Death of the Big Buck in Kentucky hunt tale
A Kentucky correspondent recalls the chase for the Big Buck with hunter Frank and Alp, detailing the perilous pursuit across woods to a lake island where a Derringer shot ends the buck. The narrative blends frontier adventure with dog and horn exploits and ends with a relief-filled wrap on the hunter’s return.
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Kentucky
Union
Medora
Alp
Lina
Scott
Benvoirlich
Buck
Derringer
John
Mass
Knickerbocker Magazine
Quaker Jumping a Ditch Ends in Muddy Lesson
Hezekiah Broadbrim, a boastful Quaker, tries to leap a ditch on a May Sunday with sister Dorcas watching. He crashes center, mud splashes his clothes, and Dorcas helps him out while teasing his prior bravado. The tale ends with Dorcas hinting at the tale to a cautious audience.
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Hezexian Broadbrim
Hezekiah
Batchelor
Charity
Dorcas
Sam
Dore
Nezekiah
Morse reports successful Atlantic telegraph experiment
Convoy Oct 3 1856 Morse informs a colleague that experiments with a single 2000 mile conductor from Newfoundland to Ireland prove the practicability of an ocean telegraph. He notes high speeds up to 270 signals per minute and credits Dr Whitehouse and Mr Bright for resolving key doubts.
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Professor Faraday
Whitehouse
Samuel F. B, Morse
Winter Chill and Charity in a Warned Season
A reflective piece describes the approaching winter with vivid imagery of wind and colored leaves. It urges warmth at home and then shifts to a call for charity, noting the hardship of cold in urban poor areas and appealing to readers to help those lacking shelter food or clothing.
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Eure
We use ex ism I ll bring an action for assault and battery
A fragmentary quotation notes a claim of assault and battery as a planned legal action. The wording resembles a courtroom or legal statement, with archaic phrasing and a rough, incomplete structure.
Vina Creature of Impulse Surfaces in The Pancake Tale
A playful exchange frames a quirky scene where a foxish Vina and a fire trade sayings. The butter and a cautious pancake weigh in as the ego of the kitchen bounces between heat and wary restraint.
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Re “Vina
Irish Coachman’s Gag Delivers First Place
An Irish coachman tells a crowd pleasing joke to win praise as the master asks how closely he would drive to a precipice. The witty reply “Plate your honor keep as far of it as I could” earns him the top spot and a roar of laughter in the kitchen.
Monomania Painter Patient Delights in Silence
Old Dr Rush of Philadelphia recounts a case in which a patient, convinced he was a painter, spoke rarely. The doctor surprised him by mocking his work, calling a rose a cabbage, which broke the patient’s silence and he soon spoke again. The incident ends with the patient returning home intact.
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Rush
Philadelphia
Dr. Rash
The Plain Farmer and His Scholarly Wife
An honest farmer in Pennsylvania marries a fashionable boarding school miss second wife. He is struck dumb by her eloquence and learns she can predict how long a stone will pass through earth. He jokes she knows kimist and cock neyology and that he has been drinking two kinds of gin ox gin and high gin all his life.
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Pennsylvania
Tontal
Holloway's Remedies Cited In Scald Burn Recovery
Newport Rhode Island resident Emeline Anderson suffered a severe scald with leg and side exposed to boiling water. After traditional care failed, a friend who had used Holloway's Ointment and Pills reported full recovery within two weeks, prompting a grateful letter to Professor Holloway.
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Holloway
A Thimble Jest and Sermon on Backbiting
A curbed view on gossip from Rev Charles Simeon emphasizes hearing little of others faults and withholding belief until proven. A witty tale follows where a man replies to a young lady about her worn thimble with a rhymed gift promising durability if she mirrors the hint she gave him.
Paris Doctor Proposes New Head Compression Method
Dr Aristide Lemud of Paris claims a novel head compression using boards that narrows the back of the head to a sharp point. He asserts patients can wear bonnets half the size, arguing the brains suffer but the hat fits easier.
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Hran Y
City Robber Sees Punishment Deserved in Penny Tontary
A local thief convicted of stealing a hundred doubloons from a merchant’s safe declares the offence warrants punishment. He asserts he deserves to be sent to the penny penitentiary for this crime in the city.
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J. D. James
Janes
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Hackney House
Second and
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Warren, Warren Co
Wm. Hackney
L. T. Parmlee
Warren Co
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Second St
Johnson & Brown’s
L. D
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T. C
Johnson & Brown
Jonsson’s Exchange
P. Johnson
Rasselas Brown
Scofield & Brown
Liberty St
Glennie Scofield
William D. Brown
Phillip Mead
Justice of the Peace
Scott’s Exchange
Youngsville
Warren Co. Pa
Gilman Merrill
Notary Public
Ware St
Warren, Pa
Lewis Arnett
Exchange
D. M. Williams
C. F.c
Temperance House
J. B. Brown
Sugar Grove
A.E. Hall & Co
Water St. Warre
Breeze Point
Wm.h.combs
Warren Penn
George Sailor
Tanner’s
Warren Pa
Benjamin Nesmith
P.s.corx
Court House
E. M. Pierce
Third
Hickory Streets
L. E. Guignon
G. H. Ames, & Co., Seddle, Harness and Trunk Manufacturers
Benson
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Market Street
Ace Delphia
W. Burton, Gordon & Fellows
Beaver Street
Broadway
Broad Streets
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New
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Cleveland
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Death of the Big Buck
Jetter
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