Night Vigil Over a Dying Patient
Poignant fragment recounts watching an unnamed woman breathe through the night with quiet, shared strength. Observers describe lending “half our powers” to sustain life as the wave of life rose and fell in her chest.
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1859
Page
1
Telescopes and the Infinite in a Lecture's Flight
A historical extract narrates Prof. Mitchell describing light speed, star distances, and Herschel and Lord Ross discoveries, followed by a vivid voyage with an angel through cosmic realms, ending with reflections on mortality and memory. A newly married man in an eastern paper advertises a second hand locomotive for a swift return home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prof
Mitchell
Earth
Herschel
Lord Ross
Space
Heaven
Wren
A Hard Case of Wife Beating and Starvation
A long account from the Madison Argus recounts a farmer’s son who vanished his wife amid a past marriage. The tale follows his later wealth and remorse as the long lost wife returns with their daughter, revealing years of separation and a reunion as they resume life together.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison Argus
Orleans
N. Y
Manray
Orleans County
John Fullerton
Nicholson
Fullerton
Penfield
Webster
Monroe County
The Liquid Fire Gun and its Naval Impacts
A British report describes Captain Norton’s liquid fire projective and armor-piercing bolts that threaten naval fortifications. It notes bolts piercing 9 foot oak with 400 yard range and a leaden shell igniting targets at 1800 to 2000 yards, prompting questions about modern warfare and fortifications. The piece closes with moralizations and a children’s parable on truth from the WV Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham
Norton
Shoeburyness
Halsted
Cressy
Trusty
Willy
Poke Root and Skunk’s Cabbage Adorn New York Park
A Albany Statesman correspondent strolls through Central Park and overhears a rough New Yorker mockingly questioning the display of poke root and skunk’s cabbage. The scene shifts to a crude anecdote about a bearded man and a child, ending with a stray joke about honey from her lips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany Statesman
Central Park
New York
Jiming
Settin
Whittier in New York A Quaker Poet’s Quiet World
New York correspondent profiles John G. Whittier, Quaker poet of Amesbury, traveling to Philadelphia for the Friends Yearly Meeting. He favors a simple, retired life with his unmarried sister, renowned for poetic genius, though health limits her voice. The piece notes his aversion to society and emphasis on tender, melodic verse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield Republican
New York
New England
John G. Whittier
Amesbury
Friends Yearly Meeting
Philadelphia
Whittier
Whittier’s life and a perilous Wheeling accident
A commentator defends Whittier as a lifelong bachelor while describing his pale frail appearance and fierce tenderness in verse. The piece then reports a dramatic Wheeling Va accident at a bell installation where a windlass failure hurled worker Thomas Newton a hundred feet, his ascent halted only by a preacher’s life risking grab, with miraculous escape noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeling
Pittsburg
Thomas Newton
Newton
Bishop Wheler
Mr. Smith
Comic printer error shocks religious readers described
A clergyman printed a sermon promoting moderate recreation but a misprint read Men should work and play too provoking scandal. A Yankee in an Italian city halted a religious procession to light his cigar from a holy candle then vanished. A riddle asks what light Moses took from Egypt.
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Yanker
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