02 Jun 1859
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Newspaper
Hornellsville Tribune
Location
Hornellsville, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 02, 1859
Page
1
A fragmented 19th century hotel scene recounts a landlord arousing a watcher to medicate a sick guest. The watcher mistakenly drugs the wrong traveler, sparking a comical yet chaotic pursuit through the hotel as the irate patient roars for justice while the landlord's family intervenes.
A long prose piece offers guidance to small newspapers on surviving financially by promoting reader support, fair pricing, local advertising, and loyal subscriptions. It includes cautions against debt, calls for keeping costs local, and urges editors to value their work while maintaining community ties. It then shifts to a temperance note and a New Bedford whaling tale of a former pastor who fell into dissipation.
The piece criticizes Young Flowery for flashy diction and poor use of scientific terms in temperance oratory. It notes his imagination overpowers substance, with vivid but irrelevant display of anatomy and national history, urging plain, disciplined preaching. It also mentions a massive Cincinnati route mule owned by Charles Frost of Wayne County Indiana.
A humorous dialogue from the Republic recounts Dr. Rogers of Buffalo joining the Sons of Malta and the B.B. D's. It lampoons secret societies, moralizing visitors, and social pretensions, concluding with a dry goods store anecdote about mistaken identity and a wife recalling a close call with clerks.
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