Local notices and town items from a 19th century issue
The page compiles advertising rates and policies, local incidents, and regional briefs. It notes price changes for flour and a Norwich area temperance pledge. reports an assault on Rev. Samuel Aaron in Norris town. and mentions the Episcopal Convention plans a marble tablet for Bishop Griswold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norristown
Samuel Aaron
Baptist Church of
V. Y. American
Griswold
Trinity Church
Bracket
Boston
The Sabbath, Calvary and the world’s first Saturday night
A sweeping historical sermon links creation, Eden and Jerusalem to a prophetic Saturday night ending the world week. It traces human sin, the coming of Christ, and the fall of Jerusalem as a prelude to the promised land, with reflections on faith and Deism in the Boston press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
Eden
Eve
Garanam
Adam
Milton
Paradise Line
Tirzah
Sears
Bethlehem
Judeatius
Jerusalem
Calvary
Moriah
Acre
Sion
Titus
Ald
Heaven
Siage
Atte
Jesus
John Wise
Carlisle
Penn
Philadelphia Inquirer
Espy
Hels
Young Men Seek Work and Clever Laws Keep Them Guessing
The Bangor Courier notes how many youths struggle to find employment despite health and ability. It laments undeveloped resources near towns and recalls a tale of a tired bill collector and a wary creditor. The piece ends with a humorous vignette about a Yankee lawyer and a cheap law book.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangor Courier
Lam
Ron
Waiting and Ghosts and London Warnings
A devotional miscellany covers waiting as a life constant from cradle to grave, with moral reflections on patience and fate. Vignettes include Tom Hood on ghosts and a courtly retort about a lawyer’s dog, plus London’s gin-blunt poverty and warnings about virtue, beneficence, and neighborly harm.
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CHE Prenex
Bayley
Thames Shrest
Sandwich
Honolulu
Lord George Paulet
Islands
Cincinnati
Welling Gaz
J. P. Cushing
Watertown
Lambert
Concord, N. H
New York
Franklin County
Greensfield
Sunderland
Franklin Co
Posey
Oxford
England
Rensselaerville
Tempe
Reneselaerville
Momh
Massachusets
Man
National Intelligencer
Renin
Sterne
Byron
Texas
United States
Baltimore
Thim
New Orleans
Tom Hood
Joseph Sturge
James
London
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