27 Dec 1856
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Newspaper
Baraboo Republic
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1856
Page
1
A garbled OCR excerpt presents names, lines, and stage directions with scattered dialogue about gardeners glaziers and farmers. It reads like an unfinished dramatic piece with references to vows sighs and a fanciful pink tent and includes uncertain lines about consent and social propriety amid a chaotic mix of characters and actions.
In a late night ordeal a traveler describes barricading his cart, escaping a would be killer by slipping free through a padlock and a tight top, and driving to safety with his pistol ready. By dawn, local harvesters and a sheriff capture the suspect, reward money follows, and the man resumes his journey with goods intact.
The article outlines several forehead shapes and their supposed links to intellect and character. It describes onearched high foreheads as signifying poor intellect, flat perpendicular foreheads as signs of racial lack of understanding, and bowed foreheads as linked to humility or feebleness. It also notes median line elevations indicating analytic power and two arches signaling acute thought, with other varieties tied to orbital regions and facial expressions. The piece cites Lavater and lists examples like Liszt and Beethoven to illustrate headed profiles and mind emphasis.
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