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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1844
Page
1
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A quarrel over affection sparks playful verse exchange after a man from College gushes over Fanny Vining. A rival, Mr Gill, replies with spoof lines about Fanny Vining’s Mrs Gill, circulating among acquaintances and mocking the original serenade.
The Louisville Journal reports heavy corn yields by Walter C. Young in Jessamine County Kentucky. It notes 195 bushels per acre, surpassing previous records by G. W. Williams of Bourbon County and cites verification by agricultural society appointees. Also discusses a talking machine exhibit in New York Tribune.
The speaker defends Mr. Young’s practice, detailing spring plowing, two harrow passes, and consecutive ploughings to maximize corn yield. He claims planting late March with deep coverage and minimal subsequent work yields a reliable crop, arguing sod-to-corn cycles improve second-year yields with less labor, and that profit comes from maximizing output per effort.
The report notes a performer who sang songs including Hail Columbia and Shades with skill, though unclear if he is Grisi or Clara Norvella. It praises Dutch pronunciation and the instrument’s vowel accuracy. Mr. F. has worked on it seventeen years and spent seven years shaping the sound of e. Mr. Faber is described as a skilled musician, composer, and instrument maker.
A German inventor, Mr Faber, unveils a talking machine that imitates human speech. After fourteen years of work he claims to have mastered the sound and can produce speech in German English and Latin, with springs moving vocal organs to imitate life.
The Rev. Mr. Collier delivered a two hour lecture at the Iremont temple in Boston against Odd Fellowship drawing from 2 Corinthians 6 14 and 15. He argued the benevolence secrecy obligations ceremonies and brotherhood of the order are flawed and said he would continue next Sunday evening. Rev D S King attended and pledged to answer if Collier’s charges prove unfounded as crowds urged to prove it.
Citizens of St. Peters parish hold a meeting to curb medical fees. They adopt a price scale to ensure funds remain for families after illness or death with charges capped at ten dollars for removing bladder stones and twenty five cents per hour of bedside attendance, eight dollars for total attendance in chronic cases. No doctors’ response yet.
In a Pennsylvanian reflection, residents are urged to resist medical calomel and costly bills by a unanimous town meeting. A proposed declaration of independence calls for a committee to ensure no illness and to test doctors with reduced attendance costs as a social experiment.
Extract from London letter received by the last steamer notes a Yankee has opened a Strand shop selling American manufactured articles such as ent leks screws augurs combs pins milk pails of cedar wine coolers corn brooms wooden clocks and more John Bull will learn we can now make our own mouse traps Boston files
Mr. Phillips of Assumption stated in the Louisiana House that in his parish there are on average twelve children per family. The claim reflects discussion on demographics and family size in his district.
The Supreme Court decided against the executors of Daniel Clarke in the Gaines case, with two points affirmed with qualifications requiring circuit court review. The decision reportedly places General Gaines and his wife as owners of a vast property, estimated at around fifteen million dollars.
The Supreme Court upholds the validity of Mr Girard's Wall and the Philadelphia college trust. It overrules objections that the city lacked authority and that the will barred religious instruction, affirming the college's establishment. General Jackson letters and a curious Oxford sermon closing the piece are also noted.
A fiery preacher denounces cards, dice, dancing, and drinking as mortal sins. He warns listeners they'll face damnation among the goats, not salvation, for indulgence in worldly pleasures. He predicts a future struggle with Beelzebub as judgment nears, and pledges to speak plainly without flattering the crowd.
A report from London notes Mrs Gilmour, arrested in this country for murdering her husband and taken back to Southind, was acquitted on the ground that the charge was not proven. A London woman named Blayden has been named defendant in an ae Hon derverment, with the main count alleging she threw her husband out of a window.
A Boston Transcript excerpt recalls a lady professor of mesmerism who allegedly can diagnose internal disease and reveal character while in magnetic sleep. A private gathering prompted questions about a woman beside the sleeper, and a Millerite recounts Kent Island railing amid doctrinal controversy.
A showman in Angasta sought a license to exhibit a curious artifact. He claimed to own the greatest curiosity in the United States, an Egyptian mummy over three thousand years old. The judge sprang to his feet astonished by the age and question of life.
In a playful exchange from a historical column, Mrs Grimes is asked to lend a laboratory but declines. The speaker laments missing hoops and reveals washing in a barrel, highlighting quirky domestic life and humorous scarcity. The vignette preserves period voice with local color and characterful dialogue.
A Baltimore man marries a Tongue, noted as a bold union amid many Tongue family marriages. The reference ends with a teasing interlude about a rabbit and a gun, reflecting playful local chatter.
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