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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 11, 1856
Page
5
A reflective poem urges compassion over pride and weakness over scorn. It exhorts readers to aid the weak, recognize human frailty, and avoid cold indifference as life’s perils rise. The verse elevates faith, steadfastness, and mercy as guiding principles.
A historical overview lists English and American bushels and imperial measures, noting Winchester and heaped busts and local variants. It details weights for grains, seeds, roots, and produce, plus barrels, tuns, and cords for goods, and provides methods to estimate cattle weight and grain in bins.
An 19th century advertisement announces Knickerbocker Magazine pricing and subscriptions. It details annual rates 3 dollars a year with multi copy discounts, agent terms for soliciting subscribers, postage charges, and mailing address for Samuel Hurston in New York. It mentions other era magazines and inducements for clubbing subscriptions.
The notice announces Nuckolls & Co a wholesale and retail store in Glenwood Iowa promoting sale of value and winter goods alongside their summer groceries. The piece also contains a long unrelated ad about a weekly paper The Drawing Room Companion describing its features and subscriptions.
An advertisement for Ballou's Dollar Monthly a sensational periodical claiming to be the cheapest magazine in the world. It touts wide circulation, six hundred pages per year, broad nonsectarian content, and modern news coverage, with a humorous department and sample copies. Subscriptions offered from one dollar yearly with home and abroad readers urged to join The publisher is M. Batloun, No 22 Winter Street, Boston, Mass.
A fragment lists numerous individuals and addresses across cities including New York Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati Detroit Chicago and Ringgold with names such as S Frenel A Winch Henry Teylor J A Wood Louis Wallace Jacky Werner and Trifoer Co noted as agents for Central Britain and railway matters.
An ornate description extols a large weekly paper with wide appeal for the million readers. It touts wit and humor, original tales, and general-interest content, claiming superior typography and a premium format printed on white paper. Subscriptions listed with an advance payment rate.
A garbled OCR listing merchants and agents across multiple cities including New York Malladelphia Baltimore Cincinnati Detroit St Louis Louisville and Chicago. Names such as Henry Taylor Bagley Samuel Wagedld Wallace Austin & Bool appear Muddy addresses mix street names and states making precise attribution difficult.
An advertisement segment lists Life Illustrated and other journals with pricing like $20 yearly or $1 half year. It credits praise from the New York Tribune and others, touting coverage across science, philosophy, physiology, phrenology, and self culture. The notice invites readers to subscribe through Wolf a over, Broadway, New York.
Corneil Bluffs in Potowatamie county Iowa shows collections made and taxes paid after purchases and sales. Names Greene Weare Benton Fragkeese and law firms are listed in this local notice.
Management outlines plans for extensive American art works and European acquisitions. Notable pieces include sculptures in marble and bronze, busts of Webster Clay and Calhoun, Apollo and Diana statues, oil paintings by leading artists, with distribution to subscribers on January 2.
Three dollar memberships grant a three dollar magazine or engraving and a one year Art Journal plus entry in the distribution of works. Additional memberships double benefits with six engravings or six magazine issues and six distribution tickets. Members must provide full address and preferred start month. offices listed in New York and Sandusky. Read editorial opinions.
The article promotes the Cosmopolitan Art Association offering members access to magazines and the Art Journal for the subscription price plus a chance to receive engravings. It cites endorsements from multiple papers and urges readers to join to support art dissemination and profitable reading. A local notice mentions extra family flour from Waverly Mills, Missouri via M. H. Clarke forwarding and commissions.
A humorous critique of a fanciful reconstruction of a future woman's attire. The piece imagines an exaggerated seven foot robe with a seven and a half inch waist, paddled limbs, a fragile spine reinforced by buckram and whale bone, and a brainless head resembling an auk. It notes observers’ odd theories about material bindings and cephalopodlike air cells, all presented in mock scientific satire.
The text outlines a ceremonial dance of entering pews with a lady advancing first, followed by a flank retreat of gentlemen. It describes salutes, formations in the aisle, right flank movements, and reassembly, urging care to avoid interrupting the procession and noting that ostentatious behavior could insult aristocratic claims.
A stream of dated witticisms and anecdotes about widows, thunder fears, a moustache on a woman, and a jokey exchange about hair on lips. The text blends rural humor with fractured dialogue and nonsense phrases, hinting at a magazine column or observed conversation.
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