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Alton Observer

Location

Alton, Illinois, United States of America

Date

Apr 06, 1837

Page

3

Transportation lines face renewed clarity after last year’s confusion

The piece lists multiple transportation firms and their daily freight capacities including VETTE Pater, Leech & Co, O'Connor & Co, J. White & Co, Kemp & Co, J. S. Lewis & Co, and others. It notes new covered boats and large freight capacity from 50 to 150 tons daily and up to five hundred wagon loads. It also mentions the Western Transportation Co and various pilots and lines, with other logistics data.

Mit Western Transportation Con D. Leech & Co O. O’connor & Co J. White & Co Do. Kemp & Co

Religious notices and reform commentary from era

A collection notes reprinting Bishop Patrick and others in eight volumes at 850 pages each for 17 dollars, with Sage of General Theological Seminary guiding. Also reports a Baxter translation, a revival on Fort Ann Circuit, Dr Wheaton resigning from Washington College to head New Orleans church, a barber recalling Mr Gooch, a warning about gaming on a Kensington Bank note, and a London Journal notice of seven Moravian missionaries dying in the West Indies from yellow fever.

J. and R. J. Richards New York Patrick Lowth Arnold Whitby General Theological Seminary Snap of New York Schroede Aisseca Baxter Advocate and Journal Fort Ann Wheaton Washington ColLece New Orleans Washi College South West Samuel Gooch Mr. G Belknap Street Christ Kensington Bank Philadelphia Washington Wirt Hamilton Harper Pinckney Randolph London West Indies

Consequences of Intemperance and Oceanic Wealth Reports

A Irish couple on 71st Street intoxication leads to a baby falling from a lap into a fire. Boston, 1837 diary notes three deaths aboard a Massachusetts steamship from coal and charcoal fumes. Whale oil wealth returns home as New Bedford and Providence traders bring seven thousand barrels of sperm oil amid local market bustle.

Sreman John Orswell Fall River Russell Cole Seekonk Mass Yesterda Vy New Bedford

Vast Athens Palace project looms amid grand finance talks

The article surveys a massive royal palace program in Athens with a thousand workers,预计 completion in at least three years and cost near ten million drachms. It notes Bulwer on Versailles costs, and adds assorted global notes from consular releases to Atlantic trade and public notices.

Athens Bulwer Versailles New Grenada Russel Arthagena England Wotton Gilbert

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