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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1854
Page
1
A colonial style notice details payment terms for subscription rates, advance payments, and penalties for arrears. It also covers rules for discontinuance, delivery to distant counties, and obligations of postmasters and readers. The piece then shifts to essays on flowers, labor, and moral tales, interweaving anecdotes about habit, family life, and religious reflection.
A narrator recalls falling for pretty Mary Jane and hoping she would love him back. She favors another man who sits beside her, plucks a rose for him, and sings the song he loves while the narrator’s hopes fade. He consoles himself with the line that it’s easier to like a girl than to make one like you, and ends with blessings for her to go.
A fragment describes how plant varieties differ in shape, scent, toughness, and climate tolerance. Some thrive in heat, others in cold, with many adapting to wet or dry soils. Colors span the rainbow and origins vary, illustrating diverse constitutions and geographic fit.
A column lists do it yourself remedies for coughs hoarseness and sick headaches with ingredients like molasses vinegar laudanum honey and spirits of nitre. It also offers a corn remedy using gums wax verdigris and a leather plaster and ends with a pious anecdote about a pedlar and the road to Heaven.
The Nashville Evening News reports a tenantless house near Brown's Creek where residents claim a nude female figure appears at various times over two years. A city delegation investigated with candles and lights, but only rats and a chicken coop were found. the apparition reportedly showed a threatening gesture before vanishing.
A recipe from an 19th century publication describes boiling fatty oil with bees wax turpentine and Burgundy pitch to create a waterproofing composition for shoes and boots. Applied with a sponge or brush the mixture renders leather pliable durable and water resistant after several rubs. The editor tests the recipe noting shoes become dry and elastic and last longer than untreated pairs. A concluding verse praises liberty and virtue alongside a printer’s pay.
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