18th, 19th and 20th century news briefs

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18th, 19th and 20th century news briefs

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Newspaper articles about various subjects: disowning wife, divorcing husband, debts, insolvency notice, patents, post office robbery, suicide, drowning, fires; freezing to death
, etc. etc. Among the names mentioned are Mr. Goldthwait (robbery), John Murphey, Simeon Leonard, Eliashib Adams, Elisha Brewster (Murphey insolvency); Parley Hutchings Jr. (patent for improvement for turning bowls), Mr. Chamberlain (suicide), Merrick Smith, Henry Dasati, Albertie E. Albert (fire); Duane Beals, Cornelia Brown, Laura Beals (drowning); Nathan Clark (lawsuit), William Hatch (frozen to death); Simeon Clapp, C. P. Huntington, William Lyman (Lyman insolvency); Nancy Dunham, George Dunham (divorce request); Eunice Kinne (disowning by husband), Thomas Kinne

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numerous dates: 1779 (Kinne disownment); 1799 (Murphy insolvency); 1802 (Dunham divorce request); 1832 (highway accident and lawsuit); 1845 (Lyman insolvency) 1846 (freezing death); 1847 (patent), 1862 (robbery), 1863 (drowning); 1950 (fire)

Suffield Ct Impartial Herald (Murphey insolvency); Scientific American (patent), Berkshire Eagle, Hampshire Gazette; Lenox Argus (lawsuit); Pittsfield Sun (Lyman insolvency); Providence Phoenix (Dunham divorce)

2025-12-03

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