Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-03-20
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"TITH multiplied resources for rendering the
wv New WonLp more valuable than ever as
compendous newspaper and repository of elegant
literature, we enter upon the second volume (olia)
on the Gath Of October, dressed in a beautiful GARD
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that period, (besidcs the current news Of the day,
domestic and forelgn) new and valuable works by
Ialfourd, D'Israeli, Thomas Moore, Miss Milford,
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Bulwer, MaTyat, and others-works, which in Lon
uon could not he purchased for fifty times the
amount OF the subscription price of the New
Woild. In addition 10 works of interest by these
eminent authors, it has contained the Of the
periodical literature of the day, as well as original
articles from the pens of some of the most popular
writers ol America, among whom we may mention
Miss Sedywick, Orville Dewey, Professor Longfel-
low, the author Of Yankee Notions" Simms
Street, &c. &c.
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