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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1841
Page
1
Terms for the telegraph service list pricing in advance and installment options. Two dollars in advance, two dollars fifty cents within six months, and three dollars after six months. Subscriptions considered valid after six months, with job work and advertising to be prepaid.
A public meeting at the Court House on April 10 honors William Henry Harrison after the late president’s death. Speakers praise his patriotism and western roots, pledge national mourning, wear crape for 60 days, and plan a procession at the court house square on April 17.
The writer compares the new administration to a disordered engine needing fuel lube and parts. Mr. Ewing works long hours to clear his desk, while Crawford is noted as a political favorite. Also includes yard measures in miles, Texas news from Albany Atlas, and a note on a flood report from the Colorado and a rumor of the St Bernard capture.
The text discusses failures of plum varieties on the western frontier due to curculio damage. It describes the insect’s life cycle, preventive measures such as paving around trees, soil mellowing, and shaking branches. Engrafting wild plumb stalks with green gage shows promise for higher yields.
A London shoemaker publishes a large work on the art of shoemaking. He offers Gay the poet’s lines about fitz for March in New York, extolling firm lasting soles, protection through snow and rain, and risks of ill fitting shoes and corn from missteps.
A fragment reflects an Indigenous narrative praising noble Native life before colonization and contrasting it with the arrival of white settlers and their “polished vices.” The speaker emphasizes reverence for nature and a simple faith contrasted with deceitful influence.
The piece notes monomania arising from dwelling on one thought and cites a physician famed for blistering theory extending into theology. It claims he argued future punishments are endless blisterings and that the devil incarnate is a large Spanish fly.
An antiquated exchange notes a young man visiting a girl who laughs at her mother sewing a pillow case. The girl retorts a stitched gag about tying her to the bag, reflecting dated slang and social banter.
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