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Newspaper
Badger State
Location
Portage, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 09, 1859
Page
1
A battered fragmentary text presents disjointed lines about a soul, a dusty road, and vague vows. The garbled OCR obscures clear names, dates, or places, leaving only scattered imagery of struggle and fate without identifiable subjects.
A narrator recounts a September 1855 night near Moscow when a young ensign is drawn by a secret midnight summons to the Tsar, witnesses a grim transfer of power, and follows orders to a fortress where a condemned elderly noble is executed by drowning in ice, after a fearsome storm on the Neva.
A narrator recalls meeting the Emperor who, pale and exhausted, shows him a second parchment. The ruler grants an estate between Traitza and Pereslaf to the narrator, orders him to leave St Petersburg that night, and warns never to speak of what he has seen under threat of punishment. The narrator fled and has never returned or told anyone before.
A Wisconsin Historical Society official extols newspaper literature and urges keeping records for history. The Green Bay signaling article recalls Milwaukee’s 1833 to 1844 beginnings with a small fort and a growing town on the bay. Also noted are Pike’s Peak gold rumors, snow in June, and miscellaneous rural cures and sayings.
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