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a hurrah for years ending in 2
The U.S. makes a place for government, as the White House cornerstone is set in place; & a comet makes an appearance.
The U.S. makes a place for knowledge, as the
Juvenile Magazine explores the world around its readers, & Nathaniel Dwight tells them about their place on the globe.
The North American continent still shakes from the New Madrid earthquake, a Great Comet is visible, & the U.S. reasserts its independence from Great Britain. (Time for another White House cornerstone … )
A future president is born. (U.S. Grant probably didn’t read these magazines.)
William J. Snelling presents the world with a second edition of a truly bad poem;
Frances Trollope probably has second thoughts about exposing the ”Domestic Manners” of Americans to the world, as
Americans lampoon her; & Samuel Griswold Goodrich gets double mileage out of a fabulous illustration of the mastodon skeleton displayed in Charles Willson Peale’s museum.
Robert Merry’s Museum greets readers, introduces them to an unlikely iguanodon, lectures on liberty, & sympathizes with the Seminole.
A double comet graces the skies; Gilbert keeps going-ahead through Asia; Francis Woodworth is of two minds about a new fashion;
The Schoolmate reuses a very popular title; &
Robert Merry’s Museum gets philosophical.
As the U. S. fights to reunite a divided nation,
Robert Merry’s Museum gets patriotic & reinforces some ugly stereotypes about native Americans.
Chicago rises from the flames; &
Robert Merry’s Museum frets about children going adventuring, before succumbing to bankruptcy & a massive fire in Boston.
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