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Newspaper
Richmond Mail
Location
Richmond, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1854
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising charges: one square for twelve lines and one year costs 30 dollars, two squares 40 dollars, one square per insertion 50 percent, and each subsequent insertion 31 percent. In the Semi Weekly, one square per insertion 1 percent, with 4 squares all advertisements at above rates unless agreed otherwise. Marriages and deaths charged at half the usual rates.
Notice from Thomas Dodamead, Superintendent, detailing fare to Norfolk or Portsmouth at two dollars, meals at six hundred fifty cents each, and freight for Norfolk and Portsmouth articles to be prepaid. States two servant passes required for travel and to designate on pass that permit extends to cars or boat. Moh 21.
A long breezy piece blends poetry on spring with humorous anecdotes and light verse. It includes a Prussia king recruiting tale about an Irish giant, a mock dialogue about nations, curiosities like a white duck laying black eggs, and short poems about friendship and moral reflections.
At 188 Chesnut Street Philadelphia the shop lists new music titles including Polka and Mazurka pieces by Keffer Reimer Young America Polka and others, with titles like Buds and Blossoms and The Happy Homes of Earth. The ad notes daily new music, instruments, and catalogues by mail, and references Straw Goods at 59 North Second Street with a Straw and Millinery stock and low prices.
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