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Caution to the Public About Reading the News
A fragment from an exchange paper jokes that two men resemble each other closely. One reads papers and prospers, his children read and write. The other avoids papers, is struck by a falling tree, showing the danger of not reading the news.
A Sermon on Paying Debts to Printers by Dan Ir
A Sunday Mercury sermon urges delinquents to settle debts to printers. It argues debt harms the soul and social relations, mocking evasion as moral failure. The speaker warns about haunting guilt, ruined reputation, and divine judgment for unpaid printing bills.
Printer's Debt Sermon urged as moral duty and mercy
A fiery address condemns patrons who refuse to pay printers, urging immediate settlement and advance purchases. The speaker extols printers as enlighteners of minds, warns that dishonor leads to ruin, and shares a sickbed tale of gratitude upon paying two dollars and fifty cents. The sermon ends with a call to lifelong fiscal honesty and gratitude.
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Goial
Satan
Ingenious combination lock defies robbers
The New York Commercial reports Mr. Andrews of that city has a combination lock deemed the most ingenious for doors. The lock cannot be forced by a sledge hammer or picked with a false key and even a true key offers no access. Impression of the interior is impossible, and losing the key or using a false key leaves treasures secure. The lock resists even powerful tools, as only interior portions may be damaged without compromising security.
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New York
Andrews
Thief Detector Lock Invention by Boston Machinist
Mr Williams P Baker of Boston reveals a simple improvement for locks named Thief Detector. The device attaches to an air chamber and wired bolt system to doors or windows. Any movement triggers a whistle that blows until the mechanism unwinds, producing a locomotive-like alert audible over long distances.
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Williams P. Baker
Boston
Invention to clean wheat patented by Phillips and Jackson
The Leesburg Virginia Genius of Liberty reports Phillips and Jackson have invented and patented a machine to separate garlic cockle cheat and other impurities from wheat. It can be supplied at a price within reach and should aid farmers by removing a major obstacle to full crop value. The device is expected to gain general use.
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Leesburg, Va
Genius of Liberty
Messrs
Phillips & Jackson
Two Horse Thief Drowns in Vermont River
A young man arrived in Berkshire Vermont with a suspected stolen horse. He fled from the sheriff, leaped into the river, and drowned. His body was recovered along with counterfeit money totaling $605 traced to Vermont Connecticut and New York banks. The horse was recovered by its owner.
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New York Sun
Hat Berkshire
Vermont
Connecticut
New York
Birge Brothers Die in Drowning Incidents in Galena
A Galena paper notes that months ago Morton N. Birge died by drowning in this city. A day or two ago his brother Ephraim Birge also died by drowning. The brothers perished within a few days of each other.
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Galena
Morton N. Birge
Ephraim Birge
Immigrant land grants offered by Arkansas Legislature
The Southern Shield notes Arkansas lawmakers enacted a law offering donated military bounty lands to actual settlers. Survitable tracts lie in Phillips, Monroe, St. Francis, Poinsett, Green, Jackson, Independence, Arkansas, Pulaski, White, Conway, Izard, and Lawrence counties. Each settler may choose up to a quarter section from the Auditor’s office and secure a home by settlement. In Illinois, a vigilante group on the Little Keck river pursued horse thieves. After capturing Driskell and son, they were executed by a ten-rod firing squad, then chased the remaining suspect with a $600 reward.
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Arkansas
Shield
Phillips
Monroe
St. Francis
Poinsett
Green
Jackson
Independence
Pulaski
White
Conway
Izard
Lawrence
Ilinois
Little Keck River
Campbell
Driskell
DeKalb
Winnebago
New Hampshire Legislature Passes Bank Stockholder Liability Bill
The New Hampshire Legislature approved a bill by 138 to 99 that makes the private property of stockholders in future banks liable to some extent for the debts of the institutions.
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New Hampshire
The Fisheries in Marblehead Report Poor Returns
Accounts from Marblehead state that the few bank fishermen who have returned have not averaged a fourth part of the usual number of fish. This is a very gloomy prospect for the hardy and honest fishermen.
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Marblehead
Invention Aims to Supersede Steam at Ocean Travel
The New York Tribune reports J. A. Etzler, a German native and U.S. citizen, has devised a new sailing system that claims to harness the full power of the wind with easier handling and uses wave force for propulsion, potentially replacing steam for ocean navigation.
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The
New York Tribune
J. A. Etzler
Germany
United States
Boston savants acknowledge unexplained appearances in Collyer's animal magnetism
A Boston committee of scholars attending Dr. Collyer's lectures on animal magnetism pass a resolution stating they will not declare an opinion on the science but admit experiments show phenomena unexplainable by collusion or known physiological principles.
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Boston
Steam Bridge at Portsmout h bridges progress of steam power
A floating bridge seventy feet long and sixty feet wide, driven by two twenty horsepower engines, crosses 2 200 feet at about 450 feet per minute. The appliance draws only two feet, promising to supersede boat bridges on great rivers and reduce bridgebuilding costs worldwide. Harvard College unrest cited in Cambridge as a rebellion noted.
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Portsmouth
St. Louis Drgus
Disorder at College After Resistance to Authority
Students refused to attend recitations and submit to officers, verbally declared a Second Declaration of Independence, and demanded the expulsion of a tutor. Peers resisted, a wooden college building burned recently, and the club had formed to suppress a "Tasty Pudding Club." Quietness was restored.
Singular case of death by own action at Arch street wharf
Report of two youths finding a man and woman tied by a red silk handkerchief at Arch street wharf. A pistol loaded with ball was found on both, coroner's inquest returned death by own action. Later details describe the man as 26 and the woman as 19, with separate lives noted as a gambler and servant. Pennsylvanian.
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Arch Street
Sehuy Hill
Green-House
The Rothschilds. A 19th Century Banking Dynasty
The June Merchant’s Magazine article on Mayer Amschel Rothschild traces the founder’s rise from modest means to establishing a banking house in Frankfurt. It notes the family fortune, loans, and the spread of sons to Berlin Vienna London Naples Paris, shaping a vast financial empire.
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Merchant’s Magazine
Rothschild
Louis Harper
Gotingen
Mager Amacher Rothschild
Frankfort-on-the-Maine
Hanover
Frankfurt
Hessia
Denmark
Terg Sons
Aschel
Frankfort
Savlomon
Berlin
Vienna
Nathan
London
Charles
Naples
Jacob
Paris
Vast 12 year money transfers among European powers
The passage claims the House of Rothschild handled immense sums over twelve years from 1331, totaling billions across Europe. It asserts loans and commissions to countries including England, Russia, France, Prussia, Brazil, and various German principalities, with numerous indemnifications and renditions of government operations on commission.
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Roglands
Russia
Brazil
House of Rothsehia
Totel
Cost of Glory in the English French War
A historical note states that two million one hundred thousand men died in the last English French war, and the monetary cost to England was one billion fifty eight million pounds sterling, much of which remains unpaid.
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England
France
Emigrant Ships Reported Delivering Enslaved Africans to Jamaica
The Jamaica reports accuse Britain of importing many Black laborers from Africa under the guise of emigration. The ship Hector reached Kingston on the 26th from Sierra Leone with 267 emigrants, 179 freed Africans and 64 Maroons. The ship Elizabeth sailed from Sierra Leone on April 11 for Trinidad, with 182 emigrants, as Savannah Georgia is noted in the dispatch.
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Jamaica
Africa
Arica
Hector
Kingston
Sierra Leone
Elizabeth
Trinidad
Savannah
Druses of Mount Lebanon seek own prince under Porte
The Boston Post notes the Druses, a 70,000 strong sect once under the Maronites, vow to cast off subjection and seek a prince subordinate to the Porte and protected by England, with many willing to accept American missionaries at Beyrout as spiritual guides. It also cites Mr N M Ward on a flying serpent observed near Pedang, Sumatra, describing its aerial movement, danger of bite, and parallels to biblical fiery serpents, suggesting a literal basis for scripture’s imagery.
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Boston Post
Mount Lebanon
England
Beyrout
N. M. Ward
Pedang
Sumatra
Ifty
New York Tattler
Dexterous Yazoo River sledge player and stuttering gambler
Old T. was famed years ago on Yazoo river for a stutter and skill at sledge. He beat a man who came with two hundred dollars, soon owning half the game. When the other player offered to quit, T. insisted on another chance for the remaining hundred, saying g-g-give me a ch-chance, while the opponent retorted Chance the devil.
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Nachez
Yazoo
Ladies of Lafayette and Clay Counties Adopt Newspaper Rule
The Ladies forever-The Ladies of Lafayette and Clay counties, Missouri, adopt a standing rule and resolution not to marry any man who does not subscribe for a newspaper.
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Lafayette
Clay Counties
Missouri
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