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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1865
Page
2
A late 1865 newspaper fragment describes post assassination and surrender news including Forests death rumor, Johnson pardons, and Lincoln memorial plans. It notes Union Army parole totals, immigration reports, and deserter counts in Wisconsin, plus mockery of Confederate debts and a Jeff Davis photograph joke.
Treasury receipts verify 8148 7 06 payments for canal fund claims. Supreme Court ruling denies Fox and Wisconsin Improvement Company any interest in Stockbridge lands. Pettibone firm spends heavily on Fond du Lac printing and local merchants. Two youths in Green Bay aged under twelve were found intoxicated. culprit to be prosecuted. Portage City to see many new buildings. Forest residents knit 1802 yards of cloth. Beaver Dam plans brick blocks. Transit schooner completes Chicago Manitowoc voyage in 14 hours. Fond du Lac post office now a money order office. Palmyra starts petroleum boring. Whitewater reports stock surge. Ripon notes early chinch bug in some areas. Dartford woolen factory adds machinery. Cedarburg to establish a National Bank. Sparta Court House to be built in cream-colored brick. Willow River logs slowed by low water. 60 million feet jam at Taylor Falls costs loom. Mississippi falling, lumber traffic rising. Col J A Kellogg at home on leave. Green Bay ladies send delicacies to Harvey Hospital. Oshkosh Northwestern enlarged and improved. growth noted in Green Bay Depere Escanaba. Telegraph line reaches Marquette.
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