10 Mar 1849
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Newspaper
Logansport Telegraph
Location
Logansport, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1849
Page
1
The Logansport Tel lists subscription terms and advertising rates for notices of marriages and deaths, with pricing steps for one, three, and twelve month durations. It notes liberal yearly discounts and charges for display and periodical notices, inviting interested parties to contact for rates.
Fragmentary poem notes a young sailor departing for California aboard the Empire clipper. It laments parting, praises liberty, and imagines roaming free on distant seas, unleashing thoughts against constraint while yearning for wild, unpoisoned air and rugged mountains.
A humorous verse by T. W. Whitely lampoons single men and their nerves as seven named bachelors face mock romance. The speaker teases Frank Fred and Charles while urging caution and hopeful glances, ending with a playful challenge to response.
A compact excerpt of aphoristic observations explains politeness as a soft buffer for discomfort, reproach as a harsh tool that prompts self reflection, and imagination as the lifting gas of love that elevates the spirit.
A reader reflects on women education and culture praising music poetry biography and history as tools for female intellect. It argues public schools and libraries like Sigourney Library empower both sexes and defend against pedantry toward learned women while urging timely use of cultivated minds.
A garbled excerpt shows a printer addressing a lady with a quip about proper conduct. The text includes fragmented dialogue and misplaced punctuation, offering a glimpse of period innuendo and social conventions without a clear narrative.
The Giant and Giantess, recently exhibiting in New York, are preparing a marriage that promises a spectacle of high society. The forthcoming ceremony is anticipated as a notable social event among the elite factions.
A frontier sale notice from Logansport urges cash buyers to capitalize on low prices as B O Spencer of Spencer and Ropper's old stand offers dry goods and wholesale bargains aimed at saving pennies and dollars. The advertisement lists staple items and prices and promises further deductions for bulk purchases.
Promotional notice for a new medical work on gestation and birth by Dr R G Geissner of Paris, published in New York. Claims discovery of a method to avoid pregnancy risks, offered for twenty five cents, with imitation copies sold elsewhere at higher price. Addresses provided for mail order from New York.
Barbara Enyard petitions for divorce from Joseph Enyard in Pulaski Circuit Court. The clerk records the filing and affidavit of nonresidence and warns the defendant to plead by the April term or the bill will be taken as confessed. Clerk John Pearson signs and seals the document on February 12, 1849.
In a 1849 notice, J W Wright clerk of Land Office Logansport states that per a General Assembly resolution the Auditor Treasurer will settle Scrip accounts with the Wabash and Erie Canal board during recess, after which White Dog Scrip will be accepted again at the office.
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