The Hoboken Excursion of a Poetic Bank Man
Timothy Jenkins a poet from a private boarding house on Bleeker street plans a Hoboken day with Miss Angelina Tompkins using a five dollar note amid bank suspensions. He clashes with a ferry driver and pie vendor over specie, borrows a shilling from Miss Tompkins, and faces public embarrassment as banks collapse and coins vanish.
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Timothy Jenkins
Timothy
Miss Angelina Tompkins
Bank of America
C. D&c
Safety Fund
Tammany
Tim Jenkins and the battered bank note fiasco
Timothy Jenkins tries to dine with a forged five on a New York City bank but the tavernkeeper will not accept it. He pleads with Miss Tompkins for aid, is scorned, and leaves in despair. On a ferry he discovers the banknote’s true fate as the ferryman accepts it and returns counterfeit paper, ending with Jenkins scrambling to mend his image at a barber.
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Miss Tompkins
Timothy
Timothy Jenkins
New York City
Jenkins
Miss Tompling
Angelina
Angelima
Emmons
New York
Newcomb
Falls of
Niagara
Timothy Feeds Hunger After Day of Puzzles and Cards
Timothy, puzzled by events of the day, hides his concern from Mr Strop and leaves with a wallet of cards. He descends to a cellar for food, orders oysters, pays three dollars, receives five dollars in change, and is handed seven cards marked with uncertain significance.
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Timothy
Mr Strop
The Shattered Currency: Jenkins Sees Banknote Fraud
Timothy Jenkins boards an omnibus at Bleecker Street and discovers two dollar notes labeled good for rides and other goods. He reflects on private banking, laments vilification, and decides to sleep, hoping to wake wiser, in a fragmentary depiction of a currency scare and public distrust.
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Mr Jenkins
Bleecker-street
Jenkins
Remarkable tale of a reprieve and a parkwalk delay
A notice outlines a story from Hu man Life about Sir Evan Nepean and a near miss of executions. Wakeful hours at the Home Office led him to a park walk and a key moment sending a reprieve to York in time. The narrative suggests extraordinary chance and possible interposition beyond human control. The piece cites Ward and the New Monthly Magazine April edition as the source.
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Jemaine
de Fere
New Monthly
Ward
Evan Nepean
Home Department
Sir Evan
York
Tie
Downing Street
Evan
Crown
Stix
Clerk of the Crown
Chancery Lane
Prieve
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G. & C. A. Preston
White House
QO. de
Mansios Howse
Adorvus
The
New Yorker
Filloth Jenkins
Esc
OUR
Bachelom Sssoutite
Brewers Omnibus
Mister Jenkins
Omnibus Mercury
Miss Pompkins
Miss T
Miss Angelina
Hoboken
Angelina Tompkins
Baron
Omnibus
Tompkins
Bank of Amerika
Jackson
Anti-Bank Party
Timoshe Jenkins
Afiss ‘Tompkins
Pantalus
Strops
Bleecker
Wall-Street
Morar
Robert Armstrong
Tennessee
Florida
Buff
Soanes
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