Frisky tale of love, deceit, and a Wisconsin wedding
A long humorous narrative set in Oshkosh Wisconsin recounts a love triangle centered on Mary Haines Levi Smith and a narrator who schemes to win Mary away from Smith. After tense confrontations and a dramatic plan, the couple marry and the narrator boasts of driving Smith to marry Mary. A separate barber anecdote from Boston follows, but the main piece celebrates a comic resolution.
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Leones
Mary Haises
Levi Smith
Levi
Tothini
Sarhwehelup
Mary Trance
Macy Haines
Ebony
Mary
Smith
Sith
Mary Haines
Myst
Agit
Qonith
Mayer
Hainge
Polly
Mary Taines
Wight
Mary Heines
Alary
Smith Steppe
Basides
A New Year in Washingtons Hectic Social Scene
A letter from January 1850 describes New Year’s Day at the White House as a democratic spectacle with President, heads of departments, and foreign dignitaries meeting the President and exchanging greetings. It notes the crowd’s festive mood, praise for Republican simplicity, and remarks on Congress’s slow process to elect a Speaker amid partisan tensions between Southern and Northern members.
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Harry
D&c
Clay
Congress
House
Wisconsin Senate Passes Slavery Resolutions in 1850
In Madison on January 23, 1850, the Wisconsin Senate and Assembly approved resolutions instructing Senators to oppose slavery in the District of Columbia and to support applying the Ordinance of 1787 to new territories. The session also called for California’s immediate admission with its current constitution. The debate included preambles on Hungary and Austria and a jurist anecdote about a lawyer.
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Congress
District of Columbia
E. States
California
Wisconsin
Hungary
Austria
Senate
Assembly
Is Christianity Founded on Nothing In the 1850s Debate
In a pithy Chronotype note from Boston, a dated wit cites Unitarians and Nothingarians debating whether year zero marks the start of Christian era. The piece lampoons counting from zero and questions infallible authorities like Pio Nono and Saint Orestes as it muses on the paradox of 1850 being the tail of the first half of the nineteenth century.
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Christendom
Pio Nono
Orestes
Bost
Duel of Potato Digging between Editors Proposed
A Worcester editor, Tate William Lincoln, issue a public challenge after a heated editorial clash. He offers honorable satisfaction by a potato digging duel using hoes, each side digging one acre. The quicker and better harvest would crown the victor, with preliminaries arranged via a friend.
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Genteman
William Lincoln
Worcester
Tenacious debater and a real estate puff story
A PA political editor compares an adversary to a Bridgewater old lady who clings to depravity in a religious quarrel. An English paper reports a real estate owner whose property was oversold by an auctioneer, the seller interrupting to claim his own houses as the lot collapses with the buyer and auctioneer losing fortune.
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Patrick
Pat
Bridgewater
ICS
Hlahed
Knight of the Hammer
Hig
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