Marie Wallace the prodigy who becomes a singer
A storied tale follows Marie Wallace, a gifted child from Barbados who after poverty and loss rises to sing in New York. Her mother Marie endures illness while a stranger discovers Marie’s talent and offers a path from want to safety through music and family reunion.
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Marie
Marie Wallace
Barbadoes
Lttle
New York
Madame Marshall
Lilly
Norma
Bellini
Ira Diavolo
Madame Marschall
Henry Wallace
East Indies
India
Dining stratagem ends in anger and a moral lesson
A covetous rich man refuses guests while a wheedling visitor tries to marry his daughter for ten thousand pounds. The master ejects him after the ploy is exposed. The piece closes with cautions to temper, virtue, and resisting bad company and urges keeping a good name. A dramatic battlefield moment follows, with Colonel Allen witnessing a heroic death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sean
Illinois judge ends dispute with quiet repeal remark
An Illinois judge showed extraordinary patience listening to two days of lengthy legal arguments over a legislative act and finally ruled by saying the law is repealed, bringing the controversy to an abrupt close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Illinois
New Governor Pierpoint Inaugurated for Loyal Virginia
The Wheeling Intelligencer reports the Convention elected Frank Pierpoint as Governor with Lamb as ally and five Councilmen. The speech defends loyalist rule, central power in the people, and opposition to Southern revolutionary ideas. The oath followed, Pierpoint becoming de facto Governor of Virginia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling Intelligencer
Frank Pierpoint
Western
Virginia
Lamb
Pierpoint
Commonwealth
Marion
Haymonds
Neesons
Kidwells
Carlile
House of Delegates
Messrs
South
Fathers of the Republic
Louisiana
Georgia
Texas
Crimea
Andrew Willson
Kisq
Justice of the Peace
Recruiting Service in 1798 General Washington Commands
An excerpt from the New Jersey Gazette dated July 30 1798 illustrates early recruitment methods and the martial spirit of soldiers of that era. The piece frames General Washington as the commanding figure behind these practices and hints at the era’s punitive fines or penalties connected to enlistment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ew Jersey Gazelle
Washington
Recruiting sergeant calls New Jersey youths to join Continental line
A recruiting sergeant in New Brunswick invites youths from Middlesex and Somerset counties to enlist in the Third United States Regiment. He promises pay, clothing, rations, and a march to glory under General Washington, warning of invasion and urging conversion of farms to arms. The note references Beauregard and 250,000 volunteers in wartime context.
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Ensign Boote
Third
United States Regiment
New Jersey
Middlesex
Somerset
New Brunswick
Washington
Hearts of Oak
Sons of Thunder
Congress
Jas. Hamboy
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Paragon Block
Public Square
Erie
Salden Marvin
Gly. S. S. Spencer
P. & W. Martin Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants
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Greenwich
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Johnson’s Exchange
Hott
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L. C. Pendleton
Pittsfield
Warren Co
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W. Brown
John Brown
O. L. Elliott
South Park Row
E. Loomis
Win
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Bonnell Block
State Street
We. M. Caughey
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B. U. Keyes
Hickory
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Brown's Hotel
M. Shaffer & Co
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Nations
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Guthrie
Lewis Arnett, & Co
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Exchange
L. A. Rogers
Carver House
Hazeltine & Co
Variety Hall
Hazeltine
Dalers
R. P. Johnson
Big Bend
Kinzua
Smethport
Olean
C. É Blade
TD. Green
V. H. Hull
General Stage Office
Hackney House
Second and
Liberty Streets
Ten Co. Pa
Richard 8. Barbour
Wetmore and Clark
Second Street
Johnson & Brown’s
L. D. Wetmore
Junius R. Clark
R- Brown
Rasselas Brown
Scofield and Brown
Liberty Street
Glenn W. Scofield
WM. D. Brown
J. A. Morrison
E. M. Pierce
Hickory Streets
Nessith and Keller
R. D. Bartlett
Derdant Tailor
Orr & Henry's
A. Finger
Crystal Palace
C. W. Rathbun, & Co
Point Breeze
F. A. Randalls
Kentucky
Crystal Pala
A.F. Davis &Co
A. F. Davis & Co's
London
Ned
Gen. Scott
Lancaster
Zxaminer
Washton
General Scott
Winfield Scott
War Department
Bob
Mexico
Bertier Flaur
Goodfellow
Col. Allen
Loyal Virginia
Gee Col. Hardee
Fairfax
Vienne
Beauregard
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