31 May 1856
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Newspaper
Baraboo Republic
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1856
Page
1
The text braids a rambled schoolhouse recitation with a sermon on perjury and fame. It features a minstrel-like hymn, a clerk, and an ex governor named Troup, reflecting on the social morality of swearing and character.
A fragmented Mississippi tale centers on a young planter whose slaves John and Helen are at risk amid a brutal slave trader and a gambling den. A New Englander bets a thousand dollars, wins their release, and vows to never gamble again, while Mrs Danton pleads for mercy and the couple’s fate hinges on a race against the brutal overseer.
The Boston Post prints copied letters of Dr Franklin found recently. One letter dated Philadelphia October 16 1776 addresses a woman in Boston with fatherly counsel on marriage, virtue, and economy. It includes odd references to arithmetic and ritual, ending with a quip about social decorum.
A jumbled assemblage of literary snippets and humorous quips from a newspaper page. It references Longfellow, Hiawatha, an editor’s hoop controversy, Allen Cunningham, Greeley, and a mock dialogue about debt and virtue, all rendered in fragmented prose and verse.
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