Old Pennsylvania Miscellany Notes on Farm Life and Paris
A fragment from a Pennsylvania page recalls rural life with talk of planting corn, taxes, age, and aging workers, reflecting a farmer's slow days and reflections on youth. It also mentions a traveler recently returned from Paris noting the city’s push toward bicycles and a report on Champs Elysees and Boulogne crowds and carriage hindrance.
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Entleman
Kui Saya
Paris
Champs
Bois de Boulogne
Champs Elysees
Boulogne
Acrobats and Baboon Thief Haunt Shrewsbury 1834
The town reels from two second floor burglaries carried out without ladders as a ribbed-face baboon and keeper Shaw elude detection. Chief constable Stott cracks the case after a nighttime return, recovering the stolen mace and inkstand and exposing Shaw's trained ape reliance. Mrs Stott's wry insight seals the credit.
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Te Hayé
Mrg.Stott
Constabulary
Stott
John Stott
Phey
Bird
Robert
Christopher Columbus
Mrs. Brott
Ptlebiad
Ric
Uae
Atenon
Trarning
Enyi
John
Colonel Peewit
Tiat
Tve
Tor Johns
Ma’an
Sir Robert
Johtt
Benchy
Ty Wadorf
Mr. Stott
Rey
Ottar
Shaw
Me.Brott
Mrs. Stott
Mra. Stott
Shrewsbury
Edgar Poe
Hig
Rye
Chambers
Parisian report notes crowded streets with bicycles in New York
A paragraph from Lippincott's Magazine claims New York streets were crowded with velocipedes and that city postmen were equipped with these vehicles for daily rounds on that cited day.
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Actoh
York
Lappincott's
Colonzy Rosgat Johnson Dies. Former President's Surviving Son
Colonzy Rosgat Johnson, recently deceased, was the second but eldest surviving son of the ex president. He served most of the period, then became a private secretary after a new resident took office.
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CoLonzy Rosgat Johnson
Fragmented 19th Century News Slice Sparks Cautionary Tales
A garbled Boston era page mixes railroads and wreckage with crime, politics, and social notes. It references railroad skepticism by Naples, working women in Boston, UK agricultural stats, and a murdered girl found in a well. It also recounts manners advice and anecdotes from around the world.
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Dnide
John ‘Randolph
Iin
Pegul
Sitka
Tee Reall
Atankare
Maddie
Sadtub
Hintville
Nyshe
Pittsfield
Caugh
Cassaanic
Weni Ferdinand
Naples
Boston
United Kingdom of Great Britain
England
Enland
Scotland
Bea
Manhattan
York
Agron Burr
Alexander ‘Hamilton
E Dyard
Livingston
Knowle
Sodus
N. Y
James
Pers
Outeida
Exie Canal
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Reuben Spres
Israc
Joseph
Bond
Pan
Oaleti‘déchamire
Robert Aire
Packard
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