Monster serpent captured on Canadian lake frontier
From the New York Tribune a staged account describes the capture of a huge lake monster near Castile. Daniel Smith and an associate used a Lilly-iron harpoon, dragging the creature ashore after a tense chase that drew crowds, with the harpoon still embedded. The creature measures about fifty nine feet five inches, features a wide head, sinuous body, dorsal knobs, and a three foot winglike tail. Barnum is expected to send an agent to view the specimen.
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Perry Vitvace
N. Y
Daniel Smith
New York
Walker House
Genesee River
Mr. Smith
Covington
Te Lake
Lake
Anita
Castile
Labor and Industry Rise in a Nation of Growth
Tail swings the ax and forests bend as seeds bloom into harvests. Cities cluster around looms while domes crown hills and labor lights beacon fires in forges and mills. The oak bears scars as Tail unfurls the flag of stars and Labor shapes engines with fire and brass.
New England Farmer Skeptics on Barnum's Elephant Labor
Governor Brown ridicules Barnum's claims that an elephant can farm by eating oats and hay, weighing 4700 pounds, and performing work from piling wood to stone gathering. He notes elephants cannot work in cold weather and would consume themselves in winter.
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Gov. Brown
New England
Barnum
Fle
New Diamond Lensed Microscope Promises Vast Power
A Philadelphia Ledger notice claims Hinds of Ohio formerly New York has built a new compound microscope with a diamond lens and powers surpassing earlier models by about two million magnifications. The correspondent’s tip urges verification by scientists. A second item jokes that a wife’s scolding adds wrinkles while a smile may remove them, implying a healthful effect.
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Hinds
Ohidl
New York
Phil. Ledger
Poor and rich meet in a moral portrait of poverty
The piece debates respectability amid poverty, noting a phrase poor but respectable as a social ideal. It argues that hunger and toil test honor, while wealth can obscure virtue. It then cites 1850 census data on longevity, comparing US and French ages and noting many Americans alive since 1776.
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Sur Rusreerana
Philad
Petersburg Express Reports Tragic Foreboding Death Case
The Petersburg Express records a case in Petersburg where a Black man, believing he received a message from his deceased father, announced he was going to him and then died after wandering the streets. A watcher found him dead hours later.
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Petersburg Express
Atlanta Scuffle Between Wife and Doctor Ends in Challenge
Rae A a married woman is said to have attacked a young doctor in Atlanta a few days ago. The doctor did not resist and after the incident sent a challenge to Rae A's husband. It was thought the husband would not respond as the wife held all the family daring.
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Rae
Atlanta
Esculapius
Broad road or narrow path quoted in Union and Herald
The Washington Union urges enlistment in the Democratic ranks with a broad road metaphor while the Cleveland Herald cites the Bible warning that broad paths lead to destruction.
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The
Washington Union
Cleveland Herald
LB Socrates Makes Dark Quip On Wife’s Death
A grim quip from LB Socrates follows his wife’s suicide by hanging from an olive tree. He remarks, Oh that all trees would bear such fruit, reflecting a stark reaction to the tragedy.
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Socrates
Kentucky Sport House Courtship Banter
A man who has courted a lady for ten years says he won’t marry because there is no place for sport in Kentucky evenings. The stranger jokes about shooting, and mentions a school master down the hill to “pop him over.”
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Frederick T. White
Michael Keefe
John Wheeler
Manning Hough
White
Donald Heinrich Holzenkamp
Mr. Holzenkamp
Holzenkamp
Benidentiary
Yaweeb
Heinerich
de Vindow
Billard
Sean
Satan
Thackeray
Kentucky
Browsing Witnesses and An Alligator Oddity
Endorsed Newark Ad vertiser critique condemns lawyers who browbeat witnesses to distort truth. A Louisville Courier copy describes a two hundred year old alligator exhibited at the Louisville Hotel wing, owned by Mr. Patterson, to travel to France. The piece also explains hurvan a Dalmatian battle cry used to spur soldiers toward Heaven.
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Louisville Courier
Louisville Hotel
Main
Market
Louisiana
Patterson
Irance
Dalmatia
Behring
Jzur-Ray
Paradise
England churchwoman faces enforced child support case
A dismal case from England reports Miss Beatrice Jane Jones, daughter of a Church of England clergyman, converting to Roman Catholicism and bearing a child. The Rev Richard Singleton was ordered to pay half a crown weekly for thirteen years, after appeals and schemes to avoid responsibility failed.
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England
Beatrice Jane Jones
Douglas
Isle of Man
Richard Singleton
Singleton
Buff. Com
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Fman Men
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John N. Mills
J. D. James
Exchange Building
L. T. Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren
Warren Co
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown’s
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Johnson & Brown
Ludlow
P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Scofield & D & Brown
Liberty St
Warren, Pa
Glenst W
Scofield
Wwlliam D. Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co. Pa
Gilman Merrill, Bewery Public
Water
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
Warren, Warren Co
Pennsylvania
D. Mc. Williams
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
A.e.hall & Co
Carver
Water St. Warre
Co. W.rapibin
Breeze Point
Sebastian Speidel
George Sailor
Burgess’ Bowling Alley
Second Street
Benjamin Nesmith
P. Carke
Court Horse
J. H. Hout
Warren County
James Andrews
Gro. W. Heap
Waterstreet
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
L. E. Guignon
H. Ames, & Co
Benson & Co
J. L. Kapple
Watson & Rogers
Pittsfield
James L. Acocks
George W. Bungay
United States
North Carolina
Lafayette
France
Newark Advertiser
Newark
Temple of Justice
Russia
Moscow
Bank of England
Hans
Iowa
Charleston Mercury
Swedish Iron Works
Union District
South Carolina
Hudson
Bill
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