Treasured painting saved as revolution disposes sorrow
Jaques Beranger, a preacher, shelters his nieces Jennie and Margaret during the French Revolution. After hardship, their landlord seizes their belongings and their last possession, a painting, is auctioned. A mysterious bidder buys the Raphael work for 16 000 livres, funding the family’s escape to the countryside and the painting finally finds its home in the Louvre.
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Cambrai
Seasion
Vandemont
Artas
Arras
Amdia
Cambriere
Revolutonary Tribunal
Jaques Beranger
Cambriera
Revolutionary Tribunal
Tarnkars
Miler Cassbriere
Levon Hed
Diences
Eitisen
Jaquéa Be
Lebon
Robespierre
Berry
Rother
Serangee
M. Beranger
Monsieur le Cure
Margaret
Jennie
Margaret Prang
Jenie
Isbor
Jaques
Raphael
Republic
Tae Man
Gold Backs and the Move Toward Specie Payments
The Independent notes gold certificates printed on yellow paper will back the national currency and advance specie payments. When enough gold certificates circulate to serve as convertible currency, higher denomination greenbacks may be withdrawn, gradually shifting to a gold based system. Gold is not yet falling in price due to certificate delays and early retirement of compound notes, but fall in prices across commodities is expected.
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China
Treasury Department
Cultivation of a Good Heart and Good Nature
A reflective passage stresses that good nature, aligned with Christianity, is invaluable and cultivable. Perseverance forms habit, reducing enemies and easing daily life, while mortifying self is hard but necessary for personal eminence and social progress.
Amendment abolishing slavery passes SC Legislature
The Constitutional Amendment abolishing slavery has passed both houses with little opposition. Official rolls show Gen. Lee’s army surrendered with 28,000 men and Gen. Johnston with 87,000 men remaining in the Confederate forces.
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South Carolina
Povemion
Genen
Johnston
Davis Trial Foes Federal Rapprochement and Johnson Policy
A spirited critique argues Davis should face treason trial in a federal circuit to uphold constitutional authority. It condemns universal amnesty and universal suffrage schemes, praising President Johnson’s approach to restore loyal state governance and curb rebel influence.
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Jeff. Davis
Asnall
Copperhead
Davis
New York
the Tribune
Washington
Messrs. Speed
Rousseau
Evarts
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Johnson
East Tennessseans
Knoxville
Hopkins
Georgia
Pierce County
Joshua Hill
Supreme Court of the
United States
Union
Beecher
Congress
Free States
Hangman Foote
Reagan
Ot Davis
Jefferson Davis
Frederick Douglas
Dred Scott
Ohio
North Carolina
Almop
Senda
Horace Maynard
Colonel Stokes
Tennessee
Lincoln
Camullous
Rome
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Johnson
South
Republic
Influence of Pleasure at Home and Family Culture
A domestic guide urges making home a nursery of truth and taste through system order and study. It praises cultivating music drawing and flowers for children, notes how shared music softens harsh tones, and suggests investing in instruments if feasible while balancing duties at the kneading trough and washboard.
Testament Reader Converts Jewish Surgeon in London Hospital
A dying London patient asks a non Jewish young surgeon to read from a New Testament. The act brings comfort and leads the doctor to convert to Christianity, learning of Jesus as the Messiah. The column notes Maine workers preparing to emigrate and a Maryland man who died deaf to the war.
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London
Moses
Propheta
Jesus
God
Maryland
Jessie the Beautiful: A Tale of Grief and Afterlife
The narrative describes a family's sorrow at Jessie's death and a visitor urging acceptance of death as beauty in the afterlife. It recalls religious consolation, the idol of mourning, and the childlike claim that Jessie joins heavenly company, as a mother and kin confront loss.
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Jessie
Jassit
Earth
Jessit
Netice
Jessix
Jessig
Jassie
The Man Who Cannot Do Without His Newspaper
Cornelius O’Dow of Blackwood muses on the indispensable role of newspapers in daily life. He argues the press broadens human experience beyond personal circles, exposing readers to global events, culture, markets, and social minutiae, shaping informed judgment and daily living.
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China
Paris
San Francisco
Newmarket
Olympic
Japan
Yokohama
Chapman’s
Treasury receipts top fourteen million in Q3
Revenue for the three months ended September exceeded fourteen million dollars. The Post Office Department advised fifty women to oversee post offices in the Southern States.
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The
Treasury
Post Office Department
Fatten Hogs Now For Fall Slaughter Says Maine Farmer
Agricultural guidance urges fattening pigs this fall with warm mash and boiled grain mixed with meat. Advice warns to remove pumpkin seeds as they are diuretic and hinder fattening while keeping feed dry, adding salt and charcoal. Do not teach pigs to squeal.
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Anya
Maine
Keep Sheep for Farmers Health and Profit
The article argues sheep offer cheap, safe meat with high profits from wool and pelts. It claims wool covers keeping costs, mut ton yields minimal effort, and lambs or older sheep can replace meat supply. It criticizes pork as unhealthy and praises sheep as clean and economical.
Unprofitable Farming Practices Listed and Criticized
A historical critique catalogs farming errors that reduce profit including poor land purchases, lack of underdraining, weak fencing, dilapidated barns and stables, open field wintering of livestock, shallow plowing, imperfect seed coverage, late planting, weed and weeded crop fields, cheap implements, exposed equipment, careless brush disposal, repeated cropping, untimely manure spreading, and breeding hump-backed cattle and land-pike hogs that fail to maximize value.
Managing Barnyard Manure for Better Crops
The article stresses nitrogen rich manure from grain fed horses as essential for crops, warns that straw manure yields more straw than grain, and urges retaining volatile nutrients by proper storage. It advises spreading stable droppings, mixing with cattle and sheep manure, protecting manure from rain, and proper autumn application to boost next year's grass and crop yields.
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Aegis Onekak
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M. Aa
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Ctorndys AT Law
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Collee Wooster
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Government Claim Bounty
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West Liberty Strest
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Moclube
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Wootten
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Peppard
Rofary
Revsaue Ae
Joan P. Jepfrieg
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Bliss & Mes Weeny, Attorneys AT Law
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Kauke’s
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REX & Jones, Ctornays AT Law
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Stoufer & Clark
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J. B. Bareatt
J. M. Wraver
Si Regiment
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Jacob's Hardware
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Charles Hunt
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T. A. Bmubb
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Rama Jail
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Masranw
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