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Newspaper
Portage Sentinel
Location
Ravenna, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1849
Page
1
An OCR fragment sketches a narrative featuring a boy nicknamed the Yankee with bold eyes and a jack knife, attempting to carve a living while facing missteps and moral lessons. It mixes dialogue and verse about striving, fate, and a boy’s self improvement amid rough means.
A Sunday visit to the dying Mrs Armitage leads to a grim Essex murder mystery. Alfred Bourdon, son of Mrs Bourdon, is implicated as killer through iodine poisoning of Mary Rawdon, wife of Armitage, with Dr Curteis and a magistrate directing inquiry. Evidence, confessions, a coroner’s verdict of willful murder, and a dramatic trial follow.
A rough reader’s fragment compiles an 18th or 19th century anecdote about a farmer in New Hampshire who reports four hogs in his apple orchard. A Squire seizes and divides the hogs between official and town poor funds, leaving the farmer without his pigs. The piece also mentions General Georgey’s Hungarian soldiery and a prayer before battle. It closes with assorted 1840s-era notices and political chatter about railroads and tariffs.
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