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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1867
Page
2
Fragmentary poem in an old style paints winter scenes with Jane, wind, snow, birds, angels, and nature. It weaves seasonal imagery of cold breath, icy peaks, blue birds, streams, and hopeful lines about spring. The text blends misty sensory details with personified nature and faint references to faith and renewal.
The text portrays a chaotic report from a siege involving Maximilian's forces and Mexican authorities. It describes names like Mejía, Cobedo, and Mendez, mentions surrender negotiations, executions of prisoners, depictions of atrocities, and fortunes in loot such as silver and goods moved during the conflict.
Alfred King and his wife Mattie King were found dead in their parlor after an evening that ended with King shooting his wife and then himself. A servant, Taylor, discovered the locked room and raised alarm as investigators corralling the scene showed a pistol wound to Mattie King and a self-inflicted gunshot to Alfred King. The coroner and police charged the scene as a murder suicide with unclear motive.
Fragmented report covers a fire in Atchison and related losses, with scattered names and figures. Mentions Nantucket origins, debts, and a local court case, plus a long digression on opium imports and population. The text is a jumble of names, places, and numbers with no single clear event.
Carleton writes from abroad to the Boston Journal about lead pencils of Nuremberg origin found in counting rooms and schoolhouses across America and beyond. The piece traces pencil manufacture from early Champhage to W. Faber of Nuremberg, noting global demand, industrial methods, and a vivid account of 18th to 19th century pencil crafts and trade.
Amid a Paris uproar a letter claims King would sacrifice four million from civil list if Parliament supports a controversial pill for canceling overdue debts. A public row erupts as officials press for fiscal reforms while critics accuse officials of insensitivity and racial slurs surface during the debate.
A garbled OCR fragment mentions Shakespeare illustrated volumes, a London or New York publishing note, Whig era names, a gardener Evenden, and various domestic anecdotes. The text shows scattered references to local gardening, fashion, and misquoted phrases, with incomplete sentences and unclear dates or places.
Fragmented OCR shows an ornate Milwaukee based patent medicine promo for Schenck Seaweed Tonic and related remedies. It lists distributors in Philadelphia New York St Louis and Milwaukee with pricing, and cites various claims about digestion appetite and liver health, framed as a broad medical cure.
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