15 May 1851
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Newspaper
Plainfield Gazette
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
May 15, 1851
Page
1
A New England shop at 208 Broad Street corner Park Church Street advertises prints and ginghams priced from 6d to 2s per yard and a wide range of muslins, linens, and lace items. Miller & Ward promote a liberal display and patronage incentives with attentive sales staff.
The Bridgeport Standard features verses on Spirit Rappings with a playful tone about secret tapping and rappers. A second tale, A Wolf Adventure, recounts Texas frontier hunters at a Lienderson tavern and a perilous chase from hungry wolves.
An old farmer shares a method to raise timothy hay from less than a half ton per acre to two and a half tons in five years without breaking up soil or extra fertilization. He notes delaying cut allows roots to recover and a vegetating stand yields a uniform crop five feet high, with higher market value. He recounts a parallel experience on a Delaware island showing doubling and then reaching two and a half tons per acre.
A long prose medley extols honorable labor and moral purpose across trades, praising ploughmen and shoe menders while critiquing mere signatures and wealth transfer. It juxtaposes historical epochs, notes shifts in power and industry, and ends with a volley of pithy, whimsical aphorisms on social quirks.
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