Albany Patriot ad rates and legal notice boilerplate
Public notice style boilerplate from The Albany Patriot editorial page lists prices and rules for legal notices including sales of land and Negroes by executors and guardians, personal property sales, debtor and creditor notices, and required advertising durations. It notes annual and weekly publication details, payment terms, and postpaid business letters.
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Mexican War News and Social Critique From December 1
A fragment from an 1840s Mexican press column discusses Northern and Southern U.S. figures, including San Enrico Clay and Don Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, along with a long critique of uneducated women and a moral sermon for young ladies. The piece mixes international gossip, politics, and social commentary with excerpts on mining profits and civic discourse.
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John
Mexico
la Union de Mexico
North American Confederation
Federacion
Don Antonio Lopez de Santa
Don ‘Thomas Corvin
Indiana
Don Tomis
Ohio
Don Daniel Webster
Massachusetts
Pennsylvania
Santiago Polk
Juan Botts
Exans
Amigo de Lott Tejanus
Juan 'Yler
Enrico Jay
Tomas Corwin
Daniel Webster
Donna Joanna Christo
Arkansas Man and the Piano Forte on a River Steamer
A backwoods Arkansan, aboard a grand river steamboat on the Father of Waters, discovers a piano forte. He is enthralled by the music, watches the instrument intently, and asks to see it. He expresses wonder at the novelty, jokes about his ear for music, and praises the performance with rustic charm.
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Arkanass
Cultivation Plan for Irish Potatoes From The Southern Cultivator
The editor outlines a method: plow deep, fertilize with natural materials, make furrows three feet apart, place a shovel of stable manure at each hill, cover two and a half to three inches, cut seed potatoes into pieces with eyes, plant three per hill, four inches apart, hills thirty inches apart, keep clean, and add ashes to boost potash. Notes on ash composition and manure contrasts, plus a remark on tree leaves as mineral sources. Also mentions Cervantes manuscript find in Madrid and Queen Victoria’s reign overview.
Romantic pistol duel ends with rescue by lover’s wife
In St Louis two gentlemen fight over a lady with a promised pistol duel. A woman arrives on horseback, leaps down, and pleads to stop the bloodshed, saving the men from a deadly clash as the dispute unfolds. The page also notes the death of Archduchess Maria Louise and political shifts around Pontremoli and Tuscany.
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St. Louis
Honora
Maria Louisa
Napoleon
Parma
Piacenza
Italy
Tuscany
Lucca
Guastilla
Pontremoli
Maria
Louisa
Baltimore Sun
Early Writers Mature With Time and Love Elopement
The passage notes Handel, Dryden, Milton, Cowper, and Scott achieving greatness later in life, with several beginning major works after age 30. It also recounts a Brooklyn elopement where a couple married after a feigned church illness, with families reconciled afterward.
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Handel
Dryden
London
Milton
Cowper
Walter Scott
Aird
Brooklyn Ten
Papa
Mamma
Curious Doctoral Note On Buenna Vista Battlefield
A Cincinnati correspondent reports Buenna Vista battlefield littered with bones coats pants shoes and knapsacks. Some untouched Mexican soldiers remain intact on the field and appear preserved not decaying. The explanation offered is that pepper consumption preserves corpses from putrefaction while deterring wolves.
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Cincinnati
Buenna Vista
Ja'euill
Judge of Character and Virtue in Society
A discourse on judging character by loves and associations. If a person cherishes coarse pleasures and vulgar language, their mind is debased. if virtuous pursuits captivate them, they are upright. A holy assembly excludes the depraved and welcomes the good and wise.
Wonders of Art A London Man With Wood Limbs and Glass Eye
A London man severely mutilated in a boiler explosion now lives as an almost artificial breathing being. He wears a glass eye and spectacles, a wig, one arm and both legs of wood, a silver lower jaw, artificial teeth, rubber skull and palate, and a large part of the abdomen. Dr. Kemble saved his life and fashioned his current condition.
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London
Caoutchouc
General Taylor prospects stir Whig press abroad
The Federal Union reports Whig editors retreating from backing Taylor, debating his stance on war, territorial gains, and a possible civilian candidate. Indirect notes from the Indiana Sentinel suggest Judge McLean as a likely Whig choice, while Clay’s influence wanes. A humorous aside on Powers Greek Slave tableaux follows a horticulture section and ends with a note that iron coffins sealed with varnish are manufactured in New York.
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Federal Union
Taylor
Washington
Charleston
Albany Argus
Recorder
Baltimore
South
the Argus
Clay
Mexico
Republic
Tampico
Sierra Madre
California
Alamaulipas
Chihuahua
Congress
Indiana State Sentinel
Wasutherton
Tyler
McLean
Cincinnati
Pennsylvania Avenue
Powers
A Shower Bath for the Taylor Fever
From the New York Globe a sharp rebuttal to those elevating General Taylor as a Whig candidate while denying his stated nonpartisan stance. The piece critiques masked politics and argues for clear Whig principles and direct candor about Taylor’s affiliation. It notes Whig disarray over a June Philadelphia convention and questions if Taylor could accept a party nomination.
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The
New York Globe
Taylor Fever
Express
Taylor
Freemen of the Union
Anon
Senate
House of Representatives
Philadelphia
Gen. Taylor
Filmington Journal
Glasgow Athenaeum Opens With Notable Speakers
The Sons of Scotland staged a Christmas opening at the Glasgow Athenaeum featuring talents and eminent speakers including Kicks ong, Allison, Combe, and Chambers. The American C6 appeared in full uniform with the Onion Jack and Star Spangled Banner performances. A quip notes loss and a wife joke about a missing cigar.
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Sons of Sew
Scotland
Kicksong
Allison
Combe
Chambers
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Real del Monte
Hannah More
Blue Stocking School
Diana
Dow, Jr
Arkansas
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Cervantes
Madrid
Spain
Queen Victoria
Wonders OF
New York
Mr. Clay
General Taylor
Salem
G. May
Indianapolis
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White
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