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Office moved to the new White House near O Jenney's Mansion House on the North side of the street. Terms are two dollars per year in advance, otherwise two dollars and fifty cents. Paper not discontinued while arrears remain, unless editors allow. Advertisements three times for one dollar per square, twenty five cents extra per insertion. Liberal annual discount for advertisers. Most country produce accepted as payment.
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White House
O. Jenney
Mansion House
Trinity Church
Ando
Broadway
May Day Lament From 1837 Reflector Poem
The poem laments May bloom as death and cold threaten nature in early May. It questions Flora and the approach of June, urging the return of flowers and life. The piece is dated May 1, 1837, and speaks with a mournful tone about the season’s passing.
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Vale
Speedon
Sighted Man and the Ordinary Visionary Chronicle
A first person comic tale follows a nearsighted narrator who narrates a lifetime of misreads and social blunders. While dodging glares from the sighted world, he recounts incidents from Broadway to Broadway via encounters with a French observer and a Mississippi tough, ending with a dangerous dining-room mishap and a London highwayman tale.
The Jews and Indians lecture sparks rumors of ark plates
A New York lecturer argued that American Indians are descendants of the lost tribes of Israel. The Boston Transcript cites a Fort Gibson letter claiming nine emigrants preceded others and one bore ark-like plates with engraved commandments. An old negro says the wearer refuses talk and remains grave. Further information is promised.
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M. M. Noah
N. Y
Mercantile Library Association
Israel
New London Gazette
Fort Gibson
Arkansas
Mount
Boston Transcript
Frederick plan for a thousand white trees this spring
From the Frederick Examiner we learn that Dr W D Jenks of Frederick plans in the coming spring to plant a thousand white trees near Frederick. The article notes the project and local interest in ornamental plantings.
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Frederick
W. D. Jenks
Silk culture as a profitable farm venture in Pennsylvania
The author argues silk farming is highly lucrative and easy, suited for children and women, with one hundred pounds of mulberry leaves yielding one pound of silk. He touts the Italian mulberry, saves by local production, and envisions Pennsylvanian women and girls producing silk domestically to stop reliance on Indies imports. He claims possible annual savings of over 12 million dollars and notes hardy Italian mulberry trees and strong life for the Morus multicaulis. The piece ends with patriotic hope for Pennsylvania and its native silk manufacturing.
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Connecticut
Indies
Europe
Lombardy
New England
United States
Pennsylvania
Penn
Memory and voice of animals in instinct and memory
In Dr Jarrold's Reason and Instinct the text argues animals possess memory and share knowledge. It cites examples from East Indies boas and domestic creatures, noting reactions to predators, learned feeding, and communal learning across species. It questions why animals fear or trust differently and why whaling and trade alter behavior.
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East Indies
Kelsall
Liverpool
Curious Discovery Petrified Hunters Near Laurel Ridge
The Hamilton Ontario or Cumberland mountains region reports three petrified hunters found in a cave near Laurel Ridge by John Chester and Jacob L. Davis of Philadelphia. On January 24 they uncovered one seated with head against rock another standing with a spear as if startled and a dog crouched nearby. The cave is roughly 125 feet long with a difficult entrance. The find is described as well authenticated though tinged with poetical and apocryphal notes.
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Hamilton
Great Laurel Ridge
Cumberland Mountains
John Chester
Jacob L. Davis
Philadelphia
Cour
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