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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1841
Page
1
The notice outlines price tiers for telegraph service and related work. Two dollars in advance or two dollars and fifty cents within six months, and three dollars after six months. Subscriptions due after six months with job work and advertising paid in advance.
Poem urges a son to seek the enduring warmth of home over worldly glory. It contrasts the beacon of home with the short lived lure of fame and wealth. The speaker promises that despite distant travel and ambition, the light of home remains constant and guiding through hardship.
Henry Doyle the Frederick County Bank cashier testifies under oath in Maryland that he kept only certain keys at home and pocketed the outer vault door keys while others remained in bank. He states no keys have disappeared from his possession and swears the account is true.
A stark exhortation warns young men to shun debt as if facing war and pestilence. It likens debt to a crushing millstone and incubus on the heart, urging readers to avoid its dominion, and to eschew its temptations in all forms.
From St Charles Missouri May 1838 Meyers editors about twenty three years ago I was twelve when I found a pea sized lump under my nose between my eyes which grew. It was declared cancer after surgeries by Dr M Connor of Kentucky in 1821 and Dr Smith of New Haven in 1823. The text continues describing treatments and outcomes.
An Arkansas Times report details Rev Dr Buchanan's public lecture on a new nervous system technique claimed to influence thoughts and actions. Subjects allegedly feel shifting thoughts and emotions, with one man momentarily sleeping, another recalling past memories, and a third showing impulsive anger before regaining composure.
A patient recounts recurrent cancer tumors cured after December treatment using a potash made from Red Oak Bark ashes, thickened to molasses, applied to the wound and tar coverings, repeated until all protrusions vanished. The narrator claims complete recovery with only minor scars and urges public notice.
The article notes Hogan, condemned in Little Rock Arkansas for murder and moved to receive presidential clemency, fled the prison after leaving a public address claiming his crime was indiscretion not malice and that he would live among Western Indians. It also covers assorted 1841 topics including naval armor plans and U.S. treasury inquiries.
The House appointed a committee from each state to join the Senate committee and report on how Congress should express the nation's sorrow at the death of President William Henry Harrison. The committee includes Adams of Sass, Fessenden, Atherton, Tillinghast, and others.
The June 3 1841 Washington correspondence notes Senate committees announced by the Chair. Mr Preston moves for a report on Mediterranean Squadron sailing and Brandywine return. Clay urges repeal of the Sub Treasury, Calhoun seeks a substitute, Wright supports a modified inquiry, and discussions end with the resolution passage and an adjournment to twelve tomorrow.
The House opened at eleven and declined to take up Barnard's two select committees on currency and land proceeds. Wise led over a disputed rules change to rescind the abolition petitions exclusion, with Johnson and others speaking before the motion was laid over. The Treasury report was received and ordered printed, then adjourned.
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