Angelina Daffy and the Fainting Fads in 1850s Society
A long comic piece from the Oshkosh Democrat recounts Miss Angelina Daffy and Miss Lillywhite in a Christmas season tale of fainting. Lillywhite challenges Angelina’s habit with blunt humor, recalling her own past swoons and a marriage gone awry over a missing ring, ending with the running joke “Angelina’s fainted.”
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Twentes
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Guss
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Dresden
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Ange
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Hartshorn
India
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Duffys
Angelica
Emmigration Free Lands Promoted by National Police Gazette
The article argues for exporting pauperism by relocating surplus labor to vast public lands. It cites 30,000 to 40,000 emigrants arriving monthly and urges government funds to settle people on western and southern frontiers, framing colonization as a solution to urban poverty. Ohio is cited as a measure of resource potential.
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Free Land and Prosperity in the Nation’s Vast West
A plea for opening public lands to settlers argues that vast regions from Tennessee to Lake Erie could feed and sustain a growing population. It urges freeing lands for cultivation to reduce poverty and crime, and contrasts wealth concentration with human liberty and the public good. The author warns against partisan support for limited land access and calls for rapid nation-wide action.
Letter from Tallmadge Declines Judicial Candidacy
A letter dated September 4 1840 from Mr Tallmadge declines candidacy for Judge of the 4th Judicial Circuit citing partisan politics. It notes public expectations of nonpartisanship and includes a digressive item about Justice Mountfort detaining Frederica Beekman for fortune telling at No 200 Mott Street. It references Rochester women and a Rochester paper’s critique, concluding with a satirical verse from the Prairie Democrat.
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