13 May 1837
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1837
Page
1
A rowdy social tale from the New York Herald era, depicting a jealous husband who discovers a suspicious love letter, trips a clandestine assignation, and traps a gallant suitor. The scene unfolds with comic violence as the betrayed spouse exacts a savage cowhide whipping and retrieves a risqué correspondence.
A satirical verse condemns social failings under titled heights. It mocks excess and folly, listing acts from drunken repose on rails to questionable courtesies, showing only the moral glare of public decorum and personal restraint. It lampoons behavior from intoxication to defrauding creditors and perpetual temperance.
A humorous collection of maxims on benevolence and manners includes tips like avoiding harm to a kitten on stairs, false charity, and ridiculous misfortunes. It also mocks indiscretions abroad and the folly of misdirected affection with a country editor's dating style.
A Providence paper reviews moral topics and a comical hog dialogue from Pickwick. It laments newspapers swelling in size, noting the loss of digestible, lively content as editions grow bulkier and harder to read.
A terse note from the Richmond Compiler reflects on reader interest and the temptation to imitate celebrated publications. The writer compares modern trends to a fabled fox and emphasizes restraint in adopting rising fashions.
A New York Post report extols an inventive printing press by mechanic Thomas Trench. The device prints on stereotype plates, handles fifty reams daily, and can attach to paper mills. A 26 foot sheet prints two books of 160 pages in a quarter minute at about $1,000 per press.
Several papers note a major magnetic and electro magnetic power advance usable for steamboats locomotives and manufactures with inexhaustible energy. Thomas Davenport of Vermont is the inventor with Silliman Henry endorsing the improvement. Ransom Cook of Saratoga Springs aided with upgrades and the project seeks funding to advance this novel power and its safe propulsion potential. Gilbert E Hudson and Gonon of France claim an improved telegraph method aiming to link New York and New Orleans with rapid one hundred word dispatches in half an hour.
An anonymous writer signed as a Norfolk house ordered $800 worth hardware from New York. Goods were shipped, bill of lading and invoice sent, but the consignees returned the items as unused. The New York firm faced freight costs and trouble. the article questions whether the ploy succeeded.
A fragment notes four specimens of marble found several miles south of Germanton in Stokes County with a claim of fine polish. The text questions whether the mischief was for fraud or mere mischief and suggests the author deserves to be “slicked.”
A fragment notes Martin & Donnan of Petersburg, Virginia, offering goods for sale on reasonable terms with a date reference to February 1886. The text provides limited context but indicates a commerce notice from a local firm.
The Southwestern Christian Advocate reports Col. Adam Binkley died February 28 in Davidson County Tennessee aged 136. He served throughout the Revolutionary War and was survived by a wife and eleven children. The Raleigh Register notes the memorial is lengthy and emphasizes his long life and service.
An express mail rider from the North was waylaid by a robber near Augusta Georgia on the 22d of the month. He was shot in the thigh but kept his seat and rode away, staying beyond the robber's reach.
At a late term in Providence the Rhode Island Supreme Court granted fourteen divorces, ten to women and four to men. One petition cites the husband boiling his wife with hot water as the principal cause. the husband reportedly drank ardent spirits.
The article states that applying powdered alum to the throat with a finger almost always cures throat inflammation within a few days.
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