Fugitive Slavery Probe and Postal Tax Debate Highlight
A Cincinnati report recounts a failed attempt to kidnap three fugitives and ferry them toward Canada with a rope of confusion about post rates. The piece questions postal charges and freight costs, contrasting social bonds with cheap ocean passage and urging fairer taxation.
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Bard
Ube
Canada
Cincinnati
Bures
New York Evening Post
Bayes Auccesa
Eimwrania
Britain
Liverpool
Jetlovs
Tour
Floun
Thanksgiving Gathering at Hampden Housed Family Feast
A large Thanksgiving gathering at Benjamin Sweet’s home in Hampden brought together forty six people including eight children, fifteen grandchildren, and two great grandchildren. The scene centered on blessing around the hearth as a large crate of thirteen items was opened, described with festive and communal sentiment.
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Hampden
Benjamin Sweet
Theon
No Surrender Echoes in Old-Timers at Public Meetings
Fragmentary reminiscence recalls old women in attic garb attending public meetings ready to die for tinder box questions. The speaker notes such zeal has fallen out of fashion as new moon shifts and evolving loyalties test party resolve.
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Becouer
Fell in Love with a Daguerreotype in Cincinnati
A Cincinnati newspaper item reports a woman in the East who admired a handsome local daguerreotype and traveled to Cincinnati to meet the original. She was so pleased with him that they are engaged to marry, highlighting the romantic pull of early photographic portraits.
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Cincinnati
Abe
Daguerreotype
Clerical Joke At Church Hymn Recital
A church meeting featured a hymn starting I love to steal awhile away with the choir unable to finish the tune. The clergyman, to relieve the pianist, quipped it was very much to be regretted and added let us peny amid playful embarrassment. The scene references Uncle Tom's Cabin being dramatized in Chicago.
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Jef. Hull
Biron Kooper
Kent
Caule
Parson Eooper
Wales
Jef
Smart Corp
Gavin
Ehice
Theastor
Flax Culture and Fabric Makers Clash Over Progress
The article argues about Flax versus Cotton and Clauswen's and Claussen's inventions. It notes slow adoption of flax processes, compares steam power’s rise to flax, and discusses potential cost and machinery shifts. It mentions planned flax spinning facilities, and lines about American inventions to produce flax fibers and linen alternatives. It also includes unrelated items on a Boston housing project, a schoolyard joke, gold shipments, temperance, and a church conference.
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Cutton
Claussen
Muluwi
Albany
Chinery
Coron
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