31 May 1845
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Newspaper
Peru Observer
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1845
Page
1
The notice states the Tun Orsraver is published weekly on a fine medium sheet at 1.25 dollars per year if paid in advance or 1.50 dollars if not. It lists advertising rates including a 12 line square for one dollar three times, two months for two dollars fifty one, three times for three dollars, six months five, twelve months eight dollars.
A New Orleans Picayune feature narrates a comic tale of a New Englander in St. Charles Street, befriended by a dandy, who tricks him with counterfeit gold pieces and bank-note suspicions, illustrating local wit and southern peculiarities. It includes editorials on European culture and French manners with travel and education insights.
Przetyn, elective chief of about 25,000 Choctaws beyond the Mississippi, plans a Washington visit next winter to seek admission of Choctaw country as a U S territory with a congressional delegate. The tribe, praised in the speech for lawmaking, agriculture, education, Christianity, and loyalty to republican institutions, seeks timely federal recognition.
The piece traces the historical practice of exporting English women to Virginia starting in 1620. It notes Sir Edward Sandys supporting the plan, sending ninety girls then sixty more, priced at tobacco worth three shillings per pound, with the debt to wives prioritized for recovery.
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