Steam Coach Routes Between Sheboygan and Fond du Lac
The piece describes daily stages from Sheboygan to Fond du Lac with morning departures, noon and 4 PM return trips, and a 9 PM evening run. It notes a journey editor returning and resuming duties, and hints at forthcoming “Munchausen yarns” in the paper. It also mentions a city credit loan ordinance passed with near unanimity and a planned roadway project important to stockholders.
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Sheboygar
Fond du Lac
Gpom
Fond. du Lac
Kaydthoit
Gruntors
Poreerarras
Common Council Proceedings June 23 1854 in Oshkosh
The Common Council met in the chair of Joseph Jackson with absent Aldermen Lull and Gunz. Reads and approves last meeting. Accounts of Philo Boughton and Benjamin Preston referred to Finance. Remonstrance from Ald Colton about trading street. Committees discuss Broad Street improvements and extending hook and ladder reporting time. Plank Road votes and election results recorded. Committee of Colton Weisbrod and Hobbard appointed.
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Common Council
Joseph Jackson
Ald
Philo Boughton
Benjamin Preston
Ald Cotton
Prading
2Nd Ward
Broad Street
Weisbrod
Suhayiog Hp
Bantasi
Finland
North River Bridge and Ferry Street Planking Plan
A note seeks the best method to lower the North and the Far River Bridge and to plank the open esco at the foot of Ferry Street. The matter was adjourned for one week.
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Far River
Epsco
Ferry Street
Arrival of the Canada in Halifax June arrival and overseas notes
The steamer Canada arrived in Halifax early morning after leaving Liverpool on the 20th inst, bringing a week of news. Reports cover Austrian and Ottoman diplomacy, Servian army plans, American stock movements, canal loan prospects, and varied dispatches from Europe. Descriptions include local crime, political changes, and developments across the Prussian and American fronts.
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Hauifax
Canada
Ealy
Liverpool
Siustria
Constantinople
Servis
Austria
Bank Statement Details in Unclear Street Report
A garbled bank report notes a man with a seized amount around 940,000 and mentions a guard to beware of a potential hold by “the Democracy” in Hoffulo. The text is fragmentary with references to a robbery or dispute and a possible lawsuit by a bank against a party connected to red backs.
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Shanghai
Melich
Eyteneder
Gonsales
Rock- Well
Éuize Bask Sichuzetts
Clarion
Maryland
Dana
Columbia
Hichlind
Patriot
San
Anegro
Hostaa
Theka
Hoffulo
Thornes and Firemen at Nat Fire In City Meeting
Fragmentary OCR note from June 13 1854 in Bellows New York reports Thos W Thorne as president of a national fire company meeting. The text references a fall and a desire to share news with the audience, but detail is incomplete and unclear.
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Millwauker and
Mississippi
Madison
Great Lakes
Thia Lone
Milwaukee
Waukesha
Rosul
Afl
Edward Browshead
Tsai
Geo
National ‘Fire Insurance Company
Ahd Caid
Mn South
J. Larkin
Enquirer
Lecaller
Ftom
Rocky Mountains
Europe
Missouri
Nebraska
Ne-braska
Omaha
Tepésita
Winter Quarters
Belleview
Bellow New Sark
Thos. W. Thorne
Abolitionist Hoax On a Steamboat Trial
A New York Post correspondent recounts a prank aboard a steamboat where an abolitionist provoked a mock habeas corpus hearing. A fake commissioner, a court affidavit, and a staged trial attempted to free a “slave,” but the hoax collapsed amid public excitement and a small fund-raising moment.
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New York Post
Seourrcll
New-York and Stonington
stonyfLoats
Bnitet Bates
James Wilson
Hitchcock
New York
United States
Heras
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the Common Council
Evilope
Sen Yor
Jung i
Prasein
Siligtria
Black Sea
Baltic
Gadsden Tredth
Mexico
James Beil
New Hampshire
New York Canal
Atrany
Duncan, Sherman & Co
John Thompson
N. Y
Tiand
Thomas Ream
John Mann
John Dougherty
Alo
Kiling Ream
Bank of Tennessee
Neshvilla
Adana & Co
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