Graefenberg Medicines Promote Health Across States
The Graefenberg Company promotes a line of vegetable pills tonics and tonics including Graefenberg Medicines and Wealth Bitters. Edward Barton, secretary, announces plans for depots nationwide and public bulletins detailing cures for liver stomach and bilious disorders.
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Graefenberg Company
North Carolina
William Jones
Louisburg
Franklin County
Bulletin Net
United States
Dicines
Bense
Lees
Graefenberg
Graekenberg
Edward Barton
By & Co
Hillsborough
Ant
We Co
Clover Garden
Jiaget
Perils and conversions in Bengal and Mexico debate
A long passage recounts brutal scenes around conversions in Calcutta Burdwan and a baptism witnessed amidst mob violence. It also includes political commentary on the Mexican War with figures like General Scott and Polk, and a Raleigh Standard remark on North Carolina politicians.
Fragmented verse on shared fate and voyage home
A fragment of a poem speaks of the poor and free facing life’s storms. Imagery of boats, winds, and a common fate suggests a call to break chains and trust the winds to reach a shared haven. Strong sense of longing and collective voyage.
WHAT WE ARE FIGHTING FOR IN CONGRESS
Greensborough Patriot notes the war aims debate as Congress questions President's Mexico war policy. It cites Gen Scott's 50 000 troop plan to occupy capitals and seize revenues, with Senator Clayton accusing the idea of subjugating the country. The piece reflects partisan tensions over reinforcement demands and war objectives.
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Leon
Mestro
Tion
Scott
Lee Eeely
Mexico
Wilow
United States
Greensborough
Congress
United States Senate
Cass
Clayton
Fort Brown
Senate
Rio Grande
Johnson
Pearce
Texas
North Carolina
Badger
Jefferson
Louisiana
Hell
Spain
Staes
Mobile
Florida Parishes
Speech on Texas boundary and Mexican War policy
The speech debates Texas boundaries, Mexican War conduct, and congressional limits on war powers. Pearce attacks Missouri and Texas claims, condemns marching US troops into disputed territory, urges negotiation over force, cites historical precedents with Mobile, the Caroline, and 1830s boundary disputes to caution against aggression and unilateral war.
A Quick Retort at the Razor Strop Man
A Plymouth stoop seller sparred with a drunken heckler over rum and honesty. The tippler claimed he would quit drinking if rum made him lie as fast as the strop hawker. The hawker replied that rum drives one to the gutter, not to a warm bed, leaving the drunk to retreat with the mistaken boast.
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Plymouth
Smi
A Short Cut of the Mississippi River
An 1840s note on shortcuts through land by the Mississippi River, recounting Captain Leathers’s yawl crossing from Natchez in eight minutes while the steamer took three hours to navigate the bend near Concordia Louisiana. The piece also contains quips about infidelity and a Newtonian retort, plus a remark on military glory as a rainbow born from desolation and blood.
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Mississippi River
Raccourei
Concordia
Leathers
Natchez
Newton
Hulley
Sir Isaac Newton
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Fassecr
Benness
San’a ‘Cleus
Carr
Hindoo
Calcutta
Burdwan
Church Missionary Society
J. J. Weitbrecht
Raleigh Standard
Thos. L. Clingman
Richard 8. Donnell
Augustin H. Shepherd
Daniel M. Barringer
House of Representatives
Polk
India
Wilmington
UNION
E Stuart
Mir. Pearce
Peance
Carolina
Pita Offi
Emory
South Caroli
Necissouri
Arkansas
Santa Fe
Missouri
la Salle
del Norte
Laredo
Rusk
Tamaulipas
Coahuila
Nueces
Nences
United
Corpus Christi
Galveston
Texa
Nacogdoches
Brazos
Bible Society of Virginia
Brax
Pesnce
House
Vinton
The
Mex
Mr. Dromgoole
Madison
Medison
Data de Rio Grande
Matamoros
Tillater Jay
Great Britain
Washington
Haxsxcoan
Gen. Jackson
van Buren
U. States
Congress of the
Weill
Delaware
Narva
Charles X11
Sweden
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