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Newspaper
Prescott Transcript
Location
Prescott, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1857
Page
1
A Rutland Herald reprint blends a 1858 Wind and cobbler verse with a Boston Musical Hall tale. A single man in a blue coat seeks a dark eyed love at a concert, struggles with a button entanglement, and narrowly loses sight of his idol in the crowd leaving.
A narrator recounts a comic misadventure of being mistaken as a thief after a bracelet slips from a lady’s dress. He advertises in a newspaper to recover the bracelet, meets the sister and brother, confesses the truth, and wins the woman who first blamed him, ending with a marriage and a public reward reversal. The tale closes with an editorial note on Kinnickinnie a Wisconsin village and its prospects.
The Ny YX Tribune reports a good portion of the $2,000,000 loan has been subscribed and the whole amount will undoubtedly be taken The completion of the Brest work to the Mississippi River by spring 1858 is assured through this funding and public confidence in the project two months earlier than expected.
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