Odes on Main street and old rate notice
PUBLISHED EVERY PUESDAY Rodney L Adams at Pens Yan Ne Oy Odes on the west side of Main street Entrance first stairs south of Eta street Subscriptions 2.50 yearly 1.80 for three months 4.60 for delinquent notice Rates of advertising One square 16 lines or less one week 0.50 and 0.95 for each following week Legal advertisements charged by law Job printing offered neatly and promptly.
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Rodney L. Adams
Pens Yan
Main Street
Eta Street
Yankee Outwitted by a Southern Trickster in Court
An account from the police court recalls a Southland con artist who exploited a Yankee with a forged fifty dollar bill. The narrated scene shows the Yankee’s loss of twenty dollars and a sketchy suspect portrayed by a photosized forged bill. The tale ends with interest in pursuing the suspect.
The Longest Ladder In The World At St Helena
An observer describes the 800 foot Ladder Hill ascent at James Town St Helena with sentries, broken steps, and a perilous route to the fort above. The account notes accidents and a fatal descent and contrasts a later return to safer life.
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James Town
St. Helena
Cerberus
Aly Companiua
Gorizon
Howev
Liverpool Times
Young Men Beware in Temperance Talk at Yale College
Mr Potter of Yale College appeals to New Haven listeners in a temperance address. He recalls three early companions who rose with him in life and brilliance but fell to intemperance. One excelled in mathematics and ledger work, another was a skilled accountant, and a third shared their quick intellect, all seemingly ruined by drink.
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Northwest Passage
Ubal H
Tung
Jonathan
South
Agin
Squire
Eleazar Ellis
Yankeo
Lear
Consor
Lindley
Emily
Mrs. Lindley
Sophia
Mr. Lindley
Creorge
Geome
Rich
George
Spev
Yite
Charlotte
Potter
Yale College
New Haven
Serave
Effects of Love on Sea Bathing The Pretty Simile
An author notes the varied ways young ladies approach love likening it to sea bathing. Some test the water timidly, edging in and retreating, crying of cold and shivering. Others plunge boldly, embracing danger and declaring the sea delicious.
Rail tracks swell under intense sun causing train delay
The Danvers Courier reports that Saturday near the North Andover depot the Boston and Maine rails expanded from heat, shifting from sleepers and delaying a train as workers took twenty long hours to realign them.
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Danvers Courier
Boston and Maine
North Andover
Down East Schooner Crew Delves Into Uncertain Locale
The captain frets what wives would say as the crew battles a thick fog and fear of ashore. The mate quips that they should not mind if they only knew their exact location.
Willis's Letters from London Aboard the Britannia
N P Wittis narrates a twelve day sea voyage to London with a cosmopolitan shipboard mix. He laments English customs at Liverpool customs, contrasts English working class life with American vigor, and notes fashion and street scenes in London including Regent Street, paving, and carriages. He also comments on social intrigues around an American belle married into nobility and observes London society figures with wry humor.
Letters from London travel by English railways
From Willis's Letters from London, July 1, the writer describes rapid rail travel from Liverpool to London, the 220 mile journey finished in five hours, and the cost differences among classes. He notes choosing first class for two, a nurse and child counted as one, and remarks on Americans’ travel choices and the novelty of the speed.
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New York Mirror
Willis
London
Dean Morris
Imogen
Liverpool
Rev Dr Bercher on Ministers for the West in public address
The Rev Dr Bercher argues for ministers with strong doctrinal preaching to combat drift toward superficial piety and mysticism. He urges revivalist fire as a remedy after other methods fail, warning against conceit and worldly shine in religious leadership.
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Bercher
Baxter
Edwards
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Billy
Texas
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Best
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the Tribune
Sam
Manchester
England
Scotland
Ireland
Lancashire
Chambers’ Journal
Britannia
Mexico
Indies
Wales
Canada
Guatemala
States
Denmark
France
Poland
Spain
Germany
Hanover
Flamburgh
Baden
Lubec
Bremen
Heinault
Robert Owen
the Mirror
Ste
Oregon
First Landing
New York
Miles
Oders
N. P. Wittis
Regent-street
Broadway
Lowl
Louis Phillippe
Viedocq
N.P. Wuzs
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