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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1841
Page
1
Terms of the Telegraph announce rates: two dollars in advance, two dollars and fifty cents within six months, three dollars after six months. Subscriptions due after six months. Job work and advertising to be paid in advance.
Mr Webster argues states cannot pass effectual bankrupt laws and Congress must act. He cites insolvent debtors, personal bondage, and the need to relieve thousands, urging immediate passage of a federal bankruptcy measure to preserve liberty and justice. He praises abolition of imprisonment for debt and urges Congress to fulfill its constitutional duty for national relief.
A select committee condemns a counter report by Williamson Wright as misrepresenting canal land sales and implied costs. The majority clarifies land locations near Fort Wayne in Huntington and Allen counties and defends proposed independent commissioners with standard salaries.
A Richmond writer recalls Fanny Elssler's theater appearance with vivid spectacle while a poor mother, alone with dying child, faces hunger and cold. The piece ends with a stark contrast as wealth enjoys a moment of applause and life for the mother ends in despair.
A stylish Parisian woman deceives a shop clerk by arranging a shawl sale and luring him to a dentist, where she uses a pretext to have a tooth extracted. The clerk loses shawl and money and a tooth, while the dentist unknowingly assists. Authorities search for the culprit.
Andrew Miller was tried in Washington County Court for stealing a gallon measure of whiskey from J. Gabby’s distillery and sentenced to two years. He had just been discharged from prison where he served three years for stealing the same gallon measure of whiskey from the same distillery.
A Terrebonne planter reports sugar cane in Lafourche parishes so injured by cold that molasses cannot be made. The Picayune learns the season’s crop will fall short of last year’s.
A dated memorandum from August 19, 1783 lists weights of eleven officers at West Point including Washington 209, Lincoln 224, Knox 280 and Huntington 133 pounds. The average is 214 pounds with Knox heaviest and Huntington lightest, and biographers rarely record such measurements.
A poetic reflection likens beauty to a flower that remains most alluring when veiled by modesty. The author compares the flower’s charm to peeking through green leaves, protected from sun and elements, making its appeal more intriguing.
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