Revolutionary Echoes in Germantown Letters and Acts
A Germantown reader cites the Pennsylvania Gazette with notices from October 1, 173, including self‑advertising sheriff candidates like David Rees and Walter Finney, plus Andrew Porter’s and others’ appeals. The issue lists Acts on markets, justice, Reading, churches, ferry service, and local governance, while reporting import from Turkey, Russia, Austria and a Franklin Paris departure with Gannon as successor.
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Germantown Telegraph
Germantown
Pensylvania Gazette
Hall & Sellers
Evening Star
City
Liberties
Philadelphia
Chester
Maying
Walter Finney
Tiberties
Tom
Andrew Porter
Pennsylvania Regiment of Artillery
General Assembly
Commonwealth
Callowhill Street
New Market Street
Reading
Barks
St. Paul's Church
Pittsburg
Baptist Church
Montgomery
Singular May battle of a partridge and a rooster in Canada
A Forest and Stream correspondent recalls a singular feathered duel observed years ago in Valen tier. A male spruce partridge defeats a Spanish night-errant of the poultry yard in a rapid, looping duel, finally strutting in victory and drumming as the defeated bird flees.
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Forest and Stream
Canada
Valentier
Jin
Chevalier Ces
Terac
Gallus
Chanticleer
Forest Bride Quest in Sombre Swamps
A cryptic report depicts a wary inhabitant named Mesdaimes lex joules venturing from a sombre swamp toward his native wilderness seeking a forest bride. After days of searching and rejected advances, he laments the lack of appreciation from his would‑be suitors and steels himself to return to his rugged homeland.
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Mesdaimes
The Silver Bill Coinage Act Debated in Congress
The Mall text outlines coinage of four and a half ounce silver dollars at standard fineness as legal tender, with Treasury purchase of bullion up to four million dollars monthly, seigniorage to Treasury, and a plan to invite Latin Union and other nations to a bi metal money conference. It provides appointment terms for three U S commissioners, compensation, and certificate issuance for deposits of ten dollars or more for tax and public dues use.
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Senate
House of Representatives
America
Congress
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Latin Union
Europe
Senaula
Secretary of State
Treasury
United Sales
Hobbyhorses and the world of maladjusted passions
A narrator describes a man whose hobby is books, amassing volumes he never reads beyond titles, traveling across the kingdom for rare specimens. The piece contrasts this with another man obsessed with paintings, who adores old masters, prowls Wardour Street and Soho, and spends fortunes at Christie’s, living for art.
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Rembrandt
Salvator
Wardour Street
Soho
Christie
Megilos
Raphel
Tobbina
Dines
A Musical Life of Luca Speeletir and His Many Masters
The passage portrays a virtuoso who collects a vast array of musical influences from Rubens to Lorrain and from Mozart to Cherubini. It describes a lifelong immersion in instruments, singing of German and Italian masters, and a final repose awaiting celestial harmony with a de capo in the end. The style evokes a romantic, satirical portrait of an artist steeped in European musical lineage.
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Rubens
Mozart
Beethoven
Sebastian Bach
Padre Martini
Albrechtsberger
Tthipini
Cherubini
Cianchettini
Spohr
Grann
Drucbs
Eybler
Schneider
de Capo
Luardon Speeletir
Fortifications of the Dardanelles in German account
An article in the Allgemenne Zeitung surveys Gallipoli fortifications. It details strategic value, key Turkish towers and Krupp guns, and shore batteries on both European and Asiatic shores, with notes on the strong currents and narrowest straits. It contrasts Ottoman and Byzantine views and cites historic forts Kum Kal eh and Sedil Babri.
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England
Dardanelles
Allgemeine Zeitung
Gallipoli
Bajazet T
Bajazet
Gallipo
Kronssa
Adrianople
John Pakeologns
Iportance
Thrace
Murad I
Sea of Marmora
Bay of
Saros
Lamsaki
Sestos
Abydos
Hero
Leander
Alexander
Parmenion
Nagara Burun
Tehanak Kalessi
Kilid-Bahri
Terr Krupp
Abdul-Aziz
Bgean
Kum-Kileh
Medjidic
Kische- Burun
Nagara-Burun
Kilid-Bahro
Dervinen Labia
Tchan
Tabia
Boali Tabia
Dardenelles
Darnania
Hellespont
Kum-Kal¢h
Sedil-Babri
Pread
The Candle Tree of Chagres Valley
A description of the Candle Tree, Parmentiera species, with candle like fruit two to four feet long and one inch thick. Notes its evergreen blossoms, uses of fruit for cattle fodder, and a caution about meat odor. Harvest peaks in the dry season and cultivation could prevent forage shortages after rains.
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Chagres
Kangaroos and Rabbits Attack Queensland Farmers
Queensland colonists report kangaroo raids overrunning settled interior districts and destroying crops and vegetation. Rabbits have surged across the Australian colonies, causing heavy losses to farmers and cattle raisers. Drought drives marsupials into settled areas. large expeditions kill hundreds daily and render hides into goods.
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Queensland
Australia
Seblled
London
Trout on the Trapeze at the Broomfield Mouse
The Boston Post recounts a queer tale of a trout kept by a boarder of Mr Messenger at the Broomfield Mouse. The fish reportedly performs gymnastic feats when a rattan stick spans its aquarium, jumping and catching the stick with its teeth. Fishermen claim trout in wild streams sometimes do similar acts, though such claims are questioned.
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The
Boston Post
Mr. Messenger
Broomfield
Aquarium
Salmo Fontinalis
Post
Connecticut woman finds four live adders in flower pot
A Connecticut woman observing a disturbed flower pot in her home found four live adders about a foot long curled at the bottom. The snakes were cremated with care after discovery.
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Connecticut
Oldest European language and early American print facts
A collection of varied historical notes claims ish as the oldest European language still spoken in Europe and lists early American print milestones. It cites the first American newspaper in 1702 at Poston, the 1663 Eliot Bible, The Gazette in New York in 1725, and the first printed book Psalias in 1457, among other antiquities and curiosities.
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Europe
America
Poston
Massachusetts Colony
John Eliot
New York
Gazette
John Bradford
Psalias
Ernst and Schefter
Mahomet
Tathcas
Ser
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Sand
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Gannens
American Hotel
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France
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Rome
Vapua
Pontine Marshes
Procopious
Souseumu
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Gettysburg
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Joondon
Tunis
Geeneral
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Cecil County
Aft River
Niagara Falls
Cincinnati
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