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Newspaper
Badger State
Location
Portage, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1854
Page
2
Advice on choosing a wife for mechanists and farmers urging practical, industrious partners. Emphasizes domestic skill, frugality, and shared work to ensure health happiness and financial stability in a life together. Warns against flashy romance and deceit, advocating mutual honesty and partnership.
The text counsels against deceit and marrying a woman ashamed of honest labor. It urges the seeker to avoid a wife who seeks favor through wealth and status, recommending instead a partner who earns with mental labor, supports earnest toil, and shares sympathetic, prudent judgment.
The Portage paper notes fierce anti Missouri compromise agitation by renegade whigs and abolitionists aiming to reunite slavery limits. It argues practical steps over agitation, cites emigration, and urges Democrats to stay loyal while detailing local growth, new buildings, a rising daily paper, and mentions Booth's Milwaukee arrest and ongoing civic improvements.
A plan to establish a floating mill at Portage aims to speed shipments and boost local supply. Newson McMeac has secured water power at the canal’s lower lock, with machinery replaced after ore damage and a larger timber frame to support the operation.
The article recounts various oddities and events from a distant realm, including a tale of the Algeriee Children and their parents with praise from exchanges. It describes a violent rail collision and the destruction of cars, then shifts to a strange tale of Aadji Omer driven from Moces, his roasting of Kadlea berries, and a miraculous transmogrification into a mint amid supposed 3000 people in Constentiveple.
Historic column mix reports a murder inquiry in the county, a land site purchase near MaBride and a fatal lightning strike involving a boy and horse near San Pepine. Other items describe lager beer brewing differences, narcotic effects of a powder, and a quip about Dr Egan’s joke about payment timing.
A veteran witness recalls a sprawling pine lumber trade along a river, with sawmills, marks, and boards leading to disputes. He notes legal suits, river crossings between court terms, and his long experience identifying lumber by saw marks amid a shifting, often dishonest market.
A 1934 letter to the Argus Democrat details weather warnings about electric currents entering homes, advising closed doors and windows. It also covers a School and University Lands dispute in Milwaukee, including Ludington's land purchases, payments, and market withdrawals with officials Gray Janssen and Smith asserting proper procedures.
Hans anew and improved skylight enhances the Daguerrean Gallery's appeal in the best city location. Reasonable terms, quick portraits for locals and travelers, and a large assortment of new photos from New York. Children’s pictures best in the morning on clear days. Open half past seven to five. May 19, 1854 Portage.
Fragmented dispatch outlines Britain and Prussia forming coalitions against a shifting Turkish, Austrian, and Balkan front. Reports claim Dessks force near Baro Sound with 500 troops landing, while Habsburg campaigns press toward the Campas Sea. Insurgent activity and market fluctuations key Liver Prol Cors notes with 300,000 francs in circulation.
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