Washington's Laughter and the Washington Portrait
A historical sketch recounts Washington's reserved nature and rare bursts of laughter during moments at Princeton and with Van Horne. It notes Dunlap's boyhood portrait sessions, Adams's quip about lips shut, and a pig chase scene that provoked Washington to laugh. It concludes by praising Washington's enduring moral influence and the myth of the hatchet.
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Continental Congress
Philadelphia
Princeton
Pennsylvania
Congress
Washington
William Dunlap
National
John Adams
Stuart
Dunlap
Judge Peters
Peter
Six Nations
van Horne
First Monument to Washington Reaches Ruin Again
A Boonsboro Maryland landmark on South Mountain, the original 1827 monument to George Washington has fallen into ruin for a second time. After 1883 restoration it stood fifty feet high with iron railing, but exposure has undone the reconstruction. Historical研究 shows it as the first ever raised in honor of the Father of His Country.
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Tts
George Washington
Boonsboro
South Mountain
The Passing of Washington Last Words Recalled
William Perrine recounts George Washington’s final hours in The Last Years of Washington's Life as an exhausted leader asks his wife to bring and destroy his wills. He grows weak, remarks I find I am going now, and dies as night falls with solemn, reflective detail.
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Washington
William Perrine
Ladies’ Home Journal
End of an Empire figure dies after quiet farewell
In a somber scene Doctor Craik and Mrs. Washington attend a dying man who speaks of debt and dying bravely. He requests a decent burial three days after death and, with a final composed utterance, passes away without struggle as Maj. Lear signals the end. The widow remarks she will soon follow.
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Maj. Lear
Englishmen's Opinions on Washington as Liberty's Champion
A compilation of eulogies from British statesmen and writers praising George Washington. Quotes from Charles James Fox, Lord Byron, Thomas Erskine, Henry Grattan, Thackeray, and others extol his virtue, leadership, and embodiment of republican ideals. The pieces contrast Washington with monarchic figures and praise his retirement to Mount Vernon after guiding the United States.
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History
Charles James Fox
Sylla
Washington
Aristides
Lord Byron
Thomas Erskine
William III
Henry Grattan
Prince George
London
Thackeray
Mount Vernon
Italy
Greg
England
Lord Muncaulay
Grat Honors to George Washington’s Ubiquitous Namesakes
The piece praises George Washington, noting how every state and many counties and towns bear his name. It highlights vast numbers of Washington designations across the country and modestly laments his homeland of Virginia having only one county and a single small town named Washington on the Rappahannock.
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George
George Washington
Washington
Union
California
Washingtons
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey
North Carolina
Ohio
New York
Pennsylvania
Rappahannock
Mice and Rat Traps Fail After Escape
The common house mouse cannot be captured again by any trap after escaping once. In contrast rats are less cautious and may be caught a second time.
Italians Form Quarter of Argentina’s Population
A fragmented report notes that Italians make up about one fourth of Argentina’s inhabitants, reflecting a large immigrant presence in the country.
He Was a Deadhead and Traveled Free in a Box
A railway porter calls for fare from a ventriloquist's box passenger, insisting the box boy must pay. The owner argues the performer has traveled free, only for the guard to identify the traveler as Professor B- and his automaton Bobby inside the box.
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Professor B
Bobby
Former American Settler Details Alberta Farming Boom
John Cummings of Wetaskiwin Alberta recounts moving from Farmington Washington to Northern Alberta. He describes doubled cultivated land, doubled livestock, and strong crops with debt reduced. He notes stables built but wild horses wintered on the prairie and a high twine usage for barley.
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John Cummings
Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Canada
Washington
United States
Cummings
Dominion
Farmington
Florida
Klondike
Acre
Egg Plant In Joke Exchange Sparks Punny Name
In a playful exchange, Mack O'Rell suggests an artificial egg maker, and Luke Warme replies with Egg Plant, a pun on a real plant name. The mock dialogue plays on wordplay about a factory that would produce artificial eggs.
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Mack O’rell
Luke Warme
Nervous Women and the Pinkham Compound
An old newspaper blurb promotes Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for severe monthly suffering in women. It frames the issue as widespread and hard to treat with ordinary medicines.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
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