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Newspaper
Geneva Express
Location
Geneva, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1856
Page
2
An Asia Minor missionary writes of a painter who cannot find work after converting to Protestantism. He notes religion’s uncompromising stance, defeating lucrative business and pleasures, as seen in Ephesus unrest. Religion forms character through its thorough, uncompromising principles.
Traders from across the country replenish stock of hook merchandise reflecting public taste. The piece criticizes yellow literature, urging readers to stop buying to starve it out. It notes Protestant moral superiority and a Parisian exhibit controversy, then reports on religious holidays and a cruel act in the South involving a man chained to a cartwheel.
The M. E. Church in Geneva will be dedicated to worship on Thursday the Sth with an 1 oclock sermon by Rev. Bouns of Chicago and a second service at 7 oclock. Pastor J. Anderson urges a strong turnout for the Village Election next Monday urging voters to elect true men who will enforce laws.
Uta Village Subscribers who previously received their paper by Canier will now collect them at the Post Office or this Office. Complaints about irregular delivery prompted this temporary change to ensure readers get the newspaper.
A lot on Main street between L. Curtis and I. B. Allen's stores, 172 by 60 feet, sold to a New York gentleman for $2,000. Plans include a brick block for stores, seen as a major improvement and ornament to the village. The passage also notes appointments, moves, and local business changes in Kenosha and Geneva, with rail and educational convention references.
A column on names and identity references Shakespearean and Napoleonic names alike, musing on how titles influence perception, then abruptly lists the Wisconsin delegation to the National Democratic Convention in Cincinnati, including Crawford Iowa Sanders Racine Brown Waukesha Sholties Washington Gibson St Croix Dewey Grant Thomas Yond Lac Julian Dodge Cross Milwaukee.
Geneva Incorporated announces the Act of Incorporation for the village and a first Charter Selection set for Monday May 5. The article credits Geneva’s favorable site and future growth with water power, the Central Road, and rail link to Kenosha, predicting prosperity.
This 1856 summary notes the Crannon murder trial in Fréaport with a grand mob outside the jail. A guard of thirty men was posted overnight as police cover, and a brief scuffle occurred during transfer to the court. The piece cites Chicago Tribune and remarks on the mob spirit, along with other brief items including treaty details and local economic notes.
An exchange cites two Detroit youths who chose heavy adverting and printing spend from the start. They kept reinvesting profits, their notices and handbills widely distributed. The business expanded to ten rooms, about one hundred clerks, and last year earned roughly a million and a half dollars.
The notice states a Republican State Convention will be held at the Capitol in Madison on Wednesday June 4 1856 at 12 o'clock noon. It calls for six delegates at large and three per congressional district to represent Wisconsin at the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia June 17, and for nominating two presidential electors.
The Empress Eugene reportedly preserves a ceremonial pen used to sign the peace, tied to a living eagle fragment and adorned with gold and diamonds. Plenipotentiaries each signed eighty six paragraphs, and the treaty’s signing was postponed to March 30 to mark Allied entry into Paris in 1814.
From the London Times a grim note on Turkey’s peril as Allied and Russian pressures threaten. The piece suggests Turkey feels strangled, fearing accelerated occupation and a loss of sovereignty amid postwar realignments.
A village caucus was held at the office of L. L. Baxter Exq. on the 2d at 7 PM to nominate officers for the Geneva village corporate election. Chair Palmer and Secretary Murphy oversaw a five person committee J I Abell C W Smith H Rich D S Calkins A D Colton which reported nominees for trustees president E D Richardson for president BB Gill C Miller Daniel Lake OL Oatman for trustees. Justice and Clerk J T Abell for Justice and Clerk J T Abell, Assessor B H Stafford, Treasurer E Andrews, Constables D W Sherman and Wm Jewett. Meeting adjourned sine die.
This column previews a new series by A Srovenr and praises poetic works like Zana. It also reports on Swormstedt Poe’s journal for the M E Church, the Democratic Standard’s daily issue, weather and seasonal notes, political commentary, Beaver Dam rail service, Spain's queen’s charity, Solomon’s spring song, Solt Koszta in Chicago, and Mississippi River commerce.
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