Cief Justice of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Letter
The fragment mentions a 1967 reference to a Chief Justice of Pennsylvania Vinnapgitiga and a letter signed GEO. W. BUUU WARD. It discusses a German billers 13 described as helpful for disorders of the digestive organs and nervous action, though the text is garbled and nonstandard.
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Delamarre
Cief
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Vinnapgitiga
Upad
Geo. W. Buuu Ward
Grant for President Theme Hails Ulysses S Grant
A patriotic verse lauds Ulysses S Grant as the nation’s future leader. The poem extols victory at Appomattox and calls for Grant to steer the country, pledging to defend the right and chant support for his presidency. It mentions the flag ruling the seas and the unity of Americans from Canada to Mexico.
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Grant
Canadas
Mexico
Ulysses
Ulysses Grant
Appomatog Ceat House
Lee
Nasby in Trouble Fancies Civil War Riot Fantasy
A spoof telegraph from Rev. Petroleum V. Nasby claims he is assaulted by Brown liberal rivals while organizing clubs for “degraded colored population” in Tennessee. He demands three hundred thousand troops, calls for Johnson to issue a proclamation, and requests twenty one dollars for travel expenses. He signs off as Naspy, Postmaster, with comic and provocative language.
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Toledo Blade
Casonahie
Petroleum
Persod
Tennessee
Nashnel
Andy Johnson
Johnson
Bey
Reddy
Petroleum V. Naspy
P. M
Wich
P. S
Washington
Copperheads attack Grant blame over prisoner exchanges
A Northern newspaper recalls Robert Ould the Confederate agent of exchange and his shifting blame from Lincoln to Stanton Butler and Grant. It cites a 1864 City Point letter showing exchanges favored the Confederates and recalls Pendleton and copperhead reactions in New York press.
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Robert Ould
Copperheads
General Grant
Abraham Lincoln
Stanton
General Butler
Ould
Winder
City Point
Forgery case leads to unlikely romance in deep South
A detective follows a forged 84 000 check to an interior family, tails a young woman to a river steamer and New York, then learns the lover was misled by a note. The tale ends with the woman aboard a West India steamer and the man lamenting the deception.
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Henry Harding
Thad
Harding
Ceiaduat
Tropics
Golly
Massa
Chile
Henry
St. Louis
New York
West Indies
Sim
Henry Harpine
New Orleans Picayune
Destructive Earthquakes Across Centuries and Seas
The article recalls a catastrophic August Peruvian quake with waves and widespread ruin, then traces historic earthquakes from Syria and Lisbon to New Madrid and Caracas, noting lasting tremor effects, regional vulnerability, and public reactions across continents. It closes with reflections on South American quake culture and fatalist responses.
Reaction and recoil in Vermont election satire
The Hartford Post reviews a populist joke about political reaction figures and mentions a Vermont election result. It compares the idea to a cannon shown to a Washington committee whose inventor promises the device recoils forward rather than back, framing the remark with a humorous quip about its tendency to lean ahead.
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Hartfort Post
Vermont
Washington
Alabama Memphis Editor Calls for Vigilante Murder in Mississippi Speech
Albert Pike of the Memphis Appeal urges Centre Hill listeners to swear to kill any Northern man attempting to cross the Ohio River. He tells ex Rebels to arm, organize, and be ready to respond, even at the risk of death.
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Albert Pike
Memphis Appeal
Centre Hill
Mississippi
Ohio River
Vallandigham’s Civil War sentiment cited on July 6 1861
The speaker Vallandigham praised the South amid the Civil War crisis saying his sympathies lie with her in a time of insurrection and threats, just before the Bull Run battle. The remark was noted as contributing to Seymour’s nomination.
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Seymour
Bull Run
South
Col Gowan Plans 1702 Vigo Bay Attack
Col Gowan, the American commander who raised ships sunk at Sebastopol, intends an assault on the Spanish galleons sunk in Vigo Bay by Dutch and English fleets around 1702.
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Col. Gowan
Sebastopol
Vigo Bay
Taxation and debt in the postwar political clash
In a vigorous argument from Harper's Weekly, the piece attacks Seymour, Pendleton, Wade Hampton and allies over taxation debates. It argues the national debt stems from Civil War costs, questions Democratic repudiation, and defends Republican governance and fiscal honesty amid calls for tax relief.
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England
Wade Hampton
Civ
Republican Party
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Seymour, Pendleton
Vailandigham
Mr. Hampton
Mr. Seymour
Mr. Pendleton
Harper's Weekly
Frenchman on Pearl Street Claims Flying Machine Invention
A French resident of Pearl Street in New York asserts he has designed a flying machine that can be propelled rapidly and safely against any air current, claiming a breakthrough in aviation.
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Conn Corner
America
Oscar G. Moses & Co
Cortland Street
New York
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C. A. Melshimer
Delphos
Hunt & Walsh
Pearl Street
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