravy, cracklin pastry with lemon and cracker crusts, and a rich custard dessert with candied ginger for a festive finish.
Guards at the Treasury Differ in Style but Not Security
An English party in Washington notes no red coat guards outside the Treasury but discovers a robust force inside. Captain Cobaugh, chief of the guard, shows loaded revolvers and explains a two hourly patrol, room inspections, locked safes, and strict safety routines.
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Treasury
Washington
bank of England
Thas
Colonel Webster
the
Baltimore American
Practical Farmers Advice On Poultry And Livestock
Practical guidance on farm management highlights: corn yields shrink in storage, milk and whey aid fowl nutrition, warm stables reduce blanket needs, poultry cost efficiency versus beef, Georgia cotton growth, kerosene in whitewash to deter lice, avoid freezing poultry, fattening best from early hatchings, long legs fatten less, use a stiff broom for horses, nervous horses from rough grooms, small sheep flocks profitable, avoid overstocking, churning butter with controlled temperature, fowls lack teeth but grind with internal mill, gravel aids digestion, insufficient gravel in winter, hay management risks disease and pendulous stomachs.
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Georgia
Tennessee Persimmons Stir Market Quirk at Fulton Street
A Tennessee persimmon tale unfolds at a Fulton market stall where a dealer extols green specimens from near Nashville. He notes frost mellows flavor, praises the fruit’s rise from nuisance to marketable crop, and recalls the fruit’s charm for children and a possum. The farmer aims to prove persimmons’ value across the South and central states.
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Fulton market
Nashville
Tennessee
Arabia
States
No Dog to Love No More a Pups Quiet End
A mournful dog obituary piece recounts Chunk the pup’s death. The speaker Simone laments the loss, recalling milk, bread, pats, and the pup’s once lively bark. The verse paints a grieving owner seeking answers and expressing endless tears.
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Simone
Brevity of a Sparkling Edison Pin at Nu remberg
A breastpin with an Edison glow light powered by a small waistcoat bucket battery sells for $3 in Nu remberg Germany. Bonanza Flood's daughter is set to inherit $35 000 000, a fortune implying the sort of flood that could guide her husband to wealth. A marriage notice appears among items titled Horrors of 1883, and the editor notes the groom earns only $7 a week, suggesting it should stay under that heading.
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Nuremberg
Germany
Bonanza Flood
A Bridegroom's Funny Mistake at Trinity Church
Rev. Frederick Allin, assistant rector, recalls a humorous wedding error when a groom paid with a 5 cent piece after a ceremony. Later, at midnight, the bridegroom returned in apology and rewarded the clergyman generously for his services. The incident was reported by a Boston paper.
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Frederick Allin
Trinity Church
Allin
Boston
Right to Snore in Church Court Decision
A Canadian court ruled a pew owner may sleep and breathe heavily during services without damages awarded. At St Thomas the defendant slept with no complaint from others, arguing duty called him to the sanctuary. The decision notes involuntary respiration is not malicious and suggests awake pews or unobtrusive rest may be needed.
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St. Thomas
Canada
Long Service John Quincy Adams and His Government Career
The text outlines John Quincy Adams long government tenure including sixty nine years of salary from the U.S. government totaling about half a million dollars. It notes fifty two years of office holding, a salary totaling four hundred twenty five thousand, and seventeen years in Congress after his presidency. It mentions his early service as private secretary in Russia at age fourteen and later roles as minister to England Germany Portugal Russia and the Netherlands.
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John Quincy Adams
United State
congress
Russia
legation
England
Germany
Portugal
Rusia
the
Netherlands
Dentist Duel Sparks Legal Ironies In City Humor
Indianapolis anecdotes unfold a dentist mishap ending in a biting legal dream. A husband allegedly assaults the dentist after a jaw fracture during a tooth extraction. Feathery attorney J J Featherly shares a playful schooling tale about spelling and legal minds.
Engraving of Hickory Tree On Jackson Campaign Tickets
The engraving of the Hickory tree with Jackson portrait and the Trish harp, the regular Democratic coat of arms on election tickets, first appeared in 1828. The first design was executed by Hon. John H. Latrobe, father of Hon. F.C. Latrobe, then mayor of Baltimore.
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Jackson
John H. .B. Latrobe
F.C. Latrobe
Baltimore city
Quirky compares men’s heartbreak to lobsters regrowing claws
A woman's analogy likens heartbreak to a lobster’s claw regrowth. An American laundry opens in Mexico, causing locals to joke about suspending work and spending a week in bed to have clothes washed.
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Mexico
Convicts Escape After Reading JTome Sweet Home
Clara Louise Kelloggang presented JTome Sweet Home to prisoners in an Eastern jail, and seven inmates wept and fled that night toward their parental homes, driven by the emotions stirred by the tale.
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Clara Louise Kelloggang
JTome
Sweet Home
Shannahan and Wrightson Silverware Display
Shannahan & Wrightson advertise a large Christmas or bridal silverware display. They have ordered a new shipment from Meriden Connecticut and invite customers to visit early to inspect the quality and usefulness of the goods.
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Shannahan & Wrightson
Shannahan & Wrightson's
Meriden
Connecticut
Advice to Mathews on Teething Soothe Syrup
An old pamphlet advertises Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims to relieve nighttime crying and pain, cure dysentery and diarrhea, regulate the stomach, bowels, wind colic, soften the gums, reduce inflammation, and energize the system. The product is described as pleasant tasting, a prescription of a renowned female physician, and sold by all druggists for 25 cents.
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EVITTS & HOLBROOK
Nery rin
wees
Clorcviian
NOAIST WALKER & CO
Baltimore Street
ARY WEICHT
CARRIAGE SPRINGS
Bucey &C
MICH
SIBLEY
ALI
HIRAM SIBLEY & CO
Rochester
N.Y
Chicago
WSPAP
Hamilton Easter & Sons
BALTIMORE
Wheeler Transportation Line
CHOPTANK RIVER
Minnie Wheeler
HILLSBORO
Hartimore
Tuckahoe Creek
UCook
Medfords Wharf
Light St
Pier 5
Agts
G. STEVENS
Agt
EMORY & NEAVITT
Potter’s Landing
South Street
E. W. WILLIAMSON
Potter's Landing
Denton Md
LIVERY STABLE
GREENSBORO
Maryland
WM. H. GOHEE
PROP'R
BAIRD & COOPER
W. Sth St
Wilmington, Delaware
Jas. Parnell
VERCHANT
STRAUGHN’S HOTEL
Centreville, Md
Hote
Jas H. Straughn
Purlip W. Downes
M.S. McTCHLER
DOWNES & MUTCHLER
ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
Will
Court of
Caroline
VOSHELL
CHESTERTOWN, MD
J. A
CHAS. ROLPH, Propr's
CLAES
Cpe TILGHMAN
AMES
TODD
DEXNTOY, MD
DOVER STREET
Dr. March
von or wan tranted
Chaglain Pouer
C. McCurdy
Con
pth & Cheatautts
Phila
Pas
JAMES BUCHANAN
Commonwealth
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Sturrep Beerstoak
Europe
C. C. Buel
Jones
Cap’n Simmons
Cap'n Simmons
Mr. Jones
Persimmons
Indianapolis
Mathews
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