Sobered Times and Western News From Indiana and Beyond
A late 1829 Gazette column reports dull business in New York and widespread financial strain. Indiana notes include Whig State Convention timing, Thanksgiving Proclamation by Governor Wallace, and local incidents from Lawrenceburg to Noblesville. Florida conflict costs, bank suspensions, and emigration to Iowa also appear with stock market and river trade updates.
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New York
Philadelpia
Boston
England
G. Western
N. Y
Philadelphia
Indiana
Feafares
Emigrants Flood the Territory City in 19th Century Update
The passage notes vast immigration swelling the Territory with land abundant and a growing city described as a modern Gotham. It highlights settlers from many states and nations converging on the area, seeking better conditions for themselves and their families.
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Jowa
Burlington
Lowa
Sinois
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Gotham
Unnatural Murder Reported Aboard Missouri River Steamboat
The Dearborn County Democrat notes a rumored murder aboard a steamboat on the Missouri River. A worker cleans heated bailers, is beaten, and dies from extreme heat, with names withheld until proof arises. The Buckeye cites the claim as potentially unfounded.
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Missouri River
Buckeye
A Young Sravant and a Century of Service
A 105 year old woman from the Madon family shares her long life and decades nursing generations. She began work at fifteen earning sixpence weekly later raised to a penny daily while tending the nursery and cleaning an old fashioned grate. Her own daughter, about seventy, is humorously called the old woman.
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Peoria Illinois Register
John Zebrow
Ohioa
Daniel Prince
Peoria
John Prince
Daniel
Vermont
Ilinois
Ife
Prince’s Grove
Sravant
William Hewitt
Madon
Young Womanhood Inspires Gentle Critics
A romantic excerpt from Gallagher's Hesperian urges young ladies to pause amid social tides of romance and music. It frames love as a rosy atmosphere and compares maturity to a ripe peach, using poetic metaphors to counsel restraint and self awareness.
Fragments of Victorian Echoes and City Cautions
A Picayune quote recalls a fellow with a rusty firelock and sword fighting imaginary foes as a dramatic scene. A Baltimore woman wakes with ear pain. physician removes a red spider trapped inside. New Orleans cautions outsiders to arrive with funds after an epidemic subsides and avoid rushing into business.
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Picayune
New Orleans
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Peru
Lawrenceburgh
B. Waer- Lake
G. M. Beschen
P. E
van Depaaruent
Pension Office
J. J. Edwards
T. W. Olcott
Albany
The
Gazette
Messna. Burron
Annette
Wallace
Connersville
Levi Squires
Florida
United States
Wayne Co. Chronicle
Messrs
Baker and Cole
Mr. Cole
Rushville Herald
Donnavan and
Tizzard
Hoosier
Hoosiers
Merchants’ Bank of New Orleans
State
Tennessee
Madison Courier and Enquirer
New York City
Indead
Key West South
Lieut. Sloan
Marine Corps
East Florida
Inst
Newnansville
Oscilla River
Bank of the United States
Wesern Exploring Company
Hamilton County
Noblesville
Rocky Mountains
Platte River
Falls
Ila
Noblesville Intelligencer
Burlington (Laws
Francis Genox
Congress
Territory of
Gehon
W. W. Chapman
Joseph M. Robinson
Chapman
Florence Gazette
Muscle Shoals
J. R. Henry
Baltimore Patriot
Louisianian
Mobile
Cin. Rep
Suwarrow
Marshal Marmont
Catherine
Bunch
Wakulla
Dearborn Co. Democrat
Dr. Linn
Linn
U.S
Missouri
London
Providrion
National Gazette
Espy
Cape Hatteras
Georgia
Charleston
Hampton Roads
Lespy
Boston Journal
Gallagher
Hesperian
Cincinnati
Baltimore
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