Responsibility in Pennsylvania Legislature Debate
The Philadelphia Public Ledger criticizes the Senate and House for failing to reconcile apportionment disputes and pass required loans. It argues the present unequal representation violates the constitution and warns that persistent defiance could paralyze government. The piece calls out weekly meeting patterns and labels the Senate majority as revolutionary in attitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Assembly
Finase of Representatives
Senate
Cenfer
House
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philadelphia
Harrisbore
Carelessness in Dress and Absurd Promises Told
Gen Perley Poore recounts Judge Black tales about dress and memory. A Washington trip ends with six clean shirts taken but none worn, as the judge wore only new ones while hiding worn shirts beneath. The Detroit paper adds a tale of a man seeking medical help for a failing mill by a doctor who advised running a mill by water if he ever gets another.
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Washington
Owdm Ree
Ce Uemen
Detroit
Penews
Despair and social satire in a fragmented tale
A jumble of remarks on the Hudson steamboats, circus woes, and social musings. The piece weaves mockery of infidelity and courtship with dialect exchanges and observational asides about daily life, marriage, and public behavior. It presents a mosaic of opinions and humorous vignettes without a single clear narrative arc.
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Lavy
Taimage
Genuman
Sal
Advertisement item from Avian Michigan January 1881
Druggists J.R. Bexwerr & Co advertise Dawns Elixir and other tonics and salves. An order was placed for three large bottles sent to Woodland California. The notice lists Kensy Johnson's Arnica and Oil Liniment and Vegetable Ballarai Mandrake Bitters sold by Johnson & Siegfried in Warren Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Avian
Michigan
Mave
Woodland
California
J.R. Bexwerr&Co
Ballarai
Kensy & Johnson
Johnson & Siegfried
Warren
Parker's Tonic and rations tale from Elgin and Wellington
A fragmented reminiscence ties a Commissary-general threat to the Duke of Wellington over timely rations to Sir Thomas Picton, with side notes on Parker's Tonic praised by Dr. Sherman of Williana street New York and touted as a favored household remedy for coughs, colds and bodily ailments. The ad copy extols Parker's Touch as delicious and invigorating, claims cures for multiple diseases, and urges households to keep it in the house.
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Duke of Wellington
Thomas Picton
Pieton
Toutes
Sherman Wright
Parker
Prices Inc
Fiscox & Co
Chemists
New York
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A. EB. Nettleton’s
Barron & Sons
C. P. Northrop
H. J. Drever
Aens
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England
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Seeley
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Exchange Hotel
Boyington
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ARR & Elw’s
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Puck
Blys Cream
Weagraff & Bros
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