Washingtonian to Publish Daily Subscriptions Rates
The Washingtonian to be published every morning at one dollar per year for a single subscriber five dollars for a six person club or ten dollars for a twelve person club. Communications by mail must be postpaid to receive attention. Postmasters may frank subscription money. Advertising rates listed for various insertion frequencies with discounts for early and weekly advertisers.
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Ashingtoniat
James McCafferty
Post Office Department
Tvearly
Eve and Adam Reflect on Sin and Redemption in Final Eve
In a twilight scene in front of their tent, Eve recalls the fall and laments aging while Adam consoles. She predicts death and asks for comfort as they face dust, yet Adam speaks of redemption and a destined resurrection through a mighty Physician and future posterity. The couple finds a hopeful vision before Eve dies and Adam contemplates the promised renewal.
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Eve
Himith
Adam
Archangel
Family Education Without Schooling Builds Notable Learners
A retied town family educates children without regular schooling. The mother teaches reading while the father provides books and journals, plus Rees' Encyclopedia and newspapers. Children journal daily, consult maps and gazetteers, and mirror adult reasoning, entering society well prepared.
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Cobbett
Our Republic
Dictionary and reference aids for expanding intellect
The passage urges using dictionaries and encyclopedias to build knowledge and reasoning abilities. It emphasizes situating words and ideas in clear meaning, developing perceptive powers, and maintaining a family or school habit of consulting a reference library for progress. It frames masculine virtue as a driving force.
The Educated Man and the Value of Learning
A speaker argues education is a means to discipline the mind, not an end. He asserts true education requires thinking, comparing, and deciding, citing Washington and Franklin, and urges farmers to prioritize child education despite social temptations.
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Washington
Franklin
Sherman
Delays are dangerous and set about it today
An elderly speaker urges immediate action using a tale of land loss to a town. He recalls a school-house memory and warns that waiting causes disastrous erosion of land. The message emphasizes acting now, not later, to prevent loss.
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Isaac
S. S. Advocate
Youth virtue shapes future fate in Fisher Ames biography
The Southern Chronicle highlights Kirkland's biography of Fisher Ames noting a warning about vice in youth. It argues Ames' future character and fortunes owed much to the untainted purity of his early years and the need for prudence against seductive temptations.
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Fisher Ames
Kirkland
Southern Chronicle
A Dark Hour in Paris A Night of Revolution’s Faces
In a late hour at the Jacobins a brutal toast by Danton sparks cries as Robespierre plots dictatorship and Louis XVI laments Treason while Marie Antoinette and a beggar in the Tuilleries frame a bloodied panorama with Talleyrand observing the changeable crowd.
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Jacobins
Danton
du Carousal
France
Maratt
Maximilian Isadore Robespierre
Versailles
Louis XVI
Ecarte
Louis
Marie Antoinette
Tuilleries
Cyprian
Talleyrand
Man of
People
Rat Rumor Endangers Napoleons Heart Tale
A sensational tale recounts a British physician guarding Napoleon Bonaparte heart in water beside a silver basin at St Helena. A nocturnal rustle and a plunge reveal a giant rat dragging the heart away, nearly turning imperial relic into rat supper.
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Napoleon
Bonaparte
St. Helena
Dr. A
Europe
Cesar
Napoleon and His Son Read Despatch Together
A historical scene depicts Napoleon with his son on his knee, whether by the chimney or at the bureau, as he studies an important document or signs a despatch, the boy pressed close beside him.
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Napoleon
Bureau
Emperor and son play with wooden military maneuvers
Meneval's Recollections describe the Emperor arranging wood battalions on a carpet to test battle formations. The boy beside him would topple the troops at times, yet the Emperor kept arranging the pieces with good humor, treating each disruption as part of the game.
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Meneval
A Rambler's Note on Justice and Wit in Knickerbocker
A fragment from Noah's Sunday Times contrasts theft and virtue, then lampoons misstatements in Albany and a brig explosion report. It retells Randolph of Roanoke anecdotes and a quip about vitality and Egyptian poultry in a brisk, period voice.
Belladonna Antidote Hinted To Ward Off Scarlet Fever
The January 1 issue of the American Journal of the Medical Sciences suggests a preventive treatment for scarlet fever using alcoholic belladonna extract. Dosage for a one year old is two drops daily for nine to ten days, increasing by one drop per year up to twelve drops. The Philadelphia Sun notes the reported efficacy but defers full details to the journal.
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American Journal of the Medical Sciences
Phil. Sun
Cure for Quincy and charitable memory of Bulwer’s mother
The text prescribes a vinegar infused remedy for a child or patient, to be given in small quantities until relieved, noted as an excellent medicine. It also recalls Bulwer’s mother who recently died, praised for her unostentatious charity, including a thousand guineas for foreign gospel propagation and aid for poor widows.
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Noah’s Sunday Times
Quincy
Bulwer
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