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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1841
Page
1
Imovad announces removal to the new store room on Market Street below Third next door to the former large building. He is receiving a large and extensive assortment of fashionable goods for display and sale.
Public invited to inspect wholesale and retail items from Philadelphia imports including carpeting bolting cloths bonnets and ladies' kid slippers. Slogan promises the most reduced cash prices and urges customers to call and judge for themselves. James Dougherty Steubenville March 20 1841
Lot on Fifth Street offered for sale. Post office at Sathfield Jefferson County lists letters remaining as of April 1, 1061. Enos Benior? Siler Meare rer remains among the unsent items.
A poem recounts a citizen as the wheelwright and his family, serving God and country. It contrasts servitude under tyranny with the brave of the present, praising selfless loyalty, sacrifice, and love of country over wealth or status, urging readers to emulate citizenly virtue.
The piece argues against government interference with currency, urging the nation to let the currency operate naturally. It critiques bank legislation, notes losses from the United States Bank era, and warns that artificial regulation damages the economy while urging virtuous restraint and a natural monetary order. It also reflects on virtue as a divine, enduring force amid societal temptations and political change.
An English paper prints a brief satire by a widow aged 65 claiming to have nothing to do and sleep poorly while cataloging Bible facts. She notes counts of letters words verses chapters and books and jokes about occurrences of words and names in scripture.
A description extols French women as socially engaging and stylish, noting neat dresses, well groomed hair, and graceful movement. The piece contrasts their natural look with bold coquetry, praising their tasteful attire and poised demeanor in European society.
From the Public Ledger the banking dispute pits Biddle against Lippincott over expense accounts and a dividend. The exchange reveals distrust in bank governance, with claims that documents were altered or withheld and that shareholders may have lost substantial capital.
Mr Lippincotts confession ties him and associates to gross negligence. If fraud occurred, the burden to prove innocence rests on the committee. The public must assume guilt until innocence is proven, a dilemma for those managing others money. If no fraud, the committee bears fault for negligence and misattribution of the report and dividends. Mr Biddle shares the presumption unless he reveals details and origins of the accounts.
A reflective portrait of London at night and dawn, contrasting wealth and poverty. The narrator senses a moral heartbeat in the city as crowds awaken, work resumes, and the vast, diverse worlds of Londoners move through fog, crime, charity, and silence.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions marriage and a man named Wentworth, with garbled phrases about social events and a household scene. The readable elements hint at a matrimonial theme or notice but lack clear facts, names, dates, or places to form a robust item.
A Governor forbids his wife returning after midnight but she defies him. On a late night she threatens to throw herself into the lake, prompting the Governor to rush to help. Servants stage a chase and a decoy, while the wife quietly slips home. the tale ends with the couple’s future in doubt and the Governor’s restraint finally broken.
The Poston Journal recounts Commodore Perry during the Battle of Lake Erie. First Lieutenant Yarnel brings word that all officers in his division are killed or wounded while his own wounds deform his face. Perry sends aid and Yarnel returns with more complaints, described as a comical, eerie scene with torn bed contents drifting like snow. The wounded are amused by Yarnel’s oddity as the devilish image of Yarnel is recalled.
Fragmentary notice in a New York column hints at moral warnings about drinking. The garbled text mentions being a drunkard invites poverty and folly, with stray references to private loners and a person named Becker amid a city scene.
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