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Newspaper
Aurora Standard
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1851
Page
1
The notice states a weekly publication in Aurora Indiana edited by B B Root and M H Bowers. It lists subscription rates 150 in advance 2 90 after three months and 3 00 at year end. Communications on business directed to publishers free of postage and advertisements at usual rates.
A Boston ball scene unfolds a romance between Frank Belmont a wealthy bachelor and Julia Heathcote. Belmont pretends poverty to win her, elopes, and moves to a shabby cottage with his working mother. Julia adjusts to austere life until Belmont reveals substantial wealth awaiting them at Belmont Hall.
The letter notes dwindling supplies with flour at 124 cents per pound, pork 15 cents, onions 40 cents, beans 15 cents, tea $2.00, coffee $1.00, and board at $12 per week. Boots are cheaper here than in the States. Benjamin Milam signs the missive.
The piece traces the Tammany Society founded in 1789 by William Mooney and others in New York to oppose the U S Constitution and resist central power. It details its Indian chief inspired name and ceremonies, annual season divisions, and its notable anniversary on May 12. It also threads in brief civic anecdotes and scientific notes from Boston and Vermont papers.
A case of hydrophobia after a mad dog bite shows experimental treatment and moral reflections. The piece also reviews a young child’s death, General Jackson’s wife, and introduces a noiseless new rubberized iron wheel, praising its durability and smooth ride for carriages.
A comic tale about a father and son debating beer in a jug ends with the boy revealing the trick. A Panama Herald report of a ten year old boy born with two heads is noted as witnessed locally and to be examined by a physician. Armistead Burt opposes gradual secession in Congress.
Official notice from the Commissioner of Pensions requires caveat filing and six weeks public notice to prevent fraud in Bounty Land Warrants where they miscarry. The article also reports a man who injured Billy Patterson has been found and is implicated in graveyard robberies with a youth who cheated a printer.
A mosaic of short items includes Eve’s dreamlike rose scene with thorny revelations and a blessing of spring blooms. Also notes shipbuilding in New York for England, a misstep about eggs from a child, and Webster’s humorous recounting of the Lord Mayor dinner with the Upper Senate of New York.
A reflective poem extols the value of a merry heart over wealth. It contrasts happiness with gold and asserts true wealth lies in a cheerful spirit that lightens sorrow, honors honesty, and keeps sunshine inside despite worldly doubt. The piece champions laughter as moral and vital.
A translated London correspondence discusses how Paxton conceived the Crystal Palace for the Exposition. It notes his ingenuity in reassembling the structure and placing it in a suitable garden setting with sunshine and shade, while debating materials and site concerns.
The narrative recounts Joseph Paxton presenting a grand iron and glass conservatory planned for Hyde Park. The design, conceived in mid June 1850, aims to unite beauty and function, using pre-forged iron and ready-fitted glass, and to be erected swiftly with a hundred thousand minds backing it.
The article explains the seventeen year Cicada Septendecem emergence, its origin, and why it differs from other locusts. It details the male drumlike organs that produce the yell, the female’s egg-laying method, and the life cycle from nymph to winged adult. It notes the historical Plymouth sightings and the scientific observations from Moreton’s Memorial and Professor Potter.
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