The Virtue of Ventriloquism in a New Orleans Venture
A long, partly comic tale recounts Michael Murphy an eccentric from the potato land who visits a marine village near Pontchartrain and encounters a ventriloquist. The exchange features a ghostly voice challenging his morals and culminating in a humorous confrontation with a bed bound ventriloquist and Michael ready to defend himself.
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Pontchartrain
Michael Murphy
Michael
Ventriloquist
Nuit
Jodias
Naickerbocker
Tyre
Pampyrus
Neuralgia
Dievant
Jhedaughter
Sarsaparilia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Vyrol
Europe
Teetotaler Michael Murphy tale and other notes
A 1853 column includes a teetotaler tale where Michael Murphy is spoken to by a ventriloquist and vows never to drink again after a moral confrontation. It also reports on General Winfield Scott’s injuries, local crop damage from the fly, bank openings, and various odds and ends from Franklin Jeffersonian and London News style items.
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Michael
Honor Bright
Barrin
White River Township
Franklin Jeffersonian
Fanny Fern Profile and Local Remedies Highlighted
The Toston Transcript and New York Mirror dispute features a portrait of Fanny Fern amid a broader column. A Baltimore gossip note endorses a honey and water remedy for throat issues while reporting on crop shortages in a regional section.
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Toston Transcript
New York Mirror
Fanny Fern
Amazon
England and cotton taxes colonized supply of cotton in future
The New Orleans Bee argues Britain's dream of independent cotton from colonies collapses without slave labor and suitable climate. It contends Australia cannot match U S production due to labor shortfall and climate, and dismisses hopes of replacing American cotton with colonial sources.
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London Journal of Commarrce
England
Australia
New Orleans
Great Britain
Brivsin
New
Orleans
America
Cotto
Wiestingia Posreseage
Africa
Union
Watling
L Alour
Cape of
Iris
London Journal
Austrasia
Iran
United States
Englind
London
Austraia
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Circuit and Common Pleas Court
Mick Murphy
Greencastle
Gen. Scott
Charles Patridge
Eny
Weat Twelfth Street
Fifth Avenue
New York
Thompson
Pow
Canal Bank
Evansville
Fayette County
Connersaville
Western Bank
Wymouth
Winfeld Scott
Tyros
Faust
Aleppo
Mammon's Mart
James Hudson
Parma
Duchess Co
Warner
Cleveland
Hudson
Codswell
Warner F
Hadaun
Djasell
Ted Anyoy
Thomas Bolton
Botton
Bolton
Clewland Meraid
London News
Armericana
Babtot Home Missionary Society
Troy
Hom
Sun
Iris Oaid
Ini
Gotada Ital iv
Maneteey
Broxcarria
Baltimore
Brapshitis
Ournah
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