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Newspaper
Steubenville Weekly Herald
Location
Steubenville, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 02, 1850
Page
1
A Twain era collage of news items spans finance and politics, California mining reports, a riot of miscellany from Richmond to Pittsburg, a Webster family update, a fiery hailstorm in Pittsburgh, and curiosities about Fulton and steam navigation plus editorials on luck and work practices.
The reader presents arithmetic solutions without algebra, noting A's share 2 293446 and B's share 317 706554. It fixes a triangle base 5 9064446 with altitude 1 05542. An absent two months caused delay. A sphere of 12 ft diameter asks visible surface area from distances 2400, 600, 249, 80 and 50 ft and the corresponding fractional parts.
Genin bought a 225 dollar Jenny Lind concert ticket and suspended his prize in his window for exhibition. He has sold many hats due to the publicity and expects to sell three times as many to cover his ticket. We have no doubt he will. No man loses by advertising.
The article notes Asa L Holcomb and Jeremiah Butterfield are still living, recalling Cincinnati’s first cellar and street layout done sixty years ago. Butterfield arrived in 1786 guiding to St. Louis, witnessing a county near 200000 residents today, illustrating unparalleled progress.
A county jail in Connecticut reportedly houses a girl, her mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. The remark notes iniquity visited on children through the generations and frames the situation as a stark moral reflection.
A Chicago Tribune spoof printed before a man left Louisiana mocks self-styled Anti poking your Nose into other People s Business Society. It advertises hiring persons of character at five hundred dollars a year plus a raise to mind their own business and mind readers with a periodical in crease, a playful jab at prying outsiders.
The London Punch argues editors' manners are spoiled by the vast volume of evil communications they receive from numerous correspondents, shaping behavior and public perception.
Oregon papers note new skamers on the Columbia and potential gold in Rogue River country. Gov Lane, after peace talks with the Rogue River Indians, travels to Trinity then California. Immigration from the Atlantic states is large. Cascade routes cause suffering and relief efforts are underway. Farming in the territory is profitable this year.
An examining committee prepares questions to gauge a candidate's fitness for school teaching. They debate the era when France produced her greatest general and pause over the Christ reference, showing confusion and humor as they struggle with the wording. The exchange highlights playful disarray during an evaluative session.
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