Weekly Gazette published at Front Street Office
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY BY William M Drake & Son printing office. Subscription rates for village and mail readers. Advertisements limited to 14 lines. Railroad notices outline schedules and fares for New York, Plainfield, White House lines and connections to Elizabethtown, Elizabethport, Somerville.
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William M. Drake & Son
Front St. Oppossite
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
Somerville
White House
Easton
New York
Plainfield
N. J
Liberty St
Courtland St
North River
A. M
P. M
N.J. RR
N. Y
Elizabethtown
Westfield
Elizabethport
The Slave Ship and Moral Reflections
A long poem portrays a ship from Africa bearing captives, its bright exterior contrasting with the death and suffering below deck. It laments slavery and urges human dignity, citing scripture and moral warning. The piece includes editorial notes on freedom, ignorance as bondage, and a brief anecdote about a church violin debate.
Agents Wanted To Sell Books In New Jersey Counties
Advertises multiple books including The American Farm Book and The Diseases of Domestic Animals with price lists and per county agents. Requires a cash capital of at least 25 dollars and provides publisher Pend 100 address at 121 Fulton Street New York. Dated March 1849. Also an unrelated 1849 notice for Drake’s product with price 6 shillings per gallon.
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Basking Ridge
New Market Depot
New Jersey
Cole
Woman's Eye. A Thrilling Scene at the Church
A narrator recalls attending a crowded sermon at a sage church, noting the speaker's eloquence and the crowd's reaction. He describes a flirtation with a fair damsel, her hopeful glances, and his own heart’ s flutter as they exchange looks after the benediction. The tale ends with a playful line about a pewter half-dollar and a pedlar rumor.
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Stiesing
Othe
Iig
Pedre
John
What queer peorie in Albanys pig pen find
In Albany a young man was found sleeping in a pig pen among six pigs. He clutched a bottle with one arm and a pig with the other, a curious scene noted beside a report buzz about new railroad cars described as long enough for sixty passengers with doors at both ends.
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Albany
Two Incidents in the Revolutionary War Fort Stevenson
A military officer recounts two Croghan era events at Fort Stevenson. Ensign Shipp defies a British envoy under a weapon’s glare, proving the pledge of war laws and saving his party. The second tale records Croghan’s defense where one man dies and others escape by duty. A Dutch couple nearby narrate weather banter and a quip about a boa constrictor.
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Croghan
Stevenson
Shipp
Fee
Beesa
M. Y. Atlas
Perseverance and an Unlikely Congressman
A farmer’s son from a Tennessee Mississippi border cabin rises from backwoods labor to self taught law and politics. Patrick W. Tompkins becomes a prominent Mississippi lawyer and congressman through grit and self education.
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Tribune Buildings
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Africs
Cound
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Young Peoples Journal
Paris
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Fulton St
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Rosa
Tennesee
Kentucky
Blackstone
Mississippi
Washington
Congress
Patrick W. Tompkins
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