27 Jun 1839
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Newspaper
Freeman And Messenger
Location
Lodi, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1839
Page
1
The Freeman and Messenger offers subscription rates and delivery details for village and mail readers with discounts for prepayment. Multiple notices advertise housing, tin shop, stove sales, and paint services in Lodi, including Grannis hardware, Mickox tin works, and Keith painting through 1839.
A poem from the Albany Daily Advertiser recounts a sailor's widow grieving her lost husband. She laments waves that swallowed his body and asks the sea to yield him, while she finds solace in heaven where in death she trusts to reunite with him. A gentle voice promises peace beyond life.
An 1908 Hudson voyage tale recalls Jabez Doolittle of Wallingford Connecticut and his patent ideas. He built a wheeled steam engine, tested it aboard a boat, and fired up a cantankerous prototype he hoped would become the first locomotive. The account follows the inventor’s zeal, the witness’s awe, and the dramatic activation that sent the contraption off before a startled crowd.
A morning in a chapel shows the dervishes in a circular hall with a central space for the performers. The rite starts with a chant and prostrations, then a slow procession toward their chief, finished by a turning, bobbing waltz-like spin in white garments and long petticoats.
A Boston humorous excerpt from The History of the Striped Pig portrays a liquor retailer turned churchgoer confronted by a boy’s tale of a dream. The scene shifts to a deacon’s conversion and a playful exchange about a devil in a store, reflecting comic moral twists.
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