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Newspaper
Peru Observer
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Apr 12, 1845
Page
2
Captain J. Price, once a drinker, lectures on temperance in town. He argues that removing the calf will dry up the cow, a view our town disputes as he recounts his long struggle with the old habit and its persistence.
The Yalier Boys of Detroit will exhibit a soreye at the Garst House tonight.
O2 Captain Price holds a temperance lecture this evening, addressing issues of alcohol use and public morality. The event aims to persuade attendees toward moderation and abstinence.
A Providence correspondent reports March 17 describing Governor Dorr in the prison workshop painting fans. He sits in an armed chair, wears a Chepatchet coat, and uses a cherry bed with rocking chair. The account contrasts alleged Algerine cruelty with humane prison conditions.
Archibald Yell of Arkansas arrived in the city from Washington with important despatches for Major Donelson, the charge d affaires to Texas. Major Donelson is said to have possession of the dispatches, and the Tropic notes speculation on the powers behind the move toward annexation.
Fragmentary notes discuss annexation in Polk with views differing from John Tyler's hurried published stance, attributed to his nephew and suggesting tension between cautious and impulsive positions on territorial expansion.
The Tippecanoe Journal notes the motto on the private seal of the Honorable Wa. J. Brown as highly significant to his character. The remark underscores Brown’s reputed virtues and public image in the community.
A Baltimore Patriot correspondence from Washington details a whispered dialogue in which President Polk parcels out 3000 dollar offices to Congress member William J. Brown. Brown requests the Register, Blake, Land Office Commissionership, Hagner, Pleasanton, Lewis, Penrose, and Clark posts, but Polk cites incumbents and friend connections, naming Smith, Beaton, Prevailing allies, and Cabinet confidants. The exchange reveals patronage norms discussed in March 1845.
In a Potomac dispatch style exchange Mr Brown pressures for an office worth $2,500 or a similar post. Mr Polk resists offering no current auditorship but hints at future opportunity while Brown eyes a return to Congress.
A graceful Jefferson letter to John Adams on the death of Mrs Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams, dated Monticello November 13 1818. Jefferson consoles, reflects on affliction, time and silence as medicine, and imagines an eventual reunion of souls in a quiet civic memorial.
Brantz Mayer recounts Santa Anna’s dramatic career from his capture by Texians to his return to Mexico, his overthrow, re election, Vera Cruz defense, Texas reconquest attempts, and amid personal tragedy and controversial conduct. The piece notes Mexican public reaction to his amputated leg and references Mayer’s burial account.
A sunrise ceremony in Mexico featured a formal procession and the shell of the President’s limb, once buried at Vera Cruz and later brought to the capital. The relic rested in a crystal vase at Santa Paula cemetery after a monument was erected by the Mexican General. A Mexican dignitary delivered a eulogy before the rites concluded. A stark contrast followed recent events as the leg was desecrated and a statue of Santa Anna toppled.
Go on. Do not despair in any occupation or pursuit, whether merchant student mechanic or poor. Persist, finish what you began, and you will survive hard times, gain a degree, stay employed, and rise above want with faithful effort. Also notes on petrifying soil in Iowa and humorous colonial jests.
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