Plainfield Gazette 1848 Subscriptions and Rates
The Plainfield Gazette announces weekly publication by William M. Drake & Son with print office on Front Street. Subscription rates list village and mail options, advance payment required, advertising charges per number of lines and duration, and an agent in New York for subscriptions and ads. December 21, 1848.
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William M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
WB. Palmer
Tribune Buildings
New York
Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad Schedule
Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad to commence on April 2, 1849. The extension from Somerville to the White House ten miles opened for travel on October 16, reducing stage distance between the terminus and Easton to 25 miles.
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Somerville
White House
Easton
For Sale Land near Basking Ridge and New Market Depot
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 acres near the shore available separately or with the whole for 230. December 1848. Inquiries at this office.
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Basking Ridge
New Market Depot
Agents Wanted Sell Books in New Jersey Counties
Advertises for agents to sell a list of books by C W Wakston at 121 Fulton Street. Requires 3 cash capital of at least 25 dollars. Includes titles The American Farm The Diseases of Domestic Animals The American Bee-Keeper's Manual The American Fruit Book. Publication March 5 1849.
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New Jersey
Abd c. W'skxton
Fulton Et
Humble charity inspires lessons on Christian duty
A Plainfeld Gazette reader cites a devout woman who helps the poor and sorrowful beyond monetary gift. Her acts include body and mind relief, visiting tenements, comforting the grieving, paying for a funeral, and guiding neighbors to aid, embodying Christ’s command to do good.
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The
Plainfeld Gazette
Christ
Terrifying Stage Ride on a Mountain Pass
In 1846 a traveler describes a perilous Eastward journey by stage over a rugged pass. Two gentlemen and a lady accompany him as an elderly man grows pale, trembles, and clutches the narrator near a precipice. A bottle from a woman calms him briefly, but danger remains.
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Boston
Nighttime coach peril on the Ohio mountainside
A traveled narrator relates a storm riding to a mountain ascent with a French young lady and her father when a flash flood and a toppled horse send the coach plunging toward a precipice. The narrator awakens in a country room to learn the trio perished except for a girl who saved him via a tree.
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Thas
Ohio
Louisana
France
Byron
Marie
Pearfier
Hoouise
Jes
Louise
Jeneth
Joe Ou
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