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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1850
Page
1
The notice from K Cowan the editor and proprietor details annual subscription rates 150 in advance 6 percent within the year a 50 cent delivery surcharge and suspension of service for unpaid arrears Also a rate card lists a single 12 line square three insertions for 1 and 25 cents for each further insertion
An anonymous piece promotes a poem by A J I Duganne from the Tron Man issue. It urges readers to read and study the poem as a touching illustration of poverty and its sufferers.
A somber poem portrays a storm over a city as the watchman and narrator reflect on the fate of the homeless and forsaken. The speaker pleads for compassion for the poor and outcast, contrasting luxury with suffering and praying the divine will to aid the wretched.
On a storm tossed schooner during quiet midnight, Little Dick, an orphaned helper, dies after a final vigil. The narrator recalls his own failure to aid the boy, who asks to be buried by his mother and offers a Bible before death as the ship’s veteran and surgeon share somber notes of the boy’s final moments.
In a Reid era narrative, Capt. Reid and companions flee Mexican bloodhounds by crossing a canyon. Lincoln haymakers lead a cliff assault, fending off hounds with rifles and improvised defences. They slay several dogs, endure brutal fighting, and survive a dramatic plunge into a torrent below.
Washington police and Maryland officers thwart an attempt to move fugitives in a carriage. Gen William J Chaplin, editor of Chaplin’s Portfolio in Albany, led the group. A gunfight ensued injuring several. Chaplin and one captive were jailed in Washington.
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