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Newspaper
Peru Weekly News
Location
Peru, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1855
Page
3
The Indiana Republican condemns mob violence in Louisville while examining causes of the riot. It cites bitter partisan newspaper warfare, pressure on foreign voters, and attacks by Know Nothing supporters, arguing authorities failed to quell violence and blaming both sides in a complex, escalating conflict.
A New York Herald correspondent in Rivas reports Walker’s 700 men were defeated by government forces. Government troops reinforced at Rivas, villagers fled to arms against the Yankees. Walker’s party suffered heavy losses. Gen. Boska reports 50 to 60 killed and 60 to 160 wounded, with two Americans shot on the road.
Reports from St. Paul Minnesota describe Democratic delegates meeting at Governor Gorman’s home after N M Rice’s congressional nomination. They nominated Daniel Armstead as Son in the same Democratic Convention, signaling intense partisan alignments and the era’s political tensions.
The document reaffirms anti slavery principles and opposes the extension of slavery under the Missouri Compromise. It calls for placing the federal government in the hands of pro freedom leaders, restoring the Missouri Compromise, and enforcing temperance. It argues for voting rights limited to naturalized US citizens and criticizes the current administration for failing to protect free citizens.
The article discusses Russian peasants tied to land, their payments to lords, and the concept of serfdom as a form of ownership. It notes degradation and fears of land sales, plus a remark on wealth measured by peasant heads. It also reports William R. Marshall’s Republican nomination for Congress in Minnesota, the Black Warrior indemnity settlement, and a Miami County Democratic convention in Peru on the 25th for October candidates.
Regional market summaries show flour, wheat, corn and oats prices. New York offers mixed brands around 8.25 to 9.00 per unit, while Cincinnati lists flour near 7.00, wheat at 1.25 to 1.50, corn 0.75, and oats 0.25. Toledo notes flour around 9.50, wheat 1.50, corn bid 0.69 to 0.70, oats 0.55.
Advertisement boasts teeth inserted with artificial gums from a single tooth to full sets. Offers full and half sets with suction, fillings with yolk to prevent decay, instant toothache cure, nerve destruction painlessly, and scurvy treatment. Claims eight years of steady practice and short notice work at Canal and Wabash streets, Wabash Indiana, August 15, 1855.
Dr J W Smith offers professional services to Peru and surrounding country with nineteen years experience in chronic disease treatment. He says he adheres to principles of Electicism taught at the Electic Medical Institute and American Medical College of Cincinnati, discarding bloodletting mercury antimony and arsenic. Office location given as south side of Second Street five doors east of Broadway. August 7, 1845.
H J Shirk and Ino M Wilson offer to handle real estate purchases selling leases land warrants and deeds and mortgages. Their books list many Peru town lots and lands across Indiana for sale with prices to inspect.
J L Farhar and J Fanhar trading as J Farrar Attorneys at Law based in Peru Indiana announce a matter concerning Jericy on Broadway near E 1 Shirk's store.
Bay Lou's Dotan Monruty Magazine launches with a bold price list: one year for $2, six months options from $1 to $4, twelve months options up to $22 for twenty copies, and par value on non US subscriptions. Publisher M. M. Ballou promotes 100 royal octavo pages per issue and two volumes annually from Boston.
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