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- GLC#
- GLC00280
- Type
- Newspapers
- Date
- 26 October 1791
- Author/Creator
- Claypoole, David C., fl. 1757-1849
- Title
- The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser. [No. 127 (October 26, 1791)]
- Place Written
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Pagination
- 4 p. : newspaper Height: 50.4 cm, Width: 32.6 cm
- Primary time period
- The New Nation, 1783-1815
- Sub-Era
- The Early Republic
One issue of The mail; or, Claypoole's daily advertiser dated October 26, 1791. Founded by David C. Claypoole in 1771 originally as the Pennsylvania Packet. Contains foreign intelligence mainly focused on Russian activities in Europe from the perspective of different countries.
Also contains domestic news items including minutes of a meeting of the House of Representatives, a report of ships entering and exiting American ports, and a description of an uprising of a union of Black people and mixed race people demanding equality with White people. Includes numerous advertisements for goods, missing items and other items or services. Advertisements for the Holy Bible are particularly prominent, as are notices for ship travel for goods and/or people. There is also a reward notice for a suspected murderer.
Includes President George Washington's third State of the Union Address, delivered 25 October 1791. Among other topics, Washington discusses problems between Native Americans and settlers on the Western frontier, a new tax on distilled alcohol, the 1790 census results, a loan from Holland, and the French Revolution. Partially torn along the middle seam.
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