Plainfield Gazette subscription notice
The Plainfield Gazette announces weekly publication by William M. Drake & Son at the Printing Office in Prentst opposite the 2nd Presbyterian Church. Rates: village subscribers one dollar and twenty-five cents per year in advance. mail subscribers one dollar. Arrears incur fifty cents added to share rates. no paper discontinued until arrears are paid.
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William M. Drake & Son
Prentst
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
Maal
Railroad extension opens Somerville to Whitehouse travel
The Somerville to Whitehouse railroad extension, ten miles, opened for travel on October 16 1849, cutting the staging distance to Easton to 25 miles. The message also includes timetables for steamboat and road connections, plus verses from Song of the Seasons and a moral anecdote about neighborly kindness and a tale of chairs aiding a poor widow.
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Somerville
Whitehouse
Easton
Slavery ad and sermon clash in Religious Herald
An advertisement offers a farm and forty enslaved people for sale to fund missionary work, while a countercommentary denounces slaveholding as contrary to Christ and laments religious hypocrisy in printing such notices The piece includes moral reflections on Jesus mission and criticism of abolitionist religious press.
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Religious Herald
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WISO
Texan Payavent
Williamsburg
Scuavane Jones
Jesus
Portland
Do What You Ought and Let What Comes of It
A concise exhortation urged steadfast duty and acceptance of outcomes. The proverb-like line emphasizes moral action regardless of future results.
Self discipline and duty shape character in daily life
The text urges personal effort to cultivate virtue, self control, and honor as the path to true wealth. It warns that neglect leads to ugliness and failure, and it includes a tale of a country gentleman who shirks debt and finds his host’s horse unpaid while he dodges payment.
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Herschel
Earth
L.G. A
Boston
Stajan
Billy Good
Pintive
Long Wharf
Fragmentary dialogue fragment from a colonial-era text
Fragments show speech about a whipping and a reference to a berry timeframe. The snippet includes a servant speaker and a black speaker with regional dialect, plus a line about soap and color, lacking clear context.
The Selfish Man and the Value of Education
A moral reflection on wealth, self indulgence, and misused riches. The author warns that hoarding money fails to secure a lasting future and urges charity, self reliance, and a sound education for children to build true value beyond material wealth.
Moon motion measured in half a minute on axis
A report quotes scientific observers noting the apparent Moon motion as Earth rotates, measured for half a minute with precise movement. It discusses potential future methods using telegraphic maps and daguerreotype accuracy. A separate anecdote describes a surgeon asked for pay after saving a man’s wife, but the widower argues no payment is owed if no cure or death occurred.
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Sparks
Cambridge
Beacom
Kitten Cone
Worthy esteem rests on virtue not display
The passage argues true respect belongs to those who master desires and act with self restraint, even in poverty, rather than those who rely on wealth or social status. a man of principle earns more honor than the outwardly grand who depend on rentals and revenues.
Fragmentary court exchange hints at funeral judgment
A garbled quote shows a lawyer and opponent debating a verdict or conduct at a funeral setting. The dialog suggests a dispute over intent or behavior, with criticisms of stupidity and questions about life choices. The fragment offers no clear identities or concrete outcomes.
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