01 Dec 1851
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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1851
Page
1
A private sale lists a complete assortment of English printed bookings in widths 64 104 124 and 164 at the lowest market price along with 12 d and 144 printed Sor dered crumb cloths of the newest designs.
On Wednesday December 3 at 10 o clock at the office 300 cases boots shoes and brogans offered at private sale A general assortment of boots shoes and brogans constantly received direct from manufacturers Also leather stock and shoe stock for sale at the lowest market prices Liberal cash advances on goods for public or private sales
An auction schedule lists multiple sales of boots, shoes and brogans on December 10, December 24, January 7, January 21, February 11, February 25 with times at 10 o'clock at the office and private sales noted. It also markets long leg boots, New York sole leather and skins offered at current market prices.
Auction and sale notices list numerous lots of boots shoes and brogans with weekly sale dates from December through March at the office. Also advertised are leathers skins linings and related goods plus private sales of goods and cemetery plots with specific locations and prices.
A poem depicts two maids at a kirk joined in ceremony but bound to contrasting fates. One bride enters life and love, the other to death and a tomb, with stark imagery of joy and sorrow. The verse contrasts a wedding bed in a castle with a grave, ending note on the morrow’s fate.
Holiday book notices highlight Ticknor Reed & Fields selections for children and adults. Notable titles include Longfellow TheGolden Legend and Youngs Night Thoughts with memoirs and notes. Also featured are Hogan Perkins juvenile quartos Timour the Tartar and The Thunderstorm with engravings for ages five to eight.
The piece lauds Rev Rodney A Miller of Worcester for driving reform at Harvard University with unflinching zeal. It credits his efforts with shifting the institution toward public accountability, gaining legislative attention, and securing reforms passed by both houses, while applauding his perseverance against opposition.
Public oratory recounts Hungary’s long fight against Austrian absolutism, detailing the role of municipal assemblies, the aristocracy, and peasant emancipation from 1825 onward, highlighting the push for national rights, constitutional governance, and resistance to imperial overreach.
Kossuth chronicles Hungary’s fight for constitutional rights, land reform, and municipal autonomy against Austrian rule. He details battles, reforms, and the 1849 collapse, urging British sympathy for Hungary’s independence and warning against Russian intervention.
The Dorchester election saga shows Elisha Ford, a plain, respected citizen, narrowly denied by wire pulling yet eventually elected amid Whig infighting. The piece contrasts Ford’s humble rise with the Whigs’ duplicity, noting their loss of state power and a moral rebuke of party vanity.
The slate lists mayoral candidate Adam W. Thaxter Jr and aldermen John L. Gardner Samuel Jepson Watson Freeman Henry Crocker for the upcoming election. Voters will decide among these figures in the municipal race.
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