Columns 1-3 contained a seemingly random collection of news
and "non-news" items, ranging on February 1, 1860 from "Facts and
Fancies" in column 1 (see pages
1-2 for a description of this feature),
to an appeal in column 2 from Frances Ellen Watkins, "a young
colored girl," for Christians everywhere to join to fight slavery,
to an excerpted editorial from the Hartford Telegraph in column
3 blasting Stephen Douglas for "bowing down to the Moloch of
Slavery."
Columns 4-6 carried a combination of different types of
information, ranging from additional ads for estate sales to those
singing the praises of "female pills" to local marriage and
death notices. A calendar for the current year also appeared on page
8, usually in the last column.
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