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Newspaper
Peru Observer
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 29, 1844
Page
1
The Peru Observer announces weekly publication on Saturdays with pricing of One Dollar Twenty Five Cents annually paid in advance or One Dollar Fifty Cents otherwise. Advertising rates include 12 line square at One Dollar for three insertions and discounts for longer campaigns.
Poem and excerpts urge poor urban residents to move to the prairie and mountains for land, labor rewards, and a brighter life, contrasting with urban corruption, crime, and disease while touting the allure of a freer rural frontier.
A venerable Ohio Methodist minister was arraigned before his conference accused of political meddling. He admitted the charge and said he is bound to fight Lovofacoism on weekdays as well as the devil on Sundays. A quip about annexation follows a suitor’s bold proposal to a young woman as her father jokes about ratifying a treaty.
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