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Newspaper
Daily Courier
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1854
Page
1
A dated 1854 line listing in the Daily Courier on Saturday September 2 includes business notices with reading matter charged at ten cents per line for each insertion.
A district convention will run for five days in October to select delegates for a senate district. The event will determine representation for the upcoming assembly and senatorial conventions with delegates chosen from district boundaries and affiliated organizations.
The Chicago Dem. Press says the road will reach the state line this December. Milwaukee's paper matches optimism for a January completion to Milwaukee. Oshkosh residents await the Winnebago line, hoping rail access to Chicago will boost local land values and spur settlement. The piece urges patience and notes railroads historically enrich producers and cities alike.
The piece argues advertising as essential for any manufacturing or trading venture, noting capacity, stock, and location awareness as prerequisites. It cites successful merchants and medicines as examples, claiming advertising costs are outweighed by profits and that publicity draws buyers more cheaply and effectively than other expenses. It references 1841 P.
Barnum’s fortune and the lesson on advertising show that success largely hinges on newspapers. The author argues many cannot afford not to advertise, since ads reach vast readers daily. It urges businesspeople to invest boldly, likening ads to seed that yields harvests of customers and profits through printer’s ink properly applied.
LaGrange Reporter notes townsman A. R. Thornton with partners Massra and Christian Pieres bought land in Tallapoosa County Alabama. Claim cites an almost inexhaustible gold mine and Thornton’s two years of active mining in California as basis.
In Elgin on Friday last Edmund Adams, about 18, died from two buckshot entries in his forehead after a party assembled around Cyrus Larkin’s house, where shots were fired from a window. A jury ruled death caused by shots from Larkin’s house, with unknown shooters. Both youths were respected locals amid a somber, shocked community.
A fragmented report notes Lucian Bonaparte has taken holy orders in the Roman Church and aims for the papacy as Pope Pius IX’s health wanes. Louis Napoleon backs the Bonaparte family’s fortunes, with Lucian’s potential rise linked to family influence and recent formal steps.
Markets report flour trading heavy with wheat down three pence. Bomersund surrendered as two thousand Russian prisoners were captured. Crimes Expedition progressing with Austria occupying Wallachia.
The Washington arrived at 1 PM bringing 240 gera and 480 tons of goods. Reports from Parliament discuss Austro Russia maneuvers and potential peace negotiations. Bucharest is under Turkish attack and French ambassadors face threats in Madrid. In New York a congress of Berks county nominates J. G. Jones by acclamation. Know Nothing clerks in the city post office may be dismissed at the Democrats' request.
The Aland Isles lie about 25 leagues from Stockholm and form three groups with roughly 80 inhabited and 200 uninhabited islands. About 15,000 inhabitants call themselves Alanders. they live by farming, cattle breaking, fishing, and piloting. Bomarsund fortress, near Vetternaes, could hold 60,000. the islands have a long history including a 14th century earldom and use by the Russian fleet until 1722.
A 1850s editorial notes shift in immigration from Ireland to Germany in the United States. It cites 1840 through 1852 figures showing higher German arrivals than Irish and predicts continued German dominance in population growth, with five months of 1854 data indicating German immigration outpacing Irish.
A genteel professor performs a card illusion with marked cards and bets, while a crowd watches a swindle unfold. The trick ends when the accomplices switch cards and ruin the joint stock illusion, leaving the audience to laugh at the ruse.
A drunken man at Sunday Rekort mocks scripture by asking hard questions to the scholars. The parson replies in a solemn tone that the man is in sin and iniquity. The exchange ends with the man pleading for another question.
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