California News Briefs on Assembly, Fremont and Fire
From New Orlean's California dispatches dated February 4 reports the Assembly meeting on December 17 with Governor elect Burnett taking oath and entering duties. Fremont and Gwinn elected U S senators, mining suspended due to snow, and a San Francisco conflagration estimated at a million and a half dollars. The piece notes a constitution vote of twelve thousand for and eight thousand against.
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California
New Onceans
Chagres
Burnett
United
Col. J. C Fremont
W. M. Gwinn
Mississippi
New Orleans Faces Eight Million Dollar City Debt
An editorial in the Delta claims New Orleans owes a total debt of eight million dollars for a population around 120,000, describing it as one of the heaviest municipal debts. The note outlines mint deposits for the year totaling $14,600,463 with $12.2 in gold and $2.8 in silver, and coinage composition of $11,164,695 in total.
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Delta
New Orleans
Weackwoor
England
Pory
Whig
Dackwood
Edinburgh Review
Westmiter
Otland
Chalmers
Ann
Inia
Afaina
Manting
New York
Blackwood
Edinburgh
Advertising and curious tales in a fragmentary century
A collage of advertising reminiscence and comic vignettes notes how early life exposure to ads shaped merchants' credibility and trade. It weaves in a Richmond memory, a yearly advertising value claim, and a farrago of old time scenes from churches to weddings and a satirical spin on speeches and proverbs.
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Victoria
Fredericksburg
the Enquirer
Richmond
Enquirer
Augusta commission promotes goods and services on Market Street
An Augusta Georgia business, JIEFFERS COTHRAN & Co, solicits liberal patronage offering slabs and various wares from their McIntosh Street warehouse in the cotton trade area. They promise liberal cash advances on stored produce and advertise their persistence in informing friends and the public.
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Commission Verchants
Market Street
Hasina
Warenmoor
MelIntosh
Avavara
G Murne
Warrior Aid Cosmissios
Augusta
Investor
Corros
Fhour, Bacon, &c
Asp Kor
Warn Meretaxoin
Bey Goons
Prasrens
McIntoshe
Jieffers, Cothran & Co
Hamburg
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New York Sterald
Taylor
Washington
Congress
Oasaida
Florida
Bowlegs
Major Mortis
Billy
Cass
T Wiggs
Indian River
Sallahassee Sentinel
Juma
Jonathan
Greenhorn County
Spittington
New Church
Orange Street
Brooklyn
House of God
Pittsbirg Gazette
Inennsylvania
Wilmot
Bonn &O
Consi
R. McPau
Pickens C. 1
Pickens C. H
Sen
W. W. Clayton
Johan Lavy
Edmund Martin
Win
Martin
J.B. Mauldin
Jeremiah Prater
Daniel Whitnheame
Wilson
Ander
Benson & Taylor P
B.&t. Pickens C. H
Asa
Elizabeth Stribling
N. M. Stibling
Stribling
Thomas
Elizabeth Caradine
Miles M. Norton
South Carolina
Ameangdee
William Vanzant
W. D. Steele
C. Or. v
James George
N. R. Penny
Waco
Perry & Keith
Witt
Equity
Pickens
Pickens C. IL
Henry Garner
Court of Ordinary
Vrida
James Garner
Adm'r
Pickens G
Rioco Bex
Suga
S. 1
McFall
Tob
James George, Tf
Blackwood’s Mag
Ayyame Hvitish Quarterly
Great Britain
London Quarterly
Adinhurgie Review
Norte
Dritish Reytrie
Thadvancs
Leonard Scott & CO
Furrow Street
James V. Trimmier
Attorney AT Law
Spartanburg
Union
Greenville
Viernon
Durtanburg
J. N. Lawrence. Witt
Edehy
Morall Wickens G. U
Common Pleas
Henry Whitmire
Keith John Bishop
Whith
O. Er
Nopthoeh
Sherif’ Haynes
WS Steele, Ordinny & Adm
fThayer
Anderson and Pickens
Aboy
M Scientific Mechanics
Anderson
C. Narrison & Wynne
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