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Newspaper
Peru Weekly News
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 19, 1856
Page
4
Rowland Hill recalls a voyage where the captain and mate quarrelled openly with constant swearing. He demands fair play and asserts his turn to swear, prompting a humorous exchange about taking one’s own time. The scene shifts to a fragment of The Buroner's Wire and a sequence of moral sketches about various vices.
A Boston Herald item narrates a drunken man in police custody asking what he must pay for the ride to Station House No 2 and insisting he will pay. The piece then pivots to a series of quips and moral maxims about courage, ignorance, pride, and deceit, including brief anecdotes and marginal verse.
The piece parodies a dramatic soliloquy on drinking and sobriety while lampooning the Maine Law and a drunken public life. It weaves satire with travel notes about New Zealanders and a curious Yorkshire coal mine frog found deep underground.
The Indiana State Journal appeals for citizen support, presenting itself as central to the People's Party with anti slavery and anti foreign influence positions. It promises robust news coverage, weekly Human News, early general news, extensive agricultural content, and favorable market data, with pricing for multiple copy arrangements.
The Tribune enters its fifteenth year with a bold pledge to stand for righteousness against oppression. It boasts a large, staffed staff of contributors and argues for broad public support, including a rising circulation across editions and low prices.
The Eleventh Volume of Scientific American launches September 16 offering notices of recent scientific, mechanical, chemical, and agricultural discoveries. It promotes patents, inventions, engineering, and practical science with detailed discussions, examples, and substantial lists of patent claims and industrial topics for makers and readers.
The 1856 issue of Goody's Lady's Book offers 100 pages per month with colored fashion plates and steel engravings. It features patterns for women's dresses and children's clothing, recipes for cooking and nursing, lessons in drawing, music pages, and a nursery department, all under the publisher's trusted monthly program.
A garbled-aged notice invites readers to purchase “Lady's Book” subscriptions and related items through a Philadelphia address. It mentions engravings, materials, pricing, and various copy options including one and two year terms and multiple copies, with a $3 price reference. The fragmentary text names AL GORE and a Mr. Chisinet Street contact.
A fragmented OCR shows Perm street names including Broadway Wabash Huntington Clay Tippecanoe Water Wayne Benton Miami Cros Wood Fremont Lafayete and more with confusing notes about east west and ordinal streets. Several garbled tokens and extraneous characters appear in the transcription.
A dense roll of names, roles, and offices appears for Jefferson, Union, Richland, and neighboring counties. The document lists justices of the peace, constables, treasurers, clerks, trustees, and other county officers, with numerous individuals named for each post. The page also notes omissions in the lists.
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