The newspapers carried many such announcements from retired clergymen, old nurses, or Indian doctors, frequently persons who had themselves triumphed over dread diseases and had discovered the best remedies only after years of search and suffering, always offering to communicate the secret of recovery to any fellow sufferer.
— from History of the Comstock Patent Medicine Business and Dr. Morse's Indian Root Pills by Robert B. Shaw

The capital of New Orleans is disproportionate to the quantity of produce landed there.
— from The Ohio River Trade, 1788-1830 by Hazel Yearsley Shaw

The winter climate of New Orleans is delightful, and many persons leave New England's cruel east winds to breathe its soft air and rejoice in its sunshine.
— from Four Months in a Sneak-Box A Boat Voyage of 2600 Miles Down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, and Along the Gulf of Mexico by Nathaniel H. (Nathaniel Holmes) Bishop

Thus one section gives authority to establish a submarine telegraph across the ocean, from Newfoundland to Ireland; another section prohibits any other company or person from touching the coast of Newfoundland or its dependencies [which includes Labrador] with a telegraphic cable or wire, from any point whatever, for fifty years; and a third section grants the Company fifty square miles of land upon the completion of the submarine line across the Atlantic.
— from The Story of the Atlantic Telegraph by Henry M. (Henry Martyn) Field

You've got to stay alert until you've boarded a train with just the right combination of numerals on its destination plate.
— from Mars is My Destination by Frank Belknap Long