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Newspaper
Columbia Enquirer
Location
Berwick, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 28, 1846
Page
4
An incident on the journey to Cincinnati via Pittsburgh unsettled travelers. A box carried by two strange strangers contained snakes, prompting fear and awkward humor among the party. One traveler, H, panicked at imagined venom, cried that snakes were loose, delaying the trip. The tale ends with a spectral mood and a mysterious cat entering.
The New Orleans Picayune recounts a steamboat snagging near disaster with owner aboard fond of violin music. While the captain and crew panic, the owner continues to play Ole Bull, ignoring the sinking vessel and dismissing warnings as he claims the boat will settle soon.
A perplexing scene unfolds as a timid owner and a good natured cat debate steps during a boat emergency. The vessel careens and fills with water. officers and crew improvise a rescue using a yawl while the owner swims ashore with his fiddle. No insurance.
Phrenological and Physiological books published by Fowlers & Wells at 131 Nassau Street New York offered for mail order at low rates. Titles include Combe's Physiology, Phrenology Proved, Religion Natural and Revealed, Memory and Intellectual Improvement, Love and Parentage, Amativeness, Matrimony, Synopsis of Phrenology and Physiology, Marriage, Phrenological Guide, Temperance, Tight Lacing, Synopsis of Phrenology, Phrenological Journal, and Phrenological Almanac with terms and prices. almanac annual, journal subscription, and trade discounts noted.
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