British Blockade Era Tales in The Weekly Historian
The Weekly Historian recounts 18th century maritime peril with David Gitchell of Philadelphia aboard a sloop between Philadelphia and Alexandria under British blockade begun by England. It notes Dublin court justice officer Tord Shilwarden slain by Irish revolutionists and three Americans kidnapped from the Charles Carter by a British frigate off Cane Hear y, with Topham escaping ashore.
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David Gitchell
Philadelphia
Alexandria
Biba
England
France
Tord Shilwarden
Shief Justles
Court of King’s Bench
Dublin
Augustus Topham
Joseph Hudses
Nicomag Hodginson
Charles Carter
Cane Heary
Boston
Topham
Echmading
Trumpet Calls and Moral Reflections From a Pious Page
Fragmented lines present a religious editorial tone urging virtue and faith. It emphasizes trials as divine proof, character as trophy, deeds over words, and communal salvation over individual gain, with contrasts on grace, temptation, and reform. Strong entities and moral maxims read like sermonettes from a historical religious page.
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God
Chelst
Patch’s Famous Jump At Passaic Falls Recalled
Seventy five years ago at eight in the morning Patch performed a famed jump from Passaic falls high rocks into the basin below. A printing machine for figures on calico was exhibited for the finest dime to Hingilah cotton goods manufacturers. Over 77,000 lives were reported to have been received at Io Janeiro Brazil within two years, while 3,000 more sailed on shipboard.
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Patch
Passaic Falls
Hingilah
Io Janeiro
Brazil
Fifty Years Ago Highlights From Washington and Nation
A review of events from fifty years past notes President Franklin Fierce walking through departments incognito to inspect work, and President Franklin Pieres staying in the White House during repairs. Massachusetts donors aid the Washington monument fund while regiments clash in Virginia. Union operations at Charleston begin the Swamp Angel battery. Morgan raiders burn Campbell depot and plunder. Kentucky hopeful Brutus Clay seeks senate seat as Crittenden dies. Spanish forces mobilize. Eliza Young sues for divorce. A Vienna exhibit victory for Americans. gold price schemes surface.
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Franklin Pieres
White House
Ising
Masachusetts
Washington Monument
Wirell
Wippings Weights
Gen. &Pinola
Charleston
Lebel
Pegram
Lexington
Brutus.c. Clay
United States
Kentucky
John J. Crittenden
John Morgan
Ohio
Col. Bronight
Spain
Eliza Webb Young
Brigham Young
Bast Lake City
Owen County
Grant
North Carolina
Jay Gould
Treasury Department
Faint Echoes of Civil War Era and Early 1900s Global Tensions
A fragmented early 20th century roundup notes a poetry reading at a Morgan reunion in Lexington with Confederate leaders present. It recalls Garfeld and Dorsey’s Senate nominations, Jay Gould and O P Huntington campaign ties, a London money market bid, a fatal rail collision near Albion, Gladstone’s Sues canal stance, Denver hunger aid for unemployed miners, supply blockades, and a string of bank closures in Indiana and Chicago.
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Gen. Morgan
Raldera
Lexington
Basil Duke
Garfeld
Benator Dorsey
Stanley Matthews
United States Supreme Bench
Jay Gould
O. P. Huntington
London
Nineten Parsons
Thomas Wayne
Chicago
Rome, Watertowne, Ogdensburg
Albion
Gladstone
Tun Yraus Agu
Denver
Colo
Franes
Biam
Citizens’ National Bank of
Consortville
Ind
Louisville
City National Bank
Manchester
N. Uf
Bank of Brailford & Church of
Thackeray and Children in Miss Corkran Memoir
Novellist William Makepeace Thackeray was beloved by children and known for whimsical kindness. Miss Henrietta Corkran recalls Paris meetings, a pastry shop episode where Thackeray urged a pantries feast, and a playful sketch of a child with vermillion on her mouth.
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Thackeray
Henrietts Corkran
Paris
Papa Cookrnn
Misa Corkran
Mr. Thackeray
Michael Angelo
Moses
Too Classic, Uyibune critiques musical terms capture
Captain Bullock, frontier captain and forest ranger, dined with the president at a White House musical event. Roosevelt quipped about Bullock's remark, noting in his country that the fiddler is shot when the tunes fail the dogs.
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New York
Uyibune
Captain Bullock
Forest Rangers
White House
Roosevelt
Mrs. Bullock
Bullock
Lis Country
Engineer on the Run Sees 570 Railroad Signals
An engineer traveling between Crewe and London had to observe 570 signals. The report notes the high number of signals as a striking aspect of the route and reflects on signaling density on major roads.
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Crewe
London
Death of Great American Artist James A McNeill Whistler
In London recently James Abbott McNeill Whistler, an American artist, died after a life spent largely in England. Whistler, famed for eccentricity and sharp defiance of critics, rose from early struggles as a painter to fame as an etcher and innovator in tonal harmony. His career included legal feuds, a famous Trilby connection, and lasting influence on European art, with recognition as a master in etching and a major figure in 19th century painting.
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James A. McNeill Whistler
London
James Abbott McNeill Whistler
England
Whistler
Col
William Whistler
West Point
George Washington Whistler
Weat’ Point
Major Whistler
Nicholas of
Russia
Moscow
St. Petersburg
Misa McNeill
North Carolina
Weat Point
Tarts
du Maurier
Lof Trilby
Amsterdam
Puria
Thames
Calera
Critica
Truskin
Whisstler
Joe Sibley
St Sa
Weather and world affairs mix in scattered 1900s style notes
The brief column blends weather notes, crop prospects, and international tensions. It cites Wall Street trouble, Western wheat fields, and Manchuria, with a satirical jab at political figures and a strange aside about an Ohio man facing electrocution for multiple marriages.
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Morgan
Rockefaller
Wall Street
Manchuria
Ruesia
New Jersey
Japan
Rusela
Alfred Knapp
Ohio
Army post amusement hall project funded and planned
Congress allocated 800000 for the construction and equipment of an amusement hall at the army post and 125000 for a related building. The facility will include a gym, track, bowling alley, shooting gallery, library, lecture room, cafe, and theater space to improve entertainment and morals for soldiers. Remaining funds to be shared up to 40000 per post by the Secretary of War.
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Halla
Dasa
Fort “Myor
Pilard
Lee Ture
Cafa
Secretary of War
Strange case of illness cured by Dodd's Kidney Pills in Briarpoint
In Briarpoint Mississippi a boy sick with spinal disease grew worse until his father gave eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills. The father, Mr. G L Butler, reports his son fully cured and urges others to consider the remedy. The article also notes colored rain phenomena caused by pollen dust from trees carried by wind, explaining vivid colors seen after rain.
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Briarpoint
Miss
G. L. Butler
Mr. Butler
Dodd
Deainess Remedies and Elevator Encounter
Fragmented OCR notes describe deafness cures via constitutional remedies and a mucous tube issue, offering $100 for cure by caturrelliae. Scattered items include a Col Hawkthonder elevator incident and a reference to Hall's Family Pills. The text lacks coherent narrative and blends medical claim with unrelated anecdotes.
Fragmentary 1901 ad fragment with medicines and misc quotes
A garbled 1901 ad fragment lists various products and claims from medicines and tonics to footwear aids. It mentions Allen’s, Dringplate, and piano cures, with scattered names and locations like LeRoy New York and Buffalo. The text mixes unrelated lines and stray dialogue about sounds and sensations.
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Allen
LeRoy
N.Y
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Hermann
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Buffalo
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Nashville
Tesia
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Pinkhall
Nson Ceunor
Siri
University of Notre Dame
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Andar
Morrisey
Loman Libby, McNeill & Libby
Ohionga
Lylix Onurayd
Onientai
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