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Newspaper
Cambridge Reveille
Location
Cambridge City, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1850
Page
1
The Reveille notes subscription details for 18S edition, published by R O Dormor. Single copies cost 1.50 in advance within six months, 3.00 per year, with terms on discontinuation and arrearages.
Terms of advertising specify one square or less at $1, up to three insertions, two cents for each additional insertion. Ads over one square charged as two, over two as three, and so on. Legal notices require advance payment with 50 percent surcharges otherwise. Jobs and mail to editor must be prepaid. unpaid letters stay in the post office.
The Kentucky Mutual Life Insurance Company offers favorable life insurance terms with a guaranty fund of 109000, 20500 cash paid, 80600 secured by real estate. Premium rates are reduced, with annual cash dividends and additions every five years. Policies cover ages fourteen to sixty for one to life terms. Pamphlets explain plans and comparisons with other mutual companies. C. Markle, Cambridge Ia agent. J. H. Wawwan, medical examiner. Aug. 31 1850.
Dr J W Hood informs Cambridge City and surrounding area that he resumes his former medical practice. He specializes in chronic diseases, obstetrics and midwifery with twenty one years of obstetric experience. He offers care for illnesses during gestation, maintains medicines on hand, and attends calls day and night.
A mourning poem recalls a mother losing May in spring and keeping her memory alive. It uses vivid nature imagery to reflect on grief, time, and the inner life clock that marks life and love within the breast.
A letter praising county newspapers argues that a well funded local press proves civic vigor. It urges readers to support editors by paying debts, funding subscriptions, and sustaining papers to enable political organization and public discourse.
A young man of questionable character sought to join a Connecticut church but was declined after a long delay. He reacted with defiance saying he would enlist in the troop, expressing a plan to find another path rather than accept rejection.
In a rural exchange John explains the wagon was broken after striking a stump, claiming he drove straight since the stump lay in the middle of the road. The owner questions why he did not steer around it, to which John retorts the stump had no business there and he had a right in it.
A historic critique denounces English nunneries and abbeys before Henry VIII as Christian fronts masking pagan corruption. It cites papal laws, relic deceptions, and wealth drained from laity, arguing the Reformation exposed extensive abuses and superstition.
The Southern Press editor is denounced for belligerence and pro secession talk. He predicts a Confederate advantage across Texas New Mexico and California, six states ready for conflict, and a swift northern defeat. Critics warn of a wider war and urge propriety over faction. The piece contrasts Quaker restraint with restless martial talk and laments fashion obsessions over virtue.
The piece from the Charleston Mercury urges South Carolina to adopt protectionist policy and favor local trades. It advocates supporting neighbors who can supply goods, keeping money at home, strengthening schools and churches, and fostering prosperity through mutual encouragement of local mechanics.
A narrator observes ostentatious street fashion and contrasts it with modest refined attire. The piece argues true refinement shows in simple, tasteful dress and inner dignity, praising a modest young woman whose poise and gentleness stand out amid fashionable excess.
A column quotes Wither on travel and truth, then notes a proposed Washington Monument flawed by weak stone and iron sulphides. It cites a dilapidated Patent Office and rails at undertone humor about grand schemes. The piece also includes sketches of humorous quotes, nautical mischief, and rural banter from the era.
The Democracy notes True Democracy gains in the contest against College Hall Democracy with Duncan Cooper and Jacob Flinn Quinn Ralter active in service. Staats Zeitung, a major German Democratic paper, backs True Democracy as the dispute heats up.
A Tennessee temperance event includes a boy in the procession carrying a flag bearing the question Al's right when Daddy's Saber. A Cincinnati editor suggests city types send a single notable stone to the Washington Monument. In Cleveland, Hinton’s mail robbery case proceeds, with the Herod reporting that the evidence weighs heavily against him and leaves little escape.
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