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Boston, MA: Nathan Hale and Charles Hale, 1853. 56 x 72 cm. Long article summarizes speech of Mr. Disraeli in British House of Commons on Feb. 18 regarding anxiety of British over accession of Emperor Napoleon to French throne. The Paris Moniteur makes these observations about the effects of climate upon the British character: The London fogs have a powerful influence on the moral faculties...""Under their skies you feel that you lose the two faculties that are dearest to man--the faculty of thinking and the faculty of enjoying."" Ad for Regular Packet through to San Francisco via Aspinwall and Panama aboard the new side wheel, double engine ships Winfield Scott and Cortes on the Pacific side, and Union on the Atlantic side. For a fare of $8 to $20 passengers sail aboard Union from New York to Aspinwall, Navy Bay, whence they take the Panama rail road to Gorgona, thence travel by mules or on foot, to Panama, at which point splendid new steamers await to proceed immediately to San Francisco. The… Read More

Boston, MA: Nathan Hale and Charles Hale, 1853. 56 x 72 cm. Long commentary from The London Times castigates Sen. Lewis Cass of Michigan for his mischievous speeches, and his disregard of the Bulwer-Clayton Treaty. There's much apprehension over American designs on Cuba, which southern slaveholders wish to acquire. Article looks at Cobden, Kossuth and Cass as troublemakers, inveighing against ""secret diplomacy"" amongst European capitals. Report of the Caloric ship Ericsson at the mouth of the Potomac at Alexandria, VA. Ship has just been operating her engines in very heavy weather in passage from Sandy Hook, for 73 hours. Eighty sailors from Charlestown Navy Yard have left for New York to join the expedition sailing for Japan. Ad for Regular Packet through to San Francisco via Aspinwall and Panama aboard the new side wheel, double engine ships Winfield Scott and Cortes on the Pacific side, and Union on the Atlantic side. For a fare of $8 to $20 passengers sail aboard Union from New York to… Read More

Taunton, MA: The Republican Publishing Co, 1889. 54 x 70 cm. The drowning season has started--warning for boys and girls to stay clear of thin ice. Four men from Taunton were riding in a closed carriage when they were struck by the steamboat train from Fall RIver. The train demolished their carriage, and the horses took off with the wreckage, while the men were thrown in all directions. The O. Ames & Sons Corporation in North Easton have had two immense iron tanks placed in the ground and connected pipes to several of their furnaces, which they are heating with crude petroleum. Ad for Holiday Novelties at Glenwood Furnishing Company; Holiday Price List at E.D. Tisdale & Son; Boys' and Girls' Skates, sleds of all kinds at Pierce Hardware Co. Newspaper, browned, brittle, tears in folds, poor. . Catalogs: Newspaper/History.

Norwich, CT: Norwich Morning Bulletin, 1876. 46 x 60 cm. Three articles, including long report on the long-running trial in the Plymouth Church, Brooklyn scandal involving the famed Rev. Henry Ward Beecher. Did or not the esteemed Rev. Beecher have a sexual affair with Mrs. Tilton, and what was the church doing about it? These articles only report on church deliberations, and the scrambling of lawyers, including Gen. Bryan and Gen. Beecher, and suggestions of church cover-up. Also in this issue: State Democratic convention at New Haven, efforts to make greenbacks legal tender; additional story about gathering of ""Greenback Men"" at New Haven. Stories about celebration of Washington's Birthday. Newspaper, several small tears in folds and at edges, fair. . Catalogs: Newspaper/History.