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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 27, 1857
Page
1
An old newspaper fragment shows Crombie Marston Co and Windeente and Retail Dealers listing dry goods boots and shoes caps and hats. It mentions J CUM attorney at law in a New York state context and an office on Whitewater street with Cheney and YW as nearby references.
A reflective poem from Whitewater Register envisions a mother’s memory through sunlit scenes, elm trees, violets, and a seaside chair. The speaker recalls siblings at play, a grandfather’s chair by the fireside, and a daughter cherishing loving guidance from a father amid hopeful futures.
In a Milwaukee tale a pair of brothers Ben and Joe Weston start shops under similar mortgages. Ben invests in advertising and furniture, grows a crowd of genuine customers, and pays off debt. Joe ignores ads, borrows, and eventually fails, then partners with Ben who proves the strategy profitable and transformative.
The Minnesota legislature passes a bill signed by the governor reassigning lands from the Root River and Southern Minnesota railroad and Transit lines to several routes toward the Big Sioux and Red River country. It creates a new Fifteen party company led by Ramsey and Rice to oversee additional lands. The report notes U.S. distilleries employ 5,240 people with substantial output in corn, barley, rye, hops, and liquor. An obituary remarks on Aunt TH, claimed to be 130 years old at death, with funeral arrangements reported.
A Boston Post tale recounts a persistent dry good drummer who lingers near a hotel to snag a Western trader as a customer. He obsesses over boot marks and stakes out the doorway and stairs, eventually identifying the trader by distinctive boots and greeting him by name.
A Blair County Whig correspondent recalls a few years back when captain Samuel D. Cartes aided a dying man traveling east. The sick painter, sick with consumption, wished to reach his mother in Burlington. Cartes carried him aboard, provided care, and passengers, ashamed, pledged a purse for the man’s welfare.
Washington correspondence notes the administration lacks a definite policy on filibuster efforts in Nicaragua and Central America. It questions whether the President will aid Gen Walker, while suggesting no explicit opposition may be stated. The piece also cites a Prairie Farmer editor on the value of snakes to agriculture.
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