OBSERVER PRINTS 1845 PUBLICATIONS AND AVENTURES
The Peru Observer notes issues of Saturday publication terms for the paper, anecdotes from a ventriloquist show including Snooks and Skelline, and a frontier Oregon emigration letter from Capt Adams advising preparations for May departure. It covers embarkation logistics, supplies, livestock, and route milestones from Independence Missouri toward Oregon, with commentary on Oregon's climate and commerce and Missouri legislative support for a post mistress appointment.
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Ohio Statesman
Oregon
Peck
Adame
Missouri
Independence
Rocky Mountains
Indeperdence
Dean Sin
Pacific
St. Lammie
Port Larmie Hall
Fort Hall Wallawalla
Fort Wallawalla
Vancouver
Carolinas
New England
The Sleep of the Valiant by Ly Thomas Spear
Poem honoring a fallen naval hero. References to Freedom's battles, Victory, Chauncey, and a hero laid to rest with laurel and rare accolades. Describes funeral rites, cannon salutes, and enduring memory of his deeds in service of the country.
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Valor
Chauncey
Snooks and ventriloquism in a Delaware village sketch
A correspondent reports a Pennsylvania visit where large handbills promote ventriloquism by Mr T V Skelline and Magnetism by Mr M. In a crowded room Mr Snooks speaks on Mesmerism while a committee and a pastor seek to expose the humbug of the claims.
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Skelline
Dr G
Virgin Indies
Spooks
Mr. Snooks
Curl
Curt
Snooks
Delaware Gazette
Pennsylvania
T. V. Skelline
Beautiful Flowers and the Child by the River
A reflective piece uses a rosy child scattering flowers into a stream as a moral emblem. It urges cherishing each moment as a perfumed flower and warns that time bears away the blossoms with an echoing plea to reclaim lost powers.
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Tus Wastzo Frowers
The Widow and the Cobbler
A London widow seeks to secure her late husband’s estate after his death by employing a neighboring cobbler who resembles him. The plan is to have the cobbler pretend to be the deceased and dictate a will leaving the widow half the estate and the other half to the shoemaker across the street. The widow is startled when the cobbler suggests a different distribution.
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London
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Peru
Indiana
James B. Scott
Observer
Joly
Widsides
Bridgeton
T. M. Adams
Samuel Peck
P. M
Sunbury
O. PS
T. M.A
LY Thomas G. Spear
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