Presidential canvass shifts from caucus to mass meetings
Harper's Magazine notes how presidential campaigns moved from congressional caucuses to state legislatures and national conventions, sparking large, lively gatherings. The piece traces the evolution from simple nominating bodies to monster meetings, noting risks, optimism, and the eventual move toward broad public participation and peaceful electoral processes.
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Pepater Masee
Harper's Magazine
Congress
Crawford
Ronsota
Congressional Caucus
Hair Tonic Fraud Sparks Chicago Scene
A traveling hair tonic peddler named Cummins touts a miracle balm to regrow hair, promising hair on bald heads for $100 contracts. In Chicago a customer named Hennessey, wearing a wig, confronts him over payment, tears off the wig, and escapes with $100, while the dealer flees with his cargo and public scorn.
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Mr. Cummins
Cummings
Ilse
Adams Street Journal
Chicago
Hennessey
Ennessey
Esau
Tiluker
The High Rock Spring of Saratoga Springs Tale
The article recounts the early mystique and visits to the High Rock Spring at Saratoga Springs, highlighting Sir William Johnson and Mohawk guides carrying him to the spring in 1767, colonial figures like Washington and Hamilton visiting, the crude accommodations, and the naming of the Congress spring by a boy's remark. It notes the spring’s draw for distinguished visitors through the late 18th century and the evolving village around it.
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Vickors
Saratoga Springs
Warper’s Magazine
William Johnson
Dart
William
George
Beron Dieskau
Lake George
Johnson
High Rock
Baronet
Johnstown
Schuyler
Philip Schuyler
Stringer
N. Y
Constable
Schenectady
Saratoga
Mooers
Plattsburg
Durgoyne
Vicloity
Samuel Tenney
Fish Creek
Schuylerville
Elkanah Watson
Ewine
Washington
Alexander Hamilton
George Clinton
Tom
Otho HH. Williamse
Theodore Dwight
Martford
Putnam Spring Lodge: 1808 fame and health resort tale
A fragment recounts Gideon Putnam building in 1808 on the site of present Grand Union with signage of Putnam and the Wolf, turning the springs into a health and pleasure resort. It also narrates a California rumor about Mr. Millar of Oakland who saved to send money home to his widowed Michigan mother, only to learn the funds were invested in real estate and now worth $60,000 after years away.
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Atate
Canning
R. Webster
Tom” Corwin
Jim Nye
John van Buren
Adams J
Gideon Putnam
Grand Union
Putnam
the Wolf
California
Millar
Oakland
Michigan
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Baltimore
General Harrison
Martin van Buren
Henry Clay
Daniel Webster
Adaine
Virginia
Tennessee
Maryland
Caleb Cushing
Newhburyport
Jelleraon
John Quincey Adams
Adana
Libibullero
King James
Three Kingdoms
Tippecanoe
Tyler
van Buren
Nichols & Sydnor
Troy, MO
Troy
Levi
Louis Wolfgram
I. Meyer
Lew Mellw
St. Charles County
St Louis
Juincy
Conrad Eberiing
John Phillipa
Kahne
Branks
Aran
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