1851 PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT NEWSPAPER. Mormonism, Negros, P. T. Barnum, Spirit Rapping & Ghosts, etc. ReformationVery rare entire year of an important Portland, Maine Newspaper with loads of content produced originally for The Portland Transcript. These assemblages of entire runs of newspapers are increasingly rare, and this a wonderful example. Of special note, issue after issue contain original stories of the bizarre and supernatural and spooky under the heading "Thrilling Tales." Sort of dime novel, early horror content reminiscent of amateur Edgar Allen Poe,
the guilt of his transgressions can appear no more forever
the Muscoota
[Extensive defense of the Quakers]
How you a host of whigs did fetter
A moving sermon on God's care for his people
Very nicely housed in a probably 20th century plain paper wrap with facsimile of the title laid to the front
quality lithograph of Spurgeon with his name and "Player's Cigarettes" at the head
to this day
Great reading
while avoiding the chaos of urban and industrial society
it was largely untested in court and not enforced until the Edmunds Act [1882] which resulted in a 5 year felony sentence
was Three Times Taken Prisoner of War