Employment and the value of work across history
A compilation notes Daniel Webster on employment as the source of happiness and national strength. It cites Clemens Foote and Burke moments, contrasts parliamentary speaking styles with Cromwell and Brutus, and ends with a wry London Dispatch quip about ill jackets of speech.
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Clemens
Alabama
United States Senate
Foote
Mississippi
London Dispatch
Cromwell
Europe
Ireland
England
Harry
Vanes
Washington
D'Israeli
Brutus
Rome
Carthage
Burk
House of Commons
Speaker
Public Square Office-Wing Advertises Decrat Dollar Journal
The Decrat Dollar Journal is printed every Thursday morning in the Office-in DEWEY'S Building upstairs on the south side of the Public Square. Subscription is One Dollar per year, payable in advance, with shorter terms under three months available.
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Dewey’s
Public Square
Decrat Dollar Journal
Marys Elopement and a Curiously Dark Verses
The Boston Mail reports Nahum Fay of Massachusetts married a lively young woman who soon eloped with another man. Eighteen years later Fay published verse blaming her for leaving, the family debts, and a partial memory of Johnson’s seduction in Canada. The note ends with a quip about the value of newspapers.
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Boston Mail
Nahum Fay
Mass
Eneiger
Cause of and Cure for Hard Times
A 65 year old farmer recalls a life from poverty to prosperity then loss, blaming self for hard times. He recounts starting work at twelve, building wealth to a 60 acre farm, expanding to 76 acres, marrying well, and supporting children before setback. He reflects on personal responsibility amid financial decline.
Wealth, marriage, and thrifty living in a critical tale
A narrator recalls frugal farm life and rising fortune from savings then explores family drift as spouses buy luxuries. Rich gains from cattle feed jealousy and financial ruin, ending in warnings to live within means and avoid overreach. The essay shifts to a debate on the earth’s age, detailing Genesis interpretations, geological arguments, and theories from Means and Lyell.
Infernal Stranger Visits Kentucky Town Tavern Joke
A wandering stranger in a Kentucky town claims to hunt a location for hell. He gathers a moral inventory of the town and hints at revealing his business, then plans to depart, saying he is an agent for the Devil seeking a new habitat.
Houses of Refuge and Juvenile Reform Echo
The Sentinel argues for radical reform of juvenile delinquency in cities that act as nurseries of vice. It warns that current laws register boys with criminals, robbing them of dignity and failing to deter crime. It contends lengthy penitentiary housing worsens and degrades youth.
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the Sentinel
Train tragedy in the west leaves family in shock
An Auburn editor recounts a brutal train accident witnessed on a western journey. A man drunkenly leaves the depot and falls onto the rail, his head severed. His wife and child react with horror as emergency crews respond to the grisly scene. The author condemns the business he believes caused the tragedy.
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Auburn
N. Y
Buffalo
Brandy Flask Aboard Train Sparks Humorous Delay
On a railroad car a gleeful passenger with a brandy flask stirs laughs as an elderly man denies drinking. The conductor reassures a brief delay, noting the engine will be fixed in minutes while the joking rogue predicts company at the next depot. He quips about two stubborn horses and a mule awaiting them.
Grand Lodge meeting notice for Indiana Good Templars
The Executive Committee of the Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Good Templars of Indiana notifies members to meet in Indianapolis Temperance Hall on the second Tuesday of March 1855 at 1 PM to transact urgent business for the order. All eligible members should attend. Copy this notice in all state papers.
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Grand Lodge of
I. C
G. T
Grand Lodge
Winchester
Grand Lodge of the
Independent Order of Good Templars
Indiana
Indianapolisin Temperance Hall
A. D
T. G. Hall
G. W.G. Ty
Seventeen year locusts listed by Dr. Smith in several states
Dr. Gideon B. Smith via the Baltimore Patriot outlines locations for the seventeen year locusts this year. In Massachusetts near Barnstable. Maryland on the Eastern Shore and near Ballimore to Carlisle Pennsylvania. Virginia in Kenawha county. Kentucky around Lexington and Frankfort extending to Meigs and Gallia county Ohio. Locusts will be found in trees and shrubs where 1838 growth occurred, hiding in earth lumps and emerging when opened.
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Gideon B. Smith
Baltimore Patriot
Massachusetts
Barnstable
Maryland
Old Liberty
Windsor Mill Roads
Balltimore
Carlisle
Virginia
Kenawha
Kentucky
Lexington
Frandfort
Flemingsburg
Meigs
Gallia County
Ohio
Smith
Rare Birthdays Spark Leap Year Reflections in Portsmouth
The Portsmouth Journal notes a citizen born February 29 1880 who had eighteen birthdays, and a city veteran born 1770 with nineteen birthdays. It mentions two public officers born on February 29 and a insurer president whose grandchild shares the date, proposing a leap year gathering.
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Portsmouth Journal
State Street
Boston
Slavery Validated by Mexican Trade of Indians
Advices from Yucatan report that on December 21 in Sisal forty Indians were jailed awaiting shipment on the Mexican schooner Jacin to Havana where they would be sold as slaves. One hundred fifty more were held at Meridian for voyage to Cuba aboard the brig Antonita. An official order notes the sale of two hundred Indians yielded 20,000. The Indians are said to be rebellious captives, though they protest they were peaceful and uninvolved in the war.
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Molly
Betty
Sally
Sal
Grandpa
Treasury Department
Bet
Tech World
Hugh Milley
Charles Lyell
Mississippi
Niagara River
Falls
Queenstown
Mr. Means
Yucatat
Sisal
Jacinto
Havanna
Meridian
Cuba
Antonita
Secretary of Foreign Relation
Journal
Mohawk Valley Insurance Company Fails in Amsterdam
The Mohawk Valley Insurance Company of Amsterdam New York has failed according to reports, triggering possible policy and claim concerns for local clients and creditors.
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Mohawk’ Valley Insurance Company of
Amsterdam, N. Y
Tied Down at Home
A friend near Pontiac recounts a comic domestic tale. A wife physically tethers her husband to the sofa while she visits a friend, then returns to find him awake and irate, joking that she fulfilled his wish to be tied down at home.
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Pontiac
Virtue in Man and the Good in Human Nature
The piece argues that real goodness exists in most people and that recognizing kindness over flaws reveals a noble view of humanity. It contrasts pity with depravity and insists on portraying genuine virtue to inspire admiration rather than dwell on evil.
Broad Road Exchange Over Cash Book Refers To Berth Availability
A fragment shows Bob declaring plans to the devil over his cash book fears while a reply notes berths are full, with a September broker board engagement cited as the reason. The terse dialogue hints at a financial/berthing squeeze and shifting ambitions on Broad Road.
Britain warns citizens over loans for Russia treason risk
Official notice states that British subjects who contribute to a loan for Russia will be guilty of high treason. The warning underscores the government stance during wartime and potential legal consequences for supporters.
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Russia
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Daniel Webster
Senate
the United Sates
America
Farmer’s Almanac
Farmer’s Magazine
Mechanic’s Magazine
Delphi Dollar Journal
Artory
Mary
Cara Sposa
Johnson
Canada
Scientific American
Bob
Board of Brokers
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