Revivalist preacher Barnes tours Connecticut by Kentucky pastor
The Register reports Tur Rev. George O Barnes, known as the mountain evangelist from Kentucky, conducts revival meetings in Connecticut to oppose what he calls the North’s gloomy gospel. The piece also notes the Nashobah estate near Memphis once owned by Fanny Wright and its troubled 1825 philanthropic attempt to educate Black people, ending with a brutal farmhand driving a sister named Sylvia back to England.
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Bailey family mourns multiple fatalities in separate incidents
A singular fatality seems to have compassed the lives of part of Richard Bailey's family of ten children born and living at Townshend St Henry. Ages 93 Hubbard 79 Montgomery Dana 74 Abisha 72 and Mrs Polly Bailey Franklin all perished or died in various tragic events or sudden illness. The text cites several deaths from the Bailey family across different locations and circumstances.
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Hubbard
Montgomery
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Abisha
Saratoga
Polly Bailey Franklin
Buffalo Bill's theory on Custer death sparks debate
Witt F. Copy known as Buffalo Bill asserts Gen. Custer killed himself after seeing his command fall, explaining the act as preference to death by Indians. He cites Crook's arrival, belief in near reinforcements, and an Indian warrior's remark that Custer was last to fall.
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Crook
Custer
Paris Gamins in Court Provide Odd Trial Dialogue
In Paris an urchin labeled a vagrant appears before a judge. His mother pleads, the boy is called a good boy, and the court remarks on keeping him at home. The exchange features the mother’s feverish defense and the magistrate’s stern insistence on order. The scene draws spectators and ends with a stern vow from the mother to improved behavior.
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Victor’ Hugo
Gavroche
Gamins
Paris
Rastallion
Léme
Remarkable Yet Tragic Turn in Medical Student's Life
A Detroit medical student from the Michigan University Medical Department, once celebrated for promise and skilled in care, abandons medicine after witnessing harsh hospital realities. He had planned a career amid illness but chose a new path in a manufacturing job, ending years of study and training.
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Detroit
Michigan University
A daring escape from Millbank prison by Lovett
The London Times reports a prisoner named Lovett escaped Millbank by chipping away mortar over weeks or months. He hid the work using chewed bread, improvised rope from clothing, soot to disguise as a chimney sweep, and boards to form a makeshift ladder. He slid over the wall, passing police unnoticed despite breaking his hand on the fall.
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London Times
Millbank
Lovett
A House Without Children Advertisement in Boston Journal
A fragmentary plea from Henry S Washburn solicits a small childfree home to rent to a neat American family with no children. The notice laments loneliness, imagines voices in a quiet residence, and asks neighbors to notify if such a dwelling becomes available at nominal rent.
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Boston Journal
Mabel
Onie
Henry
Washburn
Widow Honiton Marryes Kind Suitor In April Twist
In Cloverdale Mrs Honiton the admired widow stirs envy among young men and village matrons. Bevington woos her then Perkins wins her in a bold April Fool turn that ends in a real engagement and a wedding carriage.
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Perkins
Molly
Safelvy
Littlo
Perking
Mr. Bevington
Bevington
Mr. Perkins
Mrs. Houston
Mrs. Honston
Mrs. Honiton
Michigan ruling on bailment to sale conversion in grain case
The decision in Ledyard v Hibbard holds that a depositor's grain remains bailment until he or the receiptors act to convert it to a sale. The court states owner and depositor terms imply ongoing risk until conversion by payment or consumption in business. Antonio, Conn., claims the largest electroplating plant.
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Repleyin
Ledyard Va. Hibbard
Supreme Court of Michigan
Cooley
de Positor
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