St Charles Hotel Milwaukee Ad Lists Businesses and Services
An old style directory ad for the St Charles Hotel at Market Square Milwaukee highlights William Birge a dry goods dealer and various shops including Gromies clothing hats and paper hangings. It notes milling flour meal and cash payments for wheat and mentions Pr provided with new furniture and moderate terms for guest reception.
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William Birge
Gromies
AON Central Mook
D. Upman
Best Charles
Ohio Democrats protest Baltimore platform and Union of slavery policy
A long protest from Ohio Democrats denounces the Baltimore and Columbus resolutions endorsing Supreme Court sovereignty over slavery in territories. They fear a forced slave code and federal enforcement, threaten to back Republicans, and call the platform a betrayal of popular sovereignty.
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Ohio
Wickliffe
Douglas
Baltimore
Columbus
Democratic Party
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Supreme Court of the United States
Geneine
Congress
Freeport
Aud
Buchanan
United States
Executive
Fur Hunters and the Peculiar Race of Canadian Traders
A 19th century portrait describes fur trading in Canada and the American West. White traders intermarry with Indigenous people, creating a distinct Half-breed class that dominates Canadian furmarkets. Canadian parties winter by rivers and lakes, trading with tribes, while spring travel concentrates furs at Lake Superior. Missouri routes shift with steamship navigation bringing supplies and rifles.
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Canada
New York Commercial Advertiser
Lake Superior
Missouri River
Aden
Trapper Trade Schemes and Life Among Hunters in Fall and Winter
Traders exchange ammunition blankets scarlet cloth light shawls and trinkets for furs with a large liquor handout at each start. Weight fraud and poor goods are common with grease filled whiskey casks. Hunters mix white and Native traits, wear savage regalia, and face brutal habits, drink, and gambling. Many die by violence or intoxication. others are drawn from cities and border states seeking fortune.
Mode of Administering Chinese Oath in California Trial
A July court scene in Sonora Tuolumne county describes using Chinese customs to administer oaths to witnesses in a murder case. An interpreter explains adaptation involving chickens candles and paper offerings, with a ceremonial slaughter on the court balcony before witnesses swear to tell the truth. The spectacle amuses locals while the trial continues with extra gesturing and jargon.
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Lette Jidge Cresnor
Sonora Tuolumne
Onlo
Big Oak Flat
Sonora Democrat
California
Josh
John
Fes
Atlantic States
Garibaldi’s Arrival In Messina Draws Boisterous Reception
A Maltese correspondent from Messina reports fresh troops arriving, including 5 000–6 000 from Melazzo and 2 000 from Catania under Col. Heber, with Gen. Bizio and Garibaldi’s son expected. Garibaldi enters in disguise but is greeted with huge applause. the city illuminates as crowds cheer his return, while royal troops retreat and deserters drift in Neapolitan uniforms.
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Malta Timea
Messina
Melazzo
Catania
Heber
Times
Bizio
Garibaldi
Pero
Fabrizzi
Simen
Medici
Messing
Messinese
San Leone
Vive Garibaldi
Italia
Macentani
Faro
Terranova
A Strange Story From a Village Near Newark England
An elderly man in a thatched house near Newark claims he visited heaven during his youth and learned it was real. His life since then has been marked by fragile health and grazing work. A book project on Egypt expands to include earliest world history and pre historic ages.
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Casaurri
Wiliams
Licking County
Oticine
Newark
England
Heaven
R Song
Hhe
Baron Bunsep
Egypt
Baron Bunson
Douglas and Republicans in the Lecompton era debate
In Bangor, Senator Wilson cites Douglas claims that Republicans abandoned their anti slavery doctrine during Kansas Lecompton debates. The record asserts Republicans never forsook Congress power to ban slavery in territories and defended the Crittenden Montgomery plan only to prevent Kansas becoming a slave state. Lincoln’s pressure is noted as prompting Douglas to reassert or deny past charges.
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Linecoln
Illinois
Douglas
Congress
Wilson
Bangor
Territories
Kansas
A. Faw
Mr. Crittenden
Mr. Rittenden
Senate
Crithenden
House
Broderick
Detngine
Mr. Douglas
Lincoln
Washington
Lecompton
Domestic Education Urges Practical Skills for Women
Hartford Daily Courant rails at idle young women calling themselves ladies. It laments lack of industry and domestic training, urging daughters to learn baking, cooking, table setting, washing, ironing, and housekeeping to secure stability and self sufficiency in life and marriage. The piece frames domestic labor as essential and warns against frivolous social pursuits.
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Hartford Daily Courant
Solomon
Adam
Camels Arrive in San Francisco From Asia Exhibit Planned
Fifteen Bactrian camels, two-humped and varying in color, arrived from the Amour River region and will land near midnight. Citizens are urged to form a guard line along the city front to learn their landing site as they are exhibited for San Franciscans at modest prices. The piece discusses camel types, Dromedary versus Bactrian traits, and notes praise by E. P. Marsh from a 1864 Smithsonians lecture.
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San Francisco
Amour
Nicolaefsky
Asia
Binsil
Valneyia
Hsusa
Tesaca
San Quentin
Corps of Man’s Srvants
E. P. Marsh
Smithaonian Institute
Unaccountable Antipathies Across Historical Figures
The text lists notable figures who reportedly suffered extreme aversions to objects or sounds, such as Erasmus fearing fish and Ambrose Pare noting an eel allergy. It describes others who faint, convulse, bleed, or swoon at stimuli like lobsters, milk, eggs, cats, or musical sounds, illustrating bizarre aversions.
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Erasmus
Rotterdam
Ambrose Pare
France
Josph Beale
Peter Abono
Cerdan
Jadislaus
Poland
Cheane
Francia IE
Tentieman
Ferdinand
Henry III
Duke of Schomburg
M. Yasgheins
Hannover
Alcantara
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Whitewater Register
H.l.bann
Commonwealth Building
Noret
Ineas Chi
L. x
Whitewater
Walworth Co
Wis
Business Directory
Wincome
A. P. Wheeler
Fice
Cougar & Bay
Ito
F. J. Starin
North
Ls. F. Thiele
Mose
Corte
Papa
T Hempel
I MM
Herbst
Bascott
Groceria
Wistater
Wigconain
E Ray
HALI
Vier Prey MB
Mplautillen
Fin
Port Atkinson
Wisconsin
Minaind Rathone
Eo P Marston &Co
Henry Adeing
Elkhorn
Walforth
U S
Bingham
Acer
Vaiia
Deiturson County
Spooner & Harkness
Eiknorn
Walweath County
Ryman Seva
Harkness
Winchester
Dowolf & CO
Paandey and Machine Shop
Cushing
Sweetland & Stewart
Kowa
Thomas Dow
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Der
Railroad Street
de Wott Au
Ce L. A. ‘Tanner & CO
Los Lang
Commonwealth Buildings
Coomis
Sea Seed
Stons Ware
Boots
Sivton Maustree
N. S. Murphy
Homa
Chancery
Vas
Nancy Pabhe
Gaeo
Metropol- Mare
Montour House
Montague
Publis
Senor Eyancer
Willomalon
Boy Poi
T. D. Weee
Visior
P.cra
M. Atoror
Cy Dentistry
Etisens
Imiy
Torn
Dalallimes
Central Block
Cy & Shed
Charles Horning
S.C. Hart , Co
Doaler
Widonde
Tyné
Horning
Milwaukee
Spa
St. Charles Hotel
Market Square
McReath
Upshur
Madison
Calfornia
Mr. Douglas and
The
Republicans
Atipathias
Boonesittin
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