Father and Daughter in the Storm
A desperate speaker pleads for bread and warmth as a violent storm rages. A father is urged to comfort and shield a shivering child while recalling a sister named Jane who has died. The child fears separation and longs for a father's touch and a final resting place beside Jane. The journey continues toward a distant goal amid cold wind and peril.
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Jane
Editor Thurlow Weed portrait and farm plowing notes
A Madison County Whig sketch describes Albany Evening Journal editor Thurlow Weed in his noisy shared hab it writing slowly with meticulous care and a manuscript tangled like fish-hooks and cork-screws. It includes a note on his workday ending around three and his remaining vigor. Other items cover deep plowing in Connecticut river valley and crop gains on light soil with eight to ten years of twelve inch plowings, plus short quips about hall and a rural mischief and crude jokes.
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Albany Evening Journal
Thurlow Weed
Madison County Whig
Weed
A. M. Whipple
Connecticut River
Lowell
Goxe Atorr
Henry Franklin
New York
the Tribune
Eagland
The Girl and Her Tin Pail Across Time
A Rochester apprentice recalls a shoemaker couple who saved time meals via a tin pail. The husband, prospering in Ohio through savvy real estate and park investments, credits industrious habits and his wife. The narrator reencounters them, valuing their early instrument of success.
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Yarth
Mud
Rochester
Exchange Street
Ohio
Cincinnatti
Mrs. H
Cranberries grown on upland soil prove successful in trial
The Boston Cultivator notes ocular proof from Joseph Orcutt showing cranberry vines thriving in sandy gravel soil. Three years after planting forty crowns with no prior culture, he yields seven to eight quarts this year, with vines several feet long and thick with fruit.
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Joseph Orcutt
Mad stone curing hydrophobia story sparks county inquiry
A reader recounts a remarkable mad stone said to cure hydrophobia. Mr M B Wem sley claims possession after witnesses tested it in Boone county Kentucky with a Virginian origin. The stone supposedly bonds to wounds, drawing out poison, then drops away and is re applied after washing.
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Rembey
M. B. Wemsley
Boone County
Kentucky
Cllinois
Mr. W
Wemsley
Cin
Gazelle
Debating Societies and Orators From Burke to Emmet
In this period piece the value of debating societies is extolled as a training ground for famed orators such as Burke Curran Grattan Emmett Flood and Yeoverton. It links college societies to early careers in parliamentary eloquence across Britain and Ireland.
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Webster
Clay
Wirt
Calhoun
Burke
Curran
St. Omers
Grattan
Tie
Demosthenes
Speaker
Howesry
Lanista
Flood
Yelverton
Hussey Burgh
Fitzgibbon
Bush
College Society
Old Trinity
Britain
Robert Emmett
Moore
Arctic expedition advances with brig Advance to hunt Franklin
The Advance, from the former Franklin search, is selected and prepared at Burling Slip East River. Dr Kane will command a crew of about twenty four with an observatory magnetical instruments and daguerreotype gear. The party includes an astronomer artist and naturalist and expects to be away up to three years with sledges dogs Esquimaux and five boats for ice work.
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John Franklin
Burling Slip
East River
Enghind
Col. Sabine
Esquimaux
Greenland
Baflin’s Bay
Dr. Kane
WV. VV. Mepress
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