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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1850
Page
1
A narrator recalls the relics of buried years and the lure of wealth, then details a Drunkard’s Rescue tale. A doctor visits a cold, dirty Smiths Yard home where a dying child underscores the costs of alcohol. The father confesses drinking, vows reform, and his recovery leads to a sober life and community work.
A humorous vignette follows Jonathan Dunbutter as he flirts with Prudence Feastall after a meeting, culminating in an awkward embrace and a plan to hire help. The piece shifts to Walter Savage Lander praising British unity in the London Examiner and an advice note on raising well behaved sons versus idle youths.
A group of young girls gathers in a twilight wood to choose a flower they resemble. Laura seeks the rose, Helen favors the rhododendron, while Clara and Lucy pick conjoined favorites and ponder meekness, faith, and looking upward as Lucy learns to trust in God.
The Windsor Journal reports on a new Kiss Cotillion style in New York where participants kiss ladies while turning corners. An editor, curmudgeon yet amused, contemplates joining in. A scene on a fashionable street ends with a poetical thimble incident and a colored observer’s quip.
The Spirit of the Times recounts Sham Hays riding a bull in a one mile heat race near Brownsville on the Monongahela. Judges allowed the bull under the race’s four legs and hair on rule after protest. Hays won the purse amid a row, then beat the horses again in a rematch, earning the nickname Sham Hays before moving to Ohio.
A sixteen year old country boy begs his father for a buzzum pin, saying he is suffering without one while the father dismisses the toy as unnecessary and urges practical gifts like shoes. The boy quotes a moral about grateful hearts versus ungrateful ones, contrasting generosity and stinginess.
A fragmentary miscellany with a folk tale of a horse theft misinterpretation in Ireland and a string of jokes and wry anecdotes. Included are queries about a man named Murdock O Donnel, a War Department clerk’s death and a vacancy, court-room quips, and a Californian market note.
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