Classified Rates and Payment Terms for Local Paper
Terms state two dollars per year payable in advance with a higher rate of two dollars and fifty cents if not paid. No paper will be discontinued until arrears are paid, unless editors choose otherwise. Advertisements cost three dollars per line for the first insertion and twenty five cents for each additional insertion. Liberal yearly advertising discounts offered. Most country produce accepted as payment.
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Hfeaven
John Bull
Babylon
America
Noah Webster
Berry
Chesnut Street
Dawkins
Miss Spriggins
Prentice
Jeannes Crow
Lara
Charley
Zachy
New York on New Year's Day a busy steam city
A vivid New Year depiction of New York as a fast moving, business driven hub. The piece contrasts Wall Street’s quiet New Year with Broadway’s crowded, locomotive like throng and the social dances, debt ledgers, and fashion obsessions that define urban life. It also follows Berry Huckel the stout suitor chasing Miss Seraphina Spriggins amid comic mishaps and social pressures.
Mak your BULLS Work
A Maine Farmer editorial urges farmers to train bulls by daily yoked work to avoid laziness and low market value. It argues that active, well-fed bulls become stronger and more profitable, while idle ones waste time and degrade stock quality. The piece encourages vigilance for stock improvement and timely, decisive action.
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Maine
Farmer and ploughman joke between minister and laborer
A clergyman visits a farm worker resting on his plough and suggests grubbing bushes with a stub sythe. The laborer jokes that a swingling board in the pulpit might help during singing to strangle flax. The minister laughs and dismisses the idea.
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John
Gazelle
Ghosts and Murders Frighten Down East Girls into Sleepless Nights
Several young ladies along the coast have been so affected by reading novels about ghosts spectres and murders that they now fear sleeping alone. The heightened fright is noted as a local curiosity and reflects the sensational influence of sensational stories on impressionable readers.
Stranger in Italian Town Asked to Meet Emperor
A stranger entered the emperor Napoleon's shaving room in a small Italian town and asked what his relation to the emperor was. The emperor replied simply, I shave him.
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Napoleon
Italy
Regretful Husband Told by Wife of Grieved Past
A man grieving the loss of his first wife, in the presence of his second wife, is told by her that no one has greater reason to wish the former spouse alive again than she does. The remark shifts the focus to irony and the complexity of second marriage.
Freedom of Elections Bill Intro in House Sparks Debate
The United States Telegraph reviews Mr Bell's introduced bill to secure the freedom of elections. It condemns presidential interference and patronage as threats to republican virtue, urging passage to prevent corrupt practices in appointing offices and influencing votes during federal and state elections. The piece notes public concern over recent dismissals and political meddling and calls for restoring decency in government conduct.
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Bell
House of Representatives
Congress
Jefferson
Jackson
Sparta
United States
Berty
U. States
Bett
Sane
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S &C. A Preston
N. Y. Express
New York
Natchez
Passamaquoddy
Bay
Vienna
Golconda
Battery
Harleem
Brooklyn Heights
Greenwich Village
Bank of America
Wall Street
Broadway
Greenwich Street
London
United States of America
East
Romulus
Remus
William Penn
Herschel
Wisconsin
Iowa
Philadelphia
Berry Huckel
Huckel Berry
Huckel
Seraphina Spriggins
Sam
Corporation
Alther
Warn’ee Wunst
The
Freedom OF Elections
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