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Sunbury American in Sunbury, Pennsylvania
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Newspaper
Sunbury American
Location
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1850
Page
1
Daguerreotype Portraits For Citizens And Strangers
Daguerrean artist gallery advertises portrait and miniature daguerreotypes in morocco SUK velvet papier mache and medallions. Includes outdoor views, deceased copies, and improved instruments. Open all hours with six prize medals. offers quick sessions for adults and children in fair weather. June 1850.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth & Chesnut Sts
Philadelphia
Broadway
Franklin Street
New York
Morocco
Dross
Fine Hats and Accessories Advertised in 1840 Notice
An 1840 advertisement touts a shop offering charade hats, gentility cloths, capes, umbrellas, carpets, rags, calico, and straw hats at modest prices. It claims to offer a finer and more fashionable stock than any other establishment on the felt. May 24 1840.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gentyld Dev
Linn Smite & Co Wholesale Crude Goods Declares Fame
Linn Smite & Co at 2434 Market Street proclaims itself wholesale crucelists and dealers in rugs and various home goods. The notice highlights their manufacturing and distribution role and references their celebrated products.
Philadelphia Wine and Liquor Store Advertises Low Prices
Bitting and Waterman importers and dealers in liquors list a wide range at Philadelphia prices. They advertise Champagne Sherries Port Claret burgundies Madeira Lisbon Teneriffe Sicily wines brandies Holland gin and whiskeys with liberal terms for hotels and country trade. July 13 1850.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Htaladelphia Wine & Liquor Store
Bitting & Waterman
Market Street
Philadelpha
PFER
Philadelphia
Santurn
Barsac
Lisbon
Teneriffe
Sicily
E. Ae
Musical Instruments Department Ad in Philadelphia
Chesnut Street store of Chas Dummig at No 207 offers imported and manufactured musical instruments fancy articles and toys. Repairs performed with first rate workmanship at prices lower than other Philadelphia shops. Location near Arcade. Philadelphia May 23 1850.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Dummig
Chesnut Street
Front Arcade
Paraverevia
Mporter
Philadelphia
The Poor Man's Riches Poem by Chanles Mackay
A poem celebrating wealth as inner riches not money. The speaker values health sunshine water and nature as true wealth, with gardens cottages and freedom. Friends, teachers, and a steadfast heart are riches beyond gold, while simple joys and patience sustain the spirit.
Confessions of a Sword Swallower Recounts a Lifeworking Past
A veteran performer recalls forty six years in sword swallowing and tumbling. He details heavy earnings and dangers, medical warnings, snakes and fire eating, and life in street entertainment. He reflects on labor, audience reaction, and the decline of such livelihoods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Norfolk
Lonton
London
Ramo Samee
Edinburg
Horrific discovery of starving family in a backwoods shed
A traveler from Cincinnati found a dying mother with an infant and a starving ten year old girl in a dilapidated shed near a cabin along a Missouri side route. A man, gravely injured and bleeding, lay beside them as the family reportedly suffered from months of sickness and neglect. The traveler aided the man with water and provisions, while the girl, Mary Williams, survived briefly on small rescues before authorities or neighbors could intervene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wolf Island
Ohio
Missouri
Moana
Mr. J
Cincinnati
Mary Williams
New Albany
Eranseilly
Journal
Watts Street Confusion Cited in Street Inquiry Encounter
A Frenchman questions a boy in the street about a street name. After several mishearings and exchanges, the name Watts Street is clarified in a humorous lament. A separate note reports a negro living with a white woman was arrested and feathered in New Albany, and a local dish called fried plant is praised as delicious.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Albany
Case of lactation in a male in New York and Philadelphia
An athletic American named Charles Colling, 22, a New York blacksmith, developed a left breast enlargement and lactation. He consulted at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia after three weeks of growth. Prof Mutter found the gland enlarged and lacteal secretion, treated with soap plaster and compression for six weeks. the gland returned to normal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. W. Horse
Mod
Prinapet- Pitts
Charles Colling
New York
Philadelphia
Jefferson Medical College
Mutter
Fairmount
Physicians in Cincinnati Report Many Doctors Doing Well
Amuaica A correspondent of the Limerick Examiner writes from Cincinnati that there are over two hundred doctors in the city and notes amusedly that Americans seek medical help for a minor finger pain, attributing it to more than disease.
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Amuaica
Limerick Examiner
Cincinnati
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