Published Weekly Newspaper Rates and Address 1848
The notice announces a weekly publication by William M. Drake & Son Printing Office Front Street opposite the Second Presbyterian Church. Subscriptions cost one dollar twenty five cents annually in advance for village readers and one dollar for mail subscribers, with fifty cents added if unpaid in advance. Advertising rates are listed by number of squares and duration, with December 21, 1848 as the date and Jons R. Swarrow of New York authorized as agent for subscriptions and ads.
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William M. Drake & Son
Front St
2Nd. Presbyterian Church
Jons R. Swarrow
Fulton St
New York
Love All and The Plainfield Gazette Verse Nugget
A miscellany excerpt from tribune prose and verse praising universal love and reflecting on beauty. It includes a moral about love surpassing hate, then moves to a Plainfield Gazette poem admiring a woman’s beauty and virtue, followed by short quips about baptism mistakes, world languages, and a joke about moustaches and brains.
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Plainfield
Stewart’s Bakery
J.pound’s
John Boylan
Mary P. Vail
Training a Parent for the Way Ahead
A proverb emphasizes a parent guiding a child in the path they should follow. It stresses consistent instruction and living by example to shape a child's future.
American travelers in Brazil observe festivities and ball games
The writer describes bullfights, church illuminations, and a large theater in a Brazilian square. Soldiers enforce onlookers while Californians and foreigners are barred from carrying weapons, a public ball game impresses locals, and naval visits show American presence in Rio de Janeiro.
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Anott
Mazeppa
Eit
Rio
Alwa
Fort” Gagnon
Gate Brandywine
Lyin Harbor
Rialy
California Greeting Among Californios Echoes Portuguese Style
A fragment describes a peculiar nasal California greeting sung in Portuguese style when meeting fellow Californians in the street, noting it as a general mode of introduction. The passage emphasizes a cheerful, communal tone and regional identity.
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California
Love and deception aboard the State of Maine
A Long Island Boston Bee summary of a romance on a moving train and ship deck. Lucinella falls for a mysterious Unknown claiming noble lineage, while a clerk Tompkins exposes a ruse. The tale ends with a mistaken identity revelation and a moral about proper introductions before romance.
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David
Lucinella
Lord Somerset Plantaget
Thomas Tompkins
Boston
Thomas
Boston Bee
Wonders of Philosophy on Microcosmic Life
The excerpt notes marvels of biology using metaphors about the polypus hydra and the spider. It cites vast counts of muscles nerves and vessels in creatures and describes how tiny spiders cooperate to form a single thread. It reflects 18th century curiosity about microscopic life.
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Hook
Lowenhock
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Barber & Hair Dresser
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Cortlandt Street
Thomas J. Ford, William L. Raynolds
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Joseph Annin
Plainfield, N. J
Reilly Road
Marble Manufactory
Market Street
Newark
New Jersey
RTS
the Tribune
Silent Sea
Scorr
Orient
Young Springs
Plainfield N. J
Barris Mal
Middle States
Lucifer
George Washington
Francis F. Ripley
Daily Standard
Samuel Scrivner, Esq
Bse
Soci Dumas
London
K-U-U
Fall River
Dumas
Somerset Plantaget
Maine
Beacon Street
Providence
Lowell
Lawrence
Hell
Ned Kendall
Navy-Yard
Jehu
Union Square
Canal Street
University Place
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