John Tyler's Career and the Tippecanoe Campaign
A detailed portrait of John Tyler linking his rise to national prominence with the 1840 Harrison campaign and the Tippecanoe and Tyler Too rallying cry. The piece traces his early life in Virginia, political ascent, and role as vice president tied to the Whig ticket, plus anecdotes of campaign fervor and Tyler's White House tenure.
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Tippecanoe
Tyler
William Henry Morrison
John Tyler
Belf
Stexker
House of de Ses
Meteter
Cou Ss
Virgin
United Scates
Ts Gil
Woije ‘Poverner
Thomas Jeferfil Seegher
Congreir
Merset Herrisberg
Pate
William Heery Harrison
Henry Clay
Wisfield Scott
Harrison
Iog
Cooud
van Berens Eablem
Tyler Tov
White House
Mise Levida
Christine Sqonty
Jens
Muse
Legving
St. John's Church
Washington
St. John’s
Buchanan
Alice Tyler
Wealthy farmer Jacob Rogers charged in Allen County murder
The Kansas case alleges Jacob Rogers abducted and killed Della Hutchingson to mask another crime. A bloodhound aided the discovery of Della’s body near a creek, with testimony from druggists and witnesses about travel and last seen times. The hearing focused on establishing probable guilt as Rogers was guarded and the community reacted with fear.
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Allen County
Kansas
Della Huickinger
Darob Rogers
Dvieg
Heomboli
Lela
Joseph Phutch Cerpenter
Llien Bell
Diel
Creeley Whitehart
Ayer
Tao
Daly
Rogers
Jean Rogers
Humboldt
Lula
Faraer
Hong
tLavelock
Bvla
Bhia
Farher Teade
Comre
The Late Mr Grady and the Grady Monument in Chicago
Stratford Conn Correspondence New York Herald recounts Henry W Grady the South healing wounded postwar ties through editor and orator. It details his rise from editor of a reform paper to Stateside speaker, his Boston and New England Society reception, and his enduring Atlanta memory. It ends noting a French Canadian patriarch Levi Bradshaw in Killingly and a large descendant count.
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Chicago
Henry W. Grady
South
Grady
Noonia
Eouthern Antes Cecetis Westore
Chirafoagus
Ireland
Edihar
Gandy
Ivan
Atlanta
Gator
Byet
Wrothep
Hiewell
Joes
Howéll
Binsod Crady
Gracy
Camstead
New England Society
Boston
Ingersoll
Dougherty
United States
David Ro Hill
New York
Vari
Killingly
Bis State
Levi Bradshaw
Tie
Drewwins
Pradshan
Wunder
Foud
Datpliters
Bradshaw
Danielson
Startford
Conn
New York Herald
Mob Attacks Deputies At Courthouse Over Linger Gris Case
A crowd seized Deputy Carter and his son as a mob pursued two girls during a disorder at the courthouse. The girls were loaded into a wagon and driven away before reinforcements arrived, while authorities sought a peace officer to restore order and the party fled toward a distant town.
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Sherif Carter
Egypt House
Justice of the Peace
Carter Wag
Cousty
Towa
Eik Polzt
Playing the Fool as Sunday Sermon at Sheffield Chapel
Outside a Methodist chapel in Sheffield England a notice board lists the preacher and the next Sunday’s subject. The sign invites all to attend with the message You will be heartily welcome. The listed topic is Playing the Fool.
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Sheffield
England
Twain to Continue Tom Sawyer Adventures Stirs Prairie Readers
In the Mississippi Valley readers from Keokuk to Alton anticipate Mark Twain continuing Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn. The familiar local color, the cave at Hannibal, and the river town scenes echo through the stories, pleasing men who grew up with these characters.
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Mark Twain
Tom Sawyer
Joan of Arc
Mississippi Valley
Keokuk
Alton
Huckleberry Finn
Hannibal
Learned Harvard Professor Honored by Asiatic Society of Bengal
Professor Charles R. Lanman of Harvard has been made an honorary member of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. Once W. D. Whitney’s pupil, he is renowned as a leading Sanskrit scholar with a charming personality. Highly regarded in India, he counts the Parsey high priest among his warm friends.
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Charles R. Lanman
Harvard
Asiatic Society of Bengal
Lanman
W. D. Whitney
Pat
Germany
India
New Diamond Field Report Near Tamworth
A new diamond field is discovered near Tamworth New South Wales as fresh gold and silver finds are reported. The colony lists 378 works for the treatment of metals employing 7273 hands. India counts about nine hundred foreign missionaries in the field.
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Tamworth
New South Wales
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Jormeel
Clerlarad
Hoelar
Webster
Stere
Pintons
Della Hutchinson
Jacob Rogers
Bloodhound
Cole Creek
kMard
Abel Fia Po
Rushite
Geo
Bernedmet
Hurbeige
Hembecht
Giaother
Bert Cligtha Aishernan
Dine Dacob
Weil
Neileer
Piia
Betla Plutehinsen
MR. Grady
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Hheney W Grady
Samuel L. Clemens
Tom
New Diamond Field
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