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Newspaper
Delphi Dollar Journal
Location
Delphi, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1855
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising rates for the Dollar Journal located at the Public Square, with terms for square ten lines and three insertions set at one dollar. Continuations run at the same rate for three months, one year options, and six month options with varying column widths. ads continue unless the advertiser forbids, at their expense.
A breezy spring greeting celebrates warm winds and verdant fields with visions of fragrant flowers and pleasant days ahead.
The tale centers on Captain Jethro Starbuck a veteran Nantucket mariner known as Captain Starbuck He is described as tall lank serious and hardworking a Quaker by background and a longtime whaler aboard the ship Charlotte He plans a steady voyage after preparing stores and gear for the expedition with harpoons lances and provisions aboard.
Nantucket townsfolk watched the whaling ship Charlotte sail for Cape Horn under Captain Starbuck. After two and a half years with no word, fears grew as letters dwindled and the town kept vigil from Brand Point to the cliff, while hopeful families waited for a return that never came.
A drifting narrator recounts a life of the lost Charlotte voyage, a mysterious cooper resembling Reuben Joy, and a long, winded tale of Campbell the guardian, Joy's true identity, and a Louisiana heiress's dramatic inheritance saga ending in reconciliation and fortune restored.
An aged rat tells his young to seek happiness while he withdraws to a hidden retreat. They depart, moved by affection, while he discovers the retreat is a hollow made by his own teeth in a giant Cheshire cheese.
The Rev. Pah Tah'Sega, a Greenland Indian preacher, delivered a sermon in Alexandria on a Sunday morning. Remains of Si Joh Franklin's party were found by locals under his pastoral charge, signaling a troubling discovery.
A fragment notes an iron horse on one principal railway adorned with the title I still live. The comment mentions an inscription for passengers to read at the journey’s end, reflecting a somber label on the carriage.
A disjointed excerpt recalls a missionary recounting a South Sea matrilineal practice. The cannibal returns with his niece, insists he is now faithful to one wife, then faces a grim question about what he did with the other.
The passage extols the blissful family circle where shared joys and sorrows unite kin. It praises a quiet hearth that gathers the aged, the middle aged, the spouse, and children in a blessed earthly heaven, finishing each day with grateful prayers.
A gray headed man, heavily intoxicated, collapsed on a sidewalk after a night of drinking and was picked up by an officer and taken to the calaboose. The letter-writer laments vice and prays for reform by June 12.
A physician advocates using caustic tissue as a preventive against cholera. The idea, tested in St. Petersburg, reportedly shows satisfactory results but remains unproven. The Niagara Suspension Bridge revenue for the past year reached $40,000.
A man named Christopher Murphy of near Maquoketa Iowa fell into a 70 foot crooked well on Franklin Street Galena while seeking water. He was found at the bottom Sunday evening and rescued after several hours. He arrived from Chicago Friday and was intoxicated at the time of entry but sober when removed.
A jealous Quakeress spies her husband in a kiss with a servant girl. Broadbrim discovers his wife's peeping and coolly tells her to quit peeping or cause a disturbance. The moment provokes a startling, electric reaction within the household.
The New Orleans Delta reports the steamer Franklin Pierce owners petitioned Congress to rename the vessel due to bad repute and luck. A special act passed, the President signed after delay, and the Texana departed for St Louis with a strong first trip under new ownership.
The Col Statesman reports a market sale yesterday morning where chickens were sold for one dollar per dozen. The paper notes the birds were small for eating and suggests the vendor should be identified for public benefit.
A playful exchange questions whether dogs can reason. The speaker doubts the notion, noting dogs’ behavior as evidence against it and deriding attempts to prove intelligence with a tailed clock reference.
A fragment reports a group claiming millennial doom gathered last week in Sebastopol, declaring the world would end. The scene ended without destruction and the text notes no further actions or outcomes.
A Terre Haute Illinois boy wins $500 damages from a liquor dealer whose sale to the father occurred the day the boy drowned. The case underscores accountability in liquor sales amid a fatal accident.
A quirky line compares four cent sugar to a stubborn man, noting that the sugar is clear grit and nothing else. The remark signals a practical, conundrum like oversight in the ongoing case without detailing actions or outcomes.
A fragment discusses North Carolina producing within its Satavies staple as a standout example across states. The text is unclear but highlights NC as a leading producer in this area.
Boston records show 297 women paying tax on six thousand dollars and up. Mas. Hy K Hunts protested on the ground that taxation without representation, paying three hundred eight dollars and ten cents.
A distorted OCR fragment from Ohio describes a family with unusual sneezing and noise making. The text is incoherent and provides no identifiable people places or dates to form a complete news item.
The report notes that fewer than forty physicians graduated from the Philadelphia Medical School in the past year and highlights the completion of training by 35 graduates.
A man speaking of breaking his faith says the hurt was severe. The remark notes gratitude as a valued trait but comments on its infrequent display, attributed to Bas.
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