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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1866
Page
1
The SitAWAXO County Journal lists advertising rates for various columns and periods, including one column and half column amounts, legal advertisements at statute prices, and business card pricing. Names Grocewell Upham appear as publishers. pricing for annual and semiannual terms is detailed.
United States executive roster lists President Andrew Johnson with a vacancy for Vice President Lafayette S Foster as acting vice president and cabinet officers including Secretary of State William H Seward Treasury Hugh McCulloch War Edwin M Stanton Navy Gideon Welles Interior James Harlan Attorney General James S Speed Postmaster General William Dennison Chief Justice Salmon P Chase and associate justices Nathan Clifford Samuel Nelson Robert Grier James M Wayne David Davis Swayne Samuel F Miller.
A historical Wisconsin clipping lists Governor appointments and state officers, including Lieutenant Governor Lucius Fairchild, Secretary of State Thomas Allen, Treasurer Wm. El Smith, Attorney General, and Superintendent of Public Instruction John G. McMinn. It also details Supreme Court justices Luther S. Dixon Osnatus Cole Jason Downer and a long roster of circuit judges by district, plus commissions and board members across counties.
An 19th century advertisement from GEO. A. PRINCE & CO. promotes the Patent Automatic Organ, Melodeon and School Organ lines with prices between $52 and $525, rosewood to oak cases, five-year warranties, and free illustrated catalogs. It touts innovations like the Exhaustion Bellows and knee-operated swell, claims superiority over European double-blower systems, and notes agents and church discounts while urging prompt orders.
An editorial letter asserts Cole’s Dyspepsia Cure cures chronic dyspepsia and indigestion, improves appetite, relieves heartburn and stomach pain, and restores energy. It claims rapid relief after meals and permanent improvement, with availability at drugstores in the United States and Canada at $1 per bottle or six for $5 from G. G. Clark & Co., proprietors.
Fragmentary verse argues for holy rest on the seventh day as divine reprieve from labor. It contrasts toil and inequality with the prophecy that a future republic will emerge where power is shared and the poor gain access to a universal feast.
A collection of aphoristic statements on character, conscience, religion, and social conduct. It covers distrust of hypocrites, the value of inner goodness, fate and free will, the dangers of pride, and calls for consistency between beliefs and actions, with scattered archaic spellings.
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