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Weekly Times in Dubuque, Iowa

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Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America

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Feb 14, 1861

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Beverly and Salem notes from an 1861 travelogue

A drifting 1861 travel letter describes Boston's January thaw chaos and Beverly's growing industrial wealth and sea captain lineage. It covers Salem’s witchcraft history, the Essex Institute, Atheneum, and a Hollow House murder tied to Nathaniel Hawthorne. Also pockets of New Hampshire towns with mills, schools, and river-powered industry.

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Dence Dubuque Jaks Lam Messachusetta Bay Boston Beverly Plymouth Naumkeag John, Sagamore Agawam King =ip Ly Brook South Deerfield Essex Lathrop Fort Narragan Canada Louisburg Atlantic Gloucester Cape Ann the Treasury Howell Cobb New Orleans Essex County Seaboard Sarem Serem New England George P. Farrington Nathaniel Hawthorne Salem White Crowningshield Rapex Street London Thomas de Quincey Knapps Daniel Webster Essex Institute Atheneum East India Marine Hall Rssex Historical Essex County Natural History Societies Zoological Department Salem Athenium Institute Plummer, Hall Caroline “Plommer Mark N. H New Hampshire Maine Noeshus Nashua Milford Soubegan Gen. Scott Milford Manufacturing Company
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Oil excitement grows in western Pennsylvania town

In a letter from Erie to the Timns the author describes a rising oil boom near Titusville and Tidioute, noting crowds, rail traffic, and makeshift hotels as speculation surges. He portrays a rough, mixed society centered on well digging, with scarce women, rising morals concerns, and a climate of boom-town activity amid new wealth.

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Pennsylvania Sunbury and Erie Titusville Tideroute
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State Lunatic Asylum Progress Report from Mt. Pillasan

Senator Sam pgs of Henry Co. writes Judge Hamitron with details on the State Lunatic Asylum near Mt. Pillasan Iowa. East wing finished, central section nearly complete, heating in place, ready to receive patients by March. Dr Parraxson expected with family. praised as capable. Includes a local dinner anecdote and a divorce suit note amid scattered items.

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Sampgs Henry Co Hamitron Mt. Pillasan Yowa Hox W. W. Hamitron Parraxson
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