Wac K HtPS to SEF Published Weekly Advertising Rates
Wac K HtPS to SEF printed by James McCafferty on Intosh Street near the Post Office. Subscriptions: one year two dollars. six copies ten dollars. thirteen copies twenty dollars, payable in advance. Ads priced 50 cents per square for first insertion and two cents per continuation. twelve lines per square. Liberal yearly discounts. No mail addressed letters accepted unless postage prepaid.
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James McCafferty
Intosh Street
Inventions and Natural Tales in Augusta Washingtonian
A miscellany page describes a squirrel and a snake incident with opinion on the snake’s death, a note on a new printing stereo typing method by Josiah Warren, and a call for adopting federal currency. It includes a brief Athens Banner query urging merchants to reform currency use.
Total Abstinence Pledge Society Formation
A group signs a pledge to form a society to avoid alcohol and protect health and families. Members vow as gentlemen not to drink spirituous or malt liquors wine or cider.
Emigrant Party to Oregon Described from Bank of the Nebraska Letter
A Sangamon Illinois letter dated May 13 from Bank of the Nebraska reports an emigrant party of about five hundred wagons and six to seven thousand people en route to Oregon. The account details plains scenery, livestock totals, Sioux Indians trading, and the nobility of the expedition, with reflections on the last day of life and eternity.
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Oregon
Sangamon
Illinois) Journal
Nebraska
Platte River
Cate
Independence
Nebraska River
Last Day Reflections Stir Memories of School Term
The excerpt muses on the phrase last day prompting varied thoughts from joy to sorrow. It recalls childhood anticipation of the final school term, noting how the words conjure immediate, personal timelines and emotions.
Poetry Ads Spark Curious Local Commerce in Schuylerville
The Schuylerville Herald prints playful verses alongside ads noting crafts like Paul C. Wells’s blacksmithing and wagon work by L Bartlett and J Osborn. It lists shops such as G R Lewis boot and shoe store and Losse Motte dry goods, peppered with humorous critique of dry goods naming and a nod to Dutch history.
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Schuylerville Herald
Paul C. Wells
L Bartlett
J. Osborn
L. Bartlett
G. R. Lewis
John Gale
Schuylerville
Lewis
Losse & Mott
Burguoyne
Losse & Motte
Baxter
New York Mercury
The Snake and the Squirrel in Georgia Woods
On May 29 in Dooly County near Allapaha a fox squirrel clung to a pine trunk while a rattlesnake lay at its base. The narrator dismounted and struck the snake three times, the reptile’s song waning as the squirrel leaped and weakened with each blow.
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Dooly County
Allappahaw
Libertinism and the Press Against Vice in Early America
A late New Haven Courier inspired attack on licentiousness as a societal scourge. The piece blames low wages and surplus female labor for moral decline, warns of libertine influence spreading from cities to villages, and urges refined women to shun permissive behavior to curb vice. It cites Am. Eagle as the source.
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New Haven Courier
Amer
Eagle
Substitutes for Bath In Early Household Hygiene
A 17th century plan attributed to Sir Astly Cooper prescribes morning cleaning using a two gallon earthen pan of water. Begin with head, face, neck, and ears, rub vigorously with a wet towel, refill the pan, repeat the body scrubbing, then finish with dry towels.
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Astly Cooper
Education as a Moral Measure Beyond Learning
The speaker argues two paths for the nation money spent on education or punishment via prisons. True education means self knowledge and sound judgment, not mere book learning. Great figures like Washington and Franklin show educated action, and farmers have a strong stake in real education for children.
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Washington
Franklin
Sherman
Ladies at Work in The Lowell Offering
A reprint from The Lowell Offering argues against the prejudice that women earning a living harms female dignity. It cites historic examples of women in labor and asserts teaching is not the only proper occupation for ladies, urging work suited to strength and ability.
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Homer
Lucretia
Ulysses
Seige
Troy
Ithica
Treasury to coin foreign coin into dimes for post office use
The Secretary of the Treasury has sent $250,000 in foreign coin to the Mint to be coined into dimes and half dimes as small change for Post Office purposes under the new system. The writer asks if foreign coins should be withdrawn from circulation to align with United States currency.
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Athens
Athens Banner
Secretary of the Treasury
The
United
New Land Renovator Promises Fertilizer Revolution
German reports credit Professor Liebig of Giesseen with a mineral that, combined with Guano, yields a highly fertilizing manure. A £120,000 stock company was formed to scale production, with several eminent agricultural professors backing claims of a landside agricultural revolution. The prospect could double land productivity, massively reducing labor and costs for proprietors in new and old worlds.
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Liebig
University At
Giesseen
du Rhin
United States
Atlantic
Europe
Sows Devouring Offspring Explained by Space and Diet
A Boston Cultivator note argues that sows kill their young due to confinement and lack of earth, not meat cravings. When hogs roam freely and forage fresh soil and greens, with ample yard space, such frenzied feeding is avoided.
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Boston
A Secret for a Farmer's Wife Butter Method
A Tennessee Agricultural note explains a method to double cream and butter yield. While milking continues, place pans in boiling water, strain milk into a hot pan, cover with another hot pan, repeat to produce more cream and butter.
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Agri
Steam aided hemp rotting in Kentucky process
Hemp is rotted by steam in Kentucky. Five minutes of steam makes the stem ready for the brake. The fibre is thought to be better and more beautiful than when water rotted.
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Kentucky
Indigo paste as rattlesnake antidote advised
A Tidga county lady claims a paste of indigo and camphor spirits applied to a rattlesnake bite prevents serious effects and neutralizes poison, noting settlers in the area rely on this remedy.
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Tidga County
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Vincennes Gazette
Josiah Warren
New Harmony
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WM. J. Hard
C.S. Dod
Hawkins Huff
WM. Haines, Jr
L. D. Sallerstedt
Savannah
Georgi
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