Suspended straw man provokes roofless chase and arrest
Archibald Stanhope hides behind debris to watch his wife react to a straw effigy of himself hung in their garret. His plan backfires as his wife cooperates with a mock rescue, they fall, and he is arrested for disturbance. The episode ends with a humorous misfortune and a comment on straw baits.
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Archibald Stanhope
Buckley Street
Philadelphia
Archibald
Mrs. Stanhope
Molly
Sukey
Archy
Mrs. S
Jones
Pennyslvanian
Arm strong and Charles W W Arm married in Baltimore
Married on the 12th by Rev E E Allen Charles W Armstrong and Charles Armstrong of Baltimore were joined in matrimony. The note adds a personal wish for a good time.
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Baltimore
E. E. Allen
Charles
W. W. Armstrong
A Noted Attorney Triggers Courtroom Chaos With Horse Talk
In a horse case before Esquire Snelbanker an attorney known as Wayke cross examined a slow witness with a scornful horse joke. The exchange sparked laughter, a plaster shower, and a crowd’s uproar as spectators mocked the attorney and the witness.
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Wayke
Esquire Snelbanker
Supreme Court of the U.S
Hossy
Death at Montgomery Street Church During Prayer Meeting
A colored man, Richard Riley, died last night at a colored church on Montgomery Street while kneeling in prayer during an exciting meeting. The coroner’s jury ruled the death due to religious excitement. The scene sparked consternation as bystanders interpreted it as judgment. The text also notes a separate court award of $2000 in a case from 1648 involving a son.
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Baltimore
Richard Riley
Montgomery-st
Debtor as Serf in Liberty’s Sea, A Manor of Debt
A fragmentary meditation contrasts debtors with freed debtors, arguing that wealth and status do not escape servitude. The speaker mocks luxury while praising poverty as true liberty and condemns material vanity as a sham. A call to humility and resignation ends with a warning about sheriffs and social illusion.
Old Farmer Changes Mind on Plank Road Faith
A North Carolinian recalls an skeptical farmer who opposed a plank road. After traveling to Fayette and back with wagon and produce, the farmer admits the plank road bears weight well. On reaching heavy dirt, the wagon stalls as horses look around.
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Rse
N. Carolinian
Fayette
Fragmented District School Scene on Natural Kingdoms
A fragmentary classroom dialogue from Ireland on the nature of the animal vegetable and mineral kingdoms. Students discuss examples from animals to timber while teachers press for precise categories. The scene shifts with interruptions and classroom bustle amid incomplete phrases.
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John Jones
Ireland
Scotland
Wales
Smith
Giles
California
Johnson
Hobbs
Names and coinage in a New York scene
The piece opens with a quirk of a Sunday School scene in New York as mudlarks question a boy about his name and a young instructor assigns Daniel Samuel and Jimual. It then notes a Congressional bill proposed by Mr Schenck to reduce the Spanish shilling to a dime and 14 cent pieces to five cents, requiring the mint to coin double dimes or 20 cent pieces equal to a fifth of a dollar.
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New York
Daniel
Samuel
Muel
Burleigh
Humen
Jim-ual
N. Y
Congress
Schenck
Mint
Frayed Towels and Fence Clash Reported
The fragmented OCR snippet mentions a barber and a towel remark, plus a fence incident described with unclear wording. No clear names, places, or dates are readable to establish a concrete event or involved parties.
Practice at Bellevue shows flour dressings heal severe burns
Dr. D. M. Besse reports that covering burns with wheaten flour under a breathable dressing provides immediate pain relief and rapid healing in extensive injuries. He cites cases from explosions, steam scalds, and accidents where flour dressings prevented deformity and reduced mortality, contrasting with harmful home remedies.
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Bellevue
D. M. Besse
Charity Hospitals
Alnwick
Magnificent Bramah Press Lifted Tubular Bridge Elements
The article describes a Bramah press built for raising the tubular bridge over the Menal Straits. Details include a cylinder eleven inches thick, pistons twenty inches in diameter, total weight around 40 tons, lift power for 30,000 men, and water jets reaching 20,000 feet high. Two streams of water lifted bridge tubes about 1,300 tons to 100 feet and set them on foundations, as reported by Scientific American.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Garat Mrorarctic
Menal Straits
Scientific American
Ice Formed On Ship Sides From Breath During Arctic Voyage
The account describes 600 gallons of ice forming on the hulls of Captain Parry’s ships in four weeks from evaporated breath while cooking. It notes the peril and the heavy and valuable lives spent in the quest for a Northwest Passage.
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Parry
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