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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janey
Death and Disease in a Humorous Dialog
A fragmentary verse dialogue mocks medical triumphs and public fears of illness. It contrasts old grim prospects with contemporary complacency, noting past dangers and the now-dismissed grip of disease while joking about doctors and mortality.
Mormonism Exposed Entercanp Letter to the Editor
A reader claiming insider access to Joseph Smith Jr and Sidney Rigdon recounts years in the Latter Day Saints church. He describes private secretary duties, journals, councils, and a 1000 mile pilgrimage to Missouri with 200 others, asserting revelations and sacrifices tied to Zion and a claimed translation of Egyptian hieroglyphics.
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Entercanp
Ohi
Fen
Painesville Reptilican
Sin
Joseph Sith, Jr
Sydney Rigdon
Morwon
Paddic
Thave
Seventy
Joseph Smith, Jr
Sidney Rigdon
Smith
Baram
Merca
Missouri
Zion
Israel
Clay County
Jackson County
Abraham
Jesus Christ
Blasphemous Banking Claims and Outrage at Local Church
A critic denounces Church leaders as liars and blasphemers who boast of vast wealth and divine sanction for banking schemes. He recounts fraud, deception, and a publishing press fire tied to Smith and Rigdon, arguing the leaders fled in darkness while Justice pursues the wicked.
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Aaron
Bank of Monroe
Jesus Christ
Istreud
Bara Phair
Seatth
Rigdon
Smith and Rigdon
Smith
Caim
Singers and sailors in the charivari tale and a jailed Englishwoman
A long description covers a charity charivari near a bridegroom’s mansion with music, masks, and a $1000 donation for an orphan asylum. It also profiles a female English prisoner in New York state who dressed as a man for years, resisted punishment, and plans to publish her life. The piece switches to European affairs, noting debates over French colonial slave children, Prince Louis Bonaparte, Spain’s political strife, Rothschild contracts, Russia’s frontier checks, and tensions with Burma. It ends with the Liverpool cotton market update days.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Hickory
New Orleans
Population Decline in the Sandwich Islands
Icis reports that sixty years after first visit the Sandwich Islands had 400000 residents, now down to 110000 with ongoing reductions yearly. Only about one in four families has living children. last census shows children totaling just over one third of the population. Climate remains salubrious and subsistence easy, but decline blamed on ardent spirits and licentious habits.
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Sandwich Islands
Icis
Queer Currency and the Recorder's Bold Vow
The editor of the AtTskill Recorder laments unpaid subscriptions and jokes he would accept crooked pigs tails soaked in vinegar rather than no payment at all. The humorous quip underscores chronic delinquency in reader dues and the paper's push for prompt support.
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Atskill Recorder
New Weight Guessing Game At Southa Man’s Fair
A man at Southa hosts a weight guessing game offering one dollar per guess. The closest prediction determines ownership of his hog, with the winner becoming the owner of the weighed animal.
George Wilson the Female Horse Chief Sentenced
A woman in men's clothing known as George Wilson was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary for horse stealing. She has not revealed any other name and remains the sole identifier in the case, with her exceptional exploits noted but not elaborated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Wilson
Ohio paper seeks practical printer for varied duties
A local Ohio advertisement calls for a capable printer to run a printing office mechanical department. Tasks include reading proofs, selecting type, scribbling a paragraph when needed, and performing odd chores such as rocking a cradle, digging potatoes, cutting wood, and accompanying to singing school and neighborhood quilting events.
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Caleb Quotem
Ohio
European News and Africa Budget Report
From the Packet ship Europe news reaches March 1 with England’s severe winter and canal ice thawing. France Paris February 26 reports a war budget to expand Africa establishments. The minister seeks eighteen million francs for civil and military needs and notes forty eight thousand soldiers and twelve thousand horses, plus fortress works, roads, harbours, and hospitals costing at least twenty seven million francs.
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Europe
Marshall
Liverpool
Continent
England
Canadas
France
Paris
Africa
Our Indian Affairs and the Rise of the Empire
An English paper contrasts the 19th century East India Company era with the modern Republic of Leandenhall Street. It notes a vast empire of 100 million subjects, 3 million pounds in tribute, 200000 troops, Calcutta as metropolis, Bombay surpassing Tyre, and Madras challenging Carthage in prosperity, claiming no parallel in world history.
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East India Company
Republic of
Leandenhall Street
Calcutta
Bombay
Tyre
Madras
Carthage
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M. Passy
Courier Francais
Louis Bonaparte
Thurgovia
Spain
Madrid
Cortes
House of Rothschild
Almaden
Senate
Russia
Frankfort
Poland
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Col
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Mofussil
Horeign
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