New Lumber Yard Opens on Fourth Street
J McElroy Jr announces a lumber yard on fourth street near Market, offering clear and common pine boards shingles plank and joists plus cherry plank at fair terms. Doctor Thomas Wilson advertises a cancer remedy and vegetable syrup with free cure guarantee and upcoming Steubenville visit. Dr Duncan promotes Expectorant Remedy for consumption and related illnesses with cautions about counterfeit medicines.
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4Th Street
Market
A. Doyle
J. McElroy, Jr
Steubenville
Thomas Wilson
Philadelphia
Washington
Allegheny Counties
Washington County
Steubenville, O
Browneng Cabinet Maker Offers Wares and Hearse Service
B M Browneng a cabinet maker on Fifth street near Adams street informs friends and the public he keeps a general assortment of cabinet ware at low cash or approved country produce prices. He also keeps ready made coplins and attends funerals with a hearse on call and lists Groceries including licorice alum saltpetre epsom salts and more. He promotes Wreight’s Indian Vegetable Pills and abolitionist health cleansing.
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B. ME. Browneng
Fifth St
Adams St
N. B
A. J. Axprews & Co
Wright
North American College OF Health
Race Street
Phil A
Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills advertised cures and warnings
An 1841 advertisement touts Wright's Indian Vegetable Pills as a cure for coughs asthma and various liver and digestive complaints. It claims relief from symptoms through nightly doses and cites testimonials from New York readers. The notice warns of counterfeit pills and lists authorized agents and depots.
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N. York
N. American College of Health
Jamaica
L. I
Wm. Wright
Black
New York
Rich’d Dennis
Wright
Greenwich St
North American College of Wealth
Sam
Chs
M. Tate
Richard Dennis
Doctor Wright
Pitts
Henry A Foote
Wawarsing
N York
A. Maria Thompson
York
Beware the Consumption and its Thief at Night
An 19th century medical advertisement urges readers to prevent and fight consumption. It touts Dr Duncan's Expectorant Remedy as a fast acting, safe cure that destroys seeds of disease, relieves cough and fever, strengthens the weak, and restores health, with James Turnbull listed as agent.
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Duncan
Wale Trade Details Mentioned In Brief Item
A terse note references option 2 and option 4 linked to a shipment of ten boxes for a wale, with unclear phrasing and multiple typos suggesting a damaged OCR line without fuller context.
Isabel Mordaunt and Grahame Vaux in Love and War
In an era of Charles I era gardens, Isabel Mordaunt, an heiress of wit and willful charm, rejects suitors while secretly loving Grahame Vaux. Grahame, brave and noble, confesses love but Isabel’s pride and his departure to join the king’s army test their romance as war looms and time reveals true devotion.
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Cuarprer
Charles the First
Diana
Isabel Mordaunt
Isabel
Grahame Vaux
Grahame
Philip Sidney
Ozford
Graham
Flacher
Charles
Royal Standard
Rinaldo
The Knight Grahame Returns to Mordaunt Hall
Isabel's hope rekindles as Grahame, presumed dead after Marston Moor, arrives alive at Mordaunt Hall. She faints hearing of his survival while Grahame fights on in exile, aided by loyal retainers, before secretly returning to reclaim his ancestral home and his love.
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Isabel
Marston Moor
Grahame
Mordaunt Hall
Prue
Ogain
Parliament
Park
Mordaunt Fall
Isabel and Grahame Vaux Reunite After Civil War Trial
In a garden hideaway Isabel trembles as Grahame reveals love and forgiveness. Her father secures immunity from proscriptions during the civil war, and the Vaux estates are restored to their rightful owner. The couple renews happiness under Charles II’s restoration.
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Flore
Grahame
Isabel
Mordaunt
Grahame Vaux
Charles the Second
System exposes bank fraud at Phenix Bank in Charlestown
The Philadelphia Public Ledger reports a Boston Charlestown bank failure, Phenix Bank, with 172000 in circulation and 5600 in specie. It notes alleged fraud by president William Wayman and cashier Thos Browne Jr, with loans exceeding capital and hidden losses surfacing October 1, leaving noteholders and creditors at risk while stockholders face ruin.
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Clayton
Boston
Charlestown
Phenix Bank
William Wayman
Thos. Browne, Jr
Browne
Swindle Targeting Bank Holders Exposed in Massachusetts
A blunt critique describes a sophisticated financial fraud draining investors, with losses totaling $172000 in circulation and up to $300000 defrauded from stockholders. The piece argues the burden falls on laborers and widows, urging accountability and noting possible leniency for affluent swindlers from juries and officials.
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Massachusetts
Phanix Bank
Charlestown
Webster bible revision trims thirty four pages
Noah Webster argues that substituting forty for unto in his Bible edition saves thirty four pages of close lever press. The claim emphasizes printing efficiency and typographic reduction.
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Noah Webster
Murderous drunken frolic in Campbell county Tennessee
The grand jury returned a true bill against Geo Smith John H Todd Loftin Duke James Pearce and Leroy Crown for the murder of a slave owned by John Miller. They lured the enslaved man into a loft during a drunken spree and hanged him for sport, planning to cut him down soon after. The act resulted in death and harsh penalties await the perpetrators.
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Hunter Fay
Tennessee
Grand
Campbell County
Teno
Geo. Smith
John H. Todd
Loftin Duke
James Pearce
Leroy Crown
John Miller
Curtis Heads to Mexico on Missouri with Dispatches
A Washington letter dated Saturday morning reports Mr. Curtis will depart this evening for Mexico via New York. The steamship Missouri is ordered ready to take him out immediately. He carries important despatches from the government to Minister Waddy Thompson in Mexico.
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Desvacrones
Washington
Curtis
Mexico
New York
Missouri
Waddy Thompson
Clemency pleas circulate in New York over Webb dueling case
West petitioners seek gubernatorial pardon for Col Webb and a reduced punishment, while papers urge executive clemency. If any sentence stands it must be at least two years in the State prison. In Boston, church bells tolled for Dr Channing’s funeral, drawn as sectarianism’s example.
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Con. West
New York
Gov. Seward
Col. Webb
Boston
Channing
A Curious Presentation of Wheat Outlook
A Orleans county grand jury certifies a wheat crop one third smaller than 1841 with poor seeding and bad weather foretelling a small next year. Grex Jackson recovers from carriage upset. Nashville Union notes wheat at Alton Illinois last week 35 to 37 cents with limited receipts as farmers balk at prices, and St Charles Missouri millers pay 3b cents.
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Grand Jury
Orleans County
Alton
Illinois
St. Charles
Modest wife’s reveal sparks hushed husband exchange
A friend notes a change in a formerly shy wife after marriage. The husband sighs that the change is long in coming, joking that there had been a time she seemed to have none of it. The exchange reveals social restraint and marital humor.
Riots at Hastings County Election Prompt Poll Closures
Riots occurred during a Hastings county election with a conservative candidate and an ally of Sir Charles Bagot, forcing the returning officer to close the polls as the riot act was read and residents remained indoors for fear of violence.
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Canada
Hastings
Sir Charles Bagot
Deference to Female Character Praised in United States
In a letter Mr Walsh asserts that no place shows more real respect for women and greater refinement in social relations between the sexes than the United States.
Church membership in the Sandwich Islands tops twenty thousand
The Sandwich Islands report 19 990 church members nearly one fifth of the population. During the year ending ist of June 2443 were admitted. School children number 18 000 to 19 000. The King recently joined the Temperance Society.
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Sandwich Islands
Istof Jone
Temperance Society
Payments to Sax and Fox annuities at Buslington Agency
Annuities for Sax and Fox were paid at the Agency in Buslington, Iowa, a couple of weeks ago. Enumeration shows the Sax and Fox nation contains about 2,300 people with the 1,000 distributed by paying the head of each family.
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Buslington
Iowa
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Mt Pleasant
Warrenton
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Seutales
Graham’s Magazine
J. H. Dana
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