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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1845
Page
3
The Adbdeville Banner condemns a cruel act and marks a culpable accessory as equally vile. It urges the capture of the noble Spaniard named in the treachery and his brother, to face law and public scorn in the District.
A Pittsburg Post report details a vast fire that razed about twenty city squares, destroying 10 to 12 hundred houses and countless warehouses. The blaze began near Second and Ferry, spread along Wood and Diamond Alleys, and disrupted the Monongahela riverfront up to Pipetown. Shipping, gas works, and presses suffered losses. churches opened for the desolate as rain hindered containment, with insurance likely unable to cover the damage.
The Baltimore blaze destroyed stores printing offices and safes, leaving thousands destitute and bankrupt while praise for survivors grows. The disaster spanned about a mile and a quarter, with sixty acres burned and insurance firms collapsed. only about 15,000 dollars in coverage in other cities. Four missing, one believed killed, others possibly in Allegany city.
A portrait of Howard as a disciplined, frugal man whose daily cold baths, refusal of luxuries, and strict punctuality shaped his life. He avoided coats in cold climates, kept to fixed times for appointments, and traveled by foot when possible, enduring hardship without complaint.
A dialogue extols austere living and reliance on nature to build strength. The speaker argues comforts erode vigor, recounting personal reform toward cold, light, and minimal consumption to curb illnesses, and urges trusting nature’s remedies to cut disease in half.
The New York Evening Gazette lauds Mrs Hunting wife of an Andes inn keeper for six hours standing armed with a carving knife on the attic stairs to block an attack by anti-renters who surrounded her husband and two beleaguered sheriffs before Delhi troops arrived to relieve them
A French paper reports Madamoiselle H. Dallerate of Biarritz near Bayonne was awarded an honorary medal and diploma by the International Shipwreck Society for saving the captain of the Zoe fighter, clinging to a sinking ship after a 1839 winter wreck at Biarritz. She seized a rope, swam to the vessel, and pulled the captain ashore as he died.
Fragmentary OCR notes show a notice referencing five districts with no sale action recorded. The readable text is limited and lacks dates or official names, leaving the outcome unclear.
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