16 Aug 1853
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Newspaper
Camden Weekly Journal
Location
Camden, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 16, 1853
Page
1
A garbled vintage ad notice lists pricing for advertisements with fees of two dollars and fifty cents for a single insertion and seventy five cents per line for busy periods. It outlines rate structures, insertion frequencies, and the need to mark the desired number of insertions on the margin to avoid continued publication.
An account of Patrick O Donohue, once exiled patriot, escaping from Launceston to Tahiti and thence to San Francisco aboard the Northern Light and Otravio. He recounts brutal concealment on ship decks, furnace holds, and perilous evasion from police, leading to eventual arrival in San Francisco aboard Kendrick.
An 1853 New Orleans fever account forwarded by the Howard Association describes a devastating outbreak with mortality reaching high levels. Readers are urged to donate to the association to fund district patrols, hospital care, nurses, and provisions for affected families as clergy recount harrowing scenes of illness and loss.
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