30 Oct 1856
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Newspaper
Bellevue Gazette
Location
Bellevue, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1856
Page
1
Bellevue Gasette published every Thursday at Bellevue City in Nebraska Territory. Printed under S. A. Strickland & Co. publication line, this notice identifies the newspaper’s issuing firm and regular schedule.
Rates for advertising are listed with various sizes and durations. Common blocks include one square at 50 or 100 for annual inserts, columns for a year or half year, and smaller quick ads. Public notices announce candidate announcements with a 500 price tag.
Fragmentary data lists costs per hundred sheets for eighth sheet bills quarter 400 half 88 00 whole 16 60 colored paper half sheet per 100 500 blanks per first quire 200 each quire etc cards per set 1 60 and ball tickets prices for subsequent packs 600 agency paper 400.
Business card style notice listing A Schimonsky Troan as engineer with addresses Bellevue Bellevue House New York area, and associates P A Harpy St Mary Iowa and Judge Gilmore Hellevur.
A devotional poem in praise of loved ones and virtuous deeds. The speaker expresses living for kind hearts, divine guidance, and the good they can do. It envisions learning from suffering, uniting mankind, and a future of reason over gold.
Captain Hutton of the Cape of Good Hope recounts a perilous encounter with a lion while guarding a Foxed caravan near a pool. A Na maqua native saves him with a blazing frying pan driven by fear, enabling escape. The lion was later killed by Johnson, and the skin valued at $25.
An English paper reports growing Mormon convert numbers in Great Britain with public teaching of polygamy and notes annual emigration of converts reaching about 5,000 despite controversy.
The article explains mackerel habits, noting their immense, seemingly ocean-spanning schools near the shore. They bite best after sunrise and before sunset, fear loud noises, dive deep when frightened, and can flood decks by the barrels when feeding, then vanish for hours.
A proverb notes people fall ill from drinking healths. He who toasts every health to be spoken of drinks away his own wellbeing.
Fragmentary text describes improvised housing in urban areas with makeshift cabins for families. It mentions a London writer Jerrold visiting America, his early career, and anecdotes about publishing. The passage also cites private New York residences with exorbitant rents and references to cultural figures and events.
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