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Newspaper

Alton Observer

Location

Alton, Illinois, United States of America

Date

May 25, 1837

Page

3

Scriptural distribution and Inquisition fears cited

Fragmentary reminiscences describe attempts to distribute Spanish scriptures in Catholic contexts, noting fears of the Inquisition and urging cautious evangelism. The piece references Dr. P and a Protestant Methodist perspective, with notes on slavery and banking instability affecting church finance.

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Banks suspend specie payments sweep across states

National reports show New York Philadelphia Baltimore and other cities suspending specie payments as banks panic. Growth of runs and plans to seek state and federal relief follow as merchants and chambers discuss crisis measures and possible charter implications.

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Abolition Debate and Printing Office Etiquette Noted

A Demarara Gazette excerpt condemns Georgia acts restricting free Black movement, contrasts with abolition progress in America, and warns about slaveholding states potentially separating. It also mocks printing room routines and includes a Cromwell era quip about Eggs of Charity.

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Flax establishment attacked by Waikato natives in New Zealand

Late accounts report that Mr Jones’s flax mill at Sree was blasted by 800 Waikaitoans from Matamata and Tauranga. Of 120 workers, all men died. women and children were taken prisoner and savagely killed. Hostile tribe members were later slain, with victims butchered and cannibal feast described.

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