The Menomonee and Winnebago Struggles for Permanent Homes
A tribal relocation summary notes the Menomonee reservation at Stockbridge chosen for a permanent home with removal underway and progress in self hosted labor, carpentry and farming while facing opposition from some settlers. It also mentions Winnebago land allotment in Minnesota Territory and efforts to reform native habits alongside a library note on Washington family history and public press reactions to President Pierce.
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Commissioner of Indian Affairs
State of New York
American Board of Missions
Thomas Asylum
Cattaraugus
Society of Friends
Department
Saginaw
Swan Creek
Black River
State of
Michigan
Lake Superior
Wisconsin
Minnesota
St. Louis
Bad River
L’ance
la Pointe
Grand Portage
Meno
Oneida
Stockbridge
Menomonee
Wagoon- bin
Luptaber
Sramicht
Newfoundland dog swims home to Provincetown after mutinous voyage
A Newfoundland dog belonging to Provincetown families who moved to Eastern Virginia leaped overboard during a Boston schooner passage. The dog swam back five miles offshore toward Race Point and Race Light, reuniting with James Doyle at dawn. The paper suggests giving the dog freedom of the city and a life pension.
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Cape Cod
Provincetown
Virginna
Boston
Race Point
James Doyle
How Porple Take Corp Cold After Exercise
The piece explains that cold follows exercising when one cools too quickly after effort. It argues cold arises from drafts or wind at open doors or windows, not the exercise itself, and warns against lingering at street corners or near open doors after activity.
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Porple
Democratic slavery platform forecast shocks readers
A Augusta Chronicle review contends the Democratic party’s stance on slavery has been shifting for years. It warns that within four years the slave trade could become a party plank and threaten Union unity with abolitionist rhetoric across the North.
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Augusta
Chronicle and Sentinel
Democratic Party
Taan Fox
Geori
Tyares
Ex Gov Corwin on Slavery and Union
Ex Gov Thomas Corwin recalled a Senate speech defending states rights to slave property while urging restraint on extending it. He cited the ordinance of 1787 and pledged allegiance to past leaders as the nation faces sectional strains.
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Corwin
Slaverny
Thomas Corwin
United States Senate
Demagogues and character in ancient and modern governance
The piece traces the word demagogue from ancient Athens to modern politics, contrasting Pericles with Cleon and warning that flattery leads to ruin. It argues character, not wealth, sustains credit, urging young men to prioritize industry and integrity over early fortune.
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Athens
Pericles
Cleon
Aristophane
Demos
Republic
Greece
Macedon
Artaxerxes
Delaware
Richard
Out West Editor Reflects On Editorial Duty
A veteran editor with twenty years in the chair muses on the grind of newspaper work. He compares his daily routine to a tired horse awaiting noon oats, noting the relentless cycle and lack of relief as the paper must always come out and copy must be furnished.
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West
Creo
Will
Mantilini
Weather Talk Sparks Headlines on Ice and Fashion
A newspaper note laments daily chatter about swaps and hoops while forecasting cold weather. It warns whalebone could become brittle and crack in freezing streets as mercury falls, risking sudden dress mishaps and awkward wardrobe changes.
Shark Capture in New Orleans Holds Human Remains
A 17 ft 11 in shark was captured in New Orleans with seven rows of teeth and a liver filling a beef barrel. Inside its paunch lay a half decomposed human body, apparently a well dressed man of medium size, shirt white with pearl buttons, coarse silk undershirt, cotton socks and near new shoes.
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New Orleans
California the paradise of this earth sparks marriage plea
A young Ophiric suitor urged his intended toward rapid marriage and a California honeymoon. He proclaimed California paradise, she balked with a sharp question about why she needed a wife, and he left promising to return.
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California
Napoleon Tests Iron Coat of Mail Theft of War Wiles
Napoleon demanded a coat of mail strong enough to stop any weapon. He paid the artificer eighteen thousand francs, tested the armor with a pistol and a shotgun, and after two shots proved it worked. He then doubled the payment to thirty six thousand francs.
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Napoleon
Belgium
Europe
Bonaparte
Old Gruber remembered as a fiery Meth dist minister
The Sierra Democrat recalls Old Gruber a outspoken Methodist preacher famed for sharp wit and vivid rebukes. Anecdotes describe his blunt sermons at camp meetings his dramatic appeals and tell of his rough yet affectionate discipline of congregants and visitors.
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Old Gruber
Brother Gruber
Sierra Democrat
Hood
Gruber
Sierra
Whisky rumor in English town house cleaning
A nobleman scolds his servant after observing the man not dipping his cloth in whisky while cleaning windows. The servant replies that he breathes on the glass to make it shine, joking that the spirit is still present even without dipping.
A Moral on Life's Journey from a Fatal Voyage
The piece laments rising disasters on great highways and uses the Pacific voyage as a moral lesson. It urges readers to buy a spiritual ticket before death, comparing life to a train between time and eternity and warning that wealth cannot secure eternity.
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N Y
Pacific
Valley of Death
Death
Ice Drift May Rewrite Greenland Climate History
The Scientific American notes that Greenland once had a warmer climate and ice sheets have advanced southward for centuries. Scientists consider a polar eddy drifting ice masses that cools distant regions, citing July ice blocking the White Sea and midsummer snow in Faroe Islands valleys as signs of changing northern climates.
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Greenland
White Sea
Archangel
Faroe Islands
Whit Sea
Scientific American
Man Epiion and Editor Feud Over Paper Stop
A Western paper editor lent an axe and the borrower broke the handle. On return the man offered to fix it. The editor quoted a quarter dollar. The borrower paid a quarter but asked to stop the paper immediately.
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Epiion
Punster at Death Refuses Pallet Bite Over Stomach Fear
A dying punster declined advice to eat a piece of pallet saying it might lay on his stomach. The quip surfaces as a final ironic remark captured in the report.
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James C. Glasgow Torney
Wayne
Joshua Nachtrich
Peblia Square
Wooster
Yesx
Senators Benjamin and Yulee Identified as Hebrews
A fragment notes that Senator Benjamin of Louisiana and Senator Yulee of Florida are both Hebrews. It mentions Michigan counts 1,000 saw mills with 800 for pine lumber and projects 600,000,000 feet of pine lumber this year. An adventurer writing from California opines on the value of a man’s life.
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Benjamin
Louisiana
Yulee
Florida
Michigan
California
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