The Investigator Advertising Rates and Office Notice
The Investigator published Thursdays at Berwick Columbia County details subscription terms and annual rates borne on Front Street above Market. Advertising prices list per square with discounts for multiple squares and business cards. Office hours and post paid letters addressed to editor Stewart Pearce proprietor.
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Berwick
Columbia ‘County
Reasonab
Ingresticator
Front Street
Market
John Snyder
Fisher
Stewart Pearce
Homes of the Poor by Martin P. Tupper
Poem urging compassion and social reform as neighbors aid the poor. It contrasts riches and virtue with humility and calls for libraries hospitals and schools, fair wages and temperate rule, to lighten life in the homes of the poor.
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Numanity
Franklin
Hale
Doddridge
Locke
Newton
Johnson
Adams
Washington
Singular Indian Custom Among Fox Tribe Horses by Bloodmark
The account, witnessed by Catlin, describes Fox youths with no horses forming a circle while Sac horsemen ride around and strike with whips. Each rider selects a fox beggar to receive a horse, the whip leaving a bloodmark on the back as a symbol of payment.
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Catlin
Street
Hee-o-kuk
The Marriage Relation From Martyria Legend
Excerpts from Martyria a Legend discuss the marriage relation as central to happiness. It stresses love, home life, and simple affections over wealth and worldly prestige, urging contentment, mutual trust, and regular domestic virtue. The text contrasts worldly wealth with daily kindness and family bonds.
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Baltimore
Soldémon
Earth
Fragment of a Civil War era gift exchange
A historical passage describes a donor giving a horse and stripes as a price for a mark and boastful display of liberality. The recipient accepts the gift, highlighting the social exchange and status implications in the scene.
Visit to the Cocoas Islands by a East India officer
An Indian army officer on sick leave recounts a voyage to the Cocoas, a scattered island group south and west of Java Head. Captain Ross and family, with a few Malays in his service, reside there while boats and lagoon navigation fascinate the inhabitants. The description notes the low islands, circular reefs, and a single lagoon entrance observed during shore visits.
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East India Army
Java Head
Ross
Indian Army
Widow of Revolution Becomes Andrew Jackson’s Mother
Rev Dr Hawks told a tale of female heroism in New York. A widow who buried her husband raised three sons and aided prisoners during the Charleston prison ship crisis. She died of prison fever on return, leaving her last son, Andrew Jackson, to rise as President of the republic.
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Hawks
New York
Historical Society
Charleston
Col. Bedford
Virginia
Tarleton
Free Republic
Andrew Jackson
Shylock
Mhany
Peter Tam
Moral guidance and polygamy notes from a 19th century text
Excerpt blends the Apprentice Boys creed urging virtue and Sabbath observance with a long critique of Mormon polygamy. It contrasts domestic chaos of multiple wives with a Swiss village reform via gardens and schools, showing moral transformation through practical, community action.
My Country, All in All Lyrics Fragment
A patriotic fable of immense love for country. The speaker hails a nation as the sum of tender names and childhood memories. The verse expresses unity beyond region and time, praising national glory and future hope.
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Lietor
Shert Portry
Martin P. Tupper
Greatiqie
Psaltis Robinson Crusoes
Captain Ross
Utah
Ohio
Buchanan
Utah Territory
Chambers
Edinburgh
Our
Switzerland
Country
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