Deed for a Sugar Camp in Vincennes 1806
A dated March 1 1806 deed records Vital Boucher and Josette his wife selling fifty acres in Knox County Indiana Territory to Toussaint Dubois. The document notes a Sugar Camp Right, outlines warranty, and requests a patent of possession to Dubois. Witnesses Henry Vanderburgh Wes McIntosh. Signed and sealed in Vincennes.
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James E. Heddon
Vital Boucher
Vincennes
Knox
Indiana Territory
Josette
Voussaint Dubois
Toussaint Diabois
Toussaint Dubois
Poussaint Dubois
Henry Vanderburg
Will McIintosh
x—Vital Boucher
Henry Vanderburgh
Itnesses Wes McIntosh
Indiana
Faneaty
Carelessness Warns Youth in Western Nebraskian Note
A public notice in the Western Nebraskian urges youths to avoid carelessness to prevent later burdens as they transition from boyhood and girlhood to adulthood. The statement emphasizes self care and accountability and ends with a whimsical remark about there being no horses in Greenland and Iceland.
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Greenland
Iceland
The Breeches-Wearing Woman and Domestic Tyranny
A collection of social sketches and quips on married life in which a Boston Transcript report lampoons a wife who manages finances, clothes, and children, and who guides her husband, often described as a “boarder” in the home. Intertwined are jokes about gender roles, dialect gags, and trivial curiosities.
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The
Boston Transcript
Stimart
Tyrane
Guy Place
Sara
London Times
Editor’s labor and Merom College praise in Indiana
The Times notes editor work demands relentless presence and accuracy. A correspondent extols Merom College in Sullivan county, praising its location, architecture, lack of saloon, grounds, boarding costs, and leadership of Rev. Thos. C. Smith, with plans for a fuller future sketch.
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Keator
Deater
Merom
Ligonier
Union Christian College
Sullivan County
United States
Hlinvis
Wabash River
Merom Village
Thos. C. Smith
Smith
Meram College
Indiana
Remedy for Diptheria Brought Before Brooklyn Aldermen
A Williamsport mother of six cites a home remedy for diphtheria. The method involves bacon and flannel, coal oil, raw onion poultice, pepper salt vinegar gargle, lime water, and neck irritation. The communication was sent to the Board of Health for review.
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New York Herald
Brooklyn Board of Alderman
Williamsport
Penn
Board of Health
Prophecy of Mother Shipton Predicts World Events
A historical note discusses Mother Shipton’s 1458 prophecy, claiming every line has largely come true except the final verse. It lists future wonders such as carriages without horses and people traveling through air and water, ending with a predicted world end in 1881.
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Mother Shipton
England
Trap Snare Seizes Neighbor in Freezing Iowa Winter
In Concord town Iowa Jacob Floyd set a trap to catch wolves. The next morning he found a neighbor trapped with both hands in the device and nearly frozen to death after being caught while out hunting hoping to inspect the trap.
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Concord
Ship
Iowa
Jacob Floyd
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Zekil
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