23 Oct 1856
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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1856
Page
1
A mix of ad pricing for a readers club offering six months or one year copies and a poetry piece Forty Years Ago recounting a past romance between George and Anna with sorrow over her death and the speaker’s long memory. The fragmentary OCR includes scattered pricing and subscription notes.
A youthful narrator recalls a summer at his father's house where a village girl named Grace inspires tender interest. He admires her beauty and sensibility, endures jealousy toward a rival cousin, and confesses deep affection as Grace performs at the piano on the last evening of vacation.
A narrator recalls studying hard and earning high honors while longing for Grace. After avoiding confrontation, he witnesses her distress during a family gathering, follows her to a piazza, and pleads for her reciprocation, triggering mixed emotions and doubt.
Inked by public anger and royal paranoia, Jeffreys faces brutal demand for punishment as his reign of terror ends. The narrative chronicles his decline from chief justice to a dying victim of distress and drink, amid the Tower and public scorn.
The text lists various advertising insertions and rates for a newspaper column. It mentions half and quarter column prices, six month and three month options, and references candidates for office, indicating a public notices section and timetable for notices.
A compiled ad list for Nebraska Territory announces several lawyers doctors engineers and merchants. Names include L L Bowen J Seeley J W Pattison Charles A Henry and A Schimonsky with offices in Omaha Bellevue and St. Mary. It details legal services land agency surveys topographic drawings and medical care along with trade in Indian goods and forwarding merchants.
A Texas stock raiser got lost in a storm on the prairie for three days with no food. He wandered until a Parson found him and urged prayers before meals. A man at Main 8 told a ludicrous liquor anecdote while attempting to clear a man’s swelling, revealing a grim note of self harm.
A period article discusses religious influence on mentally ill individuals, arguing soothing tones and prayer calm agitated patients. It describes responses as movements toward quiet reverence, likening worship to a heavenly voice that silences screams and transforms raving into contemplation.
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