29 May 1844
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Newspaper
Huntingdon Journal
Location
Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1844
Page
1
Published by Theodore H. Cremer the Jovman will be issued every Wednesday morning at 200 dollars a year if paid in advance and 250 dollars if unpaid after six months. Shorter subscriptions are unavailable and papers aren t discontinued until all charges are paid. Ads up to one square run three times for 100 dollars with 25 cents for each additional insertion.
An idle satirical verse chronicling wanderer bachelors from youth to old age. It mocks their social charm and later self centered decline, ending with a stark note that no one misses the solitary bachelor when he dies. Read in The Reading Gazette.
The Whig Standard circles a pro Clay and Frelinghuysen message praising their leadership and goals. The verse proclaims Henry Clay as the foremost champion and Frelinghuysen as the second man, urging freemen to back their ticket amid national calls for freedom and reform.
A lyric cue laments love sold for wealth and asks why rings are gold. The answer links love to lightning as earthly grace and heavenly flame, with a moral about character shining brighter than boots.
Andrew Kennedy and Mike Barry vie for Peggy Magrath in rural Ireland. Peggy antics hinge on a race organized by her father to choose a husband, with Peggy ultimately fainting during the event and marrying Mike after Andrew leads early. Peggy becomes wife and mother of five.
A pale widow with three hungry children begs a passerby on Brighton shore for help. A compassionate lady, torn between pride and charity, gives a half crown after her child pleads for bread. The scene ends with the family’s relief and a moral about benevolence in hardship. A note about a potato snuff box shown at the Brooklyn Institute follows.
A mixed page features poem verses on prairie life and Irish highwayman tale with Bishop of Cashel attacked for money. Narrative includes a Boston supper prank and a betrothed couple dispute ending in a kiss proposal.
The tale recounts Pope the poet and his spaniel Marquis who guarded the poet and aided in thwarting a burglary with the servant. Marquis also retrieved a lost watch by searching all locations, returning it to Pope with the valuable jewel gifted by the Queen of England.
Advice on thunder storm safety covers outdoor and indoor scenarios including avoiding water and elevated objects, recumbent position in danger, staying away from open windows, and bed as comparatively safe. The piece also includes quirky notes on upcountry courtship, a Connecticut shoemaker peg scam, a dog surcharge court case, and stock auction tidbits.
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