Brooms for sale and poetry feature in 1850 Columbia notice
A mixed page item lists nine dozen brooms and ten boxes of chresh for sale by B. F. Appold & Co in Columbia dated October 25 1850. It also presents poetry attributed to Rev William Barns titled Freedom Washington and America praising liberty, union, and national glory with bold calls to defend freedom and oppose foreign domination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Smitis Wholesale
Front Steet
Washington House
Columbia
Bb. F. Appold & CO
Canal Basin
B. F. Appold & CO
The Coffin Plot Rescued Child in Hampstead Churchyard
A night encounter reveals a plot to murder a living child by narcotic and coffin. A vigilant physician uncovers the crime, frees the child, and exposes John Biggs and wife Mrs. Biggs as the culprits. The rescue ends with the child restored to its mother at Hampstead churchyard and Biggs jailed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendon
John
Sohn
Mr. Spragg
Ablow
Mr. Tave
Hampstead
Spragg
Sprage
John Biggs
Lane
Hampstead Church
Biggs
Julia
Mrs. Biggs
Mr. Bumpus
The Social Tread Mill No Y and Its Culinary Dream
A witty monologue laments poor cooking while imagining a national Cooks College with exams and certificates. It envisions compulsory culinary education, class specific curricula, and statues for founders, then skewers social dinners and drawing-room etiquette at Kotos and friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wr. Punch
London
Cooks’ College
Culinary College
Bladehone
Mrs. B
Pennyboy
Penny Boy
Flaunter
Bauat
Manner
Gutileton
Haes
Athenmem
Indnia
Lennyboy
Sericho
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Northern Central Railroad Com
Pinas Streets
iMoney
G.W. Mifflin
Locust Street
Colombia
H. M. North
Forney
Lancaster
York Counties
J. W. Fisher
George J. Smith
Tholesale
Ian
Locust Strees &c
the Bank
Franklin House
Appold & Co
Sess General Forwarding and Commission Merchants
Columbia and Philadelphia
York
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Pittaborg
F. Appold & CO
Rapp
John Felix
C. George
J. Smith
G. 3. Smith
Bank
Cook & Co
Golden Mortar Drug Store
New York
Suydam & Son
Yale
Jones’ Batchelor
Peter
Hreiner
R. Williams
H. Suydam & Son
RIKEL
H. Suydabi & Son
Eale
R. Williamb
Front Street
Colt Pn
Columba
I. Williams
Fronti Street
Bialy
Bray
H. Suydam
Columbia Spy
Freedom
Washington
America
William Barns
Victory
Earth
Great Britain
Agour
Raneam
Selectinus
DY Gamacel C
Warren
Hempstead
Fictiowsa
NO. Y
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