Pension Letters and War Injuries Stir Public Pleas
A satirical mix of letters and anecdotes recalls pension requests from veterans and spouses. A widow complains of inadequate payments while a young wife demands higher relief for her veteran husband. A letter claims a bullet scar proves disability, invoking Union loyalty and urging presidential intervention, as printed by the New York Tribune.
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Lovan
Mear
Armerlex
Union
New York Tribune
Fragmented Old Time Aphorisms and Anecdotes
A collage of old sayings and quips from London Tit-Bits and the Cleveland Leader. Includes remarks on knighthood armor legends, charity to the blind, love and wealth, and a wry note on fortune and marriage. Ends with a garbled line reading Rw SPAPERNEACH ES.
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London
Hints on moose calls and a Jackson political note
The excerpt describes moose calling as an art, noting weather and calm as critical, with distant audible calls and vivid observations of a bull moose. It then recounts One of the last earthly things Jackson did, Polk seeking his favor for federal appointments, and political shifts involving Van Buren, Blair, and the Capital editor.
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Ponce
Ealla
Ernest Thompson Seton
Scribner's
Jackson
Polk
South
Daily Union
Ritchie
Richmmond
van Buren
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Early English Lotteries and Inns in Old London
A survey of early English lotteries begins with England’s first public lottery in 1507 raising funds for harbors, with 40 000 chances at 10 shillings and prizes of plate. Later lotteries supported Virginia Company water works and the national exchequer, while private ones faced suppression as public nuisances. The piece notes inns with Puritan simplicity, with names like the Three Horseshoes and Half Moon, and towns naming bells from parish churches such as Six Bells and Eight Bells, recalling Addison’s Signposts essay in the London Spectator.
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England
St. Paul’s Cathedral
St. Paul's
Virginia Company
London
Amos Gale
Shadrach Meade
Samuel Ward
Mary Ann Mulcock
Peters Green
Many 4
St. Michael's
Lord Bacon
Hatfield
Tuton
Joseph Addison
London Spectator
Portrait anecdotes of Webster and Jackson by Healy
Daniel Webster sat for his portrait by G. P. Healy and noted the likeness as a facial memory Webster said he often shared. Healy recalled Jackson as disagreeable and painted him with stark fidelity, producing a rugged, savage countenance. Gaswel recounts a quip about Young Mr Lofty paralyzing Dr Simton during vaccination with anesthesia.
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Daniel Webster
G. P. Healy
Webster
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Lofty
Simton
Dukane
Lim
A Farsighted CK and the Night Work Question
A conversation shows CK promising nonstop effort to please, while the woman urges a balanced approach and prefers daytime work with home evenings. The dialogue reflects caution about self-praise and graceful commitment.
We Have Grown Clever for Fifteen Years in Farming
An Ohio Farmer correspondent discusses sowing timing and conditions, stressing not sowing on snow or sticky ground, avoiding high winds, and using frost honeycombing to seed deeper. It covers early morning sowing, deep-rooted plants, and deep spring readiness, plus starting garden plants in boxes and onion culture with cold frames and proper heating and ventilation.
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Ohio
Kitch
Adriatic
Barletta
Southport
Hints in Gardening for Early Spring Planting
Garden advice urges February sowing of Jersey Wakefield cabbage in light flats, use warm beds and sun, enrich rhubarb with fine compost and force under manure, ensure center hotbed is well manured to avoid sagging, and encourages children to join in gardening.
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New York
L. TL. Balley
Jersey Wakefield
Dexton
Tilguman Harvey
Burrsville
Ernest G. Cooper
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Baltimore, Maryland
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Preston, MD
Delaware & Virginia Railway Company
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Harvey L. Cooper
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