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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Aug 12, 1885
Page
4
The Milwaukee Weekly 1885 issue outlines advertising rates and formats for daily and weekly editions, including price calculations for notices. It notes double pricing for reading notices and provides procedures for address changes and manuscript retention.
The piece extols Ulysses S Grant as a pivotal American figure whose leadership in the American Revolution era, Civil War, and nation-building efforts secured the United States. It lauds his physical, moral, and intellectual strength and places him among the world’s greatest soldiers, comparing him to Washington and noting the lasting homage paid to his memory.
The article surveys the 1885 wheat prospects in the United States and Europe, detailing winter and spring wheat yields, shortages, and price implications. It notes a 160 million bushel drop in winter wheat from 1884 and a 22 million bushel potential spring loss, with overall shortages around 182 million bushels, while also listing local notices on deaths, house sales, postmaster appointments, reunions, and fires in various Wisconsin communities.
A long obituary honors Ulysses S. Grant as savior of the Union. It chronicles his military strategy from Vicksburg to Appomattox, his mercy to Lee, and his presidency including the inflation veto. It notes his personal trials, the Mount McGregor illness writing memoirs, and enduring devotion to family and country.
A violent tornado struck the Delaware River shore near Gloucester New Jersey crossed the river into Pennsylvania and caused widespread ruin. The excursion steamer Maj Reybold carrying about 100 passengers was wrecked near Greenwich Point. Pilot Townsend drowned and Captain Reybold was rescued. Dozens injured and several reported dead, with extensive damage to Camden Philadelphia and surrounding farms and mills.
A public admission that cholera exists in Marseilles sparks fear of spread to Paris and England. Officials warn of a hot summer ahead with risk to the United States, urging preventive cleaning of homes, stores, streets, and alleys to curb an impending outbreak.
Grasshoppers are reported causing considerable crop damage across the state with bat fields especially affected, though there is no reason to fear this pest will become a prevalent evil this season or next.
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