John Jansen chooses wife after playful challenge
Wealthy New England farmer Peter Jansen presses son John to marry one of Israel Ives daughters. John, bashful yet decisive, is drawn into a playful blind man's bluff with Sophrony and sisters, choosing Lucy Ives after lighthearted teasing. John vows marriage once Lucy accepts. A closing joke recalls a river mishap aboard the Alexander Mitchell.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Jansen
New England
John Jansen
Peter the Pere
John the Junior
John
Anine
Israel Ives
sona _as
Peter
Ishael ‘Ives
Celf
Calin
Miss Ves
Ives
Miss Ives
Sai Olin
Israel
Miss Sophrony Ives
Patience
Priscilla
Malvina
Lucy Ives
Pos
Miss Sophrony
Lucy
Mas Malvina
Sophrony
Tuey
Tsay
Een
John Peter Jansen
Humorous Snippets and Street Ironies in a Personal Ledger
A collage of light vignettes about daily life and quirky encounters. An Oakland youth visits a drug store for plaster, a grocer offers midnight oil lore, a wife debates delicacies with a doomed patient, and a cemetery dialogue jokes about memory. A Michigan showman recalls a tense advertising dispute, ending with a punchy pair of partner conflicts. A long excerpt discusses postwar reconstruction and its failed social balance, weighing slavery's destruction against civil order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
San Jose
Cal
Mercury
Maria Jane
Willy
Ovaiam
Bill
Civaening
J.B. Warner
Michigan
Joe
van Amburgh
Detrogee Presa
Advice to record names of former slaves in county clerks offices
The Athens Georgian urges former slave owners to preserve and record the names of their enslaved people in county clerk records. It frames this as a prudent safeguard should justice evolve in the nation. The piece connects the idea to political shifts, citing Senator William W. Eaton and contrasting parties in power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Democratic Party
Connecticut
William W. Eaton
Chicago
The South and Its Condition in Reconstruction Era
The piece argues Southern disorders stem from misgovernance and ignorance, not Reconstruction policy. It cites Louisiana South Carolina Mississippi Alabama Texas and others as troubled by rulers, taxation, and unrest while praising the President's actions to avert violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana
South Caroina
Mississippi
Alabama
Texas
A Chicago Reunion Address Honors Underground Railroad Legacy
Gov. Beveridge of Illinois delivered a welcoming address recalling Owen Lovejoy and the Underground Railroad. He described the network as a moral, God-led movement aiding fugitive slaves and challenging slavery amid ferocious opposition and legal barriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Gov. Beveridge
Illinois
Prairies
Owen Lovejoy
Berty
Thia
Uerlin
Taiewmid
Great Republic
Dred Scott
Executive
Canada
Israel
Moses
City of Refuge
Underground Railroad Company
Lincoln
Callelujah
Abolitionist Veterans Welcome Lincoln Era Activists
A powerful oration honors past abolitionists from Owen Lovejoy to Lucretia Mott and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The speaker salutes living veterans, recalls anti slavery struggle, and welcomes activists to Illinois in a ritual of memory and reverence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lundy
Lovejoy
Carpenter
Dyer
Derrickson
Pinkerton
de Wolf
Freer
Eastman
Allen
Farnsworth
Preston
Blanchard
Booth
Jones
van Dorn
Fel
Matlock
Tastings
Farmillar
Goodell
Garrison
Beecher
Bryant
Whittier
Longfellow
Phillips
Fred Douglass
Hoar
Curtis
Owen Lovejoy
Illinois
Ice Cannons at Catherine Palace Demonstrate Structural Strength
An American Manufacturer recounts a mock cannon display at the Catherine palace where six ice six pounders and two ice mortars with hemp stuffed balls with iron cores withstood explosive pressure. The article notes the ice cannons were only three to four inches thick yet resisted the blast, illustrating how orderly particle arrangement yields curved strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ice Palace
Catharine
Russia
Wax extractor from a wash boiler with a false bottom
A simple wax extractor built from a common wash boiler uses a false bottom of wire cloth to render comb into wax. The setup involves a tight inner loop, water in the boiler, and boiling until the wax rises as a cake on water. If impurities remain, boil again in clean water for better purity.
Patronage to Support Intellectual Diffusion through Newspaper Carrier
A proposal urges supporting the diffusion of intellectual civilization by patronizing a newspaper carrier aged eighty eight. The item highlights the carrier's role in delivering knowledge and calls for active community involvement.
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Geo. Burt, Jr
Goa
THE
Bnd
Harper'’s Weekly
Alexander Mitchell
Alma
Wis
Phunnygrams
South
Albany Evening Journal
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