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Newspaper
Logansport Herald
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 13, 1838
Page
1
The Logansport Herald lists weekly publication on Thursdays with annual and advance payment options. Rates: one square per three insertions at one dollar, extra lines twenty five cents. longer ads priced per square for three months, six months, or a year with discounts. All business letters must be postpaid.
The text appears to be a fragment from the Lan of the United States listing acts or proclamations signed by the President. It references a session and authority of the LY (likely DOI? LY) and the twenty fifth congress, describing acts enacted or proceedings in a formal government record.
A proclamation from President Martin Van Buren announces the public ratification and exchange of a convention between the United States and the Republic of Texas. It settles reclamations for the capture of briggs Pocket and Durango and damages to American citizens, with payment of $11,756 to the United States. The exchange of ratifications occurred in Washington on July 6, 1838.
In a coastal hamlet, old Skipper Volger recalls a deadly night as a fierce gale drives a vessel onto rocks near Never Sunk reef. His son Henry and Alice Tracy aid a beacon and rope rescue under a raging sea while prayers rise for the doomed crew.
A wily guest avoids pay by dining with a rich man who planned to marry his daughter. After dinner the man offers to take the daughter for nine thousand rather than ten thousand, provoking a heated rejection. The passage notes an annular solar eclipse on the 18th.
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