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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845
If ladies take it into their head to add to the population of the New World thus early, we would advise them that they give the captain notice in tolerably good season.
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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845
If ladies take it into their head to add to the population of the New World thus early, we would advise them that they give the captain notice in tolerably good season.
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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845
Second cabin passengers are entitled to the use of the quarter-deck, but they should always remember that they, too, pay much less than those in the first cabin, and if the vessel be crowded, they should give way to those who pay the most.
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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845
Let her roll, roll, roll, till she spills your soup, and you too, out of your berth, and take no heed of it.
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Wiley & Putnam’s Emigrant’s Guide, 1845
one gallon of water, and one pound of bread stuff.
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The Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, December 16, 1845
A person of the name of Greenwood, sad to be a seaman belonging to H.M.S. Fly, has been convicted of a felony. The seamen wish to state that he was shipped at Sydney as a butcher, and is not a seaman.
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Brooklyn, New York, June 9, 1845
LOST CHILDREN!
ANDREW OAKES, ESQ., CORONER, having kindly offered to receive into his family and take care of Children who may have strayed from their homes, so as to enable Parents and Guardians more readily to recover them -
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE
to all persons into whose hands LOST CHILDREN may come, that the offer has been accepted, with thanks, and it is earnestly requested that such may be taken to the store of ANDREW OAKES, No. 163 Fulton Street, that they may by taken care of.
By order of Common Counsel.
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Brooklyn, New York, June 10, 1845
Alice “fetched her a slap, and told her to go about her business.”
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She knows she is the weaker vessel, and that it is as such that she should receive honor; and, in this view, her weakness is an attraction, not a blemish.