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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Apr 08, 1861
Page
2
Public notice of advertising rates for Central Missourian includes prices for squares, columns, and notices. Legal ads due on proof, free religious notices, obituary charges, and personal communications. Subscriptions and contracts handled by editor or printer, C. P. Walker, Rolla, Missouri.
Reports note nearly nightly rain swelling creeks and rivers, a celebratory steamboat display in St Louis for D. G. Taylor’s mayoral win, visits by state and local officials, and a brutal murder in which Sherrel allegedly shot Blackwell after an intoxicated dispute near Crissman’s field.
The notice urges readers to settle all dues before stopping a newspaper and to avoid refusing delivery. It advises paying the full amount to the post office or publisher, then ceasing subscriptions honestly. It warns against cheating the printer and stresses personal responsibility.
A Dent County letter to editor criticizes coverage of northern and southern loyalties. The exchange discusses Breckinridge doctrines, State Rights, and opposition to Black Republicanism, with stance on secession, constitutional methods, and loyalty to Missouri.
A private in the first Mississippi regiment tests a Maynard breach loader, boasting twelve shots a minute and a 2600 yard ball. He shoots at a hill, hits a rock, and later discovers a trench and six oxen killed on the opposite side, with the bullet’s path observed through a hilltop hole as the teamster looks on.
A fragment recalls a plan to load a gun and fire if twenty targets fail to clear a location. Toby claims the action would be as serious as a shooting, though the Maynard gun is not involved and the intent remains uncertain.
A March 1861 Rolla obituary mourns Mrewzan Dunnivy aged 55 with praise for his Christian character and honesty as a businessman. A separate Diptheria death at William Fallowell’s residence in Maries county records the death of the Parker child, age about five.
A dense OCR fragment lists numerous personal names, initials, and partial titles, including Matilda Barnhart, Frank Cortney, Ellen Dunn, John Carroll, David Dowley, Ellen Dunn, Miss Elizabeth Slattery, and many others. The text also references firms Cloney Crawford & Co and Edmundson & Co, ending with a note about affiliations and garbled closing lines.
The ordinance amends an earlier rule on publishing the town crime notices. It changes the method to post notices by ten handbills placed in as many locations within Rolla. It takes effect after passage, with signatures of the mayor and officials.
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