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Newspaper
Maumee Express
Location
Maumee, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1837
Page
4
Fragmentary prose recalls a night journey with shifting memories and relics of past loves. Vague imagery of a wandering traveler, a girl, and a distant godlike presence surfaces amid poetic scenes of gulls, forests, and the sea breeze.
The article recounts a dramatic elopement attempt involving a young white woman posing as a man with a posse of male and female witnesses. A North Carolina bound couple travels by cart, with a slave as the supposed servant, amid suspicions and police involvement. The narrative blends sensational detail with moral commentary on deception, class, and race in early American society.
In 1887 forwarding and commission merchants at Maumee and Perrysburg adopt a schedule of storage rates for commodities including pork, wool, lumber, and furniture, with commissions, risk allocations, and a fixed price for wood to steamboats. Names: J J Bixanast, Hazan, Storr, and others pledge to abide. Also notices call for bids on a Wabash and Erie Canal section from Maumee Rapids to Manhattan and Defiance, with terms and exhibits.
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