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Newspaper
Greencastle Sentinel
Location
Greencastle, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1853
Page
2
A Albany style critique argues mail delays come with a large system and new administrations. It defends the postmaster turnover while noting occasional route inefficiencies, and contrasts whig reactions to earlier administrations with abolitionist divides.
The piece notes warm days and frosty nights, new brick paving on streets, and street grading. It reports Prof. Lattimore suffering a house fire during a family funeral, with most furniture saved. It comments on temperance discourse, press choices, and political party affiliations in nearby debates.
Acknowledgments to neighbors and friends for their swift aid and hospitality after a house calamity. The grateful note praises intrepid effort and calm care to prevent further loss, and honors all who opened homes and hearts during the ordeal.
The New Albany Sa-Moo Railrowd Company seeks to delay completion as Peeve Haare & Rielmond Co refuses to test iron for Groencastle and Terre-Haute & Richmond demands exclusive right of way. Creencastle station access only to cross, sparking public dispute. Civic commentary condemns narrow interests hindering state trade and railroad progress.
Boston August 22. News from Gloucester states the schooner Star Vieht was brought in by a shot from the steamer Devastation and boarded by Gasp. The schooner Highlinter had been seized and released. Mary Wells and Ellen Proctor fled the bay prior to English pursuit amid broader Anglophobia and political debate.
The Springfield Republican recounts a cow sale where D. D. Warren feeds the animal thirty days while Wells Hodgett pays per milk quart from sixteen to twenty five quarts daily, with varying sums. It also notes a Santa Fe collision between Americans and Mexicans, and remarks on housekeeping knowledge for women. It mentions Gen Scout maimed for life and the Tribune on General’s arm injury.
The subscriber has just received a large supply of EK. 8. Cropper's celebrated 8A grinders praised by users. Alan Kimball and Williau's superior Burgher’s Meat Saws also offered in new fingertion. For sale at 1.8 Kedlogs No 26 Main Street sign of the Big Padlock.
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