Red Avenger of New Hampshire Indian Conflict
Mark Stanton defends his family from a vengeful Indian war party led by Kalarna after saving his daughter Anna from abduction. He lures the foe with a straw dummy and kills Kalarna, then relocates to a settlement as Indians burn his former home. A later notice reports a colossal elm in Blackstone and other local trivia.
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New Hampshire
Mark Stanton
Saco River
Rerona
Plonder
Mark
Peter Drover
Nefir
Love's Pond
Ees
Rer's
Anani
Ile
Anna
Reolle
Stanton
Stanton Toolk Orea
Mark Slanton
Deas
Mattampa
Kalarna
Guéra
Mrs. Stanton
Mae
Ana
Five Cents and a Kiss Scandal On Sixth Street Line
A Philadelphia North American inspired item reports a conductor named Mr. Smith who kissed a female passenger aboard the Sixth Street Railroad. Conductor Brown protested, pressed for his dismissal, and faced a tribunal where Smith defended himself with the kiss described as natural. The tribunal acquitted Smith and Brown was discharged for reporting the incident as an outrage.
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Sixth Street Railroad
Smith
Senate Issenter
Br Sliske
Brown
M. Brown
Aisit
Mr. Smith
Genish
Philadelphia
Printer's daily hand movement in setting type
A printer spends about eight thousand ems per day translating to roughly twenty four thousand letters. Each letter requires two feet of travel by the hand to the boxes and back, totaling about forty eight thousand feet daily. Annually this amounts to about three thousand miles of hand movement excluding Sundays.
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Woonsacket
Nicholas Thayer
Blackstone
Boston Common
American
Pittsfield
Massachusetts
Sheffield
Berkshire County
Worcester
Clergyman's Clerk Announces No Service This Afternoon
A village clergyman sent his clerk to announce that there would be no afternoon service because the minister planned to officiate with another clergyman. The clerk then declared services were canceled as Mr L went fishing with another clergyman.
Sunday Rest vs Weekly Piety Warns Against Phariseeism
A sermon warns that a week of selfishness followed by overzealous Sunday worship makes a Pharisee not a Christian. It argues Sunday should be for rest and that the seven days together form the basis of religion, not a single day treated as a sponge to erase the week’s sins.
Infallible pardon divides friends and foes alike
The text suggests forgiveness is commanded toward enemies but offers no comparable duty toward friends, implying perpetual obligation may apply differently to close associates.
Five Rain Dian and Twelve Rain Beaux Found
A garbled note reports a scene around a charcoal fire after dinner with figures described as five rain dian and twelve rain beaux. The fragment mentions Tom and a place called Tip-ouse in Mount Washington in the rain.
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Toms
Safe-keeping of Tasks Prolonged by Idleness
A brief note suggests postponing tasks to tomorrow due to idleness and limited urgency. The fragment hints at schedule loosening and a mindset of delaying work.
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