Sly Epigrams and Paradoxes From London Print
Half a million packs of cards are made annually in London. Camphor is an antidote to strychnine. A man who never gives or takes advice is unworthy of friendship. The sea-farer hopes to rise with the tide. Self-sufficiency comes from moderation in drinking. Why is a solar eclipse like a beating sunless boy It hides the sun. A philosopher says a method to avoid dunning. Do not run in debt. Do not rush love. Hearts abdicate as quickly as they are claimed. A judge asks a counsel and he answers I am concerned for the plaintiff but employed for the defendant.
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London
Treasury opens bids for eight million Joan loan
From Washington on February 23 Secretary of the Treasury oversaw the bid opening for the eight million Joan loan. About 160 bidders participated as bids totaled around 15 million at 90 to 96 with New York banks bidding 2.5 million. Boston bid 465 thousand with partial success. Average award stood at 90 1 2 percent.
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Wasatneroy
Secretary of the Treasury
U. S
New York
Boston
Assassination Plot Report Reaches Lincoln
A despatch cited by the New York Zémes outlines a plan to assassinate President Lincoln. The note, read in Madison Argus, says the scheme was revealed at Harrisburg causing Lincoln to depart swiftly for Washington amid fears of civil war in the summer.
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New York
Lincoln
Fort Sumter and Charleston Harbor Fortifications
A Charleston Mercury excerpt signed by a South Carolina College president urges avoiding bloodshed if Fort Sumter falls. It notes the fort’s garrison as poor hirelings obeying orders and warns against killing soldiers after surrender. It also reports vigorous fortification work in Charleston harbor and recruitment ads for laborers by the Engineer Corps.
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Charleston Mercury
South Carolina College
Brooklyn
Charleston
Fort Sumter
United States
South Carolina
Fortia
A. A
A. A. Loxastreets
Charleston Harbor
Engineer Corps
Butte
A CAND TO TILE SUFFERING
A letter-like fragment describes a person named Desire or related figures amid illness, medical care, and a debtor’s payment to a recipient at 459 Falcon Avenue Grovklyn. The text is garbled but indicates medical distress and a transfer of charges or responsibility.
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oHer Wittias Coserova
Dapan
Yieau
Eharze
Anuress Lev
Craig Pays
Falton Avenue
Grovklyn
Pepin County Population Figures And Local Gases
Pepin County census totals place the village at Pepin at 2453 inhabitants, with multiple towns and wards listed. The page mocks rival Lake City and Wabasha editors as “gas” talkers, notes local commerce, and mentions Godey’s Lady’s Book orders and a suspended Lake City Tribune. It closes with plans for plank sidewalks and trees, plus a brief postmaster visit in Durand.
Sattapay Evextse Post literary journal exchange notice
Publishers Deacon and Peterson of Philadelphia thank readers for their long support and praise the journal as a leading literary paper. Terms are $2 per year. In Hudson, J Comstock presented a petition from M S Gibson and others of St Croix County calling for abolition of Grand Jury machinery. Remonstrances with signatures should be sent to the office to be transmitted to Madison.
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Sattapay Evextse Post
Deacon & Peterson, Publishers
Philadelphia
J. Comstock
Hudson
M.S. Gibson
St. Croix County
Sxort
Madison
Unceremonious Departure of President Elect Liscony
Report outlines Liscony leaving Harrisburg for Baltimore amid rumors of a plot to assassinate him. Mentiones visits to the White House and President Buchanan, with European powers planning policy on new governments. Also covers ship arrivals, British opinion, and Virginia Convention actions.
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Washington
New York Times
Liscony
Indignant letter from Clarendon reader on mistreatment
A complainant from Pepin to La Crosse denounces B Y P Moran in Judge Barron inquiry as a web of lies about ill treatment in Clarendon Arkansas. He details travel from Pepin to Memphis to Madison and five weeks at the Pioneer office, then work at the Standard in Clarendon under editor W. N Nichols who paid little money. Accused as abolitionist, forced to leave under threat of violence, poor treatment on the boat Black Hawk, and disputed medical accounts with doctors Toran and Nichols.
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Memphis
Madison
Pioneer Office
Clarendon
White River
Standard Office
Nichols
Tie
Black Hawk
Dr. Nichols
Mr. Toran
John Sealing
Silver Moon
Cairo
Washington House
Gazette
Burnsit
Barron
Abolitionist Footnote From a Transcontinental Journey
A roadside fragment recounts a traveler’s winter trek from Memphis to Cairo then Chicago seeking work as a printer. He notes South’s slave civilization, meets old friends in Memphis, and mentions a detective claim and hostile roads. The voice laments hard travel and ill fortune while endorsing abolitionist sentiment.
Spring Weather and Local Obituary Report
Sprine notes mild spring like weather with heavy rain melting ice. Drew reports the death of Cronus W. Densmont about 30 from lung fever in this village. Densmont valued as honest industrious and generous, survived by wife and one child.
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Drew
Cronus W. Densmont
Densemore
Writing school opens in village village by Chanka Tieq
Writixe Scnoon a writing school opened in the village by Chanka Tieq. He is a good punchman and teaches the art to others. May success attend his enterprise.
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Chanka Tieq
Fle
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Fort Sumpter
Devin County Press
A. B. Shaver
Pepin, Wis
Cenmus
Pepin County
Journal of Assembly
R. Palmer
Albany
Bear Creek
Frankfort
Lima
Pepin Town
Stockholm
Waubeek
Wisconsin
Pepin
Ashland
Brunette
Chippewa
Clark
Douglas
Lapoint
Polk
Shawano
Trempalean
Wood
Minny Jerald
Pepin Press
Lake City Journal
Wabasha
Lake City
Toabasha
Mississippi
la Crosse
Prescott
Journal
Godey
Lake City Tribune
Simpson
Brother Ponton
Ton
Cras. Denker
U.S. 8
Select Committee
Harper's Ferry
Senator Cox
PD. C. Tourixe
Durand
Ile
Sumalary
Europe
Nangaroo
Liverpool
Portland
Paris
Leri Denny
Eagland
Tord Aranvilte
America
England
India
Greta
France
Italy
Maras
Tortugas
Lieves
War Department
Virginia
Senate
California
San Francisco
Knights of the Golden Circle
San Franscisco
Pacific Republic
Frranuaes May
Richmond
Scorrt
Anperson
Correspondience
Pepin Pruces
Corlent
James Barry
Masufactecrr
Wazong
Vanezes
C. Epaticeng
Fe Badirdment
She ‘Ghorge
Banl
George C. Hill
Betwees Fulet and
Second
Strela
Wis
Co, Menerinec, Sanborn & Bullard
Tee Tie
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