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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1841
Page
1
The Tarboro press notes weekly publication at two dollars fifty cents annually if prepaid or three dollars at year end for shorter periods, monthly option twenty five cents. Subscriptions may be canceled with arrears. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar. continued ads twenty five cents. Court and judicial ads higher by twenty five percent. Notices must be prepaid and marked.
An 19th century ad listing Celibrated Prepared Medicines by Drs J Harrell. It promotes Extract of Sarsaparilla and Blood Root for scrofula sores and constitutional debility, plus Improved Extracts for gonorrhea and urinary issues, Buchu and Uva Ursi concentrate, Camomile Tonic, Antispasmodic Cordial, Cough Mixture, Tomato Pills, toothbrush powder, and others. Prices range from 50 cents to $1 per bottle or box. Office of GEO. HOWARD, Agent.
The Boston Atlas cites English aims to expand cotton in colonies notably India and to carve out market share by taxing American imports. Bombay reports rising cotton imports, surpassing U S output by 1826, with Bombay’s 174,212,735 pounds from 1510 to 1841 and nearly 473,606 bales, signaling growing Indian supply and demand. The London Literary Gazette notes Britain’s push for a trade network with India, including a possible commission board and promising cotton cultivation experiments.
The New Orleans Courier contemplates Britain's planned China war and the likely opposition from Russia France and Austria. It argues the war could fail and warns imperial expansion may provoke broader conflict, citing Blackwood's perspective on British India and the limits of conquest by a small nation overseas.
A fragmentary poem to a daughter speaks of protective love and a father’s devotion. vivid imagery of a grass- rich green home and a tree sheltering the child from seasons. a nightingale’s lament echoes the tenderness and longing for reunion.
The article notes European effort improving industries and promoting growth. It cites acclimated Himalayan line and nutritious grasses widely used by travelers. It mentions teas, coffees, silks, numerous fruits, gums, dyes, and other commodities as yet to be cultivated for mutual benefits to both nations.
The Charleston Mercury quotes an article from the Philadelphia Pennsylvanian on English liberty, praising its views and urging careful consideration by readers. The piece remains without a clear attribution or header, leaving its editorial nature uncertain.
The piece rails at English rule and poverty across the realm. It contrasts Britain’s wealth with mass starvation among laborers and Irish peasants, calling for reform as towers of privilege oppress the toilers. It laments the paralysis of aristocrats and clergy while workers suffer starvation and deprivation.
The passage argues that reform has failed under Tory ascendancy and urges a bloodless or even violent revolution to abolish monopoly and privilege. It warns that ten more years of oppression would lead to upheaval, condemns exclusive charters, and calls the United States to uphold equal rights against privilege to spare future generations from Europe’s fate.
A farmer returning from town faced a panther hidden in a tree limb near a Florissant road. He restrained the beast by tail grip and drove it three miles using a wagon whip, while his son Jac finished the fight with an axe. The tale, recounted by the St. Louis Pennant, ends with the panther subdued and the wagoner continuing home.
A man about forty years old, identity unknown, drank a pint of rum at a New York liquor store on Tuesday. He then begged an acquaintance to buy him another, received a pint, and grew insensible after being sent to the street. He died within hours at a hospital.
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