The Fate of the Tonquin and Pacific Border Tales
A detailed historical sketch recounts the Tonquin voyage under Captain Thorn to Oregon in 1810. It narrates clashes with Vancouver Island natives, mutinous tensions, Thorn’s brutal conduct, the ship’s destruction after savage attacks, and Lewis’s calculated explosion that annihilated hundreds of attackers.
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Saturday Evening Post
Oregon
Astor
New York
Columbia
Ofissouri
New-York
China
Regen
Thorn
Vancouver's Island
Shushong
Lewis
Tural
Thut
Mr. McKay
Tonquin
Rating Fruit in Roessta
In the extreme cold of St. Petersburg apples plums and cherries thrive when trained on a trellis about a foot from the ground. Snow covers and protects them with no bruising on fall. Jorello cherries yield good crops and some varieties ripen before mid autumn.
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Roessta
St. Petersburg
Gage
Orleans
Albany
Pilots inspect Falls of Ohio survey river obstruction
The Louisville Courier notes pilots at the Falls of the Ohio surveying the river’s extremely low level. They focus on the middle chute where steamers now pass poorly when water is favorable, and the rock that caused the Empire wreck is exposed and dry.
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Tue Falls
Louisville Courier
Falls of the
Ohio
Sheep Pastures and Wool Clip in Peoria County Illinois
The Peoria Register notes 30,000 head of sheep in the county and a spring wool clip of 99,000 pounds. Bishop Cuase, a leading local wool grower, owns 2,000 head of sheep.
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Sucer
Peoria Register
Illinois
Bishop Cuase
Minnesota Governor Ramsey States 25,000 Indians in Territory
Gov. Ramsey informs readers that the Minnesota territory hosts about 25,000 Native Americans, outlining population figures and the scope of indigenous presence in the region.
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Gov. of
Minnesota
Ramsey
Growth of American cities surpasses historic scale
The article notes rapid urban expansion with New York and Philadelphia suburbs reaching half a million and four hundred thousand respectively. It lists populations for New Orleans Boston Baltimore Cincinnati St Louis Buffalo Lowell Chicago Milwaukee and more, citing rapid growth since early 19th century per Scientific American.
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New York
Philadelphia
New Orleans
Boston
Baltimore
Cincinnati
St. Louis
Buffalo
Lowell
Chicago
Milwaukie
Cruel Burial Attempt Over Scarce Corn in 1846 Upcountry
In 1846 a lazy man in the upcountry faced burial due to corn scarcity. Neighbors planned interment in a wagon, but one man argued he should be saved with corn. The tale includes the crowd and a note on making Panana or Bread Jelly from wheaten slices in a brimming kitchen tale tone.
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Qvaters
Pearth
Home Department of Agriculture
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Patent Office
Congress
Adamazoo News
Berger
Dag Dhstein Ge
Biscuit Jetty and Patience Trial Note
A fragment describes a recipe for white biscuit mixture with four ounces of biscuit and two quarts cold water soaked hours then boiled and reduced to a pint with flavor. It suggests use for weak stomach dysentery and diarrhea. A satire remarks that the greatest trial of patience is finding a night cap after blowing out the candle.
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Biscait Jetty
Travor
Comforts of Editors and the Ideal Newspaper
A critique of what makes a newspaper engaging and useful. The piece argues editors must fill columns with news whether notable or not, publish marriages and deaths within a twenty mile radius, and include personal crisis reports, murders, and accidents to satisfy readers and attract patrons.
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Life
A Wife in Trouble and Curious Oddities
A tale of a wife opening her husband’s letter leads to tears over a trivial bill from a printer. The page also notes a dangerous metal experiment and a Cincinnati cabinet-maker confined to a hospital, with his secret workshop tools.
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Sandy
Discovery of a mammoth cave in Kentucky rumored to exceed known Worlds
Report notes a new vast cave found in Kentucky about twelve miles from the noted system. It has penetrated five miles and still extends, with predictions it may become the largest cave. Mention is made of Pennsylvania laws from last session weighing more than seven and a half tens.
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Berlin
New York Commercial Advertiser
Prussia
Carridge
Africa
Academy of Sciénces
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
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Lua
Andrew M. Gest
Bart
San Francisco
M. Boutigny
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