25 Mar 1857
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Newspaper
Beaver County Argus
Location
Beaver, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 25, 1857
Page
1
Beaver Argus lists advertising terms for M and J Weyand with annual rates and penalties for nonpayment. It notes discontinuation after arrearages unless editors' option is granted and includes square inch pricing and discounts for long-time advertisers.
The Springfield Rep surveys gendered expenditure and a slaveholding split over Missouri emancipation. It argues emancipation will polarize politics, frames slavery as a regional boon, and decries rising female finery driving marital costs and social strain. It notes marriage costs rising, men constrained by lavish domestic trends, and urges prudence in living to bolster society.
An 1840 founded Pittsburgh college advertises its mercantile program with a faculty headed by P Darr and W H Duff. It highlights practical instruction in double entry bookkeeping, mercantile law, commercial ethics, penmanship, and languages. The ad notes 4,000+ graduates, access to a 3,000-volume library, and new classrooms and staff to expand for growing enrollment. It invites inquiries and provides publisher details for Duff's systems and related texts.
Teeny feats and boot fashion small notes from a 1971 Cape events column. Teens form quick shoes and boot trends at informal gatherings with local shops highlighted for youth style.
The article reports the Supreme Court ruling on Dred Scott, detailing Chief Justice Taney's majority opinion and separate views by Justices Catron, Nelson, McLean, Curtis, and others. It outlines the decision that Congress lacked power to prohibit slavery in territories, and rejects the idea that the Missouri Compromise or Ordinance of 1787 conferred citizenship or constrained slaveholding rights, with extensive discussion of territorial authority and property rights.
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