Plainfield Gazette publication and pricing notice 1848
The Plainfield Gazette lists publication details from William M. Drake & Son with printing at Front Street. Subscription costs are one dollar twenty five cents yearly for village readers, one dollar for mail subscribers, with a fifty cent surcharge if not prepaid. Advertising rates vary by length and duration, and W B Palmer in Tribune Buildings, NYC, is the agent for subscriptions and ads. December 21, 1848.
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Your Purse and Heart Poem Reflection on Charity
A poem urges generosity beyond money. It argues money cannot ease the soul’s hunger, and real aid comes from sympathy and loving kindness. Readers are told warmth, attention, and care reach the heart, more than bread, shelter, or food alone.
History of a Life. A Poem by Barry Cornwall
Day dawned in a curtained room where a lady neared doom. A child saw the light and the spring brought her grave. A boy grew to become a man, struggled, rose to a lofty place, and died. This is humanity’s sum of life and death and glory.
Trust in God and in the end well
A fragment from a Victorian prose scene set aboard a Fulham coach with stockbrokers and a woman seeking passage. Mat, the friend in need, threads the door open as the crowd debates whether seats remain while a damp, tense mood on the street hints at looming trouble.
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Unruly Evening Courtship on a London Coach
A crowded coach scene shows Ma guiding a seated gentleman, while a married stockbroker escorts a lady, sparking jealousy among onlookers. The bedraggled crowd laughs as the lady exits in haste, and a later moral blurb extols wives' virtues and domestic labor.
Facts on Animal Lifespans and Insects
The note discusses elephants living to two to four hundred years and bats in India called flying foxes with a wingspan of about six feet. It mentions sperm for sheep defense in a hollow square and a sledge driven by Bay dogs for fifteen miles daily. It gives rapid reproductive and movement facts for pigs sheep and house flies and leaps of fleas grasshoppers and men.
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Appeal to Inward Nature of Cultures in Education
Writers on education discuss governing children by appealing to their inward nature. The piece cites School Street day as illustration with a governess guiding two children home from church, using calm words to ensure proper conduct.
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The passage reflects on aging and the joy of seeing one’s ideas and feelings in offspring. It notes warmth toward the child as a living image of what was once within the parent.
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Absentee in Debt Boards Ship and Forgets Shore Leave
A man overwhelmed by debt boarded a vessel to take a quick leave and forgot to return ashore. Authorities search for the absent traveler who vanished after his departure.
Unclear Fragment Reflects Fragmented Social Note
A fragmentary text hints at friendships and kinship amid shifting moments and changing light, mentioning sunshine, shade, and desertion in a personal reflective tone.
Conservatism of Sub-Treasury Maintains Economic Balance
A historical note discusses the Sub-Treasury's restraint on inflation during a period of excitement and potential overexpansion. It argues fear of ruinous extravagance was avoided by the system’s power, preventing a return to severe currency distortion and aiding prudent trade and prices, with a Lake Providence editor remarking on improving street conditions.
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How to Resoer Cioth Water Proof
Advice on making a water proof dressing liquid by dissolving alum and sugar of lead in boiling water. After settling, pour off the clear liquid and soak fabrics in it. The treated cloth should resist boiling water and prevent penetration.
Out at Night Sparks Silent Domestic Dispute
A terse quarrel unfolds between Mr. Snippe and Mrs. Snippe about going out at night. She commands him to sit, argues over outings, money, and decorum, while he answers with evasive humor and a resigned, cautious compliance. The scene ends with Snippe complying.
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Honest Man Like a Carpenter Joke In Ephemeral Memo
A garbled humor item mocks a meddling cure for an epidemic. A quip about an honest man as a carpenter leads to wordplay and a line about being hanged, reflecting a scattered 19th century newspaper tone.
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