Published Every Thursday at Drake and Son Office Rates 1848
The notice states a weekly publication by William M. Drake & Son from Front Street opposite the 2nd Presbyterian Church. Subscriptions cost one dollar and twenty five cents per year in advance for village readers and one dollar for mail subscribers, with a fifty cent surcharge if not prepaid. Advertising rates are listed by length and duration, with publication dated December 21, 1848.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
Old Bear Market Ode and Fragmented Scraps
A poem salutes the Bear Market and craftsmen as poets with references to Egypt, Ghent, Orange Count, and Hudson River trade. The piece imagines a rising Bear Market from ashes and includes garbled dialogue about an expiragment and a joke about poet trees and California adventures.
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Old Bear Market
Fancy
New York Town
The True Aristocrats
Poem praising the true aristocrats as the toil of workers who shape nations and seas. It celebrates laboring men who carve forests, build towns, fight battles, and earn fame through deeds rather than noble birth.
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Tribune
The Captives Daughter in Dunmurray Woods
In a siege era tale, Sir John Cochrane faces execution as his daughter Grizel pleads for mercy. A stormy night finds a lone traveler seeking shelter near Berwick, his identity and purpose shrouded by fate and war.
Grizel Cochrane Saves Sir John in Moorland Robbery
A tale recounts how Grizel Cochrane intervenes during a violence on Tweedmouth Moor, saving Sir John Cochrane from execution after a mail robbery. The savior is revealed as Grizel, her disguise and steadfast courage thwarting the death warrant.
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James
Sir John Cochrane
Earl of Dundonald
Argyle
House of
Campbell
Grizel
Berwick
Littl
Tweedmouth
Cod
John Cochrane
Warnet
Reece
Earl of
Ald
John
Sir John
Grizel Cochrane
Sir John Stuart
Allan-banks
Mr. Coutts
Boston Pictorial National Library
Queen's own artisans snuff-box and breeches makers
A London notice mocks royal patronage of tradesmen claiming to be the queen's artisans. Stives & Son are said to be snuff-box makers to the queen, while a sign for Smith Co claims breeches maker to her majesty. The piece ribaldly contrasts royal fetish with odd trades and quips about honesty and benevolence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stives & Son
Douglas Jerrold
Roomale
Rayal
London
Smith
Albert
Riddles and Wordplay Hit a Sailors Wit
A garbled collection of playful quips and puns about sailors dogs roads and tail wags. The wording is fragmentary and largely nonsensical but centers on wordplay and odd comparisons.
Readable files spark dull Dedham Democrat interest
The Dedham Democrat notes that dull reading shows increased interest as readers become more engaged with the file.
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Dedham Democrat
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Plainfield Gazette
the Literary American
John Cooper Vail
Egypt
Joseph
Froissart
Ghent
Denis
Biddy
California
Geese
Aristocrats
Co. D. Stuart
Petre
Bey
Marygate
Oliver Cromwell
James the Sixth
England
Ward
Matriony
Board of Foreign Missions
Boston Times
Americas
New Orleans
Vermont
St. Lawrence
Quebec
Country
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