Border Heroine Rescues Carrier From Robbers
Polly Burnap thwarts two robbers, saving mail carrier Lant Morton and his cargo in a frontier cabin. After a tense confrontation, she shoots one assailant as Morton kills the other, while Jacob Burnap arrives to confirm the tale and praise his wife. The outlaws are later slain or arrested by authorities.
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Arkensas
Little Rock
Horse-head
Jasob Burnap
Polly
Jacob
Poll
Jacob Burnap
Morton
Lant Morton
Hunter’s
Polly Burnap
Morton Carlessly
Dick Gullus
Red Harmon
Person
Nathan
Lewisburg
Lant
Patent medicine sale ad promises gain for undertaker
An advertisement seeks ten persons to undertake the sale of a new patent medicine claiming profits for the undertaker. The tone suggests a covert or questionable opportunity with implied personal gain for the undertaker.
Martin County Democracy Aroused in 1858 Dover
A Dover letter describes a July 27 1858 county Democratic convention in Martin County with heated speechmaking and disputed vote counting. The account notes clashes over who should lead and how votes were tallied, alleging manipulation by a named candidate.
Passages From Old Authors On Death Sin And Virtue
A compilation of nineteenth century style excerpts discussing death and resurrection of the soul, reform, and virtue. It quotes Henshaw Boyle Collier Fuller Berkley Taylor and Jeremy Taylor on mortality temptation and self denial. The text argues that regeneration requires death to sin and daily dying to live.
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Henshaw
Berkley
Jeremy Taylor
Prin
Remark on manners and appearance in a voyage anecdote
A narrator notes a passenger scene at sea where people mind their own business as a curious coincidence. He then jokes that a woman cannot learn too much without becoming pedantic, and adds a quip about blue stockings hidden by long petticoats.
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Polly
Dick Gallus
Morton
Gallas
Gallus
Pully
Polly Burnap
Ara
Damages to Wabash and Erie Canal in rains reach high cost
The Wabash and Erie Canal is damaged by recent rains with an estimated loss around 300000. The canal above the damage remains in poor repair while below is in boating order. A lamp post scene features a drunken Irishman joking about a funeral. A separate anecdote recalls a man sentenced to hang being visited by his wife who asks about the children’s sight of the execution.
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Tam
Berkeley
Jeremy Taylor
Wabash and Erie Canal
Lintleman
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C. S. Dobbins
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Oliver
Baird
Daviess County
Perry
Lord Berkeley
Nonce
Wesley
Hans Anderson
Providence
Walbury
Winkelried
Croes
Christ
Boyle
Reasoux
Sensa
Collier
Thomas Fuller
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