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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1851
Page
3
The Mills County community warns Mormons to depart, while Judge Sloa in the district court faces delays amid rumors of drunkenness. A mounted group of about forty Gentiles threatens the Mormon judgeship and forces dismissal, amid charges of political manipulation and wider accusations against Mormons.
The Rochester Daily Times quips that an editor reads papers selects miscellany and handles printing duties while juggling errands and blame. It paints a humorous portrait of editors as overworked figures who endure demagogues and petty barbs, ending with a playful definition of an editor.
Washington correspondent for the New York Tribune reports December 3 that Mr Cray remains mentally sharp but physically weakened. He is thinner and more aged, unable to endure fatigue, and plagued by a dry hacking cough for eighteen months. The piece fears this may be Congress end of his influential voice in national councils.
In England about six thousand dollars are pledged to open a Protestant church in Turin Sardinia. The government recently revised bishop salaries and election stipends, noting salaries around 1000 dollars with large totals proposed. A concert featured an odd exchange about fixing the gale as a plain man queried the speaker.
A Turkish saying links happiness to health and virtue, noting that Adam’s exile could be endured if one can stand on one leg for a century. It implies contentment may come from resilience rather than virtue alone.
The Gazette table tallies 798 coffee houses and 442 card rooms in Cincinnati, plus 11 Rondo rooms, 16 Reno and 99 Faro rooms, 30 billiard and 72 bagatelle tables. The billiard and bagatelle setups likely serve amusement more than gambling.
The item includes a recipe for St Charles Indian Bread from the St Charles Hotel New Orleans with eggs sour milk Indian meal butter and soda baked quickly. It lists a marriage notice William Schwarzwaelder to Harriet Vandergenderbugerdonderblock enburgher and comments on railway progress from Dunkirk to Erie and from Dunkirk to Buffalo. It notes births in 1792 of Webster Calhoun Cass Benton and Van Buren and a Brigham Young remark about polygamy and disagreement among U.S. authorities.
Over the past year at least seventy million dollars was spent on goods made abroad that could have been produced domestically. The statement argues for boosting local manufacturing to reduce import reliance and support the national economy.
About two hundred Germans will leave Cleveland for Germany to participate in the expected revolution next May. Last year Cleveland packed 20 000 tierces of beef. this year the quantity is expected to fall to about 8 000 tierces.
German Buffalo paper lists Gottfried Teufel with Matz Kleunter in a marriage notice. The unusual pairing reflects a localized cultural snippet from the period.
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