Tarborouch Press Subscription and Advertising Rates
The Tarborouch Press by George Howard is a weekly paper priced at two dollars and fifty cents per year if prepaid or three dollars at year end. Shorter periods cost twenty five cents per month. Subscriptions may be discontinued with arrears paid. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per continued insertion. Court notices and judicial ads are twenty five percent higher. Mail to the printer must be prepaid.
Soothing Syrup Promises Relief for Teething Pain
An advertisement extols Dr William Evans soothing syrup for teething infants. It claims to prevent convulsions and fevers by opening pores, says one mother’s letter reports dramatic relief after use, and directs dosing on gums starting at four months. Cautions buyers to obtain from listed agents in New York and North Carolina in 1840.
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de William Evans
Chatham St
New York
M. Repaono
Geo. Howarn
Tarboro
M. Russet
Elizabeth City
Mary
Fragmented Verses and a Murmured Murder Tale from Danville
The piece opens with poetic lines praising a departed figure from Tarboro and shifts to a grim report from Danville, noting two murdered boys who were the murderer's children. A four year old witnessed the mother's and grandmother's killings, pleading for mercy before his own life was taken. Accomplices remain jailed. the killer is at large.
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Danville Fa
Copeon Planter FP Inventors from Yanceyville NC
The Salisbury Watchman reports a new cotton planter machine invented in Yanceyville North Carolina by two carriage makers named Minor and Phelps who have secured a patent. The device opens the furrow sows and covers seed in one operation, said to work more regularly and easily than usual planting, also adaptable for planting corn in checks or drills.
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Yanceyville
Minor
Phelps
Salisbury Watchman
Intense pistol play at Concord Academy ends in death
Two intimate friends at Concord Academy Virginia bought pistols as a joke during a study break. A cap was snapped, the weapon fired mortally wounding one when it exploded. The injured student died ten days later. Both believed the pistols unloaded.
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Concord Academy
Studeata
Aidm
The Devil Incarnate Murder of Four in Nearby County
A verdict by coroner Jas M Williams outlines a horrific massacre carried out by James E Lanier near White Oak Mountain. Lanier, aided by three enslaved men, allegedly beheaded and bludgeoned Betsy Freeman her daughter Eliza Freeman and two young grandsons with an axe, then burned the house. The article notes the circumstances are greatly aggravated by the cruelty.
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Jas. M. Williams
Betsy Freeman
Eliza Freeman
Eliza
James E. Lanier
White Oak Mountain
Man Eaten by Hogs Inquest in Philadelphia Home
An inquest was held yesterday at 274 Seventeenth Street over William Nevins 50 a native of England and coop er by trade who lived with Mrs Margaret Nevins. He had been married 28 years and left several children. The coroner reported he died of apoplexy after hogs tore the flesh from his face in a rear shop. Doctors Wells and Horsefield conducted the post mortem.
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Margaret Nevius
Seventeenth Street
William Nevius
England
Wells
Horsefield
M. Y. Star
Fatal Disease Appears in Tennessee
The Paris Press reports a highly fatal illness in Tennessee with four deaths in one family and several other cases. Victims suffered a dull forehead pain, breathing difficulty, sore throat, a shuddering chill, and rapid nervous system prostration, ending in death within hours.
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Tennessee
Paris
Rogue trap nets loot after city visit near ferry
During holy days two Illinois women shopped in town. A welldressed man followed them, changed a ten dollar bill, and later demanded money as they returned home by the ferry. The bills blew away, the man rode after them, but vanished while gathering the cash. A horse and saddle bags were left with a large sum and apparel, but the thief’s home unknown. The incident is reported as accurate by a St. Louis Republican source.
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Illinois
St. Louis
Remarkable Clock Invention By Newark Mechanic Crane
A Newark correspondent reports Aaron D. Crane has devised a remarkable clock regarded as a new epoch in horology. His previous Trinity Church steeple clock, connected by a slender wire and housed 60 feet below the dial, keeps true time despite ice or wind.
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Newark
N. J
Crane
Trinity Church
U. States
Discovery Clock by McCrane Uses Pendulumless Spring Power
McCrane conceives a timepiece using a detached pendulum concept with minimal friction. He develops a simple spring impulse regulator to drive a clock with four wheels and a striking system, claiming isochronal accuracy and a sun-following daily cycle. A patent is secured both in Europe and the county, with public release anticipated.
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McCrane
Genida
Newton
Fulton
Archimedes
Liero
Teat le Bas
Europe
Death by suicide of Henry Woolf in Charlestown
Henry Woolf Esq formerly Postmaster of Groton Massachusetts committed suicide by hanging on Thursday afternoon in Charlestown. He was intelligent, amiable, enterprising and well regarded in his business and social relations. The act is attributed to a deranged mind.
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P Henry Woolf, Esq
Double deaths by own action in tragic family suicide
A pastor Daniel Hogan aged 42 living at 193 Mulberry street killed himself with a loaded musket after an altercation with his wife over children from a former marriage. She swallowed corrosive sublimate after witnessing the scene and died hours later. Both deaths ruled deaths by own action. Hogan and his wife were described as respectable and well regarded.
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Daniel Hogan
Mulberry Street
Hogan
Mor mon delusion crosses the Atlantic in English paper
A brief note suggests the Mor mon delusion has taken root on the other side of the Atlantic with a hint of disbelief and observation about its spread in an English newspaper. The remark ends with an emphatic affirmation that it would seem so.
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Atlantic
Rise of Latter day Saints in England Probed
A Leeds Times report surveys a new sect called the Latter day Saints gaining traction in Hertfordshire and Leicestershire then spreading to Lancashire and Yorkshire. It notes claims of miraculous powers, salvation through hands on healing, and insistence on a second scripture The Book of Mormon. The sect teaches a belief that this is the last generation preparing for the Son of Man.
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Old England
Engliast
Coried
Hertfordshire
Leicestershire
Lancastershire
Yorkshire
Derham
Northumberland
America
Anks
Mahommedans and dews in the East marked by liberty
The text traces a shift in Mahommedanism from enforcing tribute and death for apostasy to a stance of religious liberty as proclaimed in Constantinople on November 30, 1839. It cites reaction in London and New York commentary praising the move and noting Jewish emancipation potential.
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Quarterly Observer
Turkey
Constantinople
Haji Pasha
New York Star
Mordecai M. Noah
East
The
der Orient
Moses
Zion
Repentant.-Mitchell Receives Postal Proceeds for Overcharged Show
The Louis Gazette reports that Mr. Mitchell of that city received via the post office fifteen dollars for a fourteen dollar show that was taken recently from his store.
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Louis
Mitchell
Actor foils murder attempt with loaded pistols at Washington theatre
An actor at a Washington, D C theatre on Saturday nearly fired on Mrs V Monier during a play when a pistol aimed at her was found loaded with ball. A second pistol intended for Mr Johnson was also loaded. Initially both weapons held only powder.
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Washington, D.C
V. Monier
Harsh
Ry Hen
Legislature hears report on abolishing interracial marriage bans
A Massachusetts Legislature report favors repealing all laws prohibiting marriages between black and white individuals, signaling potential move toward ending racial marriage bans.
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Massachusetts
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