West Point Dream for Ulysses Grant Emerges in Early Life
The passage recounts a father guiding young Ulysses Grant toward education and West Point. It details family plans, failed examinations, and a pivotal appointment by Rep. Thomas L. Hamer after Morris reported a vacancy. Grant's boyhood hopes shift from farming or a river trader to a cadet path.
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Albert
Albert Gallatin
Theodore
Hiram
Hiram Ulysses
Name mix up in nomination causes confusion
The speaker recalls how Mr. Hamer wired the nomination with Ulysses S. Grant instead of Hiram Ulysses Grant, due to Mrs. Grant's named Simpson. The son tried to correct authorities but remains with the misnamed identity.
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Mr. Hamer
Windowed Woes in Railroad Cars Prompt Air Reform Talk
A narrator depicts passengers repeatedly breaking windows for air as heat and foul air fill closed cars from New York to Philadelphia. He laments fiery furnaces, stifling vents, and harsh conductors while urging railcars to be built and regulated on physiological principles.
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New York
Philadelphia
Jersey City
Spider Eats A Host Of Prey Before Daybreak
A diary style report recounts a spider feeding across a day from dawn to noon. The observer details meals including earwig, fly, daddy long legs, blowfly, and many midges, then a late night web rebuilding before another dawn feeding spree.
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Chambers Journal
Boil jokes and ancient luxuries blend in odd Rochester clipping
The Rochester Express tale mocks boils as healthful wonders and notes a bawdy Local Editor. It then wanders through Roman splendor and antique abundance, from Nero's palace to Heliogabalus, before odd anecdotes about priests, a Canadian clergyman, and Irish matchmaking.
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Rochester Express
Rochester
No Reasonable Offer Refused Sign Sparks City Romance
A Lewiston Journal item recounts a shop placard promising no reasonable offer refused led to a romance when a young man asked for a dress and the clerk pledged to “throw herself into it.” The tale becomes a popular city joke among clerks. Also notes Fanny Fern’s earnings and a remark by Horace Greeley about love over graham bread.
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Lewiston
Buffalo horse races to feature three days in June
In Buffalo New York during the third week of June a three day horse racing event will occur. A major trotting fair is planned for August with total premiums of 20000 dollars divided into eight classes. One top prize of 10000 dollars will go to horses not beating 2 30. A man sent his son to study law claiming he was a tricky rascal and wished to nurture his talent.
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Erie Railway
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Ramapo
Cain
Job
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Weave of Uabit Cable Stirs Daily in Local Tale
A fragmentary local note mentions Uabit cable and a daily weave that cannot be broken. An old proverb about an honest man and a barking dog adds moral texture to the snippet.
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