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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1885
Page
4
The Milwaukee based Weekly Wisconsin lists advertising rates and local notice pricing. It notes double price for space on local notices and provides contact with Cramer Aiken s & Cramer. The issue is dated Milwaukee November 21 1885 and includes postal status.
A Milwaukee firm advertises 100 sheets of note paper for 10 cents postage. The back shows a 5,000 word story printed in a tiny 3x5 inch format from the WEEKLY Wisconsin as a curiosity. Send 10 cents to Chamber, Aikens & Cramer for the papers.
Complying notices are sent to subscribers or friends upon request. Recipients should not judge the paper’s merit from a single copy. Subscriptions are urged and readers are reminded that extra copies may be shared with likely subscribers.
The Weekly Wisconsin urges subscribers to renew before expiration and asks readers to recruit neighbors to join. An advance renewal offers a Gen Grant portrait while supplies last. A Sunshine for Children arrangement lets subscribers obtain four issues for 25 cents with their regular subscription, plus 5 cents for children.
Our Readers requests readers to spread the Wisconsin paper through Northwest households and encourage neighbor subscriptions as renewal notices approach. A column reflects on stern justice in Canada with Louis Riel’s execution and compares imperial responses, arguing repression risks future uprisings and contrasts with U S leniency toward rebellion.
A dense column discusses Sheridan's army report, Indian policy plans, and cremation traditions, contrasting ancient Rome with modern practices. It covers Balkan conflicts, the Free Trade League, inoculation for yellow fever, secret society opposition in Wisconsin, and a dramatic local incident involving Blanche's false grave-graving tale and a romance revelation.
A 19th century reflection argues for cremation as a sanitary alternative to burial. It cites pestilence concerns, New Orleans cemetery practices, and historical examples from Rome and Agrippa to show burning the dead does not diminish affection. It notes early Christian opposition to cremation.
Foreign briefs report a Paris incident causing 1,000,000 francs in damage at La Fere arsenal containing stores and cavalry harness. Monaco gaming tablet to be abolished. Stead supporters plan a monster demonstration on release. Poles expelled from Prussia numbered in the thousands as Russia bars arrivals.
The business portion of Hazier town in Mississippi was destroyed by fire last night with losses estimated around 100000 dollars. Insurance coverage is reported small. The item also notes a patent medicine remedy claim for colds and fevers using Dr Pierce's Extract of Smart Weed.
In Portnnpax Maine on November 18 investigators debunk the sensational resurrection tale of Blanche Edwards. She admitted fabricating a romance with Charles Archibald of Cape Elizabeth whom she claimed to know as Joseph L. Dyer. Edwards forged photographs and wrote letters to herself as Mrs Dyer to justify mourning and deception.
In Milwaukee and surrounding areas a string of incidents is reported. An inmate of the Soldiers' Home named Jacob Story was struck by a train near Wauwatosa, severely injured. Frank Krowikowski, a teamster at North Chicago Rolling Mills, was killed when thrown from a wagon. A 18-year-old deceased resident lived at 721 Second Avenue. Milwaukee saw record building values this season with total new structures valued at 4,569,250, surpassing all prior years. The St. Pauls Church vestrymen trustees Forest Home Cemetery propose a crematory. Council proposed issuing 300,000 in water works bonds. Secretary W. J. Langeon of the Chamber of Commerce broke a collarbone after a horse stumble. Eocene Taylor of Columbus died after jumping from a moving Wisconsin Central train at Milwaukee Stock Yards. John Thompson, caught burglarizing 274 Grove Street, was identified and jailed. Two Third Ward houses were burgled with threats to residents. Thompson is linked to all three break-ins and faces prosecution. In Pontiac, Mich a train killed Wm Sarbrook and wife. In Mesomiver, Mich Charles Wallert was found with both legs cut after train collision. Mackin taken to Joliet. charged with perjury and election fraud. Eau Claire: exhuming Schwahn’s remains stirs potential lawsuits. Two Rivers: two boys, Pilon and Rau, missing presumed drowned. A general notice of a dangerous condition is noted amid various local disturbances. A steamboat Poplar Bluff burned near Black River. 400 bales cotton lost. Oshkosh: Jane A. Brown and Bila K. Brown sentenced to eighteen months for burglary.
A string of 19th century notices includes the death of Prof Gustavus Sevrranis in New York on Tuesday. Also reported: C C Wermors of Boston dies at 78, several shipping and mine disasters, and various legal and criminal notes across the states.
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