28 Oct 1843
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Newspaper
Tarboro Press
Location
Tarboro, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1843
Page
1
The Tarborough Press offers annual subscriptions at two dollars fifty cents paid in advance or three dollars after a year, with monthly options and advance payment required for distant subscribers. Advertisements up to a square cost one dollar for the first insertion and twenty five cents per continuation, longer ads at per square rates plus court orders and judicial ads at twenty five percent higher. Letters to the Editor must be postpaid.
The poem calls youths to strive upward for knowledge and national welfare, urging toil in learning to gain gems beyond royal diadems. It emphasizes duty, virtue, and excellence as true happiness, and asks for unity at home and spiritual ascent toward a heavenly end.
The obituary chronicles Joshua Lawrence born September 10 1778 on Deep Creek Edgecombe NC. It details early hardship indulgence in vice then conversion repentance and call to ministry at age 23. He opposed Missionary Societies and helped spark Kehukee Association disunion, yet led revivals and sermonized across several churches. He died January 28 1844 at age 65 after a long life of preaching, enduring bodily afflictions, and steadfast faith.
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