13 Apr 1861
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Newspaper
Pepin County Press
Location
Pepin, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1861
Page
1
The PePin County Press outlines advertising rates for classified listings and display ads with yearly, monthly, and per insertion charges. It notes penalties for late payments and deadlines, details about business notices, and mentions printing offerings including cards, stationery, and other printed goods.
Messy OCR text lists multiple names and firms such as Alen, Athamas, Counsellor at Law, Barron, and Medneviey. It mentions Pepin and Marquette counties in Wisconsin with references to attornies, general agents, warrants, and various goods. Mentions a meeting date and business day across counties and offices in Pepin Wisconsin.
The document presents a compilation of Wisconsin acts adopted in March 1861. It covers authorizing audit of newspaper publishers accounts for law publication costs, amendments to court procedure notices, extension of agricultural society reporting deadlines, drainage fund allocations, and civil action procedures requiring adding nonparty interests as parties to actions.
The article recounts the Tower of London’s nightly locking ritual with guards and the keys ceremony involving Queen Victoria's keys and the Yeoman Porter. It recalls military valor at Bunker Hill and Warren's death, plus a Canada anecdote about a government receiver's secrecy aboard a ship and the curious questions from passengers.
A short moral verse urges readers to labor and act with compassion. It contrasts folded lands and selfish hearts with the joy of productive toil and kindness. The poem promises spiritual reward for giving and comforting the oppressed in distant cities.
The Rev Sir Henry Moncrief once presided at Blackford in the 1770s and heard a comic mispronunciation by the psalmist. The congregation laughed as the precentor faltered on the opening line caused by a misplaced wig prompting the minister to quip about the man’s wig.
The article lists six army departments with headquarters and manning. Hast department based in Troy area has about 10 506 men. West department centered in St Louis has around 9 000. Texas department with 2 200, many marching to Florida and others for war duties. New Mexico department centered at Santa Fe about 2 500. Pacific department centered in San Francisco about 1 500. Utah department about 1 000.
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