04 Feb 1845
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Newspaper
Huron Reflector
Location
Norwalk, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1845
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription rates payable in advance and within the year with set terms for arrears and publisher options. It includes advertising costs: three inserts at one dollar per square and twenty cents per square for additional insertions, with various column and time period rates.
A long tale from Portland recounts a strange auction of an old bureau. A young woman, needy after her mother's death, buys it for ten dollars and a half. Later the narrator discovers a hidden note and gold in the bureau linking to the woman's uncle, who has wronged her. The uncle pays the debt, the couple prospers on a farm, and the bureau returns to the rightful owner through a sequence of moral kindness.
A rambling monologue from Bill Snider depicts a roving man fond of water and quick with self mockery. He boasts of self reliance, claims a precocious wit, and jokes about executions of debt with “double entry.” Sam appears with two empty pocket pistols as Bill mocks trust and thrift, ending with a prompt to settle debts.
The text urges finishing wood hauling before mud season, feeding cattle extra during calving, and using winter to prepare tools, heat beds for early vegetables, and repair fences and posts. It recommends corn meal or oil cake for cows near calving, and stresses maintaining a workshop to stay productive during harsh weather.
A London Sporting Magazine excerpt is used to illustrate a verse from Jeremiah through a partridge analogy. An elderly Salisbury Plain shepherd explains that partridges do not hatch eggs, implying riches not earned rightly fail. The piece includes scattered notes on pins, temperance, and farming curiosities, with brief items on various topics.
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