22 May 1851
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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 22, 1851
Page
1
The Warren Mail announces subscription prices at one dollar per year prepaid and reduced rates for within the year. Papers left at residences incur a fifty cent extra charge. Discontinuation possible only after all arrearages are settled. Advertising charges set at one square of 12 lines three times for one dollar with twenty five cents for each subsequent insertion.
Poem recounts a shipwreck victim found on the shore interred without a name. The speaker notes the grave’s namelessness, the sea’s roar, and night’s gloom while urging faith in a savior who watches over the lone grave. The verse contrasts silent mourning with future hope.
Aaron Sweatwell recounts three months touring the state collecting for a newspaper, paying only 3.12 1 2 to the editor, and failing to collect from 117 patrons. He lists patrons by number, cites debtors in jail and disputes, and resigns after reporting travel costs of 210 dollars and commissions of 82.45 dollars.
The author argues parental influence shapes happiness and character, urging two core rules for success: keep children from bad company and ensure obedience. He condemns overreliance on instruction alone, warning that insubordination and street vice corrupt virtue and religious teaching.
Narrative of the so called Canoe Fight where a white party led by Col Dale and joined by Austill and James Smith battled seven Creek Indians in a canoe and on land near Fort Madison Alabama. The clash ended with no white casualties and multiple Indians slain, and highlights daring river combat and tactical maneuvers by the volunteers.
A Dutch widower in the American West seeks a spiritual communication from the supposed spirits of his wife, only to find the rollers and “rappers” are frauds. The haunting is quickly debunked when the supposed Mrs Hauntz speaks in German and insults him, proving the séance a hoax.
A servant who recently joined a household fled after a week, explaining that daily salads were given at dinner and the thought of eating hay in winter frightened him. He warned hot drinks are harmful, with tea and coffee seen as hurtful, and excessive hot punch deemed deleterious.
A long list of cautions against drunkenness argues it leads to thirst, ruin, poverty, crime, and social decay. Quoting Lord Bacon on how drinking destroys people and property, the piece portrays intoxication as a cause of personal and communal wreck.
An assortment of curious phrases links personal relics to liberty and learning from a bygone era. A tale about a distinguished preacher describes writing God on gold to reveal understanding, provoking a striking awakening in a man.
A Pittsburgh Despatch brief reports a drunken man pressing watchman to arrest his shadow and notes odd, harmful books to beware of. It adds a wanted bulldog request, a blunt job ad, and a Philadelphia engine feat: the Diligent Engine leaped 146 feet from a cupola, a record performance for fire apparatus.
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