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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1866
Page
1
Ad rates show six months price 1800 and 3000 for quarter, with lines and cards per column. Dues and advertisement details include 150 per line and 600 for square size, referencing a price list for banners and notices.
An aged directory extract lists President and cabinet figures, Wisconsin state officers, and county supervisors. It enumerates names such as Andrew Johnson, Seward, Grier, Sawy en, Cobb, Fairchild, Spooner, Gill, Allen, and McMinn, along with counties including Milwaukee, Jefferson, Green, Waupaca, and Walworth, plus circuit court assignments and local officials.
A Shawano resident, aged 54, died at his Main Street home after an illness. The Wis office notes he was found in his residence with prompt medical attention attempted day and night. Medication and local doctors were involved in the case.
An illustrated catalogue touts the Automatic Organ by Geo A Prince & Co. with 39 varieties and five year warranty. It claims superior tone via a center lever swell, offers discounts to churches and schools, and includes cautions against imitation instruments. Catalogues available from Buffalo and Chicago offices.
A fragment from a 19th century piece describes deep loss as a father dies unseen, memory clings to the child’s life and the home of woe is quiet. It recalls a mother's influence against liquor, and contains brief quips about women, weapons, and church books with period moralism.
A wartime miscellany quotes Beech on liberty, public schools, and farm ownership as a future South reconciles with Union. It contrasts temperance quips with cholera cautions from Cuonera-Uall's Journal of Health and a church anecdote about a hat at the door.
A gipsy accused in the Thomson murder waited nearly a year in prison without talking. He finally named a Highlands spot and time where his accomplice would appear, leading to a perilous capture after a chase that ended with both prisoners slipping away and a laboring woman left behind. The crime tale, drawn from Sinons History of the Gipsies, unfolds amid a dramatic pursuit and concealment in Wickliston.
Offer to the public the largest and best stock of harnesses saddles whips blankets and saddlery hardware north and west of Milwaukee. Our facilities meet any call with prompt attention. Special attention paid to Pinery Harness. Orders sent by mail or otherwise will be sent free with prompt service.
The record outlines Wisconsin state acts from the 1860s addressing fraud in cheese production, including adulteration penalties and the handling of tainted milk. It also covers a tax provision requiring clerks to collect and remit state taxes on suits, plus a 1866 measure authorizing towns to transfer funds to the school fund and have the state allocate funds accordingly.
A dated 1866 note recalls a judge telling a pretentious junior attorney to temper his flowery rhetoric by grounding it in judgment. A widow responds to her pastor with a sharp retort about her enduring appetite for life, asserting continued strength in old age.
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