Prices of Wool This Season and Market Outlook
The author argues wool prices for 1866 depend on pending national measures and domestic supply. He estimates imports at high costs but predicts American wool could average around fifty-three cents per pound with possible rises to fifty-five to sixty cents in Ohio within two months. He warns against deceptive price rumors and urges farmers to sell at favorable cash offers.
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Boston Board of Trade
United States
Boston
New York
Michigan
Ohio
Wool trade prospects discussed by Ohio growers
Waris, secretary of the Ohio Wool Growers Association, and the agricultural editor of the Ohio Farmer in Cleveland, discuss prospects for the wool trade this season in a June 5, 1866 note.
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Waris
Ohio Wool Growers’ Association
Ohio Harmer
Cleveland
Union effort urged to carry 1866 congressional district
A campaign directive urges Union men to win the district in 1866, citing past vote margins to show what can be achieved with unified action. It stresses precise planning, district conventions, and mobilizing Union strength to retain the district under Republican leadership.
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Denano
Morgen
Coshocton
Knox
Bay Muskingum
Dele
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Ap Enurly
Mt. Mornan
Dennison balks Copperhead postmaster pick in Ohio
Washington dispatch reports Gov Dennison refused to appoint a McClellan supporter to Ohio postmastership claiming no McClellan men will be placed in the department. Two Spanish officers near Bilboa planned a duel but paused when a poor artisan pleaded for alms.
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McClellan
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Pana
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Mer
Late gardening notes and farm hints from a rural column
The article surveys late season planting for bedding plants with emphasis on Mexican Sage and Salvia Splendens, plus notes on grafting, soil types, and simple farm fixes. It adds tips on poultry care, bulb storage, and general household farming routines with a mix of anecdotes and practical instructions.
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England
France
Million Dollars a Day Internal Revenue Taxation Debate
The piece lambasts internal revenue receipts reaching 87 million recently and about 32 million for May, arguing taxation cripples the poor and targets Copperhead foes. It blames Southern rebellion and Democratic platform for the levy, calling for resistance and highlighting wartime burden on labor.
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Lincoln
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Wealthy ship owner defies superstition with Friday ship
In a curious tale, a rich vessel owner disliked a weekly day without sailors and built a ship designed to sail only on Friday. The keel was laid, masts raised, rigging completed, launch, and naming all happened on Friday. The voyage allegedly sank that Friday and no further word arrived about the vessel.
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Debt Dispute Sowed Friendship Over Seven-Year Note
A misdated note from a poor tailor claiming an old debt stood for seven years. Jim responded with a cordial rebuke that a difference of opinion should not end friendship, all exchanged on the same sheet of paper as Snip's boy wilted.
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Plates and Pictures Stirred in a Bookshop Quandary
A booksel led customer protests that a cookery book without pictures lacks value while a clerk questions the need for images. A leather medal for a bad conundrum goes to a rascally joke about the breast of a royal, selected from many entries.
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Moral reflections and humorous quips in a chaotic column
A jumble of aphorisms and disjointed notes on sickness virtue jokes and a Helena Arkansas meeting where Judge Lanly voiced support for negro suffrage amid Civil War era references plus stray lines about Genardia Steadman and freedmen in Augusta Georgia and a season of millennial peace among African lions and secesh lambs.
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Rowing in the same boat yet with different adults
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