Prospectus for a Biography of Martin Van Buren
A proposed volume recounts Martin Van Buren’s rise from humble origins to national prominence, highlighting his study, perseverance, and public service. The plan includes sources and revolutionary claims, with a publication urging subscriptions and outlining pricing for 12 copies. The prospectus notes timing with Congress adjournment and compares to biographies of notable figures.
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Tim
Tev
Brehem
Jackson
Congress
R Mi Jehosen
Emmons
Books for SL 25. FPBCE Circulating Library catalog
The listing notes books available for a sale at five dollars each. Items include The Adventures of Japhet in Sea, Father by the Father of Peter, Jones Landscape Anual for 1585, The Fall of Granada by Thomas Rosese, Letters and Essays in Prose and Wr by Richard Sinarp, and Barong Ont from the We of a Sub etitne.
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Walilie
Japhet
Peter Sinnie
Anaual
Granada
Thomas Rosese
Essass
Richard Sinarp
Barong Ont
Specimen volume of Christian writings advertised for sale
PHE announces a five volume work with engravings and maps, priced per volume at four dollars fifty cents, bound in sheep or calf, featuring the writings of Doddridge and others. The prospectus promotes reader interest and religious edification, noting Baptist views and editorial notes from A. Waene.
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Phe
Phys
Juste
Christian Charen
Heney
Leon
Doddrites
Adwin Ginek
Patrick
Tool
Lowih
Fois Wellewert
Taplin
Pew
A. Waene
Baptist
Doddridge
Geo Howard
Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual announced in Hartford
The Executive Committee of Hartford County Silk Society launches a monthly publication named the Silk Culturist and Farmer's Manual. It aims to spread knowledge on mulberry cultivation, silk worm rearing, cocoon production, and silk reeling. The manual promises a full guide from seed sowing to silk processing, with agricultural topics and experiments. Subscriptions cost forty cents a year for eight pages monthly, payable in advance through secretary A G Comstock, Hartford. Hertford, April 1620.
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Hartford County Sik Society
Bat
G. Comstock
Hartford
Conn
Hertford
The New Yorker begins its second volume with promise
The New Yorker announces its second volume on March 21, promising continued high character and growing patronage. It outlines a literary department with reviews, tales, poems, and anecdotes, preserves neutrality, and invites American literature patrons to judge its value at a yearly price of three to five dollars.
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THE
NEW Yorker
Publishers
A&o
Poloneal Totelicence
Walhowt
Amd
Hineel
Times
Eo Ac
H Greely & CO
Nassau Vt
New York
The New Yorker Price and Payment Terms 1835
The New Yorker announces weekly Saturday publication on a high quality sheet at two dollars per year, payable in advance. Delayed payment after quarter end incurs fifty cents. Subscribers sending dollars receive six copies for one year, with proportional terms for more copies, and postmasters are asked to promote favorable terms. April 1, 1835.
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Eich
New Yorker
Post
Wheat prospects in the state deteriorate
The Richmond Enquirer reports that wheat crops statewide are unpromising with forecasts of only about a third of normal yield. Early wheat was cut short by a hard winter and subsequent frost, and later wheat also suffered damage, leading to severe reductions across the region.
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Richmond
Diamond hoax targets editors over county rumor in Virginia
A large diamond discovery in Prince Edward County Virginia turns out to be a hoax. The note condemns cruel deception and calls for action against offenders. The Fay Observer reports Bible Society receipts for the year at 100806 dollars with 47703 Bibles and 75533 Testaments issued.
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Prince Edward County
Richmond Enquirer
Raleigh Register
Chapel Hill
Obs
Bible Sovciety
The
Bible Society
Foundlings Surge in City Streets and Public Executions
A New York report notes around eighty to one hundred foundling children picked up or dropped at doors in recent months. The U S Gazette records two black men recently convicted in Alabama for murdering a boy and girl, sentenced to death by burning, with the execution carried out immediately.
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New York
Alabama
U. S. Gazette
Steam Boat Majestic Boiler Burst At Memphis
Steam boat Majestic exploded its boiler on the 13th at Memphis Tennessee, killing forty persons. The disaster shocked spectators and prompted rescue efforts as crews battled flames and navigated wreckage along the riverfront.
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Majestic
Memphis
Tenn
Planter's Hotel Collapse in New Orleans Kills and Feeds Few
Night of the 14th saw the Planter's Hotel in New Orleans collapse trapping about 50 people inside. Roughly 40 escaped unharmed or with minor injuries, while the remainder were buried in the ruins.
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New Orleans
Convention in Detroit Forms Michigan State Constitution
Major John Biddle presides as President of the convention now in session at Detroit tasked with drafting Michigan’s state constitution. The gathering aims to establish foundational laws and governance structure for the new state.
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John Biddle
Detroit
Michigan
Ohio Governor issues proclamation to summon Legislature
The Governor of Ohio issues a proclamation calling the Legislature to convene on the stated date to address the ongoing controversy between Ural State and the Territory of Michigan.
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Ohio
Ural State
Michigan
Inquest In Edgefield Involving Child Victim
A few days ago an inquest was held on the body of a 10 year old girl, daughter of Hammond Richardson. A negro man, owned by Mr. O'Connor, is charged with a grievous assault and murder. He remains jailed awaiting trial. Carolinian.
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Edgefield, $C
Hammond Richardson
O'Connor
Horrible murder in Connecticut by Portuguese man
Report describes a fatal attack in Connecticut blamed on a Pabs or Portuguese man. A 12 year old boy allegedly taunted the foreigner and stepped on his toes, provoking a fatal act of revenge. No further details or confirmations provided.
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Connecticut
New York Girl Ends Life Over Love Disappointment
A young New York girl committed suicide by drinking half a pint of laudanum. The act followed heartbreak in a romance, with the death attributed to distress over a late love affair.
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New York
Uncommon Mare Birth Records Four Colts in Prince Edward Estate
A mare owned by the late Philip Brooks of Prince Edward produced four foals on April 11. Two colts died immediately, two survived and were witnessed by many people.
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Philip Brooks
Prince Edward
Gold Fever in Virginia Fails to Bring Profit
A Virginia traveler reports the gold rush there has collapsed after heavy investment. Most works are abandoned and those operating yield only meagre profits, reflecting a renewed but costly dream that originally troubled Virginia’s settlers.
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Virginia
British cruisers seize slave ships off Sierra Leone
The British cruisers off Sierra Leone captured within months three or four vessels carrying about two thousand slaves.
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Sierra Leone
Fatal passions in Richmond end two lives the same day
A white woman and a mulatto woman in Richmond Virginia died on the same day from the effects of a fit of passion. The incident occurred within the same community setting and is reported as a double tragedy resulting from heated dispute. Further details are not provided in the surviving text.
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Richmond
Expunging Resolution to Clean Senate Journal
The Washington Globe notes that Col. Benton will be at the next Congress and plans to move to expunge from the Senate Journal a resolution condemned by the factious majority that censured President Jackson. This marks Benton’s pledge to defend the people and challenge the prior journal entry.
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Col. Benton
Senate
Jackson Wash
Connecticut House Resolution Urges Senators on Expunging Senate Condemnation
The Connecticut House voted 129 to 1079 on March 23 to instruct U S Senators to vote for expunging the U S Senate condemnation approved March 20, 1834. The action seeks to remove the condemning resolution from Senate records.
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Connecticut
House of Representatives
Congress
U.S. Senate
Submarine Descent Planned At Newburyport Exhibition
Capt. L Norcross, known for an India rubber dress shown by the American Institute, planned to descend in the river at Newburyport on Friday. He aimed to walk along the river bottom and stay for about 20 to 30 minutes.
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L. Norcross
American Institute
Newburyport
Mass
A Noble Reward Declined for Bravery on Delaware
Years ago Joseph Wood of Trenton New Jersey heroicly saved a Mr Jones son who fell from a steamboat into the Delaware River. The grateful parents offered large rewards, but Wood declined, content with his modest act.
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Joseph Wood
Trenton
N. J
Jones
England
Delaware
Wood
Jones Heir Named to Twenty Seven Thousand Pounds
Mr Jones recently died and Mr Wood has received notice from Jones's agent that he has become heir to twenty seven thousand pounds sterling by the deceased's will.
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Mr. Jones
Wood
Slavery Debate in Missouri Papers Push Emancipation Plan
Missouri papers advocate gradual emancipation through constitutional change. They suggest a convention decide timelines for lifelong slavery for preexisting slaves, years of servitude for those born later, and eventual freedom for those born after a distant date, framed as expediency. Nat. Int.
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Missouri
Maritime trial net results at New Poulet bound for Fiji River
A vessel named Capts Potter and crew, including Captain Carter, were examined before magistrates. The captain was admitted to bail while the mate and two seamen were imprisoned, pending the Fall Term of the Superior Court, with another seaman held as evidence. Wilmington Press.
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CPA
Neuro Bey
Potter
Butler
New Poulet
Fiji
Carter
Bal
Wilmington Press
Kidnapping Notice From Salisbury Auction of Child
A Greensborough Patriot report states a Patrick County Virginia man offered a free mulatto child for sale in Salisbury. On being confronted as a street speculator, he bowed and vanished, eluding pursuit.
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Greensborough
Patrick County
Salisbury
Beckwiths AntiDyspeptic Pills Demand Expansion
The Raleigh Register notes a steady rise in demand for Beckwiths Anti-Dyspeptic Pills requiring about twenty workers for months to produce a daily 40 000 pills across various production stages to meet the consumption.
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Beckwith
Raleigh Register
Post Office Robbery Embarrasses Baltimore Gazette Editor
William Gwynn Jones, editor of the Baltimore Gazette, was arrested at the Post Office on a charge of purloining letters. He admitted the act before Judge Glenn and said it stemmed from ruinous speculation. Once trusted in the community and newly joined to the editorial staff, his conduct is now viewed as unworthy.
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William Gwynn Jones
Baltimore Gazette
Glenn
The
Baltimore Patriot
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