Enlargement of the Milwaukee Sentinel Adds Pages
The Milwaukee Sentinel announces lengthening its columns from January 1, 1867, to add two more reading columns. Prices for Daily, Triweekly, and Weekly editions remain posted for mail and news dealer subscribers, with club incentives and details for mailing, city delivery, and rates, urging reader subscriptions to offset increased production costs.
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Milwaukee Sentinel
West
Weekly Sentinel
TUF
Daily Sentinel
Trieweekly Sentinel
Germs of the Beautiful Poem Exalts Nature and Home
A lyrical meditation urges scattering the germs of beauty across nature and home. It envisions flowers blooming along cottage walls and garden paths, and links physical beauty with moral purity inside the temple of the heart. The poem extols charity planted in life and death, framing paradise as cultivated by virtue.
The Trade In Human Hair In New York
Four New York houses dominate imported human hair trade valued at 500000 to 1000000 dollars yearly with 40 percent duty. German hair prized for length and texture. French varieties also prized. Hair sold for chignons wigs plaits and fronts from sources abroad, then refined through cleansing and microscopic inspection. Living and dead hair distinctions create risks including disease taints and “church-yard” hair roots.
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New York
Russia
Europe
France
London
Paris
New England
Indies
A Leap for Life at Wurtle Creek Bridge Crash
The report recounts Charley Hoyt and John Olin escaping death when a pile-driver toppled near them during bridge repairs over Wurtle Creek. They leapt into twenty five foot waters as ice floes surged, battled the current for about thirty minutes, and reached shore on a precarious ice shelf downstream. Also included is an antippoison anecdote about sweet oil as a remedy for snake bites and brief notes on Drogheda and historic sieges.
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Charley Hoyt
Western Union Road
John Olin
Wurtle Creek
Charley
Hoyt
Olin
Racine Journal
Curious Reptile Life from Sauerkraut Mash Declares Evolution
A German resident on Bay Street reports a sauerkraut fermentation experiment turned into a living reptile display. Tubs exploded, releasing leaping chameleonlike creatures ranging from two inches to ten inches, with transparent to crimson bodies and yellow rings around the eyes. Several specimens are preserved. observers note rapid, life-like development and caution readers about dangerous fermentation practices.
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Darwin
Charles Motzer
Bay Street
Aztire
Kingdom of Réptalia
Canada
Hamilton
C. W
Vémes
Treatment of German Emigrants South
The New Orleans See urges a full inquiry into the plight of German laborers who came to the Southern states after the war. Reports from a German paper accuse agents of exploiting emigrants who faced brutal conditions, hunger, fever, and abandonment in huts while many died on journeys to New Orleans and other cities. The author warns Germans to avoid agents promising work in the South.
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New Orleans
Germany
Baton Rouge
Vicksburg
Memphis
St. Louis
North Carolina
South Carolina
Florida
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Explosion at Naples powder mills shocks city
A Naples correspondent reports a February letter describing last Friday’s blast at the Posilippo powder mills. Sixty three people were on site. twenty died, eleven wounded, seven unharmed, the rest unaccounted for. The mill director, accused of diverting powder, blew himself and police to death while setting fire to a powder room. Public charity mobilizes for affected families.
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Naples
Sivon
Posilippo
Vespa
Bims
Brutal Prize Fight On Peyton's Island Ended In Sullivan Victory
A morning prize fight at 8 on Peyton's Island near Sardis Q. drew 87 rounds over three hours between Tom Sullivan of Pittsburg and Badger Crutchley of Cincinnati for a $500 purse. Sullivan won after Crutchley was badly battered. About 300 spectators watched as betting favored Cincinnati.
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Peyton's Island
Sardis
Tom Sullivan
Sn Young Sullivan
Pittsburg
Badger Crutchley
Cincinnati
Sullivan
Jim Swift
Tom Cooper
Crutchley
Bloody Gardner
Tom Smith
Pittsburgh
Crutchiey
Victorty
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Shawano County Journal
AvvEnTisine
Sti
Rockwell & Upham, Proprietors
THE
City National Bank OF
Green Bay
City Bank OF
G. A Lawton
Conrad Kruger
United States
First National Bank, of
Green Bay, Wis
Bank of Greece Bay
Henry Strong
M.D. Peak
Charles Tullar
WS. Risk
WD. Colburn
Weorl
Old Country
United
Darwin P. Andrews
Law
Court House
Sravvanog
A.G. Rockwell
County Board of Supervisors
M Upham
Capia Mendy
Shawano, Wis
Colborn & Westcott
Main St
Opposiie Drug
Bhawano
Wisconsin
Ee. EL. Elliis
Joseph Hoeffel
Bay Clity
B. Follett
Washington St
Ferry Street
Oshkosh
Wis
Swe
Wea
FORDY
Jurmain & Brightman
F. A. Schettler
Ahe
Truetes Ao
Mulley Mill
Drogheda
Boyne
Meath
Louth
William
Kisp Treatmant
Alorse
Bowers, Pratt & Co
Congress Street
Billy
State Street
Boston
Wen Uoubles
Smikes
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