Seamed Arguments Turn to Shipboard Love Tale
On a crowded New York to Liverpool packet voyage Captain Powell alters from courteous host to distressed man. Kate Ellis, bound for England with her mother, must reveal her engagement to Mr Otterson, triggering Powell's desolate, storm-tossed reaction as the sea voyage stretches into an emotional crisis.
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Orto
Powell
Globe
New York
Liverpool
America
Old Country
Mary Burton
Mrss
Miss Ellis
Captain Powell
Kate
Eilis
Mrs. Ellis
Mrs. Huis
Kate Ellis
Iyas
Gianl
Pye
Veta
Aaid Kate
Polar
England
Kate Hilis
Mr. Otterson
Insane Captain of the Mary Burton Story
Forty years ago the bark Mary Burton sailed from New York to Liverpool after chipping her cargo. The dangers of the channel were dire and the captain, who had...
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Mary Burton
New York
Liverpool
Mysterious Northward Drift Aboard The Mary Burton
Passengers and crew grow uneasy as Captain Powell insists on a northward course toward the Arctic while the ship sails sixty four degrees north. The mate, weakened by illness, confronts him about misreckoning and dwindling supplies as winds push the bark toward Iceland and the Arctic line.
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Kate
Mary
Burton
Ireland
Pssingers
Boston
New Orleans
Trish
North Channel
Powell
Captain Powell
North Cape
Iceland
Metsam
Sikness
Studding Ailson
Getti
Arctc
Dowd
Mutiny Aboard Ship Ends With Narrow Escape to Liverpool
In a mid sea crisis off Greenland, Captain Powell rebels against Mr Metsam who asserts command. A pistol shot wounds the mate, Powell is overpowered, crew repairs sails, and after sixty two days they reach Liverpool. Powell dies in an asylum months later. Elis awaits her lover onboard.
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Powell
Smitho
Mr. Metsam
Tondman
Greenland
Faroe Islands
Liverpool
Elis
The President's Cow at Long Branch
A humorous correspondent recounts the President's cow brought from Washington praised by local cows, feared by dogs, and sharing odd traits. The five year old, married thrice animal dislikes ocean noise, swims poorly, and remains aloof from coarse horses. General Porter also has a cow with selective motherhood.
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Long Branch
Washington
Porter
Glass as a Non-Conductor of Heat
The Journal of the Telegraph asserts glass is a practical non conductor of heat and electricity. An experiment compares copper and glass rods joined at ends with wax and weight. Heat applied from spirit lamps melts the wax quickly for copper but slowly for glass, illustrating differing conductivities.
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Journal of the Telegraph
Mistaken disease fear in village sparks smallpox worry
A Stony Brook child thought to have measles was found to have smallpox causing alarm as mothers rush to vaccinate. Nearby Batavia reports heat and a milk can fire after sun exposure. A local house was insured shortly before a small fire incident.
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Stony Brook
Batavia
Mittens for Wellington Spark Essex Widow's Medal Plea
In 1817 a Essex wife's mittons for the Duke of Wellington led to a plea for a replacement Waterloo medal after her husband lost his. The Duke ordered the medal but it was initially neglected. a follow up letter caused rapid dispatch though timing for the wedding day remains uncertain.
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Essex
of Wellington
Apsley House
The Diamond Diggings of Australia Relics of a Diamond Field
Australian correspondent reports on the diamond fields recounting a twenty carat find near a brandy cask and a liquor handout. The piece notes fights, luck, and perseverance, with five hundred diamonds shown. It mentions demand from Standard Bank and other buyers, volatile weather, and cross into King William's Town for church.
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Australia
St. Johns
Bill
Archdeacon Kitton
King William's Town
Nozzle came off baptism church tale and legal item
In a story from an Eastern town a deaf mother misinterprets a baptism question as she tries to feed a baby with a milk bottle. The minister ends up baptizing the child after the misheard reply Nozzle came off. A Wisconsin Supreme Court case discusses citizenship affecting election eligibility. Also notes New Orleans flood damage and Indian deaths at Camp Grant.
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Ferguson
Henry
Lucullus
William
Supreme Court of
Wisconsin
Schuet
Waukesha County
Anahen
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