Americans in Japan Observe City Life and Matchmaking Factories
A New York Times correspondent describes Commodore’s officers ashore in Japan visiting two large cities Kanagana and Kasacea, noting vast crowds, temple courtesies, and orderly streets. The piece then details the American transition from yellow lucifer matches to safer, cheaper processes, highlighting Phillips’s chalk and phosphorus method, factory machinery, age of workers, and rapid production.
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New York Times
E. C. Bittinger
Chaplin
Kanagana
Kasacea
Kanagaua
Mr. Bittinger
China
Kassacea
United States
Europe
Phillips
Paris
Balloon ascent observed from Baltimore described as concave sky and earth
Mr Elliot recounts his final balloon ascent from Baltimore. He describes reaching a great height where the air seems to sink into a hollow beneath him and then rise toward the horizon, giving the feeling of being suspended between two concaves the sky above and the earth below.
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Gar Mr. Elliot
Baltimore
Ocean bed shells hint at sea water purification
Lieut Murray reports microscopic shell beds at ocean depths. He argues these creatures lift and bury soluble sea salts, helping maintain water purity as they cycle salts from rivers like the Mississippi and Amazon into sediment. The ocean thus acts as a vast chemical berth renewing solid earth material.
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Lieut
Murray
Biert. Murray
Mississippi
Amazon
Lieut. Murray
A Very Stareat Difference in a Horse Trade Tale
A street tale tells of a gay young broker and a horse seller. The buyer offers 150 dollars, is refused, and ultimately sells for 25 dollars. The horse remains unsold despite attempts to gift it to Prof. Snow the veterinarian. The animal's ailments are deemed possibly contagious.
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Joseph
Joe
Prof. Snow
Court of Common Pleas
London
England
Fremonts Journey Maps Proposed Pacific Railway Route
Col Fremont details explorations between the 38th and 89th parallels covering about 1550 miles in three sections. He describes routes via Kansas valley, Wahsatch corridor, and a westward crossing toward Sierra Nevada with passes like Sand Hill. He notes climate, snow depths, and mineral finds and envisions a feasible rail line to the Pacific.
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Fremont
National Intelligencer
Central Railway
Pacific
Missouri Frontier
Sierra Blanca
Sierra
Wahsatch Mountains
Walhsatch
Sierra Nevada
Kansas
Arkansas
Sand Hill
San Luis
Salt Watch
Rocky Mountains
Coocha-topee
Wahsatel Range
Colorado
Wahsatch Range
Parowan
Cedar City
Virgin River
Tejon Pass
San Joaquin
Prince of
Pioneers
Nebraska Territory Praised Despite Its Mixed Traits
The Western Bugle editor argues Nebraska’s vast lands offer both extreme climates and rich resources. It highlights fertile valleys, timber scarcity, diverse fruits, minerals like coal and iron, abundant game and fish, and notes on local animal senses and a Niagara Falls canal boat incident.
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Nebraska
Ohio
Ruits
Bubl
Morning Awakening Across New York City Slumbering Masses
The piece portrays a vast city waking in dawn light with hundreds of thousands of people in various sleeping forms. It maps the surreal image of a city stacked in layers from basement to garret and notes the humorous, solemn ritual of rising and preparing for the day.
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WM Fe Tribune
Fulton Prospects Steam Navigation Before Napoleon
Allison notes a 1801 event where an unknown Fulton proposed to transport French armies by steam to an enemy isle. Napoleon briefly considered the plan, appointing a top commission to study it, which deemed the idea visionary and impracticable despite steam’s later triumph.
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Favron Anp Napottou
Allison
Europe
Fulton
Napoleon
France
Huntsman recounts long career through wildlife harvest
In a report from Evansville Journal, Keyrvexy HUuexrern-Wat Eckman describes a life since 1831 spent hunting for livelihood. He claims to have killed a wide array of game including 38 bears, 984 wolves, 3890 foxes, 961 geese, 2040 pheasants, 44 ground hogs, 85 wildcats, 14 polecats, 200 mink, and other small game. He says total earnings from skins and other sale approach twelve thousand dollars.
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Wat Eckman
É.c
Hvansville
Lodger Bell Shown Out Over Hanging Remark
A resident admitted a man of ill repute named Bell as a lodger then expelled him after Bell asserted he would not tolerate a person wanting hanging in the house. The incident reflects social tensions and requires caution in future housing choices.
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Aew
Bell
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L. T. Parmlee
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown’s
Warren
L. D. Wetmore
T. C. Spencer
Johnson & Brown
Ludlow
S. P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Water Street
Carver House
Warren, Warren Co. Pa
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
Warren, Warren Co
Pennsylvania
DM. Williams
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
Warren Vo
Dorwin Greene
Sunmerton & Church
Carver
Water St
M. E. Kerr
Mary Suaw
New York
May
W. Rathbun
Breeze Point
H.L. Towle
Mansion House
Gilman Merrill
Warren Saloon
Hazeltine & CO
G. W. Hazeltine
H. H. Hunt
Stockton & Fuller
Brown’s
Park Row
Erie
P.R. Bennett
George Sailor & CO
Crystal Palace
Warren Pa
R. D. Ward
Dunkirk
N.Y
N. Y
Buffalo
State Line
Pittsfield
James L. Acocks
Warren Co
P. Men
Court Horse
Warren, Py
Ant L. Davis
Warren County
Mead
Main and
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Ree
Hick
Hi Ory St. Warren Pa
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Third
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L. E. Guignon
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C. Exchange
Ames & Davis
Benson & Co
J. le. Hall
Yy Road
Warren Co. A
J. L. Kapple
Mead & M'Leon
Japan
Philadelphia
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Glasgow
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Vienna
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New England
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Western Bugle
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