Column 1 often carried additional "non-news" items, such as
paragraph-long jokes or short anecdotes. The editor used these items
primarily to fill space when the paper lacked advertisements.
Columns 2-6 usually carried advertisements (though the news could
extend into column 3), mostly for goods available at the stores of
local merchants, such as the ad for Myers and Brand hardware store,
which proudly announced they stocked nails, oils, augurs, circular
saws, steel, paint, guns, handsaws, locks, turpentine, platois, along with
a list of over fifty other items.
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