Rates and terms for edited weekly newspaper edition
The notice outlines subscription prices and payment terms for the weekly edited by A. M. Gest. Two Petrars per year in advance or within sixty days, $2.50 within the year, $3 after the year ends. No paper is discontinued until all arrears are paid. A failure to order discontinuance at the end of the subscription period is treated as a new engagement.
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Galveston
Mobile
Vera Cruz
Milton
Arrival in Texas and the Galveston bay scene in 1837
The El Dorado brought sixty passengers to Galveston Bay amid a two week voyage. The party learn Texas has gained U S recognition, while Lafitte’s former haunts and the captured Mexican prisoners frame a rough port of call. A storm wrecks ships and endangers the settlement, leaving desolation and displaced residents in its wake.
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Texas
Galveston Bay
Lafitte
Galveston
el Dorado
New Orleans
United States
Velasco
North
Galveston Island
Washington
Buffalo Bayou
San Jacinto
Trinidad
Gulf
Gulf of Mexico
Pelican Island
Mississippi
Modern method of corn harvesting praised by Franklin Farmer
Franklin Farmer argues for cutting corn with fodder and all in shocks, a practice spreading from Kentucky and Ohio to Virginia farms. He cites riddling as optimal to prevent mould, noting advantages in fodder preservation and winter feed for cattle and mules.
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Virginia
Kentucky
Scioto
Ohio
Sixteen Hills
Clark and
Bourbon
Fayette
Lincoln
Shelby
Franklin
Charcoal for Hogs Sparks Farmers Experiment
The Indiana Farmer advocates feeding charcoal to hogs confined in pens to improve health and fattening. It cites experience showing hogs eagerly eat charcoal and suggests a cheap trial to save animals and reduce losses, inviting farmers to report results.
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Indiana
Unusual Hog Fattening Remedy Reported by Pean
Pean of Chillicothe describes feeding hogs coal as a remedy to fatten and keep them disease free. He reports fattening over fifty hogs in two years with two quarts of coal daily until they thrived, claims neighbors had similar success, and asks for public notice in the paper. Wheat and flour prices are listed at the end.
Agriculture as a Proud Path for Young Farmers
Buckeye Plough Boy argues agriculture is essential and honorable. He urges education for farmers, calls for more land cultivation over trade jobs, and praises the independent, respected life of the husbandman. The piece champions farming as the noblest, most useful pursuit for national prosperity.
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Rome
Buckeye
Making Catsup from Tomatoes and Spices
Directions describe squeezing ripe tomatoes with salt, letting them rest, pressing through cloth, adding acid and spices, boiling, straining, and evaporating in a hot oven to the thickness of molasses. Bottled and salted properly, the catsup keeps and enriches meats soups and chowder. Also included are brief notes on sickness, storms, a school punishment, a political nomination, a judge comment, and penitentiary demographics.
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Maine Wesleyan Journal
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Silver Shore
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Mexico
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Cass
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Saybrook
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Chillicothe
Gaz
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Laporte County
Illinois
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