Published Thursday Subscriptions and Rates at Drake Printing Office
The notice lists publication details by William M. Drake & Son Printing Office Front Street opposite the 2nd Presbyterian Church. Subscriptions: village or office readers one dollar twenty five cents yearly prepaid. mail subscribers one dollar yearly prepaid with fifty cents extra if not prepaid. Advertising rates and agent information included with December 21, 1848 date. Job printing offered with neatness and dispatch.
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William M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
Summer Arrangement to Begin April 2, 1849
The schedule announces a summer arrangement starting Monday April 2 1849. The railway extension from Somerville to the White House a ten mile stretch opened for travel October 16 last, reducing the stage distance between the road terminus and Easton to 25 miles.
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Somerville
White House
Easton
For Sale Land near Basking Ridge in 1848
For sale 121 2 acres with seven acres cultivated and fenced near the road from Basking Ridge to New Market Depot priced at 200. Also 6 1 2 unimproved acres nearby offered together or separately for 230 total. December 1848.
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Basking Ridge
New Market Depot
Wanted to Sell Books by County Agent in New Jersey
Advertisement seeking agents to sell books in New Jersey counties. Titles include The American Farm Book The Diseases of Domestic Animals The American Bee Keeper’s Manual The American Fruit Book. Price 100 dollars. Each agent must have at least 25 dollars cash capital. Saxton publisher 121 Palton et March 1849. 100
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New Jersey
UST Receives First Rate Oil Article At Drak Jao
A partial OCR note records that UST received a first rate article of lamp oil priced at one gallon amounts to 10,849 in local currency at Drak Jao.
Panther tale on a deer hunt ends in a nine foot panther kill
An Arkansas like frontier scene recalls Cal and two companions hunting in autumn snow. Cal grabs a panther by the tail as it climbs a tree, pulls it into the fire, and in a wild chase the panther is shot heart while Cal clings on. The monster panther measures nine feet from nose to tail.
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Cal
Calvin
Syracuse
Umton
The Squire and the Illinois Trickster Corn Sarpint
Jedediah shares a yarn about a crafty Illinois trader who swindled him with sour butter and a corn raisin sapient pranks. The tale ends with Jed’s humiliation as diners mock his tale of the “dumplin” ruse and he exits amid laughter.
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Cits
Jinin Stalinois
Connecticut
Jed
Dickerin
The First Major Nash on the first wedding
The essayist muses on Adam and Eve's wedding in Eden. He praises short courtships and a private nuptial in a garden. He notes Adam and Eve were young and inexperienced yet united by love in the original union.
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Nash
Adam
Birds of Heaven
Knowledge versus liberal education and poultry tips
A discussion extols knowledge as its own reward over colleges and urges self study, travel on foot, and asking questions to gain character and health. It also cites C Starr Jr on turkey raising, recommending 24 hours without food after hatch, then curdled buttermilk, limited wet exposure, wheat bread soaked in buttermilk, and avoiding Indian meal.
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Cambridge
Yale
Turner
Conqueror and Wife Quote Sparks Bedtime Standoff
A fragmentary exchange shows a husband insisting “go to bed” and a wife refusing, captured in a terse historical dialogue snippet. The lines imply domestic friction framed as a sharp, quotable moment.
Love and Mischief in a June Household Anecdote
A memoiresque fragment recounts Hook’s humor and a meddling parental proposal scene as a clergyman faces an unplanned engagement with Betsey. The piece blends affectionate irony with sly dialogue and touches on love letters and social antics.
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Plainfield Gazette
W.B. Palmer
Tribune Buildings
New York
Elizabethtown
NEW York and Plainfield
N. J
Liberty St
Courtland St
North River
Plainfield
Auditsd
Saxton
Palton Et
Gto
BY Rich
Jedediah
Hook
Hest
Betsey
Papa
Withisa
Meredith
Jim
Dex
Silas Hoames
Geenan Ocean
Hewett
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