Wisconsin newspaper notices and rates from 1885 Wisconsin
The Daily and Weekly Wisconsin advertise subscription terms by mail, rates for six months and one year, and advertising charges with space rules. It notes postpaid pricing, publication city Milwaukee, editorial disclaimers, and a date of October 31 1885. It mentions responsible advertising practices and submission guidelines for readers and contributors.
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Wisconsin
Mail
Dourgenia
Cramer, Aikens & Cramer
Milwaukee
Wis
Sample copies offer toprospective subscribers in Wisconsin
Readers in Wisconsin receive sample copies of the Wees newspaper by mail. The note claims every issue is strong and urges subscribing, noting samples may be shared with friends likely to subscribe. It stresses that samples show merit and that subscribers who request extra copies can pass them to others.
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Wisconsin
Gen. Grant
Northwest
Wisconsin Tobacco Tariff Debate Promotes Local Growth
An 1880s Northwestern Tobacco Growers and Dealers Association appeal argues for higher tariffs to shield Wisconsin leaf tobacco from Sumatra competition. It cites rising Sumatra imports, low U S prices, and cheap foreign labor, urging protection to keep tobacco profitable in Wisconsin and encourage domestic production.
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Northwestern Tobacco Growers and Dealers’ Association
Janesville
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Sumatra
Wisconsin
Instructing the Farmers Wis consin agricultural institutes
Wisconsin plans a series of agricultural institutes led by a university regents appointee and featuring noted writers. The first session runs November 24 25 in Hudson with John C Spooner delivering the address. A $5 000 legislative appropriation underwrites the effort and aims to engage farmers in practical instruction.
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Wisconsin
Board of University Regents
Hudson
John C. Spooner
The Week in Wisconsin and Nation News Highlights
TheWisconsin report notes farmers resist overtheorizing at winter institutes while valuing practical knowledge and weather and prices as main drivers. Also covered are Ferdinand Ward’s guilty verdict and harsh sentencing discussion, Gen. McClellan’s death, the English sparrow spread, a missing grave mystery, Howells’s $10,000 a year deal, Canadian distress in Labrador, a police officer’s paralysis, Black River Falls iron prospects, quadruple births and convent deaths.
The Great Democratic Fraud Stop ped in Cincinnati
The Republicans in Cincinnati fight Democratic attempts to obtain election certificates for four State Senate candidates and ten General Assembly members. A court injunction stops the certificates, with Democrats hiring top lawyers to dissolve it. The case pivots on whether the clerk may issue the certificates, while a national tone grows around alleged fraud and broader political shifts.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
State Senate
General Assembly
Empire State
Davenport
Carr
Milwaukee notices of accidents and promotions in Milwaukee
Milwaukees brief item ledger reports multiple accidents, fatalities, injuries, and police actions across city streets and docks including Janes Collins killed at Buffalo Street crossing, Richards child crippled, Joan Karizak hit near dockyards, Otto Schmidt stabbed, William Starck dead after fall, Mary Walsh dead, Leo Lesquereaux jailed for theft, August Hoppe and Fred Dorn injured, Jous Datwa killed, Hanny Wannan arm fractures, Willian Wituran healed, May Whitman treated, postal carriers promoted, Milwaukee Young Mens Christian Association buying a lot for a club house, plus a mastodon shin-bone find and a drowning incident in Portland Me, with Ayer’s patent medicine ad accompanying.
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William N. Richards
Wells Street
Joan Karizak
Cara
St. Paul
Otto Schmidt
William Starck
Jefferson and
Jupeau_ Streets
Mary Walsh
Patrick Brown
Fifth Street
Pauly
Leo Lesquereaux
Milwaukee
Whitewater
Elkhorn
August Hoppe
Fred Dorn
Jous Datwa
Second Avenue
Hanny Wannan
Detroit Street
Scollard
Wisconsin Street
Wituran
Oak Creek
Christian Beck
Thomas Carroll
F. Kuchenmeister
Grant and Tilden. Cons m us report on Grant remark
Captain Alfred E. Lee, once private secretary to Governor Hayes and later consul general at Frankfort, arrives in Concsmus and addresses a published claim by George W. Childs that Grant told him Tilden should have been president. Lee recalls several interviews with Grant in the summer of 1877.
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New York
Geo. B. McClellan
St. Cloud
Orange Mountain
George Brinton McClellan
Philadelphia
Yale College
Jefferson College
West Point
McClellan
Academy
Illinois Central Railroad
Virginia
Rich Mountain
Cheat River
Bull Run
Washington
United States
Fair Oaks
Mechanicsville
Savage’s Station
White Oak Swamp
Gaines’ Mill
Malvern Hill
Richmond
Popé
Antietam
New Jersey
Hayes- Tilden
Grant
Mr. Tilden
Tilden
Capt. Lea
Gen. Grant
Mr. Hayes
Lee
Gen. E. F. Noyes
France
Philadelphia Times
Harpers
William D. Howells
Pen
Howells
Moody
America
Ohio
Columbus State Journal
Atlantic
Venice
Boston
Alfred E. Lee
Gov. Hayes
Hayes
Frankfort-on-the-Main
George W. Childs
Childs
Wisconsin News Highlights Several Local Fires and Incidents
Wisconsin items report multiple fires including C. B. Far's Neenah furniture factory loss of 1200 dollars with no insurance, and ABaxny at Oshkosh burning for about 500 dollars. Accidents include Jolly Murray injured by a horse kick, a child swallowing a safety pin, and a saloon keeper wounding Frank Eyre in Neillsville. Other notes mention deaths, a building fire in Menasha, a river death in Green Bay, and prison escape attempts.
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Avcetica Thomeson
la Crosse
C. B. Far
Neenah
Jolly Murray
James Murray
Diamond Bluff
Geo. Burdick
Eau
Abaxny
Oshkosh
Levi M. Vinas
Eau Claire
Lizzie
Ludlam
Pullman
G. L. Skeets
Davenport
Park Hotel
Madison
Vilas
Skeeta
Anatox Ricastonn
Berlin
Wautoma
Menisha
T. D. Moulton
L. J. Mangold
Green Bay
N. A. Watson
Neillsville
Larsen
Frank Eyre
Tris
Wallace Shipton
North la Crosse
Minnesota
Bob
Platteville
Maurice Jones
Barnes
Jones
Anton Kumre
Goda
Medford
Kuhrl
Speeia
Osborne Harvester Company
Hudson
Ed. Ateegar
D. A. Sartoro
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
Watertown
Trinity Church
Grand Rapida
Neb
Appleton
Mary Cantwell
August Tesch
Milwaukee
Waupun
St. Paul’s
Fond du Lac
Lake Superior
Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
Northern Pacific
Ashland
Dianoxo
Reynonos
Mississippi
New York
Dubuque
Tus Prairie du Chien Courier
John Cummings
Eastman
Fort Crawford
Zach Taylor
Gro. Mantn
North Wisconsin Junction
Wisconsin
Charles Hendrickon
Martin
St. Louia
Stevens Point
Hall’s Mill
John Czesnicki
Torrey
Specht
J. H. Schneider
Potosi
Wis
Chicago Colleges of Pharmacy
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Reehly
the Weekly
England
Great Western Railway
Ferdinand Ward
Tudge Barrett
Gen
Fish
Ward
Wall Street
Mac
George B. McClellan
Boston Common
Friends House
Sweden
West Bend
Laughlin
Quebec
Canadian
Abrador
Esquimaux Point
Gulf
Labrador
Osuxosa
James Casey
Mlwaukee
Rudd & Co
Black River-Falls Iron Mines
Miniwavouis
Minn
C. Gale
Minneapolis
Black River Falls
Providence
R. 1
J. H. Frink Gilmore
Lawrence Street
Ganexa
M. Severina
Jennie McGee
Michael McGee
St. Clara Academy
Sinsinawa Mound
Dominican Order
Wausau
Frank Bardeen
la Balle
Massachusetts
Dakota
Plains of
Severn
South Wales
Great Western Railway Company
London
Cardiff
Bristol
Milwaukee Matters
Janes Collins
Buffalo Street
North- Western Railroad
Rep Wixe
Warrentown
Chicago, Burlington & Northern Railroad
Portland
Green's Point
Dory
Tibbets
Sankt Raetm
Ayer
J.C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
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