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Newspaper
Virginia Advocate
Location
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1830
Page
3
The account describes a town left in ruins after a sudden assault. Many homes are destroyed and residents fell homeless with clothing and provisions swept away. Some survivors suffer broken limbs and mangled bodies, yet the text notes miraculous preservation of many citizens by providence.
The President’s veto on the Maysville Turnpike Bill is praised as a bold restraint on federal spending. Opponents label it electioneering, while supporters argue the move enforces constitutional limits on internal improvements. Editorials attack coalition corruption and defend Jacksonian policy.
The travelling term of the Renasalaer New York School will start next week and run until September about the first. One party from New York will depart on the 23d of this month to Albany by steamboat to study geological and botanical shores. At Albany they enter the canal boat Win Penn prepared for lectures, with incantory books and apparatus for daily talks. Edison, the living skeleton, is exhibited in Philadelphia.
A vast newspaper dispute centers on the bonnets now in vogue with claims they began in Foxborough, Massachusetts about thirty years ago. The text notes New York costs, a report on aid to the poor, and a sum totaling around one hundred thousand dollars in the past year.
The undersigned proposes opening a school in the neighbourhood of the University. It will run from the Ist Monday in September to the 1st Monday in August with a one month vacation in the middle of the season. Course includes English Latin and Greek languages with a fee of $30.
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