1851 PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT NEWSPAPER. Mormonism, Negros, P. T. Barnum, Spirit Rapping & Ghosts, etc. Reformation was Three Times Taken Prisoner

was Three Times Taken Prisoner of War

to this day

A moving sermon on God's care for his people

[Extensive defense of the Quakers]

1851 PORTLAND TRANSCRIPT NEWSPAPER. Mormonism, Negros, P. T. Barnum, Spirit Rapping & Ghosts, etc. Reformation was Three Times Taken PrisonerVery 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,