Coma Man Thawed, Slaves Flee North in 1842 Newspaper

Providence Daily Journal - United States - 1842: (Nov.6) edition with hoax story gleaned from French newspaper 'L'Etoile' of an Englishman Rodger Dodsworth who had fallen into a coma during an avalanche in the Alps in the late 17th century, was subsequently found in 1826, thawed out and brought back to life, (becoming the foundation for Mary Shelley's 1863 short story 'The Reanimated Englishman'); also a report from Georgetown 'That within the last month at least one hundred slaves have clandestinely left their owners, and fled northward'; lots of advertisements throughout including illustrated entries for stoves, lard lamps, printing engines and Dr Richardson's pectoral Balsam.