23 Feb 1871
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Newspaper
Mineral Point Tribune
Location
Mineral Point, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1871
Page
1
Fraternity notices and ads restricted on this page. Promotions must avoid large cuts and emphasize local matters. The message warns against advertising with high rates or unusual terms and calls for standard payment methods.
Old notices announce a 1.25 dollar yearly advance rate for new subscribers through April 1 1871 and a similar offer for existing readers paying to January 1 1878. Items report church festivals traffic, local bids, and community notices across Grant County Wisconsin, with references to local editors and revival meetings.
The Living Age announces 1871 subscriptions with two remaining 1870 numbers and a free start of a George MacDonald story for new subscribers. The 64 page weekly costs 8 dollars yearly. 19 dollars buys any one of the American 4 magazines with a year of The Living Age. Lu crent & Gay, Boston.
Scribes report flour sales at 275 per hundred and orders handled in absence. Rollers promised by Josiah Lanyon for field work with C H Lanyon Harness Shop as seller. Miscellaneous notices cover coffins, fabrics, groceries, and a broad mix of goods from Deller’s ware rooms to Osborne’s store. Local reflections include a lead discovery history and a bill on liquor licenses amid frontier war rumors and political moves.
Belmont pursues a bank as commerce expands in the young town. Seven dry goods stores, four warehouses, two flax mills, two hotels, two law offices and fifteen other businesses mark strong early growth noticed by Crant County Herald. Auten & Co.'s wringers praised for versatility from quilts to moral matters.
Sherwood and Derg urge customers to compare prices at the City Store for dry goods including Calinos Delnins Domestics Shirting and more. Cartwright's offers Whitby jet sets at $1.00.
Market prices and commodity notes for Gold 1.11 in New York Wheat 1.00 per bushel No 2 corn 640 oats flax butter hogs cattle and other items including apples and barley with miscellaneous figures and abbreviations.
An item records the marriage of Alfred Pasco Ingersoll of Wayne La Fayette and Miss Baaba Teasdale of Elk Grove La Fayette, solemnized at Teasdale Rest Piktineve in Lafayette County. The notice appears in local Barlington papers with date and officiant details incomplete due to OCR errors.
In Mifflin on Monday February 18 infant John Henry Reynolds son of John and Jane Reynolds aged seven weeks. in Waldwick Mrs Mary Martin aged about seven years and identified as a longtime public school teacher.
The co partnership under Shepard & Mush has dissolved effective December 26. The business will continue under new ownership by the undersigned with all work to be supervised directly. Debts or debts contracted by Meron are not the responsibility of former partners. Linden February 1871.
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