Unclear fragment from Beaver Dam Argus item
Fragmentary OCR text mentions hotels and meals with garbled wording. no clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond place names and generic references to hotels and meals.
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Newspaper
Beaver Dam Argus
Location
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1863
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text mentions hotels and meals with garbled wording. no clear event, date, or identifiable entities beyond place names and generic references to hotels and meals.
A long, vivid narrative recalls a perilous ice on the river rescue. Ephraim swims to save two youth as Martha Lee and the narrator drift on a fragile floe, then vows and recalls love and fate amid icy hazards and a poetic engagement.
A private soldier Richard Ilre wastsken is tried by Glasgow magistrates for playing cards in church during service. The story, retold from the British Journal, shows the soldier claiming hardship from six weeks of marching with no Bible or prayers, only a deck of cards. The mayor sentences him, questioning his conduct and punishment.
A mid 19th century-style piece urges farmers to log every transaction and practice thorough cultivation. It extols temperance, citing Woolwich and Gravesend military examples where thousands of officers and men pledge abstinence and commanders praise orderly conduct during embarkations.
The passage outlines draft recall rules with penalties for nonreturning absentees, civil court trials, and fines up to 8500 or two years imprisonment. It also covers officer half pay on leave, furlough allowances, conscripted assignments, and War Department orders on volunteer enlistment and cavalry grades, plus a medieval fable about a bear and whale bone illustrating caution against broad proposals.
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