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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 01, 1855
Page
1
A meditation on cheerful mornings and swift days ends with a playful, absurd tale about Mrs So very deaf and an ear trumpet. The poem contrasts youth and old age while a joke about a peddler and Botany Bay adds humor. The line prompts reflection on life, death, and art.
The Decent Dollar Journal is published every Wednesday morning at one dollar per year in advance. Subscriptions available for shorter terms than three months.
Barnum plans a beauty competition with 200 premiums totaling $5000. To enter, women or their friends send likenesses to the Museum by October 15, with public ballots determining prizes. Top prizes include $1000 and multiple smaller awards. engravings may appear in a French book. Disreputable entrants will be rejected.
A Maine factory's wage cuts trigger a strike as workers issue a notice. The circular declares readiness to work for pay, offering wide skills from bonnets to baking and housekeeping. It playfully advertises partners and household help, ending with a call for bids.
A Worcester drover Uncle Bill Tidd endures weather weariness and faces a roast by a wealthy rogue at a Brayton public house. Bill quips that the man’s character plus his dark complexion could darken any room. Walter Savage Landor recalls a wedding with a bride cake joke about sweetness above and lumpiness below.
In 1849 at M- a young blacksmith Abel Adams stands trial for the murder of wealthy farmer Matthew Hampton. Henry Bilger testifies of the crime, Hampton survives a critical blow, and Adams is found not guilty though Bilger is hanged. Hampton later pays Adams a bounty of one thousand dollars.
A sharp reproach targets individuals who fear public scrutiny and avoid fame by tragedy or self harm, claiming such acts betray divine expectation to stand bold as examples of virtue. The saying implies moral duty outweighs personal crisis.
A collection of wry sayings and light anecdotes ranging from social manners to tongue in cheek quips. Observations on fortune patience and folly mingle with jokes about doctors, horses and a saw horse pun. Miscellany in dated voice.
A humorous crude riff on Maine Law era flirtation tests by Quaker young ladies and temperance men ends with a pro Maine Law toast and a quip about Providence and the Democratic party. The Louisville Journal notes Senator Douglas calling for defeat of the Know Nothings, and jokes about providence in democracy.
A mother recalls her daughter Sissy swearing she would not wear stockings to church. The remark is noted as a humorous family dispute reflecting stricter social expectations.
The remark imagines a castaway island scenario where a fellow would rise at dawn to sell maps to island inhabitants. It reflects a humorous, nautical voice and literary phrasing.
A farmer in Daviess County Ky reports 422 bushels of wheat from 14 acres this season. He sold 400 bushels for 600. The note urges patience and careful storage to avoid loss.
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