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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jan 22, 1857
Page
3
The January 99, 1857 Bellevue Gazette lists advertising rates by column width and duration including one square one month and half column six months. It notes political candidacy notices with a $100 rate for official postings and various display options for business cards and announcements.
An OCR fragment lists unit prices for various paper products and related items. Entries include colored paper, blanks per quire, and hall tickets with per hundred pricing. The text resembles a catalog with inconsistent line breaks and unclear headings.
A note requests correspondents to hand in communications by Thursday morning. It warns neglect may cause postponement until the following week.
Editor L H Larmer lauds local coverage and notes A H Graber announces tri weekly mail between Bellevue and Omaha independent of Fontenelle mail. Prospective Excelsior becomes county seat with plans for improvements, timber abundant, two saw mills, and a western route toward Omaha via ferry.
The New Orleans Bulletin advocates a defensive strategy for the South based on vigorous farming action. It suggests using plows spades and piles of manure to overwhelm enemies entering through gaps in fields and fences. It claims soil muck defeats even the Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions and dismisses cotton bales as weak by comparison.
The Albany Journal reports an invention by C F N Smith and James M Clemens of Virginia. The machine pulls a train of cars to lay surface, lay ties, and place iron and chains, completing a road at about ten feet per minute. It measures roughly sixty two feet long and can build any gauge road. six thousand feet of railroad per day is possible with five men, vastly increasing output compared to manual work.
The New York Journal of Commerce reports that the practice of outfitting slavers at the port continues despite measures to stop it. Authorities say profits outweigh fear of law, and propose revising crew shipment rules to require American crews on ships involved in the African trade. Americans would face fewer hardships under such a change, and foreign crews, mainly Portuguese, would be deterred by exposure of wrongdoing.
The Nation outlines a broad editorial program including original stories poetry gossip fashion and household topics. Contributors listed and the paper promises engaging content for readers with sections on farming city news literature and translations plus illustrated engravings and a budget friendly subscription model.
In anticipation of a new administration, subscribers are urged to continue or start receiving the Debates of Congress and the Laws passed. The Daily Globe and the Congressional Globe and Appendix will print debates, laws, editorials, and extras, with rates for one and two copies for the session.
Terms detail prices for single and multiple year subscriptions with add ons. Includes special club offers with Gorley’s Lady’s Book Harper’s and Arthur’s Home Magazines. Address given for subscribers in Mulada Pennsylvania and notices on agricultural and commercial departments.
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