CHE PWENEX 18 Publshed Every Saturday Morning
The item notes advertising rates and subscription prices for CHE PWENEX 18, a Bradford street weekly. It lists two dollars per year for subscribers, advance half year, distant subscribers higher, single copy six cents, and ad rates at one dollar per square for three weeks with twenty cents for each further insertion. It warns that ads continue until forbidden and outlines conditions for yearly advertisers limited to twenty linen per week and arrears policy.
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W. H.&. Bayley
Bradford Street
Hope
State Streets
Forbil
East Greenwich Academy Examinations Show High Merit
Visitors and patrons witnessed a highly satisfactory exam at East Greenwich Academy. The male and female departments impressed with compositions, elocution, and a strong teaching staff led by Rev. G B Cone. The new boarding house overlooks Narragansett Bay and offers a twelve week quarter for $22 plus extra for languages and arts.
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East Greenwich
Geailainen
Methodist Episcopal Church
Providence Conference
Hele
Narragansent Bay
Providence
Newport
Bristol
Warren
Fall River
G. B. Cone
A. M
TILE POTATO DISEASE CLAIMS INSECT CAUSE PROPOSED
In a Philadelphia Saturday Corner letter, John Close argues that a small black bug damages potato tops and may cause rot. He warns that top decay leads to potato rot and urges burning of tops to destroy eggs, signaling a potential cure and prompting scientific review.
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Mr. Enstern
John Close
Poison Cheese Sickness Hits Albany Shoppers
The Albany Citizen reports a grocer in Albany sold cheese from James Jones of Rensselaer County that poisoned more than twenty people. Victims grew sick of varying severity, with the grocer and his wife among the affected, and the remaining cheese turned over to a physician for analysis.
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Albany
James Jones
Rensselaer County
Army of Occupation letter reveals hardships of hospitals
The Picayune prints a letter from the Army of Occupation complaining about crowded hospitals in Matamoros and lack of tents or quarters for troops. It questions why American soldiers would be housed worse than the Mexican army, implying withheld active operations abroad.
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Army of Occupation
The
Picayune
Matamoros
Punctuality Lesson From Mr Scott of Exeter
The piece extols punctuality and criticizes those who break promises. It recalls Mr Scott of Exeter, famed for precise arrivals and steady diligence, who as an elderly traveler impressed innkeepers across Devon and Cornwall by arriving at the exact promised time.
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Scott
Ragland
Exeter
Devon
Cornwall
Port Isaac
Scout
Reminiscences of the Old Mail Coach in English Papers
An excerpt from Sylvanus's Pedestrian Reminiscences recalls the old mail coach era with vivid praise for its elegance and speed. The piece contrasts historic mail coaches with future railways and laments the loss of the distinctive coach culture and spectacle.
First patient memory recalls fake pills and cure
Dr George Hubbard of Boston recounts in a letter to the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal his first medical case from 1832 in Eastern Virginia. He describes giving bread pills soot coated and baked to simulate medicine which the servant Daniel supposedly credited with curing him.
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George Hubbard
Boston
Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Virginia
Daniel
A Connecticut Blacksmith and the Bean Soup Tale
An old stingy Connecticut blacksmith ran a large shop and housed his workers. He showed envy by serving a single bowl of bean soup to himself while workers ate from a large pan. An apprentice, often burned, asked how to tell if iron was hot and red, highlighting the harsh shop conditions.
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Connecticut
Boy's lie about soup sparks rage and a travel pace note
A tale about a boy told to spit on hot soup to test it hisses. The bowl cools yet anger rises as the old boss learns the truth from the faux lie. The passage notes how the boy loses friends among journeymen. It ends by contrasting a 1796 Philadelphia to Boston relay with today’s same speed.
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Rascal
First and Last Quarrel in Philadelphia Magazine Style
A married couple, Mrs Fenton and her husband, clash over broken plans to attend a fair. She storms out in distress, then waits for his apology while he attempts reconciliation. For days, cold behavior and unspoken hurt strain their domestic ties as he subtly seeks to mend the rift.
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Gwen Tearney
Auburn
N. Y
Albany
William Johnston
Green Street
Jane
Efurt
Mr. Fenton
Mr. Fentan
Fanny
Thane
Jakely
Fanny Eaton and Fenton in a Turbulent Return of Jealousy
Mrs. Fenton and her husband quarrel over supposed infidelity as a mysterious stranger and a miniature fuel suspicion. Fenton leaves for Washington after misreading his wife’s actions, while she sits anguished, fearing loss and awaiting reconciliation.
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Mr. Penton
Mr. Eaton
Charles Howard
Fenton
Fanny Eaton
Howard
Washington
Fanny Fenton
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Taunton Democrat
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Nonru Sapes
Lance Mills
Clintonville
Lancaster
Mass
Salem
Woonsocket Patriot
Axone
N. Y. Sun
Andre
Tarrytown
Weat Point
Arnold
Joshua Andrews
John Anderson
Columbus
America
Columbia
Patrioric Duinxise
N. York
Newmarket
N. H
London
Davenport
Halifax
Sylvanus
Philadelphia Magazine
Grace Sevels
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