Published weekly rates and offices for local newspaper
The notice announces weekly publication by William M. Drake & Son from Front Street opposite Doctor Craigs office. Subscriptions cost one dollar twenty five cents yearly in advance for village readers and one dollar for mail readers, with a fifty cent surcharge if not prepaid. Advertising rates vary by length from 37 cents for a square to 1000 for annual full-page equivalents, with agents in New York at Tribune Buildings, W B Palmer authorized to receive subscriptions and ads. December 21, 1848.
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William M. Drake & Son
Front St
Doct
Craigs Office
W. B. Palmer
Tribune Buildings
New York
Job Printing Executed With Neatness and Dispatch
Job printing completed with neatness and dispatch on reasonable terms.
Elizabethtown and Somerville Railroad Winter Arrangement
Notice of winter schedule starting December 5 1848 for the Elizabethtown and Somerville line. Details include open extension from Somerville to the White House, travel options between New York Plainfield and Whitehouse, fares by rail and boat, and ticketing instructions for passengers.
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Somerville
White House
Easton
New York and
Plainfield
New York
N. J
Liberty St
Courtland St
North River
N. Y
Elizabethtown
Elizabethport
Dec 1848 Note From Plainfield Gratitude Keeps Promises
Thankful for past favors he intends to merit their contiivance. WM. M. DRAKE. Plainfield, Dec. 1848.
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WM. M. Drake
Plainfield, Dec
For Sale 121 2 Acres Land Near Basking Ridge to New Market
For sale 121 2 acres of land with seven acres cultivated and fenced near the road from Basking Ridge to New Market Depot. Price 200 dollars. Inquire at this office. Also 6 1 2 acres unimproved nearby offered with the whole at 230 dollars. December 1848.
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Basking Ridge
New Market Depot
Man as moral agent against blaming Providence
Plainfield Gazette excerpt argues against blaming God for miseries, insisting harm results from human choices and adherence to natural law. It frames God as benevolent and just, with afflictions tied to personal conduct and free will, urging rational conduct to avoid danger and suffering.
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Matthew Ures
Mai
Liberty and Equality in Black Advocates and Hypocrisies
The piece argues that Black Americans push for full equality alongside liberty and notes the hypocrisy of northern and southern attitudes. It contrasts northern rejection of Black public presence with southern acceptance in private care, highlighting inconsistent treatment of Black people in society and religion.
An Oral Contrast on Race and Slavery in Nineteenth Century Thought
A lengthy anti abolitionist polemic discusses whites blacks and slavery with anecdotes from John Adams era. It contrasts northern unfamiliarity with equality and southern condescension to slaves, claiming abolitionists seek end to slavery rather than real equality.
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South
John Quincy Adams
Vermont
Adams
Prince George
George
Hayti
England
London
Ogr
Cesar
Messenger
Humble Ride Asked for Rev Rowland Hill
A parishioner’s request noted during services asked that Rev Rowland Hill be made more humble by riding home on an ass. Hill replied with wit, inviting the writer to go to the vestry after services to be bridled and saddled for the journey.
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Rowland Hill
Hill
Mr. Hill
Tale of a Tub Aboard The Alexandria
A 14 year old on the ship Alexandria from New Orleans to New York is confined in a water cask after misbehaving. A storm topples the cask into the sea and it drifts about thirty hours before washing ashore at Cap Saint Blass. The boy, near death, is rescued when a bystander pries open the cask and he is carried to safety. He is later recovered by locals and able to continue toward Columbus.
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St. Sede Hs Pines
Alexandria
New Orleans
New York
Leayi
Capé St
Columbus
Ho for California and other scraps of old advice
A garbled 19th century style page fragment references California diggers, warnings about romps and health, and moral aphorisms. It mentions Mr. Partington and a nurse like tone, with stray notes on promises, honesty, and a dying man’s gratitude toward a religious figure.
Sensibility Mystery Noted In Fragments Of Text
Fragmentary lines hint at concealed meaning with names Desslicht and Chard appearing in scattered phrases. The piece reads like an implausible note or cryptic diary entry lacking clear events or context.
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Plainfield Gazette
Craig
Tobacco
Segars
Liberty and Equality
Tress
Cincinnali
Mr. Partington
California
Fiolt
Chicago
Ances
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