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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1849
Page
4
A boisterous riverboat crowd hears an axe man claim he can outthrow any white man, recounting childhoods with Tom Corwin and Tom Benton and noting ties to Henry Clay and General Jackson as the man boasts his prowess before retreating to his bunk.
A traveller recounts a winter 1939 stop at the Lion Inn in Canada where a group laughs at a dog and a tense exchange ends with the host kicking the animal into the street amid comic and sharp regional banter between Yankee and Down East speakers.
A young Scotsman and a buxom companion visit a Scottish Justice of the Peace for a marriage. The couple, under instruction, react with humor and confusion as the magistrate prepares the ceremony. The bride questions whether they are married yet while the groom urges obedience once the band remains. The scene ends unresolved.
A fragment from a Boston paper recalls a pair of young men who bet tailor Smith to make two suits, paying after the wager resolves, a plan that collapses when the men hint the fall of the Bunker Hill Monument as the bet’s end. It also recounts a drunken John Smith confusing a neighbor and a house, and ends with a moral on readers and borrowed papers, urging subscription and self improvement amid urban bustle.
An advertisement offers engraved prints from valued originals by top English artists. Subscriptions include three portraits with Miss King or Mrs Grey, plus Graham's Magazine. Pricing ranges from $5 for two yearly copies to $20 for eleven copies and a magazine for the club organizer, along with Post publications for club members.
The Post Office in any town with the greatest commissions to Graham's Magazine will receive a one year continuation of subscriptions for the year ending December 1849. The magazine will be mailed to the post office or subscribers through it. Subscriptions may be extended to subscribers or via agents, with pre paid letters to Samart D. Patterson & Co, 98 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, dated December 12.
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