Terms for Friday Gazette Publishin Enterprising Rates
Terms state Friday morning publication at two dollars per annum if paid within three months, or two dollars and fifty cents otherwise. Papers not discontinued until arrears are paid. Communications by mail must be postpaid. Advertising: one square twelve lines three weeks one hundred dollars. each additional insertion twenty five dollars. Yearly ads receive deductions. Job printing available at Lyown's Hotel East wing.
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The Becaleebian Hatchery and Orchard Grass Trials
Letter from Mra Childs discusses the Becaleebian hatchery and its machine that hatches eggs. It questions use of artificial memories and machines, notes profits and prices, and contrasts with a hen’s warmth. Also recounts May field sowing of orchard grass seed, seed preparation, sowing methods, and results with two trial plots.
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Mra Childs
Beton
Arenus
University of Temperature
Leung
Menecon
Jersey
Long Island
Death toll from this dread malady in England and Wales
The yearly deaths from this feared disease in England and Wales are about 36 000, roughly one ninth of all mortality.
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England
Wales
Buffalo Trade Growth and Sudden Snake Den Discoveries
The Buffalo Commercial Advertiser outlines Buffalo’s booming six month import and export figures with flour and wheat surging since 1841, highlighting Buffalo as a western gateway. It also reports a Nantucket inquiry about a Ballard county farmer discovering multiple snake dens, killing hundreds of snakes across several dens in the area.
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Beadle
Urfalo
Buffalo
Ohio Valley
Isil
Nanthexet Inquirer
Ballard County
Mass
Steamboat Fire on Ohio River Triggers Casualties
On June [month unread] the steamboat Estine caught fire while cargo was stowed carelessly on the Ohio River. Five water mules perished above the river mouth. most passengers escaped by wading to shore. The yawl’s occupants are reported lost: Charles Harrington Pittsburg Mr Snodgrass Finchy Smith Moore Platteco Mo George W Stephens William Hapson Mrs Lavina Horn Haskel county Ky Joseph Neal conk a colored man and three firemen.
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Ohio
Louisville Courier
Charles Harrington
Pittsburg
Snodgrass
Finchy
Smith
Mesmeric dentistry and sheep fly remedies from old notes
The Crescent City reports on a lecture describing a mesmeric dental observation where a young woman reportedly endures sixty three tooth extractions across lectures, prompting speculation of a shark like mouth. It also notes June July sheep fly afflictions in Leicester breed and a home remedy using tar train oil salt and a touch of Hoon tea for relief and fly prevention.
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New Orleans
Crescent City
Leicester
Wheat in the West and Flooded Low Grounds Report
A northern traveler from the Upper Mississippi reports a heavy crop yield in Wisconsin and Iowa despite widespread flooding. The low ground corn is submerged for miles. passengers rode inland by skiff to escape flood waters. A log cabin sits submerged to the chimney, with a cat atop the chimney as a striking image.
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Mississippi
Mineis
Wisconsin
Iowa
Bank Failures in England Highlight Historic Decline
In the British House of Commons Sir Robert Peel noted 1839 saw nine country banks fail, seven paid no dividends. In 1840 twenty four failed with seventeen paying no dividends, and from 1814 to 1817 as many as 240 banks failed, illustrating recurring instability in England’s banking system.
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England
Hoase of Commons
Robert Peel
My Country Flag and My Countan Frae Poem Echoes
A mixed fragmentary poem piece surveys patriotism and liberty with lines praising the Stars and Stripes and visionary liberty. It shifts to a prose romance about Miss PF and Mr W, detailing a doomed love, social barrier, and tragic longing ending in despair and possible death.
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Earth
Heaven
Moral Horror of Ear Poisoning Murder Tale From Virginia
A Boston report of an attempted murder by pouring hot lead into a sleeping woman’s ear prompts a Virginia memory. A wealthy suitor manipulated a widow’s daughter, courtship ended in marriage, a heat ladle and laudanum plot, a lead scar, and a fugitive wife fled as a grand jury considers charges.
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Virginia
Col. F
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Commonwealth
Eusoand and Faithful Wife
A sorrowful tale of a devoted wife who cared for a chronically ill husband for thirty years. After his death she found inner peace, grew cheerful, and aided others, her life transformed by enduring suffering into quiet grace and service to the needy.
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Gunilla
Stranger Saves Child From Cider Tub Then Becomes Clergyman
A passing stranger in a rural New England village pulled a drowning child from a cider press tub. The boy, after about an hour of resuscitation, recovered and grew to become a minister then bishop, ultimately serving as the second presiding bishop of the American Protestant Episcopal Church.
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New England
Uut
American Protestant Episcopal Church
Loafers Soliloquy and a Virginia social anecdote
An 1840s style miscellany opens with a loafer’s soliloquy on pigs and disdain for human follies, then a tale from the Clearland Herald about a young couple playing the Graces and a kiss that leads to the cook being kissed when lights go out. STEMS OF NEWS report a varied mix: a mail robbery sentence, births, illegitimacy rates, and light political jests.
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Clearland Herald
Miss
The Sacrificed Creole Maiden at Santee
Sauly St. Clair, a Creole girl, loved Sergeant Jasper and chose male disguise to follow him into battle. She died defending him, receiving a fatal lance blow while at his side. Her grave lies near the Santee, in a green, paradise-like nook, mourned by the corps. The tale lauds sacred love and heroic devotion.
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Sauly St. Clair
Jasper
South
Marion
Sally St. Clair
Santee
Paradise
Bustle Find Sting of Cash Tied to City Theft Case
A NYPD officer found nine thousand one hundred nineteen dollars in Connecticut Bank notes in a lady’s bustle aboard a city hack headed to the steam boat landing for Boston. A carpet bag with $9,704 in bank notes had been stolen from the Guy Hotel days earlier, sparking a magistrate to place the lady in public lodgings against her wishes. A man claimed to be her husband but she denied the ties. A fuller city Court inquiry will follow.
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N.Y
Boston
Connecticut
Guy Hotel
Whimsical Coincidence In Sermon Reading
A clergyman reading Genesis for his congregation misread the last sentence as And the Lord gave unto Adam a wife. Turning two leaves, he read aloud And she was picked without and within, misplacing the midsection describing Noahs Ark.
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