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Newspaper
Depere Advertiser
Location
Depere, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1851
Page
2
A 19th century discourse argues women mask their true feelings at balls while men flatter and misread, noting selfishness as a core fault. It praises Thackeray’s portrayal of women and urges simultaneous improvement of both sexes for genuine progress.
A fragmentary reminiscence notes the Baroness de Poudre’s life on a seven to eight hundred year income. She avoids lavish dinners, renting a small house, and keeps two servants on board wages. Her luxuries are a tiny carriage and charming residence, funded by strict economy and aid from a French milliner.
A Democratic Convention will be held at the Capitol at Madigan on Wednesday September 10 at 12 meridian to select candidates for Wisconsin state offices. Delegates are allotted by county with Marquette Waushara Bad Ax La Crosse Chippewa Melezate Crawford Winnebago Waupaca Green Columbia counties receiving multiple delegates and all other counties one per Assembly district. Madison July 2 1851.
A historical account describes large New Jersey strawberry fields where migrants gather fruit. Workers register, receive daily baskets, and earn about 2.50 per day aided by an accountant in a tent. The process includes packing berries for shipment to city markets and commission to laborers, with mention of Bloomers attire.
Private letters from Constantinople report Kossuth informing a Turkish official he will decline a passage to the United States. He says he will stay in Europe though grateful for U.S. interest, hoping to perhaps aid Hungary again. The move stems from patriotic hopes despite gloom.
An advocate argues that improving a depere Fox river point benefits Lake Winnebago and broader waterways, raising tolls per mile. He contends navigation is a public right, while questioning tolls on distant vessels and whether per-mile charges unjustly tax users not benefiting from the Depere dam. He warns against extending tolls to cover upstream or unrelated improvements.
A long article weighs Pro and Con of tolls on transporting goods from Fond du Lac to Berlin via rivers and locks. It questions upcountry and lower Fox route costs, proposes multiple routes and critiques the Advocate plan. It also describes a severe northern hurricane that damaged buildings and a new steamboat voyage from Fond du Lac to Neenah via Kaukauna, praising Capt. Battershill and the Indiana steamer voyage.
A treaty with the Sioux Indians, nearly consummated by the late Mr. Les, commissioner of Indian affairs, is discussed with focus on its high importance to Minnesota interests. Uncertainty and anxiety surround the terms and future implications for the region, including the upper bends near Traverse des Sioux above St. Paul.
Report from the Valley Road project notes surveys underway from Rock River to Chicago and plans to finalize contracts, with the line west toward Madison soon to begin. It praises the town of Menasha, Curtis Reed, and the new boat Menasha built by Reed and Doty, detailing engines from Walton & Co. and Wisconsin manufacture.
A Tehuantepec surveying expedition returns to New Orleans after confirming the railroad route feasible. Naval officers report the Costalzalcos River navigable to twenty five miles above the mouth, climate healthy, and no disease among the crew.
A laborer Bear elopes with a girl around fourteen, to be married. The husband pursues with a posse, files habeas corpus, and faces a violent cross-border chase through Scott Lee counties toward Mississippi. Writs and interceding kin complicate the escape with threats and a hoped accommodation.
A French inventor Fivinex shows a winged apparatus with a 1200 foot range and 600 foot altitude claim. An Irish recruit in Frederick’s army pretends to German to join the guard, a joke about language and loyalty unfolds. An Adams anecdote recalls toast politics and a Royalist dinner in Worcester.
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