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Newspaper
Danville Advertiser
Location
Danville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1853
Page
1
The Danville Advertiser is issued each Saturday from Nave's Building at the Public Square. Subscriptions are $1.50 in advance, $2 after one year. Advertising costs $1 per square for 1 to 3 insertions, 25 cents for each additional insertion with standard quarterly and yearly discounts.
They tell us of an Indian tree where sun and sky tempt its boughs to wander and bloom, yet it loves to bend downward again to the earth from which life began. This heart, though flattered by friends and fed with fame, returns with instinctual love to thee, my dear mother.
A compact verse by Samuel Lover urges vigilance in daylight yet invites trust in darkness and sorrow. It counsels turning to heaven for guidance as angels remain near in moments of joy or distress.
A humorous verse from a Minnesota correspondent mocks a greedy trader. It contrasts daily selling with looming doom as the man frets over books and gains while his hair grays, ending with a moral about the ledger on high revealing how he mishandled his wealth.
A printer mis set a line changing Hell has no fury like a woman scorned to corned. The remark notes humor in the slip while acknowledging the original sentiment remains intact.
Local report tells of a giant toad found in a Findlay swamp believed to be four years buried with only its back showing. Residents plan to exhibit the creature at the World's Fair after a pit is dug and a railroad car to transport it is prepared, though details are unverified.
Fanny Fern reports on Miss Prim's Model School where four year old Bessie is frightened by harsh discipline and dies afterward. The piece paints a bleak scene of poverty, a grieving mother, and a community quick to dismiss the incident as rumor.
A man driven by mania poetu at Naaman's Creek railway area leaped onto the rails as an Express train to Baltimore passed at about forty miles per hour Two women pulled him off and struggled to keep him from a second plunge as the engine sped by barely grazing a rescuer and a bystander observers were horror struck by the near calamity
The Coneant Ohio Reporter describes Ezra Dibble's seventy bee swarms split across his house, a fierce three hour battle between the east and west factions on August 14. Bees filled the air, killed a flock of Shanghai chickens, then quiet returned as sentinels guarded the hives leaving little damage beyond a terrifically slaughtered bee population.
Report from the Chicago Press describes a brutal incident on the North Branch where teens aged fourteen to eighteen lured a ten year old boy to steal from gardens, forced him into the river, and killed him after he refused. Parents and friends searched the river overnight and recovered the body the next morning.
A New York Eve Post communication signed by Lewis H. Putnam describes a scheme to settle 31 rural Liberia districts by the 31 states of the United States. It proposes 9,300 farms for 46,500 inhabitants with state boards funding families, and Virginia already pledging 200,000 dollars.
The Springfield Post editor quips that modern marriages drag in a surplus of unlikely companions. A man’s wedding, he says, may bind him to chalk, whale-bone, coffee, novels, a poodle, and a chorus of nerves that invites four servants and three doctors into the home. The piece ends by noting whether the joke pays off.
A humorous Evansville Journal note discusses the obligation of staying with the sick through the night. It recounts varied reactions and excuses from men who dodge the task, and urges readers to consider their own future duty and the guilt of refusing a neighbor’s help.
Paris letter in the Cincinnati Gazette describes a wealthy Count's railroad hotel built for private use. The house on wheels includes parlor, bedrooms, kitchen, office, wine cellar and billiard rooms, cost about 50 000 francs, and travels on French rails to show luxury and comfort.
Headley chronicles General Greene’s retreat through the Carolinas describing a winter of dire shortages. He notes 300 men without arms and many stripped of clothing while fighting at Eutaw Springs with ragged gear and moss protectors amid harsh conditions.
A Rural New Yorker writer BE H explains a method to preserve fence posts by season setting and applying three coats of coal tar paint from four inches above ground to the bottom and to the end in the ground. He notes a fence treated this way lasted forty years and claims it is easier and cheaper than lime.
The State of Maine notes only one executive committee meeting for three years as the European and North American Railway Company conducted business by telegraphic meetings. Quorum responses set propositions, amendments, votes, and plans without members gathering in one room.
In the last will of the great German reformer Martin Luther a remarkable prayer appears thanking God for poverty and for re-gifting his wife and children to divine care. The text portrays Luther as a poor, indigent man with no possessions to leave behind.
A fractured collection mentions biblical trivia and hay prices in California, quotes Henry Ward Beecher on bread and gospel, jokes about old horses and rheumatics, a death notice for Martha Givens at 107 in Vermillion county, a Dutch pig ear-mark joke, and a wart cure pun.
The San Francisco Herald describes a new temperance drink by mixing three parts root beer with two parts water, thickened with squash and strained through a cane bottom chair. The Humane Magnanimity Society of Trocy offers a fifty dollar reward for the best seasickness prevention method on the canal. Jacobs advises walking on the tow path.
Gov Seymour spoke of receiving more kneeling appeals than any other New Yorker from wife mother and sister begging clemency. Travelers report Levant summers largely free of lightning while heavy winter thunderstorms occur frequently.
Dialogue excerpt shows John and Sally debating church attendance. Sally declines due to planned company while John pretends disappointment and brags of pocket full of gingerbread, prompting Sally to fetch her bonnet. The exchange captures rural period speech and social banter.
In Cincinnati a woman known as Mrs Connell moved from maid to wife to widow in a single day. She had married the man murdered on Front Street that very morning, with the crime unfolding from dawn to night.
An obituary mentions a venerable man dying while in possession of his full mental faculties until near his residence. The remark highlights the decedent's remarkable intellect in old age as reported by a local exchange.
A fragmentary report recalls a young woman reacting to news that her lover had died instantly. She demands the gold watch he wore, asking for something to remember him by.
A list of Methodist bishops with their cities of residence and notes on addressing letters. Bishop Waugh in Baltimore led missions for four years and may receive inquiries. Bishop Ames in Indianapolis will answer questions about California and Oregon Conferences.
A playful text presents a phonetic sequence highlighting letters as sounds. It reads like a humorous resume line of wordplay, asserting originality and delivering quirky spellings and pronunciations as a linguistic gag.
Dr Steven son writes to the Western Christian Advocate from Morrison's Temperance hotel recounting questions about bishops aiding temperance efforts. He cites ministers and denominations drinking wine and laments lack of church support hindering temperance progress. He notes US leads in temperance and morals.
Rules on continuing, cancelling, and returning newspapers. Subscribing without notice implies continuation. Publishers may bill until arrears are paid after cancellation requests. Neglect to pick up or move without notice keeps the subscriber responsible. Refusing delivery or uncalled-for noncollection is prima facie evidence of intent to defraud.
Mr Caleb Burnap of this city has invented a new kind of scales for weighing light or heavy weights. The weight is indicated by a fluid rising through a transparent glass tube with pounds and ounces marked like a thermometer. The fluid enters via a small aperture to a shallow cavity under the weighing platform, using vulcanized India rubber to improve precision.
A letter dated October 12 1813 from John Adams mentions Thomas Jefferson composing a unique book from the New Testament. Jefferson reportedly removed sayings of Jesus and pasted 46 pages of his compilation, calling it the most sublime benevolent code of morals ever offered to mankind.
An exdéd lent syrup is prepared by mixing 8 lbs New Orleans molasses with 8 lbs water and 1 lb coarsely broken charcoal. Boil 15 to 20 minutes, strain hot through double flannel, rinse kettle, boil again with egg white until candy stage, strain, add fruit and cook as usual. Preserves made this way have a peculiar flavor and keep better than sugar-based preserves.
A sermon contrasts two Christian types: those guided by emotion like ships driven by winds and sails, and those guided by faith like steady steamers crossing the Atlantic, moving toward their destination through calm or storm.
A boy teases his father by borrowing a jug and beer money then returns with an empty jug. The father questions how to drink beer from an empty jug. The boy insists true trickery is drinking beer from a jug that has none.
A Dubois County man named Taylor was attacked by three men in the woods last week. He defended himself by drawing a pistol, shooting one assailant, then fatally stabbing a second with a bowie knife, and wounding the third as he fled.
A Cleveland man claims to have invented a machine enabling people to share thoughts without spoken words. The article questions who would use such a device and whether the invention serves those who have nothing to communicate.
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