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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1849
Page
1
Advertising and subscription rates for the paper dated December 30 1848 list village and mail yearly prices with advance payment terms. Rates include one square ads 37 cents per issue and progressive 62 100 175 225 600 for longer lengths. Mr W B Palmer in New York is agent for subscriptions and ads.
The notice outlines December 5 1948 as start of a railway extension from Somerville to the Whitehouse and lists travel options from New York to Plainfield and Elizabethtown via New Jersey Railroad and boat. It gives departure times, freights, fares, and instructions for passengers to buy tickets before boarding.
Drake announces steady stock of flour by barrel and pound buckwheat Indian meal feed and a wide grocerie assortment including butter shad mackerel fresh ground coffee molasses vinegar raisins cheese lard soap soda sugar candles tea spices lamp oil tobacco and cigars all cheap for cash and thanks customers for past favors December 1848.
For sale a house and lot in Warren Township Somerset County washing ton Valley on the main road from Basking Ridge to New Market Depot. Lot about thirty acres well watered building 30 by 46 feet with cellar under the whole. Price 600 dollars terms to David Lawler New Market or James Lawler Washington Valley.
A Tribune essay by Owen Go Warren argues labor improves body and spirit, urging toil as divine duty. The piece contrasts vice and virtue, urging guiding justice, science, and art to lift society toward a millennium of love and truth. A late Arkansas tale follows, where a drunken man beds with hogs in a shed, mistaking warmth for tavern hospitality as he awakes confused.
The piece argues a true life centers on simple virtue and harmony, not wealth or fame. It condemns vice and promotes calm, joy, and unselfish ideals, urging humility and steady character as life’s real measure.
A curious tale from an old column describes a generous mistress who avoids scolding. When servants err, she asks her husband to write a reprimand and sends a little black boy to read it aloud to them. The anecdote highlights exaggerated Victorian views and social norms.
A fragment quotes Archbishop Ash regarding how good people should smile and align with virtue to win others to a good cause, asking how many would be persuaded by such behavior.
During Wakefield sessions a witness faced by the court paused before answering and stated he is not a husbandman. The momentary hesitation occurred in the 68th Court as the confrontation unfolded.
The excerpt portrays life as a fountain fed by many streams prone to collapse if one dries. It describes the body as a silver cord of many strands easily broken, with disease sown in our constitution. It laments daily dangers and the inevitability of death guiding thoughts to heed mortality.
A Boston stall incident ends with a lobster clamping onto a stranger’s nose after he mocked a live lobster. The vender’s reaction and bystander laughter follow the close encounter at Boylston market.
A Stavcer sat in an empty Grace Church pew one Sunday and found the seat gained company as a single man and a lady joined. He moved to bow the stranger out, sparking bemused exchanges about propriety and decorum in the pews.
Scripted exchange shows a young woman asking a man to speak of happiness while the juvenile replies he loves her and cannot be happy without her. The lines reflect a sentimental, rustic tone and antiquated spelling.
The article notes ladies now wear wired petticoats as a substitute for the bustle with old fashion chatter about new undergarment styles and adaptions.
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