Vast public documents and curious tales fill the week
The column notes six hundred thousand public documents distributed yearly by Congress, discusses Hearst and a haunted cabin sale, mentions Proctor's west visit for Kickamanga Park, and reports on New York births and deaths. It also covers a mummy sample, census shifts in DC and slave states, red and blue hospital rooms, a Sierra butterfly find, a fossil moth at the Smithsonian, European wheat woes, and March UK wheat trading prospects.
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Banon Fava the elusive Italian minister at White House dinner
Banon Fava, the Italian minister linked to the New Orleans massacre, is described as a roaming diplomat who changes boarding places about twenty times a year. He kept guests waiting nearly an hour at a White House state dinner, prompting the president's dissatisfaction before finally appearing.
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Banon Fava
New Orleans
White House
Down the Ohio explores love and Quaker life before the Civil War
The excerpt reviews Charles Humprey Roberts's novel Down the Ohio set in Pittsburgh and a Quaker settlement along the Ohio River. It follows a fiery factory worker’s daughter who seeks an aunt in Ohio, befriends a runaway slave, and joins Quaker households, ending in a hopeful union. The Chicago Times lauds the flowing style and fidelity to Quaker life.
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Kit
Karen ‘Allingham
Rollin Mills
Pittsburg
Underground
Ohio
Charles Humphrey Roberts
A. C. McClurg & Co
Chicago
Virginia
Auppy Bhumor
Chicago Times
Mary Armstrong
Rosewood
Cook County
Burt
Charles H Roberts
A C McClurg & Co
John Roberta
Henry
A Fatal Mistake by Physicians on Nervous Heart Trouble
Dr Franklin Miles challenges the view that stomach issues cause nervous heart trouble. His new book on Heart Disease is offered free at Dr Powell's Drug Store, which endorses Miles's New Heart Cure said to be the world's best seller. The remedy supposedly treats nervous and organic heart disease, short breath, fluttering, pains, irregular pulse and related symptoms.
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Franklin Miles
Powell
Ladien
Home Office
J. A. McGill
Panorama Place
Chicago
Ill
Alokz
O G. Fisher
Washington St
Chiange
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Letter from a Syrian dragoman in the Holy Land 1801
Solomon Niginba writes from Joppa to Birt Dear Bir describing life as an independent dragoman, his family news including a son named Aziz, work on cedar wood, travel plans, and a request to pass regards to Father Burke and Mr Crossman. A note from J Thompson of Lacon adds context about a converted Syrian guide and a family dining custom observation.
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