Notice of Terms and Advertiser Rates
James McCafferty on Macintosh Street opposite post office lists terms for Etec publications. Single copy price one year two dollars, ten dollars for thirteen copies. Advertisements priced at 50 cents per square for first insertion and 25 cents for continuances, twelve lines per square. Liberal deduction for yearly advertisers. No letters accepted from the post office unless postage free.
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James McCafferty
Macintosh Street
FOST
Borsiz Este
Washingtonian Total Abstinence Pledge
Statement by members pledging to abstain from spirits wine and cider to protect health standing and families. The text emphasizes mutual benefit and gentlemanly conduct in avoiding pernicious practices.
Augusta Oilers Society Leadership Notes
Fragmentary OCR lists officers and staff for Augusta Oilsers Society including Dr Jos A Eve president Rev William J Hard vice president Hawkins Hoff Esquire William Haines secretary trainer L D Sallersteo, with several names unclear. Other roles and details unreadable in fragment.
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Jos. A. Eve
Daniel Hook
J. Hard
Pi Hawkins Hoff
WM. Haines
L. D. Sallersteo F
Janes Harper
Scofield
Dod
Janes Godby
Su Milledse
Pay Up Do Not Hide Behind Religion
A moral admonition condemns debt dodging among professing Christians. It warns that failing to pay what is owed, even while praying and professing faith, stains religion and borders on swindling. The piece urges debtors to work, sacrifice luxuries, and honor obligations to restore truth in faith and society.
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Eader
Debtor Trustworthiness and Debt Etiquette
A fragment discusses the character of a man who avoids paying debts. It contrasts misfortune with deliberate neglect and argues that someone unwilling to honor obligations should not be trusted, equating theft and wilful debt avoidance as fraud. The source is a brief quoted opinion from an 1830s or earlier periodical.
Mysteries of Paris Draws Praise and Controversy
The Mysteries of Paris by Eugene Sue stirs readers with a vivid crime world while drawing harsh moral criticism. Reports claim rival editions and wide sales. critics note the author as a libertine, with Vienna banning the work for lewd scenes.
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Mother’s Magazine
Ohio Observer
Evernx Sue
Paris
Eugene Sue
N. P. Willis
Europe
Vienna
Scientific light discovery touted as greatest achievement
The Cincinnati Atlas reprints an 1830s claim from Cist's Western Advertiser about a new ultra strong light called Ossotnte Iona. It allegedly outshines the Drummond, could read print from 300 feet, and lights a city from a 200 foot tower for $300, tested five months, with skepticisms noted and a banker friend commenting on belief.
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Cincinnati
Cist
Wesley Smead
Cincinnati Light Discovery Promises Free Unlimited Illumination
The report asserts a magneto electrical light from permanent magnets, with a panel of twenty magnets in final form, capable of diffusing daylight brightness from a tower. Inventors J. Milton Sanders and John Starr, natives of Cincinnati, claim patenting in Washington and foresee wide uses from mining to daguerreotype, with no fuel costs.
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Cincinnati
J. Milton Sanders
John Starr
D. A. Sanders
Washington
Humphrey Davy
Character Is Built Through Slow Growth And Perseverance
The speaker defines character as that which earns free and intelligent beings’ confidence, a trait developed slowly over time. Quick feats or brief notoriety do not constitute character. true stature requires persistent effort, study, and steadfast conduct across many challenging cases and endeavors.
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Marksman
Divine
Carlyle's Monmouth Battle Account Preview
Thomas Carlyle recounts the June 20 1778 Monmouth engagement with Washington marching from Valley Forge to confront Howe Cornwallis and Clinton near Freehold and Englishtown. The narrative evokes heroism as American forces meet British positions on the New Jersey shore area.
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Philadelphia
New York
Washington
Valley Forge
Ardrubal
Monmouth
Clinton
Cornwallas
Freehold
English Town
Washington leads at Monmouth in fierce battle depiction
A London paper recalls the Monmouth fight with Washington riding a white horse, cheering his troops as American volunteers repelled British mercenaries. The clashes are described as a bloody conjugation of carnage in the brutal heat, with Washington likened to historic Roman leaders for strategic steadfastness.
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Virginia
Maryland
Washington
Monmouth
Fabius
White Plains
M Marcelus
London
Anecdote of Rev. Thomas Allen of Pittsfield in the Revolution
The Berkshire pastor Thomas Allen served twelve years before the Revolution. He became a chaplain at White Plains in 1776 and at Ticonderoga in 1777. He led Berkshire volunteers at Bennington, addressed Stark before battle, and inspired his men to fight.
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Thomas Allen
Pittsfield
White Plains
Ticonderoga
Gurgoyne
Berkshire Volunteers
Stark
Bennington
Berkshire
Parson Allen
Democratic Review
Call not that man wretched who bears a child’s future hope
The passage argues against condemning a man who endures poverty and obscurity while caring for a child. It asserts that despite suffering pain and neglect, he possesses an irreplaceable treasure—a child’s welfare—that outvalues wealth, fame, or sleep.
Brother Himes and the Second Adventist Fundraiser
A correspondent details alleged selfish acts by Second Adventist leaders. An elderly colored man’s wife donated 2000 dollars to the cause, leaving her family impoverished. a Pleasant Street grocer and a Tremont Road carpenter each gave about 500 dollars. Himes is said to have disposed of jewelry and silver at local shops. Several boardinghouse operators sold or dismissed lodgers to aid the movement, risking ruin. Himes supposedly preached in the city.
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Himes
Second Adventists
Pleasant Street
Tremont
Secret meetings spark public indignation against Himes
The Boston Post reports that Himes and his followers meet secretly, with locations shrouded from the public. Authorities fear that a general notice of his movements would worsen the public indignation.
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Boston Post
Typhus prevention and a nitrous gas remedy report
The article discusses typhus fever in the city and presents a controversial prevention method using nitrous acid gas created from nitre and oil of vitriol. It notes a London doctor’s reward and cautions about gas exposure, and a brief item on electricity dissolving a bladder stone with a patient reportedly healthy.
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J. C. Smith
London
Boston Mail
Anecdote on a Tennessee legislator and place names
The Knoxville Argus recounts a former legislator from an upper county who mispronounced and misspelled Knoxville during sessions. He resisted moving the government seat to Murfreesboro and argued that spelling Kingston and Nashville was as easy as Knoxville, but Murfreesboro would complicate his starting letter.
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Ane Snelling
Murfreysboro
Agi
Knoxville
Kingston
Nashville
Murfreesboro
Knashville
A Boy Proves Three Fowls From Two Roasted Chickens
A father watches his son insist there are three fowls on the dinner table and proves it by counting one, two, then adding one more. The mother and father marvel at the boy's apparent genius and share the remaining fowls.
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Dad
John
East Ingy rhinose cross and three hotentots tale
A bizarre Arctic tale describes a rhinose creature captured atop the North Pole by Captain Cross. It supposedly produced three 'hotentots' in Van Diemen's Land and was captured after drinking three gallons of rum toddy.
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North Pole
Captain Cross
van de
Men’s Land
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Washingtonian
Augusta
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Ade
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