The River Falls journal. (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1857-1861, 1859-01-19
The "Great Republic Monthly
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WE have the honor to announce that we
w shall issue, on or before the first of De-
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Halleek, Chas, j. Ingersoll, Orestes A. Brown
son, Gen. George P. Morris, Nathaniel Deer
ing, Hon. Charles Gayarre William Gilmore
Simms, Park Benjamin. Hon. Albert Pike of
Ark, Able Adrian Rouquette, Hon, R. T.
Conrad, Rev. Ralph Hoyt, Scba Smith (Jack
Downright. T. Headley, John g. SAKE, Lieut.
NJ. F. Maury, Edward S. Gould, Charles F.
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Thompson, Fred. S. Cozzens. Sarah Helen
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Ellet, Jane Ermima Locke. Alice Carey, Phe-
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some OF the most distinguished of the day.
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ior the present, but who will, nevertheless, con.
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