04 Dec 1852
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Newspaper
Sunbury American
Location
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1852
Page
1
An 1862 Philadelphia ad offers cane seat chairs lounges and settees with home production. It touts extensive facilities, custom work, and pricing from 16 to 80 dollars per dozen while inviting customers to visit No 141 North of St opposite Franklin Square.
Pamphlet Laws of 1852 are received and ready for distribution to those entitled. James Beard, Propriety, Sunbury, September 35, 165% announces distribution readiness.
A mixed fragment from Francis Gage reflects autumn and approaching winter with nature imagery and moral urging. The text slides into humorous portraits of Morgan O Sullivan and Jack Pinnatty recounting a potato praise speech attributed to Wilberforce, then shifts to mentions of Eng and Chang Bunker in Mount Airy, remarks on their twin lives, labor, and family, ending with a Cincinnati mother bearing twins and Cochin China price quotes.
A fragmentary excerpt from a Feejee poem praising King Kankeramsquatkee, noted by Francis Frederick Eidgig, secretary to the king. The piece includes chants and mock celebratory lines, with a promise of a future prose and verse volume of Feejee literature.
A humorous fragment recalls 19th century reporters in Great Metropolis days. Jack Finnarty prompts a member of Parliament to sing and drags a Quaker into custody by mistake. The tale continues with yawns and a mock reading about the Irish potato and laborers.
A party aboard the schooner Lamartine sails for Lomana Venezuela with diving gear and a new Whipple submarine apparatus to recover the San Pedro wreck. They claim a potential $9,060,000 treasure and plan steam engines and armor for deeper exploration.
A composite piece recounts Mrs Neppins from Long Island and her family, including Conklin Neppins who bets on a roast goose and suffers after tasting greasy gravy. It notes a Californian’s hunger and a tale of Lord Rosse’s telescope revealing the moon’s barren surface with no signs of life.
The description extols a towering, kingly figure with vast intellect and mass, comparing him to Socrates Angolo and Charlemagne. The subject moves through London streets like a king, inspires awe in the Senate, and is praised for a lionlike mouth and fiery, noble face.
An Oswego Times report describes a bizarre cleaning method from Hartford where inmates mix a gill of alcohol with soft soap to dye clothes, claiming dirt vanishes after soaking and rinsing. The piece, following a note on the Oswego Starch Factory, notes vast plant size, machinery, and output.
A fantasy itinerary claims rapid rail travel from Dover to Calais via London Paris and beyond to Trieste, then other major cities at five hundred miles per day. An editor in Wheeling reports finding a brass antique crucifix dug from an Indian mound in Weizel county, Virginia, buried beneath a forest canopy for centuries.
Several correspondents request republication of a beef curing receipt from The Telegraph. The recipe uses a salt sugar and saltpetre pickle to soak beef or pork for four to five weeks, with instructions to boil to remove dirt and cool before covering meat. The method advises salting and resting after slaughter and notes a boil-free version also tested as excellent.
In Richmond Virginia butter sold at 35 4 per pound as buyers watched local market activity and price reports.
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