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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1849
Page
1
The notice states a weekly publication by William M Drake & Son Printing Office on Front Street opposite the 2nd Presbyterian Church. Subscriptions differ by village or mail with advance payment. rates increase 50 cents for non prepaid. Advertising costs list 15 lines per square, with prices for single and multiple insertions. December 21, 1848.
The notice states that job printing was completed with nearness and dispatch on reasonable terms, highlighting prompt service and fair pricing. The source emphasizes quality and timely fulfillment of printing orders.
A tale from Noah's Suday Times recounts a U S war era episode. A Boston built schooner Abelene captained by Wyer arrives in Tunis soon after a sixty day keel lay, with two British prizes seized en route and sold in Tunis. The Bey cites treaty clauses allowing privateers, sparking British intrigues and a dramatic anti British naval sweep across the Mediteranean.
A garbled reminiscence blends a witness before a judge and a joke about lies and cheating, with phrases about purgatory and paradise. A separate tale notes a Brooklyn couple divorced and remarried in New York amid odd lines about marriage.
A limerick about two beggars one blind and one lame who claim an oyster and go to law. A clever lawyer settles with the shell for both, the middle the fee, illustrating legal folly. The piece lists dates of state admissions from Delaware to Wisconsin, with scattered OCR errors.
A letters page critiques Barnum's offer to Jenny Lind of 200000 for a 200 night stay and travel expenses, arguing wealth should aid the poor instead. It lampoons luxury and warns against fashionable folly while reflecting on social inequity and moral responsibility.
In a crowded southwest market a northern bookseller from the American Tract Society demonstrated an astonishing stock of religious works. A wager over missing titles led to the sale of a Holy Bible at twenty five cents, proudly bought amid applause. An unrelated comic vignette followed about a sailor, a mistaken son, and a farmer’s joke.
A collection of comic vignettes with dialect humor and sharp witticisms. A Black man defends his soaked hat with a clever line about ownership. A cautioned Irishman, a debt haunt, and a shrewd deacon lampoon usury laws with a hat trick ending.
Readable fragments show a quip-filled scene as a speaker from the Daily Sun converses with Mrsartington about a daily son and a playful reference to a turkey fan keeping the old lady from swooning. The garbled text preserves a domestic moment with a hint of humor.
Report suggests a solid anti monopoly bloc forms in the legislature with hopes they will unite to resist bribe and uphold integrity. Meral managers linked to early moves and regie influence raise concerns as Susser of the Whig party comments on the political climate.
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