The Aurora Commercial
The Aurora Commercial reports a price move showing negative five dollars. The notice centers on a market shift affecting local traders and investors with potential implications for nearby businesses.
19 Apr 1860
Page 1
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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 19, 1860
Page
1
The Aurora Commercial reports a price move showing negative five dollars. The notice centers on a market shift affecting local traders and investors with potential implications for nearby businesses.
A poem contrasts the sea’s jovial merriment with the wind’s inward pain. The sea laughs and calms the shore while the wind wails on mountains and through trees. Both voices are welcomed as their opposite enhances the world’s rhythm and mood.
A Babylonian kadi Abu Hamood obsesses over a famed Mughrebee mule. He fetches the horse from a servant and leads it in a sheraby, convinced it is imprisoned there. The mule escapes, ears peeking from the vessel, driving the kadi mad and earning mockery from his household and doctors.
An American trapper recounts a frontier tale by a western fire, detailing a buffalo hunt that turns deadly as he disguises his escape after killing an Indian chief. The narrative mixes rugged bravado with survival choices amid hostile terrain and Indian deception.
An older Hoosier tale describes bears on the American plains and near Lake Michigan, noting their omnivorous diet and human interactions. It contrasts the curious shore forest bear with the powerful grizzly of the Rocky Mountain base, recounting frontier anecdotes of bear encounters and hunts.
A tender poem of marital devotion set at twilight in a cottage. The speaker praises his wife’s presence and love as the sun fades, noting garden scents, birds, and the comforting closeness that sustains his joy and faith. The closing line thanks the Holy One for his wife.
A wandering narrator recalls a crowded village church scene filled with fluttering emotion and a gaze from a dark-eyed damsel. The piece shifts to a France conscription description with a lottery, exemptions, and penalties, then moves through brief notices on figures like Mr Becker and Meek & Eddy's Oregon orchard, plus random curiosities and gossip about Horace Greeley and Washington Irving portraits.
A narrator recalls a chance meeting near a meeting house where a wary girl accuses him of resembling a pedlar who swindled her with a pewter half dollar. She mentions Brother John’s vow to arrest the rascal if he catches him, leaving the narrator uncertain about his own character.
A Detroit Free Press note recalls a man buying into St Paul real estate for 30000, selling it later for 1800. It also reports the Dutch Japanese dictionary project has completed five early letters at vast cost, and mentions a separate item about a prosperous Cannery and a knight.
Yearly advertising is set with changeable quarterly rates. Township city and county candidates face prepayment and district candidates pay 250 to 500, with transient ads paid in advance. Ads must be in by Tuesday 10 o'clock a m unless a time is stated, otherwise they run until ordered out and charged accordingly.
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