Local notices and ads from Columbia area 1850s editions
An assortment of old classifieds including subscription terms for a local paper, rates per year, and payment notes. Also forwarders and commission merchants in Columbia advertise coal and produce handling with railroad reach to York Baltimore and Pittsburg. Additional notices list oats for sale, wool prices, dried beef, cheese, brooms, and paint by local tradespeople.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia and Philadelphia
York
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Ealers
Pitsburg
Canal Basin
Columbia
Canal
B.F. Appold & CO
Spade of Perseverance and Sunshine of the Heart Poem
A two part verse urges perseverance and education to shape progress and character. It emphasizes digging out faction and crime, broadening education, and prosecuting wrongs. It contrasts pursuit of wisdom with the sunlit heart and acts of kindness guiding life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tares
Assault at Wilmington Ends In Blood and Fear
New York Zré dune correspondent reports in Wilmington a dramatic incident after suspicion of a wife's fidelity. John C. Patterson, a respected lawyer, attacked a French visitor with a cowhide, then beat him for about twenty minutes in a Pusey home parlor. The crowd and police involvement followed as the parlor lay wrecked and residents debated provocation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John C. Patterson
New Orleans
B. T. Turner
Shipley Street
Jackson Pusey
Patterson
Ile
Mr. Patterson
Excitement in Delaware over failed slave catch
A Dover episode recounts an attempted seizure of eight runaway slaves on Tuesday morning. Sheriff Green and his family faced danger as the captives fled, with six later tracked to Camden and two seen leaving Dover toward Willow Grove. Reports say the group was moved along underground routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camden
Willow Grove
Forest Roads
Dover
Maréi
The Printer and Public Virtues in a North American Lecture
Chief Justice Ellis Lewis extols printers as world treasurers and promoters of knowledge. He cites printers and self made engineers like Franklin and Sherman as proof that industrial work lifts merit. The Paris dispatch notes Henry Rawlinson’s Assyrian discoveries confirming Bible history through inscriptions and ancient names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
von. Ellis Lewis
Supreme Court
Eter
Lewis
England
United States
Roger Sherman
David Rittenhouse
Benj. Franklin
Paris
Journal of Commerce
Henry Rawlinson
Assyria
London
Henry
British Museum
Judea
Sheba
Solomon
Sennacherib
Jezekiah
Java
Suma
Nebuchadnezzar
Belshazzar
Minus
Reflection on love and chivalry across time
The speaker laments lack of love in the world and contrasts old chivalry with present behavior. They argue love reveals human potential, elevates the imagination, and condemns the dishonoring of the beloved image.
Home Opera and the Fevered Dream of Ike
A narrative fragment follows Ike's Opera induced delirium at breakfast with Mrs Partington. He recites odd tea verse while giddy, then splashes water to snap him back as the fever lingers and unsettles the old dame. The piece then shifts to a essay on the value of self exertion highlighting perseverance from humble origins to fame and success.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ike
Isaac
Patronagi
Ant
Temple of Fame
Art and Science
Ex-President Santa Anna Denies Spain Offer to Rule Mexico
Gon Santa Anna and his father in law, now in Navana, reject rumors from Spain that Santa Anna sent an emissary to Madrid to restore the Republic under the Spanish Crown. The letters praise patriotism and state Santa Anna would not lead against Mexico but would aid when beneficial, while avoiding any attempt to govern again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Anna
Gon
Navana
Mexico
Spain
Madrid
Republic
Memory and faith bind the heart to home and mother
A reflective passage compares the enduring marks of early nurture to rivers shaping the land. It recalls John Tandolph’s assertion that he would have been an atheist were it not for the memory of his mother guiding him in prayer to Our Father in Heaven.
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John Tandolph
Maelstrom Myth Debunked by Scientific Inquiry
A corridor of readers learns that the legendary Norwegian Maelstrom likely does not exist. A European acquaintance and a nautical commission found no whirlpool at the claimed site, with geographers noting dangerous currents but dismissing the mythical vortex as exaggerated folklore.
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Norway
Scientific American
Colton
Uarper
Guadleev
Secret Stars and the Harm of Secret Pamphlet Satire
A critique of secret insults and covert satire that wounds a private person and damages virtue. The author condemns ill natured wit that stirs sorrow among relatives and exposes reputations to derision while remaining unseen.
Scene on the Lakes Green Bay ice highway described
The Green Bay Advocate depicts an ice highway on Lake Michigan a hundred miles long ten miles wide with roads carved by hoof marks toward Oconto Menominee Suamico Tay Settlement Red River and Sturgeon Bay. It notes sleighs laden with stone or wood, stressing sleigh capacity to haul rather than horse strength.
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Green Bay
Lake Michigan
Oconto
Menominee
Suamico, &c
Tay Settlement
Red River
Sturgeon Bay
Musical Jealousy At Chesterfield Orchid Orchard Incident
A songbird in a tree mimicked a caged rival and attacked the other bird. The owner captured the aggressor and sold it, ending the feud over musical jealousy. The tale is presented as fact not a moral fable. Also notes a health column praising Hall’s Journal of Health and a dubious hygiene tip.
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Chesterficht
South Side Democrat
Hall
Journal of Health
Kane Obsequies Return of Arctic Explorer to Philadelphia
The remains of Dr. Kane arrived in Philadelphia from Baltimore on Wednesday the 11th with a full funeral procession led by the First City Troop Washington Grays and a military escort. Services were held at Second Presbyterian Church and the body interred at Laurel Mill. A remarks section follows on frugal living, Cornelius Agrippa, and a bear kidnapping incident in Manitowoc with an Indian abducting a three year old girl near Sandy Bay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Kane
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Prime Street
First City
Washington Grays
Independence Iall
Independence Init
Cadwalader
Foreign Consula
Scott Legion
Corn Exchange
Independence Wall
Second Presbyterian Church
Seventh Street
Arch
Mr. Shields
Laurel Mill
Wisconsin
Manitowoc
Woodward
Sandy Bay
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Northern “Central Railroad Company
Walnut Streets
John & Rohrer
G. W. Mifflin
Locust Street
H. M. North
Lancaster
York Countie
J. WW. Fisher
Columbd
George J. Smith
Tholesale
Cust Street
Bank
Franklin House
Davies E. Bruner
Essq
Aerts AT
Front Street
Union
Perry
Second Street
Ly B. F. Appold & CO
Willii & Rich
Prine
J. F. Smiuitivs Wholesale and Renal Confectionery
Wrahington House
BF Appold& CO
Rapp
John Felix
Wilst & Rich
George
Mina
És. Ji.smith
The
Cook & Co
Saylor & McDonald
Columbia Jan
New York
al H. Suydam & Son
Curkle& Dellet
Odd Fellows’ Mall
James Family Medicines
Jones
Batchelor
Peter
R. Williams
ARR & Thompson
Shireiner
Nowi
Sanat
Welsh & Richi
Ehreiner
Sam's
Filbert's
Front St
B.F. Appold A CO
Paint Owl
Williams
Coimmuna
SONG
Charles Swart
Tia
Ani
New York Zrédune
Wilmington, del
Delaware
Feuare
Crawford County
Ohio
Rhode Island
Warry
Ilarry
Seneca County
Larry
Harry
Tiffin
Tech
Secret
Lakes
Mall
Cornelius Agrippa
Ayan
Earth
Eve
Paradise
Paradice
Cornelius
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