Anniversary Banquet Honors Daniel Webster at Revere House
A Boston gathering last Friday marked the birthday of Daniel Webster with a grand banquet at Revere House. Edward Everett presided and read long extracts. Webster’s calm power and battlefield imagery drew lively applause as speakers celebrated constitutional union and national harmony.
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Daniel Webster
Revere House
Boston
Edward Everett
Everett
Mr. Webster
Hayne
Mr. Everett
Crockett’s Death Heroic Stand in Church Corner
An account of Davy Crockett's last stand during a siege in a church corner. Surrounded by Mexican fighters he refused surrender, fought with his sword and pistol until mortally wounded, with twenty six enemies dead around him. The piece hails Crockett as Tennessee’s favorite son and defender of liberty.
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Colonel Crockett
Crockett
Tennessee
Fanny Forrester Resting Place In Hamilton NY Shrine
A Buffalo correspondent visits the home and grave of poetess Fanny Forrester in Hamilton New York. He notes the desolate house, her portrait and relics, the sorrowful sister, and a marble grave stone for Emily Worster born 1817 died 1854. The grave is a shrine where the writer wishfully invokes winter snow and summer turf.
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Hamilton
N. Y
Fanny Forrester
Fanny Worrester
Emily
Luck and Talent in the Rise of Myron N. Clark
The piece traces Myron N. Clark from a one horse hardware store owner to deputy Sheriff in 1849 and village census marshal in 1850, then Senator in 1853 and Governor of New York, suggesting luck and surrounding circumstances shape a career. It hints at future prospects, noting the adage never say die and quoting the Commercial Advertiser on ambition.
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National Intelligencer
Patent Office
Natural History
R. L. Pell
Pelham Farm
Saugerties
New York
London
Pell
Studson
Myron N. Clark
Myron H. Clark
India
Household Treasures and Society News Highlights
A column weaving comic and social notes on domestic virtue and progress. Mentioned items include a patient husband who carries a baby, a self supporting wife, a son with funds, a daughter who resembles her mother, and a reliable servant who reaches the post quickly. Also noted are a calm cook, a baby’s night routine, and a stray warning about lockjaw. The document references a Washington sittings, a 1849 Austrian journal, and letters from President Buchanan context.
The Broken Pane and Confessing to Father
A boy breaks a shop window by accident and fears payment. He tells his father, who pays, and the narrator recalls the relief and happiness from confessing. The piece weaves in humorous anecdotes and jests about open ing oysters and clever storytelling.
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Faith
Prayer at Sea Poem Emphasizes Prayer Amid Storms
A solemn poem contemplates prayers at sea from dawn to deathbed and shipboard faith. It contrasts human doubt with divine majesty as the speaker finds God in the vast immensity, whether in peril or calm, urging prayer at sea as the soul’s refuge.
No Gloom at Home and Cannibal Tale Surfaces
A reflective Olive Branch piece urges a gloom free home with a cheerful wife and strengthened husband as a model of domestic bliss. The column is paired with a comical excerpt about Fejee Island cannibals describing their brutal fate of captured sailors and a salacious tobacco joke.
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Ife
Wylie
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Warren Mail
E. Cowan
Baitor
Gilson
McConnell
D. C. Bell
Warren
Bennett & Fingers
Water Street
Stranahan & Randall’s
Warren Pa
J. D. James
Janes
Carver House
Hackney
Second and
Liberty Streets
Warren, Warren Co
Wm. Hackney
L. T. Parmlee
Warren Co
Wetmore & Spencer
Second St
Johnson & Brown
S. Warren
L. D. Wetmore
T. C
Ludlow
P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Scofield & Brown
Liberty St
Lenni W. Scofield
William D. Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co. Pa
Gilman Merrill
Notary Public
Water St. Warren, Pa
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
Pennsylvania
D. M. Williams
Danlor
Itc
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Idealer
Crockery
Hardware, &Co
Sugar Grove
A.e.hall & Co
Water St. Warre
C.W.R. C.abun
Breeze Point
Wm.h.combs
Stackney House
Penn
George Sailor
Burgess’ Bowling Alley
Second Street
Benjamin Nesmith
P. S. Coty
Court Horse
Warren, Pa
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
L. E. Guignon
G. H. Ames, & Co
Seddle
Benson & Co
J. L. Kapple
Watson & Rogers
Hazeltine & CO
Variety Hall
W. Hazeltine
E. H. Danforth
D. D
Ore
Warren’s
Jun
Warren Banking House
Orr & Henry’s
Orr
Henry
Cincinnati
G. N. Parmlee & Co
Sugar Grove Steam Mills
Senate
Great Conde
Reeroi
Alexander the Great
Arbela
Nineveh
Atlantic
Nimrod
Crimea
Washington
Albetter
Alexander
Asbrudal
Nelson
Ingemouth
Nile
Napoleon
Marengo
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Niagara
George E. Hamlin
George W. Simms
Chapin’s Island
Bath Island
Avery
Chapin
Johson
Messrs. Hamlin
Simms
Mr. Simms
Iis
Solon Whitney
Bufulo
Cutionoop
L. Rogers
Measurer’s
Tomb OH
Diep
Household Treasures
National Institute
Zeitschrift Des
Niederosterreichischen Gewerb-Vereins
Jahrg
Auburn Am
Mamwora
Lerren
California
Fall River
George Law
Buchanan
Asia
United States
Great Britain
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Old Hurricane
Starlight
Meister Karl
Mexico
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Tom
Prayet
Ers
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Halfsick
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