The Weekly Offering was published by students of Atkinson Academy in Atkinson, Rockingham County, N.H. during 1850. It includes moralistic and religious reflections about death, sorrow, and courtship, local notices, and puzzles. One of the articles is titled "Attempt at Suicide," and describes the story of man that attempted to drown himself in the Merrimack River after a heartbreak. The paper is held together by a green ribbon.
Atkinson Academy was founded in 1787 in Atkinson, Rockingham County, N.H. by Reverend Stephen Peabody, General Nathaniel Peabody, and Doctor William Cogswell as a boys' school. It became co-educational in 1791. However, the building burnt down in 1802. It was rebuilt in 1803 and remains in use by the Academy to this day.