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Newspaper
The Clermont Courier
Location
Batavia, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1845
Page
1
Iroquois Defeat Eries in Ball Game and Foot Race
The Eries challenged the Five Nations by inviting one hundred young men from the Senecas for a ball game with a rival hundred from the Eries. The Iroquois were invited to Tu shu way, won the ball match, and then decisively beat the Eries in a foot race. The Kaukwaus hosted the Iroquois on their return journey near the Fifteenth Mile Creek.
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Great Lake
Erie
Buffalo
Five Nations
Kaukwaus
Higheenth Mile Creek
Five Nations prepare to strike Erie invasion after brutal duel
An Erie war party proposed a blood duel with ten Iroquois champions, the Seneca winner refusing the killing blow while an Erie chief murdered his opponent. The Iroquois then formed a massive force of five thousand with a thousand reserves to defend the Senecas as Erie plans to strike from Canandaigua toward the Senecas along the Niagara and Genesee rivers.
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Tu-shu-way
Five Nations
Seneca Lake
Geneva
Niagara River
Lake Ontario
Oswego River
Onondaga Hollow
Can-an-dagua
Canan Éaigus
Denisseu
Genesee
The Erie Nation’s Defeat by the Iroquois in North American Battle
A clash near Honeoye Lake saw the Eries pressed by a united Iroquois force after a bold river crossing. The five nations pursued the Erie remnant for weeks with the Iroquois finally prevailing. A later large war party struck the Senecas at Tu shuyway, eries slain and bones left as a grim monument.
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Canandaigua Lake
Genesee River
Honeoye
Eries
Erics
Five Nations
Mississippi
Ohio
Tu-shu-way
Whirlpools Draw Dead Bodies From Niagara Falls
A Buffalo Pilot correspondent reports Niagara Falls whirlpool as a deadly trap for dead bodies and other animals. Two corpses from the 29th are joined by two horses and a hog, seen circling the vortex before sinking and being ejected into the rapids toward Lake Ontario. A Carlisle Ohio girl, daughter of David Bennett, dies from pin ingestion on the 20th.
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Buffalo Pilot
Niagara
Niagara Falla
Lake
Ontario
David Bennett
Carlisle
Ohio
Great Britain Steamer Looms Over Liverpool Harbor
Editor M Guillaudet reports the Great Britain steamship in Liverpool, praising its vast size and six masts. He notes a promenade deck, ornate staterooms, a palace dining room, and power rivaling 1000 horses. Delayed completion and a 1s 6d visitor fee mark its potential arrival in New York.
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Great Britain
M. Guillaudet
New York Courier Des Etate Unis
Caledonia
Liverpool
Great Western
Cunard
New York
Noted Prison Swindler Edwards Faces Mental Suffering
Dr Northall of Brooklyn tours Sing Sing and reports Monroe Edwards works in a room while avoiding eye contact with strangers. He notes Edwards endures intense mental torment from degraded status, endless labor without pay, and missing life's luxuries, a remorseful penalty self-inflicted by crime.
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Monroe Edwards
Dr. Northall
Brooklyn
L. I
Sing Sing
Edwards
Northall
Legal advertising rules for chancery notices explained
The Tiffin Advertiser reports on chancery notices requiring forty days of publication and five consecutive insertions. It explains that a four week notice must run five times to meet law, ensuring twenty eight days notice rather than twenty one. Judges Wood and Bowen are cited in the inquiry.
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Wood
Supreme Court
Bowen
Tiffin Advertiser
Burning Well at Southington Centre Trumbull Co Ohio
A Cleveland Plain Dealer correspondent reports a burning well in Southington Centre Ohio. The 91 foot shaft passes through sand stone quicksand and hard rock. the augur failed to penetrate. Upon withdrawal a strange odor and rushing sound appeared. A lamp lowered into the well by the owner ignited gas causing a violent explosion injuring bystanders. The gas continues to burn likely carburized hydrogen.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Southington Centre
Trumbull County
Ohio
The Chinese gong causes Senate laughter in satire
A Pittsburgh Gazette piece ridicules a U S Senator nicknamed the Chinese gang for long ears and a loud mouth. The column compares his remarks to a Chinese gong and recounts a Washington scene of laughter and embarrassment amid a misnamed exchange.
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Pittsburgh Gazette
U. S
Washington
Cua
Senate
Igong
New York Laundry Uses Steam Powered Machinery
The True Sun describes a large scale movement washing operation in New York. A drum with four openings handles 400 pieces at once, steam and water cleanse in fifteen minutes, then tubs rinse and ironer rollers remove water. After drying and starching the linens are returned to owners. Over 30 women are employed, housed and fed on site. The 20 horsepower steam engine powers the system though not fully used yet, with daily output equivalent to a hundred workers and notably well finished garments.
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New York
Lease Improves Yield on Albany Farm After Drains
Robert Ferguson of Muirhouse law leased a large Albany farm for twenty one years. Initial three years saw extensive drainage work funded by the landowner and stone quarrying funded by the tenant. Resulting harvests rose from sparse grain to seventy five or eighty large stacks plus hay turnips and other crops.
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Apvantacrs
Robert Furguson
Muirhouselaw
Albany
Painter fakes mortal wound to test wife’s love
A painter, doubting his wife’s affection, strips to show a simulated mortal wound across his skin. He screams and collapses. his wife rushes in, faints, and dies shortly after in the study, struck by the horrifying scene.
Deliberate Murder at Greenville C H Florida
The Southern Family Journal of Florida reports a cold blooded murder on the 21st alt. at Greenville C H. Victim is Robert Headden, a young man. The killer is Dexter Wells, who is confined awaiting trial after the victim endured 26 hours of agony.
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Southern Family Journal of Florida
Greenville C. H
Robert Headden
Dexter Wells
Wells
Fire on a distant steamship sighted by Norwegian captain
The Norwegian brig Staattraad Vogt reports sighting a long vessel on fire on June 26 at latitude 47 30 and longitude 40 1. The captain saw the deck fall in and believes the crew and passengers had abandoned the ship the day before. Possible Britain–West Indies steamship. US packets unlikely near those coords. Com. Adv. Young ladies are inseparable friends when they have a lover apiece.
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Staattraad
Great Britain
West Indies
United States
Com. Adv
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