Webster in Boston Law Office Studies 1804 Memoir
Daniel Webster recounts arriving in Boston to study law, securing a clerkship with Rufus King after a tense intro with Mr. Gore, and detailing his early 1804-1805 work including reading Vattel and Saunders, notes on special pleading, and a vivid anecdote of a gray-clad stranger later identified as Rufus King.
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Boston
Mr. Gore
New Hampshire
Ward
Lord Bacon
Puffendrof
England
Gifford
Boswell
The
Hebrides
Moore
Roccas
Rufus
King
Let us remove temptation from the path of youth
A fragment quotes a frog's line about steering youth away from danger. The text presents a fable like warning without clear context or full attribution.
Measles Remedy Mixed With Pickle Advice Shocks Reader
A mother seeking measles treatment for two sick children reads a neighbourly remedy that pairs vinegar and salt as a cure. The odd letter about pickles arrives the same day, leaving the anxious mother horrified by the improvised method.
Three Wheel Buggy Demonstrated in Village Streets
J Hinman of the village exhibits a self made three wheel buggy with a forward centered single wheel of small diameter. The design allows turning in tiny spaces and avoids contact when entering or leaving. The buggy shows elegant workmanship and may improve on four wheeled vehicles, pending thorough trials.
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J. Hinman
Paredonia Advertiser
Intricate Camden Family Matrimony Ends in Unusual Ties
A widower in Camden marries a young woman. His son from a previous marriage falls for the widow mother of his stepmother. The two youths wed, creating a web where the father becomes son in law to his son and the widow becomes daughter in law to her own son in law. The tangled bonds puzzle observers.
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Hina
Camden
Royal Americans and corn rise over old world talk
A humorous exchange contrasts England's coal and nobility with an American claim of a coal bed in Illinois and a royal American identity. The text notes U S corn crop value surpassing cotton, citing census increases from 1839 to 1849 and 1850–51 production figures.
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Thomison Innanann
England
Ilinois
John Bull
United States of America
Hlore
United States
Paasie Hit Hits Doctor After Gin Denounced
The Memphis Christian Advocate notes a playful episode where a patient, after railing at summons and useless medicines, asks the doctor to strike at the real illness. The doctor answers by lifting his cane and smashing a gin decanter, promising to reach the cause.
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Memphis Christian Advocate
Achea
D&c
Washington Mount Vernon Estate Returns to Virginia
A Richmond Enquirer correspondence reports John A. Washington has again consented to place Mount Vernon in the control of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The move would reassure the American public, who once feared the property might be mismanaged or lost.
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Florence
Phidias
Cenci
Signorina
France
Delaware (Indians) Trust
Leavenworth City
Washington Star
Washington
Richmond Enquirer
John A. Washington
Mount Vernon
Commonwealth of Virginia
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Daniel Webster
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Prince di C
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Benton Democrats
St. Louis
National Democrats
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William Palm
Taney
Dred Scott
Democratic Party
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Warren Mail
E. Cowan
Carver House
E. E. Eddy
Waterstreet
Warren
Warren County
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Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Warren Co
Richard S. Barber
P. D. Fitch
Water and
Azel Streets
Old Bridge
Willoughby & Woodworth
A. Willoughby Columbus
Parthena Williams
Reformed School
Worren
Liberty Street
Parker
Chauncey Hulburt
Smits
Murphy E& CO
Great Pennsylvania
Market Street
Church Alley
Philadelphia
Independence Hale
Chestnut Street
Chealings
Wyatt & Healings
Bartlett & Morgan
Water Street
Jamestown
L.T. Parmlee
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown
S. Warren
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spncer
Johnson’s Exchange
P. Johnson
Russelas Brown
Scofield & Brown
Libertist
Warren, Pa
Guens
W. Scofield
William D. Brown
Gilman Merrill Notary Public
Ware St
D. M. Williams
Deeler
Temperance House
Pennsylvania
A.e.hall & CO
Carver
Water St. Warren
W H.combs
Deaier
Warren Enn
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Core
the Court House
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
L. E. Guignon
Sugar Grove
Warren Co
George Sailor’s
Tanner
Bloek
Arren
P. Ebster
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