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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1865
Page
3
An old advertising rate listing for SIZ AWAXO COUNTY JOURNAL shows pricing for various column widths and durations, including full page, half page, quarter page, and business card lines. The note references Woodwell and Wyphaw and terms like one year and six months, with statutory legal advertisement pricing.
Fragmented OCR lists presidential and cabinet names including Andrew Johnson and secretaries Seward Stanton Welles Harlan and others, with garbled spellings and misplaced punctuation. The item appears as a partial directory page with unclear titles and missing portions.
Fragmented OCR lists Wisconsin state offices, judges, and district boundaries with numerous counties and officials named. The text names members and positions across many counties including Milwaukee Dane Walworth Waukesha Kenosha and others, with references to office titles and appointments.
A garbled OCR fragment lists local officials including treasurer judge and county commissioners with jumbled names and an aside about General Taylor and various political remarks. The passage mixes administrative names with unrelated antiquated commentary and stray prose on cholera, newspapers, and a theater-like exhibit.
The text discusses keeping a patient hydrated and minimally disturbed in bed, noting that waking a patient hinders sleep. It observes that nakedness after light sleep can reduce the chance of returning to sleep, and that continued rest strengthens sleep propensity. It advises nurses to quiet room conditions and secure the patient’s night environment to support rest.
A sketch honors Bryant at 71 with remarks on his vigor, intellect, and everyday vigor. It notes his precise habits, brisk movement, and unchanged curiosity. The piece contrasts his dress sense with D Orsay and Greeley, and describes his lively, social routines and playful demonstrations.
It discusses fictitious or metaphorical measures of writing pace, claiming enormous letter and stroke counts per hour and year. The prose cites extreme rates, such as thirty words per minute and millions of strokes annually, in a disjointed, archaic diction.
Survey of government lands in the Menasha district nearly finished with all lands surveyed. Expect to receive the Surveyor General’s return in a few weeks and open lands for preemption or settlement under homestead laws. Public lands, including some pine lands, will be offered next. Land office activity has increased, especially in Deonto county, amid reports of fertile soil and growing population in northern Wisconsin.
A fragmented 19th century style text jumbles reflections on virtue folly and social norms. It weaves literary allusions with scattered phrases about marriage drunkenness weather and public life. The piece echoes a poetical monologue on human behavior and gender roles with archaic diction and stray observations.
A fragmented 19th century account describes cramps and neuralgia from impure thick blood. It prescribes hot water applications to heat the blood and relieve pain, plus rubbing the cramped limbs with wool or a flag until the sufferer feels relief, interwoven with stray social anecdotes.
A New York evangelist reports daily prayer meetings held since March 6 at a large city printing office. Attendance grew from four or five to twelve or fourteen, with increasing devotion. Converts question what happens when printing houses become chapels, while workers often stay for meals during the sessions.
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