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Newspaper
Rolla Express
Location
Rolla, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Nov 23, 1861
Page
4
A fragmented historical notice promotes Spaulding's Cephalid Pills with claimed head and eye remedies. It mentions prepaid mail for Henry C. Spaulding at 48 Cedar Street New York and urges sending pills by mail to neighbors and buyers.
An aged notice lists many line items not sold for cash and to be exchanged in kind. It mentions cattle stock lumber wood lands and a quantity of whisky and rye. The fragmented text references Monongahela and regional numbers indicating stock values or lots.
Ser geant Aylesworth with twenty men under Capt Hackney moved from Rolla to Big Piney and Roubedéaus Creek where they captured six prisoners after a sharp fifteen minute engagement with 18 armed rebels. Nine attackers were killed, six prisoners and four horses were taken. Captain Osborne’s command praises Adams Crabtree and others for coolness in action.
Direct reports from Warsaw recount a harsh crackdown after the Kostinske demonstration. Police shut shops, churches filled with congregants, and Cossack detachments cleared streets, arresting men inside churches. Prisoners deemed fit for service faced conscription. others released. About 2,000 men expected to be drafted to regiments in the Russian Empire. Some 400 tradesmen fined for closing shops. Since church closures, worshipers gather at church doors to pray. Also noted, a late Atlantic gale and a large English steamer carrying arms was captured near Key West. navy progress reports include fleet construction updates.
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