Hair fashion through ages and mythic references
The piece traces hair color and styling from ancient times to modern satire, noting links to yellow hair in figures like Demeritus and Cleopatra, poets such as Byron, and leaders including Nero. It discusses cosmetic practices, beards as wisdom, and cultural shifts from powdered yellow tresses to evolving ideals.
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Theas
Demeritus
Masedonia
Lome XII
France
Shakespeare
Bescanio
Sappho
Plato
Julius Cascar
Thebes
Aloeus
Antipater
Leabed
Jaling Cansar
Theseus
Plutarch
Mike
Aspasia
Cyrus
Persia
Baily
Lee
Byron
Hector
Homer
Achilles
Patrocle
Flood
Alexander the Great
Lucian
Asculapius
Plutarchs
Rome
Sylla
Nero
Aleobie
Poppe Sabina
Juno
Family of Ten Sons and Two Daughters from Vermont
A humorous sketch catalogs ten sons and two daughters raised in Vermont, detailing their varied paths from justice of the peace to clergymen, a ship chaplain, a governor, a slaveholder with a view, a farmer reader of the Tribune, a tinker shoemaker, a bookbinder, a former doctor turned wit, and the venerable father in his ninety second year. The piece highlights shared upbringing, strict frugality, and religious training shaping their lives.
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Manchester
N.H
G. Q. Colton
Boynton
Green Hills
Vermont
Blackstone
U. S. Navy
California
Tribune
Timan
Fune
Syracuse
Watt
Puritan Noble Taste Upheld Against Commonplace Bias
In a defense of Puritans, the article argues their influence on English manners and institutions, noting dress restraint and refined taste. It contrasts Puritans with Cavaliers, cites satire and Shakespearean depictions, and recounts a 1848 political anecdote highlighting eloquence versus originality.
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North British Review
Fogland
London Bridge
Paul
Snob
Hs I
Kayl
Beaumont
Fletcher
Shakspeare
A Pennsylvanian Judge And His Museum Wing
A Pennsylvania judge once hid his grandmother’s fat in damp ground and sent it to a society claiming it was a bat wing. A seven member committee debated its species for weeks, consulting Buffon and Goldsmiths, and ruled it a Madagascar bat wing. The tale notes a brown paper piece hung in the chimney as a Brahmin shirt, later revealed as an invention.
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Pennsylvania
Buffon
Goldsmiths
Hortentot Loaio Opinion On White Men In Speech
The Hortentot Loaio compares cleanliness norms, claiming white men are filthy and must wash daily and change clothes several times weekly, while his own people wash only monthly and rarely change garments.
War of feelings over logic in courting advice
Advice warns that romantic success comes from触 linking with emotion. It argues that appeals to a woman's heart outweigh rational talk and that a single intimate gesture surpasses many words. The perspective blends flirtation lore with social norms of affectionate approach.
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Calico
Prophet vows withdrawal if Utah joins Union
The Prophet says he will separate from the government and his wives if Utah is admitted to statehood. He warns against opposition and plans to act on his own accord. The remarks frame a defiant stance amid territorial politics.
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Pep South Carolina
Brooks
Utah
Brianam Youne
Minster's Sermon Draft Questioned by Young Son
A Portland resident minister prepared his Sabbath discourse while his three summers-old son questioned the text. The child asked if God directs his words, and the minister affirmed. The exchange centered on what to say and what to erase during preparation.
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Portland
California Alcalde Fights Over Debts Then Hits the Road
A Porter's Spirit of the Times correspondent recalls a California tale from its early mining days. Green borrows from Shorter, refuses repayment, and the alcalde orders repayment or a search for the money with court costs. Shorter offers a fight instead, Green backs off, and the crowd witnesses a mock trial ending with Green paying.
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Porter
Spirit
the Times
California
Freea
Shorter
Green
Anecdote of Hogarth Tail Piece and End of All Things
The tale recounts Hogarth proposing a final work titled End of All Things begun after he planned a Tail Piece. He depicted symbols of doom and dissolution, then declared Finis and never painted again, dying about a year later, as told in Anecdotes of English Artists.
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HogagTa
Hogarth
World’s End
Phoebus
Sincular Premiums at Coles County Fair Charleston
At the Coles county fair in Charleston last week prizes included mirror for the ugliest man in the region, walking stick for the tallest man, boots for the shortest man, a New England Farmer for the smallest animal, and volumes of New Orleans Picayune National Intelligencer and Blackstone's Commentaries for best original conundrum toast and comic definition.
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Coles County
Illinois
Charleston
New England Farmer
New Orleans Picayune
National Intelligencer
Blackstone
Justice or impartiality speech by country magistrate
An ignorant man placed on the rural district commission of the peace stated he would strive to do justice without fear or affection. He added that on the bench it would be neither partial nor impartial, emphasizing his claim to fairness would be compromised.
Impatient Juryman and a Windy Courtroom Scene
Arkansas correspondent recalls a comic Northern parish court with a country juror who bumbles through labels of grand or traverse juries and a pulpit judge, provoking laughter. A Detroit Advertiser item then describes a high wind incident lifting a fashionable lady's hoop skirt, tumbling her along the sidewalk and wedging her by a lamp post and hydrant.
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Arkansas
New Orleans Picayune
Betsey
Traverse
Grand
Travis
Detroit Advertiser
Boston Hoax Marriage at Park Street Church
A gentleman from another state traveled to Boston to marry at Park Street Church but engaged Rev Dr Stone of Brooklyn by mistake. Stone of Brooklyn arrived in his church ready to perform the ceremony, while the Brookyln cleric waited in his own church, realizing the ruse as the event unfolded.
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Boston
Park Street
Stone
Brooklyn
Dr. Stone
Episcopal Church
Definition of a Wuspano from a Scotch paper
A fragment contains a lady's caustic Scots definition of a husband as a snarling cross, crabbed, sulky, surly, and brutish figure. The excerpt argues English is copious, illustrating with this vivid, humorous stereotype.
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Rowling
Commentary on political jibe sparks street remark in Eloosterdom
A political exchange occurs as a Buck election joke triggers a heated quip among locals. A son of Erin, claiming Union-saver sentiments, jokes about hogs and Democrats. The remark incites a sharp retort from another man and ends with a quick departure.
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Jon F
Joe
Erin
Buck
Indiana
The New Administration and Kansas Policy
A Washington view notes Buchanan’s Cabinet chosen and hints that he supports admitting Kansas as a Free State. It cites a close election with Fremont’s large vote and says Buchanan’s friends avoided pre election pledges. The piece reflects the era’s speculation in private circles.
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Washington
Buchanan
New York Herald
Uander
White House
Fremont
Kansas
Pierce
Controversial Drift Toward 1860 White House Occupant Named
A scathing forecast predicts the next president will be the man who will move into the White House, stirring southern anger and possible war. Jefferson Davis is pegged to push the secession debate in the Senate after the Pierce era ends, with a plan to shift Texas into two states to boost southern power. The writer lists a Buchanan cabinet lineup, suggesting Isaac Toucey as Secretary of State and John Slidell as Secretary of the Navy, among others, with names from Virginia, South Carolina, Indiana, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey.
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White House
Jefferson Davis
Senate
Mississippi
Pierce
Texas
South
Kansas
Washington
Buchanan
Isaac Toucey
Connecticut
Navy
John Slidell
Louisiana
H. A. Wise
H. Ward
South Carolina
Interior
Jesse D Bright
Indiana
Charles Stuart
Michigan
James () Vandyke
Pennsylvania
John R. Thompson
New Jersey
Ohio Republicans praise Jeffersonian principles in 1856 platform
The Ohio State Journal recounts the 1856 Republican National Convention at Philadelphia, affirming opposition to slavery’s expansion, pledging to preserve unalienable rights and the Constitution, and praising Ohio’s steadfast support for liberty amid defeats and divisions alongside the Buchanan victory.
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Ohio State Journal
Ohio
United States
Congress
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
John C. Calhoun
Jefferson
Territories
Supreme Court of the United States
Calhoun School
Republican Party
Philadelphia
Herain
Euasantees
The
Union
James Buchanan
South Carolina
Republican rally calls for nationwide advance and vigilance
The Ohio Republican Central Committee urges firm unity and continued organization across free and slave states. It envisions a peaceful political revolution through free government, expansion of freedom, and resistance to slave power under Buchanan and Pierce. Leaders WM P Dennison and W T Bason outline a mobilized effort to restore freedom and reform national policy.
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Missouri
Washington
Free States
Republicans of
Ohio
Republican Party
Free State
Union
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Buchanan
Pierce
Kansas
New Free States
WM Pdennison Jg
Rep
St Central Committee
W T Bascon
Thirteen Robed Smokers Fined in Dining Room Blitz
Thirteen married gentlemen recently convicted of smoking in their dining rooms were fined a new bonnet or, in default, sentenced to labor taking their wives out for an afternoon of shopping.
Napoleon and Nicholas in Naples Army Joke
A historian notes Emperor Nicholas visiting Naples years ago. King Bomba staged a grand review of his small force and boasted to the Czar that the troops were fine. The Czar replied that the French Custom-House officers might not let them pass.
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Nicholas
Naples
Bomba
Two Widowers Converse on Bereavement Difference
A fragment recalls two widowers sharing grief after their wives' deaths. One laments a quiet end to matrimony, claiming the last day of his marriage was as good as the first, while the other counters that his final day was happier.
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