The Weekly Herald Advertising Directory 1849
The Weekly Herald announces its wide circulation across Eastern and Western Pennsylvania and Virginia and offers advertising terms. It lists agents including Bounty S Patner in New York City, Boston Street in Baltimore, and G Pratr in Nassau Street New York with contact details for merchants and manufacturers seeking notices.
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Merald
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Herward
Patner
Tribune
New
Boston
Mate Breet
Baltimore
North and Fayette
Philadelphia
Chestnut Streets
Thynrson
South Streets
G. Pratr
Nassau Street
N. York
Job Printing Offered At Daily Herald Office
We invite you to DarLy ftera Lp Jos Printina Urrice, now stocked with latest type fonts ready to produce neat and beautiful work at low prices. Call at the Daily berald Allee opposite Washington Hall. One or two agents travel the country collecting subscriptions. we hope debtors will pay promptly. We want money badly.
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Jos Printina Urrice
Berald Allee
Washington Hall
Cholera Death in Pittsburgh Linked to River Runner
The Dispatch reports Mr Brent lingered died in Pittsburgh on Thursday from cholera after a day of sudden illness at SP M. He had run along the river recently and lived in the city about a week. He reportedly ate green cucumbers before falling ill.
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Pittsburgh
Brentlinger
Mr. B
Terrence
United States Bank
Cholera Declines in Cincinnati Says Board Report
The Cincinnati Chronicle, citing the Board of Health, notes cholera is rapidly declining and may not exist in the city. Citizens and country dealers are urged to return to business without fear. No local alarm is evident as trade resumes.
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Cincinnati
Board of Health
Bloomfield man forged bank notes across counties
Dr Crawford, longtime Bloomfield resident, forged names of responsible men to obtain loans. He swindled Steubenville Bank for about 1400 dollars, Cadiz for about 1900, and similar sums from Wheeling, totaling perhaps ten to twelve thousand dollars. He reportedly forged even his father’s name to some notes and has fled, with posses in pursuit awaiting justice.
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Crawford
Bloomfield
Steubenville Bank
Cadiz
Wheeling, &c
Pittsburgh Mercury Responds To Local Attack
The Pittsburgh Mercury defends its editor after a hostile insinuation by a rival paper. The writer notes gratitude for Mercury’s stance and vows to repay the offense with strong, compounded retribution when opportunity arises. The language conveys threat and intellectual retaliation.
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Pittsburgh Mercury
Lecefeco
Mercury
Parish dies in city cholera not cholera morbus
The News notes Mr Parish died in the city on Wednesday night not of cholera but of cholera morbus. Dr Leslie, the attending physician, offers a differing view and hints the News may be right. A Delta item reports a child buried at the Point last Sunday morning after dying of cholera on the Windfield Scott steamer, buried coffinless with two sticks marking the grave.
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Mr. Parish
Chelera
Jholera Morbus
Leslie
Cario Delta
Windfield Scott
Death of Gen Worth shocks New York family in Texas
An obituary notes Gen Worth’s sudden death in Texas after surviving Monterey and the Mexican War. His wife remains in Paterson New Jersey while two daughters in the city mourn deeply. Reports from the Ohio State Journal also mention Cox Coultier’s party reaching Fort Leavenworth on the 11th, likely detained for eight to ten days for provisions and transport. A Mercer County murder case ends with a life sentence for the accused preacher. A Charlestown merchant smith Joseph Miller is murdered near Vincennes, with a suspect found carrying the victim’s papers and extra funds.
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Worth
N. Y. Express
Monterey
Mexico
Texas
Gen. Worth
Paterson, N. J
Ohio State Journal
Cox. Coultier
Fort Leavenworth
Mercer County
Ohio
Morpener
Joseph Miller
Savannah
Geo
Acquittal in Burroughs Self-Defence Case
Snowhill reports the trial of Rev. Thos. J. Borroughs for shooting James Baird Bishop concluded with a jury verdict of acquittal citing self defence. Cholera fears burden Southern Western regions with 38 deaths in Mayerville Kentucky. Chicago Board of Health records 12 deaths in three days ending Wednesday the 16th. St. Louis Republican fire destroyed paper reappears on the 22nd. Pioneer Line’s first train with 125 passengers departs Independence for California on the 9th.
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Thomas J. Burrowexs
Snowhill
Thos. J. Borroughs
James Baird Bishop
Burroughs
Mayerille
Board of Health
Chicago
St. Louis Republican
Union
Pioneer Line
Independence
California
Ith
August elections across several states and party notes
The piece surveys electoral dates and expected outcomes in August across Illinois Kentucky Indiana Tennessee North Carolina and Alabama plus remarks on Whig prospects and a Locofoco risk. It highlights Governor and Congress races, party strengths, and mentions Dr McDowell's Cholera lecture and Northern Railroad progress with contract plans and stock calls.
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Missouri
Tennesser
Congress
North Carolina
Whig Party
Taylor
Locofoco Congress
Kentucky
Indiana
Tennessee
Newman Wins Virginia District in Late Congressional Vote
In Virginia's 15th district Newman, a Locofoco candidate, is declared elected by a slim 416 vote majority. The Carroll County Court of Common Pleas returns a conviction for James Golden on a slogacy charge. Horace Greeley visits Ashland to meet Mr. Clay, praising him highly. The Misses Pike marry Mr. John Porter, who now co-edits the Carroll Free Press and defends his independent stance and duty to justice in his address.
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Virginia
Newman
Locofoco
Court of Common Pleas
Carroll County
James Golpden
Horace Greeley
Mr. Clay
Ashland
John Porter
Carroll Free Press
Free Press
Exigrants for Liberia
The Colonization Journal notes the Liberia packet may reach port around July 1 and sail on her sixth voyage about a month later. It expects many Maryland emigrants, with Wells, the traveling agent, promoting recruits in lower Western Shore counties. A Maryland citizen in Liberia, who left Calvert County eight years ago, works to publicize the move. Wells reports thirteen names in one locale, with more expected soon, and a few families leaving from the city.
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Liberia
Colonization Journal
Maryland
Wells
Calvert County
Mr. Wells
Death toll from steamer Monroe outbreak reported
A Jefferson City letter describes Monroe cholera deaths aboard and in town, noting three bodies buried from the boat, including the pilot, engineer, and Dr. Stephenson of Jeffersonville Indiana. Five people died on the boat and many ill in town, with no effective medicine and rapid fatality.
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Monroe
Jefferson City
Stephenson
Jeffersonville
Indiana
St Louis Rep
Presbyterian Assembly to Convene in Detroit Next Year
The Presbyterian General Assembly plans its next session in Detroit Michigan. From Philadelphia reports in North American most overtures oppose slavery, including one from Palestine Presbytery threatening separation unless the church acts to end its odium. All papers urge removal of slavery’s stain and severe condemnation of church ties to it. A seven member special committee was set to review the matters.
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Presbyterian General Assembly
New School
Detroit
Michigan
Philadelphia
Palestine
Burleigh Named Connecticut State Printer Amid Turbulent Campain
The Hartford Charter Oak editor William H. Burleigh, longtime abolitionist, is appointed state printer by a Locofoco and Free Soil coalition. The piece recalls near-mob actions against Burleigh after antiwar remarks and notes the political surprise of his elevation in the shifting New England scene.
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New York Tribune
Connecticut
Burleigh
Lecofocus
Free Soilers
Union
Unites S
de Tribune
Willian H. Burteigh
Hartford
Charter Oak
Ohio Railroads Rapidly Expand to Boost Commerce and Growth
Ohio aims to surpass other states in railway mileage and value as construction accelerates. Key projects include Little Miami, Mad River and Lake Erie, Mansfield lines, Columbus Xenia and Cincinnati, and Cleveland routes. Total completed miles reach 271 with about 5.05 million dollars in progress. Future lines like Mansfield Newark and Hancock Findley advance, signaling a robust railroad boom.
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Ohio
U. States
Ital
Europe
Atlantic States
Little Miami Railroad Co
Cincinnati
County of
Green
Springfield
Clark County
Mad River
Lake Erie
Mad River and Lake Erie
Little Miami
Sandusky City
Valley of the Ohio
Basin of the Lakes
Mansfield
Richland County
Lancasky City
Mansfeld
United States
Columbus, Xenia
Xenia
London
Madison County
Columbus
Little Miami Company
Cincinnati and
Cleveland
Columbus and Xenia
Newark
Newark, Licking Co
Findley Railroad
Mad River & Lake Erie
Iron Railroad
Ironton
Hanging Rock
Lawrenceco
Jackson
Chillicothe
Logan
Dayton
Greenville & Dayton
River & IL
Erie
Clevel
D & Cincinnati
Hancock and Finley
Iron Rail Road
Dayton & Springfield
Xenia & Columbus
Hancock & Findley
Toledo Republican
Disputed Territorial Question Settled Between Iowa and Missouri
The U S Supreme Court decision awards the strip between Des Moines and the Mississippi to Iowa, affecting Clark county and parts of Scotland Schuyler Putnam Mercer Dodge Atheson and surrounding unorganized territory. The St Louis New Era notes reduced county areas and potential slave labor impacts as Iowa’s border nears Missouri counties.
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Iowa
Missouri
Desmoines
Mississippi
U. S. Supreme Court
St. Louis
Clark County
Scotland
Schuyle
Putnam, Mercer and
Dodge
Atheson
Gentry
Nodaway
Holt
Overcrowded steamboats blamed for cholera deaths
The Journal condemns crowded decks on Louisville to New Orleans routes as a breeding ground for ship fever and cholera. It warns emigrants and officers alike, calls for strict enforcement and legal measures to limit passenger numbers and punish violations, noting deaths can reach ten percent.
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Louisville
Mississipp
New Orleans
Calcutta
Europe
Ohio
Mississippi
Pittsburgh
Congress
Temperance Gathering in Cincinnati Editorial Correspondence
A Cincinnati May 16 1849 report from the New York Tribune notes the National Division of the Sons of Temperance met there after postponing the National Temperance Jubilee. It lists attendees from twenty states and Nova Scotia New Brunswick and discusses private deliberations on financial reform and a national proseluting plan. The dispatch also covers a separate fire disaster along the riverfront with extensive property loss and casualties.
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Cincinnati
The
New York Tribune
Sons of Temperance
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
Jas. P. Weston
Nath
L Wilson
New Hampshire
Edward P. Hill
Vermont
Thomas E. Powers
Massachusetts
Daniel Baxter
Connecticut
E. B. Cook
F. W. Smith
New York
D. H. Sands
J. W. Oliver
J. Graham
New Jersey
B. F. Yard
W. N. Searles
J S. Yard
Pennsylvania
Philip S. White
George Cros
Maryland
J. N. Jennings
Alabama
McCaleb Wiley
F. P. Scruggs
Tennessee
John Finn
Kentucky
Edward Oldham
A. G. Mann
Louisiana
James Patterson
Benjamin
Lyons
Ohio
S. F. Cary
J. F. Forbus
W. J. McKinney
C. F. Clarkson
Illinoi
Edward Keating
Missouri
Bernard Bryan
Towa
W.G. Anderson
Michigan
A. M. Baker
Henry Acker
Beriah King
Nova Scotitz
Fitz William Redding
Asa Coy
S. L. Tilley
Horace Gree
Funeral procession for Bishop Morris Brown in Philadelphia
The Right Rev Bishop Morris Brown, second Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, was laid to rest in Philadelphia on Monday. The Ledger notes two bishops and about 100 ministers led the procession with white scarfs as scrolls represented the two annual conferences. Mourners followed, including a large delegation from the Daughters of Conference and a thousand mourners in deep attire.
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Funrrat
Cororep Bisnor
Morris Brown
Seco
Episco Church
Philiphia
Ihe
Philadelphia
Daughters of Conference
Man Wounded by 13 pound Bar Rejoins Farm Work
A man in New Hampshire recovered after a three foot seven inch, thirteen pound bar blasted through his head during rock blasting on a railroad project. It entered between the nose and ear and exited atop the skull, damaging one eye. Two scar marks remain at entry and exit, but the wound is healed. This is reported as the only known case of its kind.
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New Hanshire
Max Killep
Newport Ferry
Ludlow Street
Second Ward
CIA
Gar
Cholera cases note in Cincinnati health report
Homopath physicians report their results from April 20 to the present, with about one hundred cases and eighty eight non fatal outcomes in two weeks. The Board of Health and other physicians remain involved as the new system shows similar ratios to elsewhere.
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Cincinnati
Western English Work Conclusion and American Resources
In concluding Mackay's Western English work the piece argues that the United States holds immense power through coal and iron output. It notes America’s resources outstrip Europe and that cheaper power and labor could lure European manufacturers. The piece suggests England faces rising American competition as capital and skills shift to the Southwest region.
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Mackay
America
Europe
England
Blanchester
Lew
Patterson
Sea Board
Ouisoule Journal
Unclear: Fragmentary Note on 19th Century Medical Trial
Fragmentary OCR mentions a Dr Dill hanged on June 8 and a woman named Phebe entrusted with medical duties. context and full details unavailable in readable text.
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Canada
U.C
Dill
Phebe
Cholera warnings and medical remedies urged in Cincinnati letter
An open letter to citizens of the Mississippi Valley warns cholera may become epidemic as summer heat returns, citing New Orleans proximity, and urges preparation. Dr. J N McDowell endorses calomel and opium based treatments, outlines prescriptions, stresses recumbent care, and rejects quack remedies while urging consultation with physicians.
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Mississippi Valley
New Orleans
Bay of Bengal
Burrampooter
Ganges
Gulf of Mexico
Asia
Ja’s. Joanson
Ohio River
United States
New York
London
Cincinnati
Lexington
James Johnson
Cartwright
Jos. N. M‘dowell, M.D
Egg within an egg puzzle stuns Baltimore readers
A Baltimore Sun note reports a market find where a large egg contained a second egg, perfectly formed and walnut sized, floating inside. The likelihood of another egg inside remains a mystery, sparking naturalist curiosity and a warning to egg merchants about undercounting.
Gaiter Making Machine Patented by Wm Snell of Boston
Mr William Snell of Boston Pa has patented a machine that forms ladies and gentlemen gaiters half gaiters and short gaiters seam free in any size and proportion. It works with patent leather calf morocco split leather and even woolen materials. The device removes boot cutting skill and reduces patent leather boot cost to one third.
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Wm. Snell
Boston
Has My Desa. Child Refuses Sleep Over Dirty Face
A mother complains her child cannot sleep, claiming the face is too dirty to close its eyes. A friend jokes about soap and a doctor’s claim, suggesting a harsh rebuke for the physician’s stance. The dialogue portrays frustration over a sleepless child and cleanliness.
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Desa
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