Ghostly Prodding Wins Delia in Wheatworld Tale
In Wheatworld, Zeekiel Hamilton overcomes a paralytic fear of ghosts after a spectral warning spurs him to finally ask Delia Harwell to marry him. Delia reveals she staged the ghost ruse, and their wedding is fixed for four weeks hence, ending with a playful confession and a happy union.
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Delia
Timothy Marwell
Yellow House
Yarwell
Hamilton
Timothy Harwell
Zekiel
Dearest
N. Y
Saturday Star Journal
For the Campaign 1872 Evansville Courier Prospect
The Evansville Courier outlines a campaign year 1872 forecast with emphasis on a reasoned national debate, Indiana state and local contests, and a Democratic Party aligned platform. It invites subscriptions, promises telegraphic news, market reports, and club rates, aiming to expand readership across southern Indiana and neighboring Kentucky and Illinois. It notes terms for daily and weekly editions, with emphasis on maintaining prestige as a leading Democratic newspaper.
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American Republic
Indiana
Eee
Congress
q@itizen
Marntain
Courier
Democratic Party
YUE National, Democratic Convention
First Congressional District
Kentucky
Iinois
Vasa
Werexiy Cov Rieg
Camparan Courier
Courier, Company
Feblu Im
Evansville
Remedy for Painful Wounds by Smoke Treatment
A reader reports a folk remedy using burning coals and common brown sugar to create smoke. Holding the injured area in the smoke for about fifteen minutes allegedly relieves pain and speeds recovery, citing a rusty foot wound and a finger nail incident as examples.
Parody Agricultural Hiems by Horace Greeley
A satirical note cites Horace Greeley on castor beans and their cultivation. It mentions the foundry supplying seed as best, frost affects nest eye, and beans may sprout or shrink unlike oats or hay. Sawdust manure overheats, dried glass from fractured lanterns used as restorative for hurried bean growth. Remove boots while cultivating. don't let rainwater rest on vines.
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Horace Greeley
Wedding and Anniversary Mentions and Power of the Press
A fragment lists wedding celebrations and traditional anniversary gifts up to ten plus and beyond, followed by a patriotic flourish praising the steam power press as a virtuous instrument. It interweaves reflections on measurement puzzles and rhetorical questions, tying historic anniversaries to a powerful printing ideal.
General Logan and His Unsettled Presidential Ambitions
Washington correspondent for the Herald notes General Logan’s career has yielded few concrete results, his belligerent style and insults toward Wilson drive him toward army reform and the presidency remains distant. His Senate foes and New York contacts feed his obstinacy while preserving his notoriety.
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Logan
Tie
Wilson
Senate
Fifth Avenue
New York
Isis
Army
Washington
Herald
Safe-bursting riddle lockup tests burglarproof vending
A San Francisco writer claims a self made safe is thief proof and offers 1000 to anyone who can open it. Two weeks later blacksmiths carpenters and burglars from across the state have worked at it without success. The prisoner reports through a keyhole that he will raise the reward to 10000 though fears grow the only release may be melting him in a blast furnace.
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Dean
Wheatwold
Delia Harwell
Invzekiel Hamilton
Zeke
Sam
Sarah
Sam Hamilton
Delia
Julia Harwell
Parson Brown
Delia Hamilton
Delia Flankell
Ms. Watwell
Mbs
Zekiel
Spoonman
San Francisco
Ile
Leather Bits for Horses Replace Metal Contact
A Chillicothe Tribune note advocates leather bits to prevent cruelty of placing frozen iron bits in a horse’s mouth. It warns that cold metal causes pain and ulcers, proposing leather alternatives to avoid flesh contact during night work or-staging and medical tasks.
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Chillicothic Tribune
Polar Sea Subsiding and Land Rising Across Poles
A Nature essay argues the open Polar Sea may vanish if not found soon as land rises around the Pole toward the fifty seventh parallel. Historical notes cite Scandinavia as archipelago, Norway’s past uplift, Gulf of Bothnia level drops, and shells and wrecks found high above current coastlines. Pacific coasts show bluffs inland with many shells. the piece speculates on a northerly land gain versus southern sea loss.
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The
Nature
Pliny
Scandinavia
Ptolemy
Celsius
Norway
Charles Lyell
Gulf of Bothnia
Grefle
Stockholm
Schuleige
Spitzbergen
Pacific
Behring’s Straits
Great
Britain
France
Holland
New England
When Do Men Die from Brain Exhaustion at Five A.M.
Medical experience shows deaths in chronic diseases peak before dawn, especially brain disorders. The text warns men over forty who work mentally to beware the five o'clock hour as a perilous time for fatal seizures or lethargy, and urges steps to wake if attacks begin.
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Nature
Marbleized glass set to revolutionize building style
A New Albany inventor plans marbleized glass that imitates marble so closely it requires careful inspection. available plain white or variegated, 1 to 2 inches thick, suited for ornamental fronts floors and pavements. The Lewiston Ledger notes patent protection and claims lower cost than marble could drive wide use.
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New Albany
Lewisville
I A. Tribulte
Be The Wings of 45 Senators and 106 Representatives
Be the wings of 45 senators and 106 representatives accompany their husbands to Washington this year. Within eighteen months four dowers in Hogland have sold hydrate of chloral enough to put 36 million people to sleep.
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Washington
Hogland
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