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Newspaper
Cambridge Reveille
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1848
Page
1
The E Reveille announces its subscription terms. Rates are 2.00 in advance for six months, 2.50 within six months, and 3.00 for a full year. Discontinuation requires notice and payment of arrearages. failure to notify is a new subscription.
Terms of advertising set a base rate for one square or less at one dollar with up to three insertions and incrementally higher charges for additional insertions. Legal ads require advance payment, or a fifty percent surcharge applies. Job work also prepaid, and mail to the editor must have postage prepaid.
Poem urges both rich and poor to aid the weak and suffering. It calls wealthier readers to restore health to the needy and asks the poorer to show compassion. The verse emphasizes empathy, charity, and moral duty across social strata.
Rev. F H Winslow argues the greatest danger to women today is neglect of domestic education. He urges daughters be taught housekeeping, sewing, cooking, child care, and household management without compromising intellectual and moral development. A practical focus would improve family health, happiness, and reduce medical costs.
A facetious Albany Knickerbocker piece recounts an equinoxial storm sweeping to Georgia and Jordan Level. The scow Rip Van Snout founder ed, a crew member saved by a weather gauge voyage, and the captain reportedly to receive a silver service for heroism.
A Paovo Nostr. recalls the Marquis of the 7th Hussars who, while Colonel, avoided sitting to eat breakfast for fear of creasing his leather breeches knees. The anecdote highlights strict regimental habits and eccentric manners of a historical officer.
The State Sentinel denounces Clarkson’s praise of Puett’s Wabash and Erie Canal trusteeship as treachery to Whigs, attacks John Pitcher and Taylor supporters, and brands the editor as selfish and Locofoco. It critiques alleged independents and mocks journalistic pretenders while praising Puett.
An anecdote from Natchez describes Ned Saunders Tom Bertha and Pat O Rourke planning to attend a dance at a Buena Vista wedding. They feign illness to reach the party and escape army guard. Gen Woolf later bars sick-man pretexts for the Mississippi regiment to curb such tricks.
A fragmented eclectic page note describes changing fortunes and ages with mythic imagery. It recalls voyages of a intrepid traveler named Mad'l V and a balloon accident on the Mississippi, plus curiosities about a London man with multiple prosthetic features. It contrasts rail speeds in England and America and ends with a humorous quip about a military man.
The article previews a heated exchange over the Great Clay Meeting and the ongoing war coverage. It cites foaming rhetoric from Mr Foote and references to General Taylor, Mexico, and Rhode Island politics, with broad satirical asides and historical allusions.
The piece discusses Locofoco influence shaping national affairs through the Texas annexation and the Mexican War. It cites Indiana and Ohio Senate actions, including quorum-busting and opposition to apportionment. Additional items cover New Mexico legislature notes, a planter and slave flogging anecdote, a marriage in Richmond, and Kentucky Senate's defeat of the Negro Law repeal.
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