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Newspaper
Sunbury American
Location
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1850
Page
1
The July number of Godey presents a true Yankee Dooile song and praises the piece as a fitting echo of freedom. It notes the humor and wit of Meena and other poems, praising the poet’s elegant verse while affirming the work will resonate with American readers for years.
Fragmented OCR renders a poem or song chorus about Yankee Doodle and patriotic wartime sentiment. The text references rallying calls, sea battles, and invaders with repeated refrains of Yankee Doodle Dandy and related phrases.
In Philadelphia, drayman Peter Flinn, aided by Stephen Girard, bids on a cargo of 800 chests of Young Myson tea at auction. Flinn, despite two simple rooms and no wealth, wins the bid with Girard’s backing, then cashes the notes and nets about $15,000 after a successful sale and settlement.
A broken verse of friendship urges steadfast, then notes a long dead oak in Telgivmn planted during Charles I’s reign about 1540 to 1550 cut down recently. It measured 36 feet long and 18 feet around with two foot planks from branches. It was bought for 800 by M Vander Banck of Oudenaerde who planned to send a 4 to 6 foot plank to the 1851 London European Exhibition. A separate item mentions a young lady and a line about old maid perhaps.
In Mazatlan era notes reveal Dolores a tall graceful Mexican girl from Guadalajara who eloped with a military officer. Her sadness deepens after she is abused by him and contracts fatal haemorrhage, dying after a final vigil and a sacramental farewell.
A humorous Canada Geese of anecdotes opens with a string of mean men mocked for odd habits. Hugo, pressed for a church license, muses that marriage can pay for itself by homely labor, while a Lowells tale of rowdy weddings ends in tartar emetic cake.
An orator at a partisan political meeting delivers a fevered line about a noble sentiment while the chairman quips about cutting a rascal. The audience roars with applause as factional conflict deepens amid sensational promises from a rival journal to publish future incidents hours before they occur.
A Texas rater warns spouses to expect possible squalls after eight to ten months of smooth sailing in marriage. The remark highlights uncertainty in early married life and the likelihood of unexpected difficulties.
Poetic reflection on how joy and sorrow balance each other. The speaker notes that every cherished comfort has a tearful counterpart and that true repose arises from ongoing struggle, equating death with life as part of the same cycle.
The article explains preparing a syrup by clarifying sugar with water and boiling to remove scum. Green tomatoes are soaked in cold syrup with a pringe per two pounds, then simmered two to three hours. It notes equal weights of sugar and tomatoes and adds lemons, leaves, and ginger for advanced preserves.
A friend provides a blackberry syrup recipe claimed to aid the Summer Complaint with a note that in 1832 it aided cholera in some cases. The method blends blackberry juice with leaf sugar spices and a pint of brandy, with dosage suggestions by age.
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