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Newspaper
Lima Argus
Location
Lima, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1848
Page
8
A humorous and rough dialect account recalls Becky Wilson recounting a courtship and marriage to John amid teasing questions from friends. The tale includes family approval, a rushed wedding, and the lively chorus of neighbors reacting to Becky’s tale in a crowded setting.
Reading of early engineering feats includes the Niagara cableway trial in Canada and New York with a suspended basket, and the Menai Strait tube experiment near Chester tested with locomotives. A street vignette shows visitors discussing a Mr Johnson who owns multiple farms and pays workers only with clothes and rituals.
The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church endorses the Colonization Society as wise and humane and urges renewed patronage through July collections. They praise abolition of slave factories near Liberia and call for a future free of the ocean slave trade.
The Cleveland Plain Dealer offers a reward to the whig editor who tells the biggest lie about Gen Cass. Zanesville Courier Louisville Journal and Cincinnati Gazette compete, with claims the Journal reaches New Hampshire and the Courier Delaware. A Western reporter recalls a shipboard mishap and a misremembered line about a wife and child asleep in the cabin. A Grace Hathway style poem excerpt describes beauty, dawn tears, and woodland music inspiring delight.
Detroit Free Press reports Horace Greely of the New York Tribune and Hunterdon Whig Convention answering Whig concerns on tariff policy distribution of public bonds and Polk financial criticism. Cresley identified as leading Whig editor shaping party views amid renewed old issues.
Judge Jousson of Louisiana rules that the Prater’s profession is a manual trade and its press, types, and paper are exempt from seizure under article 644 of the Code of Practice. The provision shields tools and instruments necessary to earn a livelihood.
The Central County Committee chooses Thursday August 24 for a North West Young Men’s Mass Convention in Dayton. Officials aim for a large turnout and speakers from with and outside the state. The meeting may be held at the site where General Cass camped with his regiment. Dayton Empire.
The piece links the Md World upheaval to English and Lutheran rhetoric, predicting people enlightenment and princes falling. It also notes Napoleon and Robert Fulton influencing history, praising steamboat impact. Finally it reports the Washington National Monument project beginning with contractors and an obelisk plan of five hundred feet.
The Cincinnati Evening News endorses Gen Butler for nomination praising his actions in the last war with England. It notes his leadership during the burning of a barn housing retreating Indians and argues the Barnum family should be satisfied with the choice.
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