06 Feb 1851
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 06, 1851
Page
1
The Warren Mail lists subscription terms with 50 per year in advance or 62 within the year. An extra 50 cent charge applies if papers are left at residences. Discontinuation only after arrears are paid. Advertising: one square of 12 lines or less runs three times for 1 dollar, each subsequent insertion 25 cents.
In a two hour reminiscence Thurlow Weed thanks the printers of New York for inviting him to speak on Franklin’s birthday. He recounts apprenticeship, 1811 start at The Lynx, jobs at Cobbett’s Register and Fanshaw, and travels as a journeyman printer. He notes changes in the trade, ink makers Prout and Mather, and his role in obtaining the Typographical Society charter.
Anecdotes celebrate unselfish devotion from wartime hero Robert Bareley to a Philadelphia pair in smallpox care. A California ruin discovery near San Diego is described with pyramids and hieroglyphs, plus moral reflections from Wilmer’s Chronicle and a tale of Abraham’s tolerance with a hundred years of a stranger.
A New York Tribune writer cites a vast network of gambling houses in the city from the most elite to the lowest levels, noting police and officials frequent these Faro rooms and that law enforcement offers little deterrence. Updates on the Panama Railroad report 600 workers, 400–500 more expected, Navy Bay work progressing with pile drivers and a Gorgona steamer aiding transport. Reform Convention considers making duel killings qualify as murder with property confiscation to support victims' families.
A collection of wry sayings and short tales from a bygone social scene. A pedlar and a widowed match, blunt maxims from an uncle, and a tavern keeper’s sharp reminder on debts. Lost-in-translation humor and moral musings mingle in this antiquated vignette.
A scattered collection of aphorisms on economy virtue dress and society ends with a brief note on the British Post Office 1850 and a fox hunting anecdote. The fragmentary text blends moral observations with literary snippets and a marginal postal statistic.
A collection of wry lines and comic observations on language errors, family letters, unexpected humor about poets, cornets, guns, breeches, family ties, and a Protestant servant with a Roman nose. The items mix wordplay, anecdotes, and moral quips.
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