09 Feb 1865
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Newspaper
Seattle Weekly Gazette
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1865
Page
1
The text shows a garbled list of remedies drugs and goods including tonics syrups extracts oils and chemicals. Numerous names appear distorted or misspelled and the fragment mentions prices quantities and items without coherent context. It resembles an old catalog or advertisement page with scattered product references.
Seattle Weekly Gazette edition details its weekly publication schedule by the Seattle Publishing Co Seattle Washington. The note records the paper as a weekly periodical for the region and confirms publication in Washington Territory.
A Paris tale recounts a speculator’s ploy to recover the queen of Wurtemberg’s diamonds stolen during a royal ball fire. The thief was seized on the Pont de la Concorde but threw the jewels away. none were recovered, fueling legendary speculations. The piece adds anecdotes on cold and survival and a string of brief moral observations.
The notice lists advertising rates for one square ads and discounts for monthly advertisers, plus a policy that legal ads must be prepaid. The page then shifts to a long, poetic fragment about a river and love, followed by scattered humorous items, anecdotes, and excerpted editorial commentary describing missing stove wood incidents, elopements, reapers, and social sketches.
A Commercial Advertizer correspondent details German railroads with praise for track quality and depots, contrasting it with U S conditions and expressing American railroad shame. The piece also covers Thomas Cook’s Free and Independent Men and Women community in Hantsville Indiana, its ideal of total freedom and rejection of rulers, and odd moral anecdotes including a maize pap cure and humorous quotes from Epictetus Plato and Xenophanes.
A humorous vignette shows an Irishman before a magistrate charged with taking six wives. He quips he sought a good one, while Artemus Ward remarks a misquote about ten dollars in Jeff Davis’s pocket if he’d never been born.
An early fire in Brooklyn destroyed a large white lead factory at No 1 Gold Street with losses around 30000 dollars. The report lists multiple other distant items from Washington and New York including political news, legal actions, and local incidents in a concatenated bulletin.
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