Subscriptions and Advertising Terms Then Retrospection
A historical newspaper page lists twelve month订 subscription terms with advance payments and editor options. It also details advertising rates one dollar per square for three weeks and twenty five cents per additional insertion, with cash required for outward ads and legal notices. Retrospection verses follow, reflecting on vanished days and memory. The long poem recalls friends lost, a census-like dialogue about family, and a brief Irish anecdote ending with a farewell to a visitor from the Picayune.
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Witton H-Tani
Land Cruise of an Old Salt Meets a Wreck on Road
The piece recounts an aged sea captain who builds a man of war on wheels and takes a road voyage to springs. A wild cruise ends when horses and harness fail near a steep descent, an anchor stoppage saving riders but leaving three horses dead and injuries to the captain and companions.
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Don
Washington
Mike
Commodore
Jack
A Tale of Truth A Loyal Bride and a Lost Husband
Catharine an eleven year old orphan in 1812 Brooklyn rises from poverty under the care of a naval lieutenant who becomes her father and later proposes marriage. She agrees and becomes his wife before he sails and dies at sea leaving her bereaved and alone.
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Catharine
Navy Yard
Loth
Bro
Brooklyn
Tima
Republic
America
Boston
Catherine
Isthmus of Panama Ship Canal Plan Advances
The Wayne Sentinel notes a Paris company sending engineers to the Isthmus to build a Panama Canal across less than thirty miles of isthmus. The project would shorten voyages to the Pacific by roughly four thousand miles, boost commerce and civilization, and accelerate access to China.
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Atlantic
Pacific Ocean
Panama
Paris
Chagres
Pacifc
American
Pacific
China
Wayne Sentinel
Irish laborer uncovers old brick vault with gold in Elm Street
A New Haven laborer named William Thompson working for Abraham Bardly finds a two by two foot brick vault beneath a cellar. A stone jar inside holds doubloons and gold dating before 1768. He pockets about sixty dollars and claims others saw more, while he hides the treasure from coworkers and the wealthy house owner.
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New Haven
New York Herald
Wm. Thompson
Abraham Bardly
Elm Street
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Nancy
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Pig
M. O. Picayune
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Donybrook
Patrick
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GI Arnold
Isthmus
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