Laws of Wisconsin temperance act and related notices
Wisconsin act provisions require bonds to prevent sale of spirituous liquors with penalties up to five hundred dollars and six months in jail. The text details enforcement, civil actions, and penalties including eligibility for commissions and court proceedings. The notice also calls for delegates to a National School Convention and reports contemporaneous famine and injury news from Ireland, with brief stray references to Chicago Tribune content.
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Wisconsin
Walt
Lowe
Ely
Destructive Weather Damages Crops Across Southern States
A severe cold snap and heavy snows devastate cotton and corn from South Carolina to Georgia and beyond. Reports note frost and freezing temperatures harming fruit, vegetables, and rice in Beaufort, Georgetown, Charleston, Columbia, and other towns. Stafford County and nearby areas report substantial field losses.
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Pocataligo
S.C
Botaw
Beaufort
Edisto
North
Santee
Hamburg
Georgetown
Grahams ‘L'Own
Wallerborough
Waxhawe
Cheraw
Barnwell Court House
Charleston Mercury
Wilmington
N.C
Savannah
Atalanta
Milledgeville
Charleston
Richmond Whig Eays
Centreville
Wisconsin Credit Crisis Sparks Voter Reflection
The article argues Wisconsin’s public credit is in a ruinous state, blaming poor leadership and party demagoguery. It contrasts Wisconsin scrip value with other states and urges voters from all parties to scrutinize state administration, warning of dire financial consequences. It also notes a biography of Elizabeth, a Bristol native who earned a medical degree after perseverance, and reports on a large saw mill project in Saginaw, detailing capacity, location, and costs.
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Wisconsin
Madison
Furaseth Blackwell
Bristol
England
America
New York
Wing
Cincinnati
Elizabeth
Geneva College
Paris
New York City
Ite
Minnesota Territory a Paradise of Water and Timber
The upper Minnesota Territory offers countless lakes with clear water and abundant fish. Soils support cereal crops and even gourd-seed corn. Rail lines of thought aside, the region promises arable land and timber, with a prairie landscape pierced by groves and lakes creating a misty illusion of cultivated villages.
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Union
Minavadta
St. Peters
Red River
Lalitude
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Lake Superior
Fond du Lac
Mississippi
Wisconsin Territory
House Representatives
Mississippi River
Minnesota Register
Wisconsin Emigration Boost and Frontier Growth Ahead
Wisconsin hints at rapid settlement with new roads bridges and towns rising as lake traffic expands from Mackinac to the state. It urges eastern workers and capitalists to join a thriving, tax friendly, and resource rich Wisconsin, promising farms mines and prospering industry. Wolves menace cattle near Sheboygan with local plans to poison depredators after a yearling is killed.
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Misty Mackinac
Wisconsin
Confederacy
Gaz
Political attack on Col. Wannen as Second Assistant Postmaster General
The piece denounces Democrats led by the Washington Union for launching personal attacks on Col. Wannen. It lists alleged misdeeds including a failed Massachusetts mercantile venture, questionable use of funds, and a 30 Democrat payroll gimmick in Iowa to swing a state election. It defends Wannen as capable and accuses rivals of political bias and opportunism.
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Washington Union
Col
Wannen
Massachusetts
Ewartwoud
Prick, Horr & Co
Secona
Col. W
Whig State Central Committee
Gen. Tazzar
Sam
Iowa
Canadian Troubles in Lower Canada Reach Crisis and Parlia ment Riot
Reports from Montreal describe daily mobs filling the streets as violence escalates with the burning of the Parliament House and large archives seized. Two men were shot by the military on the 7th amid a looming clash between authorities and French party supporters. Order has since somewhat returned, with Parliament resuming in the Bonsecours Market hall and calls for indemnification of Patriot losses fueling Tory anger. In Minnesota, St Paul prints the Minnesota Register edited by A Raxot, a government survey veteran. Washington supports a new Whig paper, The Republic, to be published by Ginogow & Co with A C Buxatt and Jean O Sanezat in editorial roles.
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Lower Canada
Parliament House
Ater
Montreal
Parliament
Pawer
Minnesotsa
Minnesota
St. Paul
A. Raxoat
Mississippi
Washington
the Republic
Ginogow & Co
A. C. Buxatt
Joan O. Sanezat
N. O. Picayune
Whig View on Spoils and Democratic Wailings
The article mocks displaced Democrats and editors reacting to Whig rule, arguing reward and patronage are essential to government function. It cites press opinions from the Evening Post and Waukesha Democrat praising restrained changes and endorsing the spoil system as a political necessity.
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Jeremish
Judah
Jackson
Pax
Evening Post
Washington Union
Democratic Party
Publc
Waukesha Democrat
Jefferson
Village grows with brick stores and new churches
Our Village reports rapid construction as 30 buildings begin this season and 50 or 60 more may follow. Gieman and Steiren erect a brick store block opposite the office, 44 by 6 feet, three stories high. Wreck Boost builds a large brick block on Main Street with a recess, billiard hall, and public hall. Churches and a German Evangelical house of worship are under way, while weather and mud slow travel. The Alleghanians may visit next week as a noted vocal group.
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Messrs. Gieman & Steiren
Wreck Boost
Main Street
Breezy
Congregational
Episcopal
Evangelical German Society
Watertown
Board of Trustees meeting May 4 1848 and fire at Firen's warehouse
The May 4 1848 Board of Trustees meeting adjourned to 7 PM approved ordinances on nuisances and streets, appointed William Dolan street superintendent west ward, and required the Treasurer to file a $2000 bond. A fire consumed Firen's warehouse and about 35000 bushels of wheat owned by S C Tocktanas. insurance $9000 with losses around $40000.
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Rogen
Nichols
Kier
Gallagher
Rogan
William Dolan
West Ward
Mr. Firen
Racine
S.C. Tocktanas
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London
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Dublin Freeman's Journal
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State Credit
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Detroit Bulletin
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the Chronicle
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the Wrather
Geo
Free Democrat
Milwaukee
Board of Trustees
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Gen. Kise
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Germany
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LN. Y. Bulletin
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