Methodist Preacher Prays for Rain and Brings Flood
A summer traveler, a Methodist preacher, stays with a widow who fears famine. He prays for rain, and a storm follows, flooding the widow’s garden and washing away fences. The widow laments the overreach of preachers after witnessing the disaster.
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Boston
Buenos Ayres
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United States
Wanted moral Mormon domestic and a sponger seeking work
Advertisements from the New York Herald include a call for a thoroughly moral female domestic aligned with Mormon principles and a self described deserter seeking any employment, willing to turn his hand to anything without references. Also notes on a Wheeling Intelligencer report of a disturbance at Hethany College Virginia quelled by dismissing several abolitionists.
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Sec’y
Walnut St
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Prices and supplies list from November 30 1855
A short commodity catalog lists flour per barrel at 1100, wheat new per bushel 190, corn per bushel new, oats flaxseed wood, hickory cord 400 oak 300, butter 81 cents per pound, lard 38 cents per pound, eggs 16 cents per dozen, potatoes per bushel 50, sweet potatoes 37, poultry chickens per dozen 25, fowls 63 cents per pair, ducks 240, herrings per barrel 500, mackerel 60 cents per barrel, dried apples 75, dried peaches 125.
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Cure for the Ague Promises Swift Relief in Lewinsville
A letter from Lewinsven Pennsylvania dated July 27, 1855 reports scarcity of sour medicine and proclaims its success against ague. Thomas Catts and David C. Pennewile note four years of illness prior to using the remedy, claiming complete relief with no symptoms since. Real estate, etc.
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Delaware Co
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