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Below is a list of all the articles and advertisements which appeared in the first issue of the Bridgnorth Beacon, dated 1st October 1852. The transcriptions can be viewed by clicking on the titles.
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Serapiana.
CAUTION.—"Mind the paint", as the lady said when the gentleman was going to kiss her. (what an evergreen that gentleman was!)
It is calculated, that out of every hundred persons who have gone to California, fifty have been ruined, forty are not better than they would have been had they remained at home, five a little better, four something better still, and one has made a fortune.
In the last thirty years, a million and a half of human bodies have been buried in the London churchyards.
The value of the farming stock in England insured in the various Fire Offices throughout the kingdom, in the year ending the 25th. of December, 1851, was £54,935,053.
The established clergy in Scotland, are alleged to have lost from decreased stipends by Free Trade, an annual aggregate sum of £70,000.
Dickens, in "Bleak House," aptly designates pawnbrokers’ duplicates as "turnpike tickets on the road to poverty."
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