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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Jan 25, 1849
Page
1
The Plainfield Gazette lists subscription prices for village and mail readers, advance payment terms, advertising rates per square with durations, and an agent in New York for accepting subscriptions and ads. Printed in 1848 with note of neatness and dispatch on reasonable terms.
The Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad will commence on December 5 1945. An extension to the White House is already open since October 16 reducing the distance to Easton to 20 miles. The New York and Plainfield route offers multiple departures by rail and boat with various fares, and passengers are urged to buy tickets before boarding as conductors will not sell tickets or collect boat fares.
William M. Drake announces a constant stock at his old stand opposite Doctor Craig’s Office including Wheat Flour Buckwheat Flour Indian Meal Feed and a broad grocerie assortment. Fresh ground coffee molasses vinegar raisins cheese lard soap soda sugar candles teas spices lamp oil tobacco and cigars offered cheap for cash. December 1848.
For sale 1212 acres with seven acres cultivated, enclosed by a first rate fence, along the main road from Basking Ridge to New Market Depot. Price 200 dollars. Enquire at this office December 1848. In all undertakings consider the end you have in view and be sure it be really good, or at least innocent.
A poetic meditation on brothership and social reform urging unity in love and justice to end slavery war lies and crime and uplift humanity with shared prosperity and knowledge.
A countryman faced indictment for stealing a goose. a neighbor swore the bird had been in his possession since it hatched. An Irish prisoner for stealing a gun used a similar defense, persuading a countryman to claim the gun had been his since a morning spill, arguing sleep is recreation.
A Massachusetts driver recalls meeting a Connecticut pedlar who fleeces a local house with a tin goods scam and a tavern cider deception. The story contrasts two merchants as the narrator avoids the con and departs.
A neighbor tells of Mrs Smith who mistook lavender oil for cologne and used it as ink to repel mosquitoes. She and her husband woke to find her face and room stained from the liquid, with six mosquitoes dead nearby, a humorous chaos born of a mistaken bottle in a dark night.
A verbose 19th century fragment recounts Governor debating with John Rogers over church and state marriage norms. John refuses to wed Sarah in worldly form, yet the governor declares them husband and wife under state authority. The piece weaves sarcasm and quips on marriage, virtue, and social pretenses.
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