Folly of Fashion and Foolish Quacks in Old Verse
An old verse critique portrays city ladies chasing fashion and society, parodies quacks and doctors, and laments misused labor and the deathly cost of pretension. The speaker mocks vanity, legal pretensions, and misguided efforts to rise, ending with a grim note on a sexton’s spade and a man’s futile toil.
Close of the Year Advice for Farmers in Genesee Parmer
The Genesee Parmer urges farmers to settle year end accounts and keep detailed records of crops capital and stock. It offers a free year's subscription to the Genesee Varmer to the best kept accounts and argues clear records prove profitability and encourage farming as a viable long term pursuit.
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Genesee Parmer
Farmers and the call to self reliance in early America
The piece argues farmers undervalue their power and capital, urging them to organize, vote for their interest, and build wealth. It cites Washington as a farmer and mocks Yankee ingenuity, noting farmers’ historical role in feeding armies and securing liberty while criticizing class politics and representation.
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Hiora
Rome
England
Washington
Furner
Chimney Draft Tip From Anti Masonic Publication
A fragment advises placing a sheet iron throat and a cap over a stove pipe to channel wind and improve draft. It claims positioning the throat 4 to 5 inches from the cap prevents smoke and reduces trouble indoors.
Advertising rates and subscription terms for the 1831 Register and Guide
The Register and Guide will be issued monthly in parplet form with sixteen octavo pages two columns wide. Subscriptions cost 1 per year if paid promptly or 1.25 if paid after year end. Advertisements follow ordinary rates with capitialized time ads limited to a third of a square and priced at 1 per measure if prepaid. 1.50 after six months. Five subscribers earns a free paper for a year. Postmasters as agents receive 20 percent plus postage. Send letters to J. W. Scott in Florence, Ohio. First issue in January, subsequent on the first of each month. November 2, 1831.
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Ohio State Journal
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