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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1840
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription terms at fifty cents per year with monthly options and advance payment discounts. It states liberty to discontinue with notice, missing arrears charged, and advertisers charged per insertion with rates differing for larger ads. Letters to the editor should be posted promptly to receive attention.
An 1940 advertisement extols Evans Soothing Syrup as a safe preparation for teething pain in infants. It claims prevention of convulsions and fevers by mouth rubbing, urges regular nursery use, and includes a testimonial from a grateful parent. It warns against counterfeits and lists U.S. addresses for authorized agents.
A fragmentary verse praising the Old North State with calls to loyalty and liberty. Repeats phrases like Hurrah the good old North State and Whose name stands foremost in Liberty’s Story, urging patriotism and love of homeland.
The Springfield Register reports over one hundred buildings rising in a 3500 population city, a pace Mobile matches with 200 to 300 new houses. Cullum's Hotel and a new Bank rise, a theatre emerges, and Dauphin Street shows three blocks of continuous construction as Mobile signals a return to prosperity.
The Levee shows unusual bustle with twenty sleaners moored after yesterday afternoon. Early business brings mountains of cotton bales, hills of potatoes, barrels, cabbages, cords of lead and other autumn produce flowing down the Father of Waters from distant northern and western lands.
A St. Louis Bulletin report dated the 7th notes a lively levee business with frequent boat arrivals and crowded ferries along Water Street, signaling renewed economic vigor. The Louisville Advertiser comments that such recovery would falter if malcontents and incendiaries within the Whig banner delayed national recuperation.
Fanny Ellsier gives $1000 to the Bunker Hill Monument. Local papers report various spellings of her name as Madam Ellssier and Ellsiier, reflecting the era’s confusion in reporting.
A controversial account accuses dancer Fanny Elsler of captivating northern crowds and inspiring young men to remove horse tack from her earrings. Reports say a Boston building committee accepted her dancing proceeds to fund a Bunker Hill monument, drawing widespread public condemnation and calls to return the money.
A Baptist Record excerpt criticizes Mormonism's growth noting baptisms healings and exorcisms while claiming documents from county offices expose Smith’s wickedness. It alleges repeated public discussion legal probes and calls the era near the last days.
Missionaries to the United States report a Bremen society formed months ago to educate German missionaries for the Western States. Two young men sent by the society recently arrived in New York and have proceeded to Indiana.
Mr. Baker, a Yankee house mover, has undertaken to remove a bridge on the Merrimac river, four or five inches up stream. The structure contains 100,000 feet of timber plus boards and shingles, spans 800 feet in length, 24 feet wide, and rises fourteen feet from sills to roof plates.
The New York Sun notes R M Hoe & Co build a balloonlike device for R O Davidson who aims to navigate the air with artificial wings. Davidson, a Virginian, calls himself a Virginia lawyer. He argues birds’ flight uses nature’s method, with arms and legs aiding lift. He hopes to travel up to 100 mph and will lecture New York on his plan.
The passage imagines rapid flying mail delivering ideas faster than lectures and hints at the Winged teachine may arrive with Mr Davidson. Scribes cite Sam Paten savas and the Aileghasies Mary keep watch for unexpected arrivals.
The pre modern era marshals steam to ocean travel and trade as a world shrinking force. The Philadelphia Sentinel warns space between continents vanishes and laments wartime risks while praising progress. Steam power may become mobile war machines changing the outcome of conflicts rather than land battles.
An extraordinary machine named the Elective Telegraph has been tested on the Western Railroad with complete success. It conveys intelligence at the rate of 200000 miles per second, eight thousand times faster than light travels in the same period.
Report from Tefflis describes a June quake that buried the village and monastery near Mount Ararat in Armenia. A massive rock mass destroyed Akhouli and killed about 1000 residents while a river of earth carried bodies away. Shocks persisted daily and the region remained unsettled.
During the year ending January 1840 the city recorded 693 personal crisis reports. The figure averages nearly two per day, reflecting a high level of social strain and municipal documentation effort in New York.
A study details the human body with 60 bones in legs and thighs 62 in arms and hands 66 in the head 57 in the trunk totaling 434 muscles in the body and 384 heart pulsations per hour.
A historical note reports a striking recovery from hydrothorax treated with spirits of turpentine. The account emphasizes a dramatic improvement in chest dropsy following this remedy, highlighting the era’s medical experimentation with alternative therapies.
In New York a physician prescribed spirits of turpentine, one teaspoonful repeated as heard, after other remedies failed and the patient near death. No symptoms of the disease remain now. The account notes the unusual treatment and its alleged success.
TVW reported a successful operation on a young lady performed Saturday by Dr Carborhan with Drs Wilkes Cox and Usack present. The procedure released a contracted ocular muscle, straightening the eye immediately and improving the patient’s expression. Carnechan also operated successfully on a club foot in an adult. the journal commends his dexterity.
A Paris inventor has created a corrosion resistant metal alloy costing under 4d per ounce and melting at a higher heat than silver. An Englishman in Brussels devised a casting method producing iron that flows as pure steel, rivaling the best cast steel, at about a quarter more per pound than cast iron.
A heavy gale on Lake Huron imperiled the steamboat Missouri and 150 passengers bound for the upper lakes. The vessel lost its rudder post after boiler damage, crew jettisoned cargo to lighten, and after 36 hours of peril Captain Wilkins guided the ship back to Detroit. All aboard survived except a few. prayers joined officers in a tight cabin circle.
The National Silk Society in Washington offers $500 to $1,000 cash premiums for various silk qualities, totaling over sixteen thousand dollars. The current season yields large silk quantities, likely making the American Institute Fair exhibition in autumn a notable national event and a push to counter British cotton growth in the East Indies.
A Lancaster Pennsylvania Gazette report recounts a woman riding through the city when she was suddenly thrown over the horse’s head. She rose uninjured as bystanders rushed to help, exclaiming Wasn't that a jump.
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