Forward in threshing our county’s agricultural progress
A stance urging the annual faire to showcase stock farm produce machinery and domestic manufacture with women’s crafts, urging practical experiments in agriculture, youth education, and industry. It lauds local presses telegraph and schools, calls for roads bridges mills factories and forward motto, and asserts Trompealeau County Agri cultural society aims to rise among state peers.
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Trompealeau County Agricultural Society
Pura Union
A Call to Duty and Hope in Our Island Nation
A civic exhortation urges unity and service to defend the country during civil strife. It asks readers to support agricultural progress, align with righteous action, and consider joining neighbors who have shouldered muskets. The author prays for divine favor, victory, and national peace, ending with wishes for prosperity and a future reunion at the next annual fair.
The President Weighs Under Unseen Cares
A Washington correspondent describes President Lincoln as a tired giant worn by immense mental labor since his inauguration. The article likens his burden to Atlas bearing the world and emphasizes the exhausting load of responsibility on his physical powers.
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Lincoux
St. Louis Republican
Washington
Linecoln
Atlas
Fashions Fall Short of Universal Style in Chicago
The Chicago Journal sent Muggins to sample city fashions. He found no three women dressed alike and noted each courted a style ill suited to her complexion. A pair of resembled ladies with sallow complexions wore dark purple bonnets stuffed with many red and yellow flowers, an appearance that left Muggins fainting.
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Chicago Journal
Muggins
la Crosse Dem
N Y Action Likely on Irish Brigade Command
It is probable that Thos. Francia Meagher will be offered command of the Irish Brigade now forming in New York as General Shields has declined the post.
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N.Y
Thos
Francia Meagher
N. Y
Shields
Railway crash remark sparks playful legal quip
A limping man jokes about damages after last week’s railway crash saying he has had damages enough and would seek repairs rather than suing. The banter reflects local aftermath and humor in the wake of the incident.
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Tam
Spies and Desertion Report From Virginia Camp
A Cincinnati Gazette correspondent at Carnifex Ferry Virginia says Floyd’s camp papers showed enemy strength and plans. Floyd hurriedly left with private baggage and papers, exposing a vivid scare. Diary entries and letters reveal detailed knowledge of Rosencrans forces within five hours of entry. Floyd’s spies tracked Union movements and even targeted Wise and Lewisburg. An Adjutant General letter promised reinforcements but delayed arrival.
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Spigs Rx
Cincinnati Gazette
Carnifex Ferry
Virginia
Rosencrans
Floyd
Wise
Lewisburg
Spinsters and the old maxim on linen making
Among our industrious forefathers a maxim said a young woman should spin herself a set of linen before marriage. The rule defined unmarried women as spinsters, a label retained in English law proceedings.
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Orton Og Tun Tern Seimsten
War Volunteers From La Crosse Put City On the Map
La Crosse residents rush to form companys and join regiments as the city sends 101 to the Light Guard 103 to the county rifles 163 to the artillery and recruits Sharpshooters nearing a full 100. Local leaders promise full company every two weeks and threaten action against treason. Bayard Taylor reports from Washington on McClellan and a parade of generals and dignitaries observing the reviewing ground and the massed units.
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la Crosse
James Poleys
George Stanley
H. B. Loomis
Wis Regt
la Crosse Dem
Bayard Taylor
Washington
Europe
Baltimore
Plug Uglies
Annapolis
Harve de Grace
Perryville
Mr. Taylor
Orleana
Radetzy
Coffee Earth Parable by Punning Line
A brief quip contrasts coffee with the earth, noting it is ground when it becomes coffee. The clever play on words likens grinding to a fundamental change from a planet to a brewed drink.
Grand and Petit Jurors Drawn for November Term 1861
A list of residents of Trempealeau County Wisconsin called to serve as Grand and Petit jurors at the Circuit Court November Term commencing on November 4 1861. Names include McCoy Adams Boynton Coning Hart Holmes Silkworth Broughton Stratton Booth Wood Angel Penney Batcheller Ford Thurston Steins Bright Hayden Southworth Johnston Cheney Gibbs Webber Smith Bunn Wasson Trowbrig Sherwood Snyder VanTromp Welch Brice Talmadge French Harris Parker Thompae and Bishop Daniels. Records confirm the list is correct as drawn in the presence of Sheriff Wm A Cram and Justice N D Comstock. October 1 1462.
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Wis
J. C. McCoy
Geo W. Steins
John Bright
E. W. Hayden
J. Southworth
W A Johnston
L . Cheney
Oliver Gibbs
J Webber
H. % Smith
Frank Bunn
D.C Wasson
I Trowbrig
C.L Sherwood
Herman Snyder
J VanTromp
LV B
Welch CO
Brice
W Talmadge
J.C French
Abner Harris
Wallace Parker
Adolphus Thompae Folliws Bishop
A. T. Daniels
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MicClellan
Petit Jurors
Gainevinsa
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