PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY MORNING BRADFORD ADVERTISER
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MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bayley
Bradford Atrest
Hope
Stave Streets
Saas
Temperance Men and Public Office Corruption Claims
Mike Walsh of the Subterranean cites New York reporting a strong link between liquor dealing and office holding. The piece criticizes officials for selling bad liquor and seeks information on current public officers who keep groggeries, noting fewer reforms than hypocrisy. Also reports February weather in Portland, a Broadway fight, and various religious and missionary notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Walsh
Subterranean
New York
Gotham
Tis City
Perpetual Egg Laying Plan and Mixed Miscellany
An 1830s style miscellany discusses a method to make hens lay year round by feeding small daily meat portions and avoiding nest eggs, claims winter production can match summer with insects. It also recalls legends of premature burial, Washington quips, and light jokes about health, horses, and cold weather advice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taos
Bave
Moral Courage in Daily Life and Debt
A compact lesson urging practical bravery in ordinary conduct. It counsels paying debts promptly, resisting unnecessary luxuries, speaking truthfully, admitting poverty, and making principled choices. It advises truthful frugality, prudent disclosure, and loyalty to ethical standards over social pressure.
Domestic Duties and Fashion in Historic Commentary
A compilation of social notes and quotations discusses marriage duties, household comfort as a duty of husbands, Italian beauty standards versus French fashion, and early Connecticut marriage laws. Anecdotes claim resignations and refusals shape character and fate in education and work.
Names and jokes in a weathered exchange at Brighton
The text lists names with origins and meanings, then describes Bill Tidd, a Vermont drover, weathered and darkened by exposure. At a Brighton inn he faces a boastful local, trading a sharp joke about character and complexion. A second quip mocks readers as “newspaper takers.”
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Tidd
Vermont
Brighton
Bill
Taxman and Astornay Clash Over Sixpence Dispute
An Astornay demands sixpence from Mr Fry and accuses him of holding an opinion about him. Fry responds that he owes nothing, leading to a sharp exchange about opinions and debts in a terse municipal-style oddity.
The Fourth of July Miracle on the Ohio
On Independence Day the Ohio moored off the Battery hosts a gala but ends in tragedy as a young woman saves herself from a would-be brutality by killing a man. The scene shifts to the aftermath with Emeline Searsmont's dramatic entrance and the mystery of Robert Searsmont’s death. Midshipman Charles Monroe defends the killer before authorities.
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New York
Ohio
Line
Lesger
Gotham
Mediterranean
Searstront
Emeline
Sla
Varaman
Floating Palace
Emeline Searsmont
Broadway
Fair Enes
Jane
The
Mr. Searsmont
God of Heaven
Robert
Charles Monroe
Mr. Sesemen
Jagger
Robert Searsmont
Searsmont
Mr. Scaramont
Victin
Robert Scaramont
Jiar
United States Service
Whie Ehip
Bean
Voteau
Bainey
St. Pathrick
Barney
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Mar
Porthind
Messrs
Field and Marah
Dr. Manan
Bleeoer ‘Street
Christian Union
American Tract Society
Fuonipa
Methodist Conference of
Florida
Luninville
Meapen
Me. Scholtz
Berlin Bible Society
Kauffland
South Africa
Paris
France
Anrepote
Washington
Patrick
Jerry
Italy
Indies
Headley
Connecticut
Christ's Church
New Ah Ars
Gov. Hutchinson
Comatock
Herman*mission
America
Jesus
Emma
Caroline
George
Martha
Mary
Sophia
Wisdom
Susan
Thomas
Ray Hazel
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