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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1866
Page
1
A suspicious notice promises for a Foreign Chairs purchase with a $6 5001 equivalent reward. It directs money be sent by draft express post or registered letter and mentions Chicago contact MARTIN and WBRUIN Nearborust. Agents are authorized to offer the alleged inducements.
The article notes a servant girl who gained a fortune from a lottery ticket and marries wealth abroad, highlighting public interest in risky schemes under government oversight. It mentions O’Brien’s Gift Concert, oil-industry permits, and says tickets are sold at the post office and Kennedy & VT Wholesale Grocers in Oshkosh Wisconsin.
Advertises commission rates for party procuring five or more names for tickets with money by various means. Lists contact Wiggins Cradford & Co in Chicago and notes donations to the Lincoln and Douglass Monument Fund of 32000 and a 2000 reserve from an $80000 prize drawing. Mentions several named individuals and entities.
A reflective passage blends twilight imagery with memory and longing. The speaker contemplates fading scenes, past loves, and the effort to reconcile dreams with reality, ending with a benediction that creative work be finally accepted in heaven.
Sabine Brainard and Orville Clark attend a secret May Day festival at Beaujour’s Assembly Rooms. Guests arrive to a country style feast set by Colonel Rothsay, with baskets of provisions and a mystery invitation promising an afternoon of refined revelry and social intrigue.
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