Frontier settlement tragedy and rare escape in Michigan village
A pioneer recounts founding a Michigan settlement with fourteen adults, six children, and two years of growth before a brutal Indian attack. After Cross John’s fatal shooting by a shopkeeper, the village erupts in panic, but one resident survives unseen. later, despite accusations, he explains his safe escape and the massacre’s aftermath.
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Michigan
Bracket
Cross John
Brackett
Tragic Union of Brownlows Recalled in Knoxville
Obituary notes Gen James P Brownlow age 36 died in Knoxville on the 20th following his wife Belle Cliff of Vermillion Institute origin. The couple met during the Civil War era, married after his recovery, and she died young, leaving him to grief-stricken end in Knoxville. Also warned of a farmer scam using trial plows and a Baltimore inventor claim for a machine to separate gold from earth without water.
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Knoxville
Tenn
James P. Brownlow
Belle Cliff
Vermillion Institute
Ed. Smith
Wranklin
Winstead Hill
George P. Brownlow
Parson Brownlow
First Tennessee Cavalry
Ashland Times
Duel Legend: James Jackson of Georgia Fights Fatal Savannah Match
Washington correspondent recounts a historic duel involving James Jackson a Georgia congressman later US Senator. The terms included buckshot loaded guns and a hunting knife, with a midnight row to a Savannah river island. Jackson survived but his opponent died, and Jackson died March 19, 1806 in Boston Journal retelling.
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Washington
Boston Journal
James Jackson
Georgia
United States
Savannah
Wells
Jackson
Leech Infested Lake Bathing Outrage Sparks Rural Chase
Four Tennessee girls swimming at a lakeside farm encounter leeches clinging to their bodies. The commotion attracts a rural chase as relatives and church members pursue the quartet through hay stacks until the girls are finally brought in.
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Tennessee
Leeches
Ebenezer Crawford
Bush
Briar
Wood
Vermin Extermination by Copperas Yellow Wash Reported
A New York journal excerpt recounts a method to purge rats and mice by applying yellow copperas to cellar walls and floors. The practice claims to drive vermin from the premises and protect against typhoid and fever, with a warning to keep food covered to avoid inviting rats. A Decatur man attempted a 40 day fast after dreams but died at 38 days.
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New York Journal
Tom Sanders
Decatur
Ala
Poisoned brook kills many in Jacobs Mills District
A Vermont rural routeland incident near Newark injures seventeen children and kills eleven after water from a brook is poisoned by Paris green used on nearby potato tops. Investigations begin as samples go to Boston for analysis and blame targets Horace Cheney and others amid public outcry.
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Jacobs Mills
Newark
Island Pond
Edward Morse
Fred Simpson
JL. Wilson
Mr. Park
John Cole
Aldrich
Aldrich Five, His Entire Family of Children, Mrs. Aldrich
Hudson
Paris Green
Horace Cheney
Simpson
Cheney
Boston
Hearld
Marriage for spite ends in separation at Union Depot
James Myers tells reporters in Pike County Illinois that his wife Jennie McMullen left him after a quarrel over their baby. She admitted marrying him for spite and left on foot toward her father, abandoning the child he hoped to keep. He asserts no other man is involved.
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Ft. A. Bringhurst
Parrel
Mexico
Chihuahua
Crispin
Palacio
Logansport
Union Depot
Kansas
James Myers
Jennie McMullen
Summerville
Pike County
Ill
Jim
Fontana
Kat
Hannibal
Colorado
Denver
Denver Mint
St. Louis
Par r dies after insane crime over daughter's murder
Edward Parr's trial reveals a brutal killing with a knife. He dies Thursday morning after taking poison following his death sentence. The case contrasts his conduct with a defense citing a fractured skull and a court scene of evidence.
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Edward Parr
Parr
Reasan
Dr Pierce Family Medicines Promotion Tallies Claims
An aged promotional outline extols Dr Pierce and Dr Sage remedies including Golden Medical Discovery and Catarrh Remedy. It cites population figures, graves and cures, and advertises the People’s Sense Medical Adviser with over 900 pages and 100,000 copies sold, priced at 1.50.
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Dr. Pierce
Sage
Pierce
Pegoe
Pierce, M. D
Buffalo, N.Y
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New York
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