Ice Voyage Hero: Frank Merrill and the Western Trader
In Cleveland Ohio a poor widow’s son Frank Merrill earns wages on a ship and helps his mother with support. Denison, a kind bachelor, sponsors extended employment aboard a vessel. Merrill stays with the ship through a brutal Lake Erie winter, survives a dangerous ice voyage, and returns a celebrated captain loved by his mother and a grateful town.
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Frank Merrill
Merrill
Carlo Dolce
St. Cecilia
Frank
Joseph Denison
Denson
Cleveland
Buffalo
Lake Erie
Canada
Erie
England
Sir John Franklin
Mr. Denison
The Link Between Earth and Heaven in Child Death
A meditation on parental grief after the death of a child, describing mothers and fathers at a little one's bedside. The piece contrasts pure innocence with city mortality, notes the sorrow of loss, and closes with brief vignettes and a quip about older slang.
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Earth
Heaven
N. Y
Sunday Times
Drunkard reunites with daughters at House of Industry
In Washington reports detail a faded homeless man who, after years of ruin from alcohol, finds his two clean, singing daughters at the House of Industry. He pledges sobriety, is reformed, and now supports himself while remaining at the home. A separate note describes President Pierce being egged at the Capitol by intoxicated men, who are briefly detained.
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Gurrars
Mars
Fubbs
Porter
Big Marsh
Hal
Massachusetts
Pat
New York
House of Industry
Cow Bay
Vaimont
Blackwell’s Isind
House of Refuge
Five Points
Mince
Papa
Washington
Senate
Pierce
Capitol
James M. Jeffards
Charleston
8. C
Jeffards
J. S. Duke
St. Louis
J. F. Wiggans
Jedards
Dunnington
Wailes
Jeffords
Evans
Michigan Southern Railroad
Northern Indiana
Bufalo Republic
Kat
Richards
Salt Lake City
Maine Law Veto Sparks Biblical Debate and Moral Tone
A letter to Governor Horatio Seymour defends temperance by citing scripture from Genesis to Revelation. A dockside anecdote recounts a barber recovering a lost fortune after diving for a man’s wallet. Also noted are Mormon elder Richards’s romantic troubles and a harsh moral quip about wives leaving husbands.
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Prerry Goov
Knickerbocker
Horatio Seymour
Maine
Lot
Sodom
Hell
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George S. Raymond
Canal
Ohio
Greeny
THE
Warren Mail
H. Cowan
Ballor
J. D. James
Exchange Building
Parmlee
Water Street
Carver House
Warren
V. C. Spencer
Johnson & Brown
Ludlow Building
S. P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott's Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co
Taylor & Waters
Prent and
Hickory Streets
HM. J. Taylor
Myron Waters
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
Warren, Warren Co
Pennsylvania
D. M. Williams
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Poalerin
Paney Dry Goods
Sugar Grove
Warren Dye-Stuffs and Glass, Co
Dorwin Greene
Summerton & Church
Carver
Water St
Hazeltine &Co
G. W. Hazultine
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
P.R. Bennett
George Sailor & CO
Crystal Palace
Warren Pa
R. D. Ward
Dunkirk
N.Y
Buffalo and
State Line
Pittsfield
Ames L. Acocks
P. S. Core
Court Horse
Warren, Pa
J. H. Hott
Amt L
Mead
Main and
Diamond Sts
Warren County
James Andrews
Mead & M’leod
Hickory St. Warren
E. M. Pierce
Third
E. Guignon
Enieas
Fama O
Benjamin Nesmith
Ames & Davis
Benson & Co
J. L. Kapple
Mead & M’leon
Butler, Glisan & Frisbee
Main Street
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