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Newspaper
Beaver Dam Argus
Location
Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1861
Page
1
The Beaver Dam Argus essay discusses fluctuating society, leadership, science, and religion. It contrasts reform and superstition, notes how few lead with duty, and cites Socrates and Franklin while musing on the Sabbath, progress, and the role of popularity in public life.
A garbled, archaic sounding missive describes a rough scene with references to a musket and soldiers. The text reads like cut fragments, with phrases suggesting doubt or disarray and a call to simple, domestic actions. The overall sense is of a disrupted domestic moment tied to military imagery.
Charley Mann, aged twelve, breaks a drug store window while a hoop flies through it. He explains he acted from fear of punishment and offers the two shillings and ninepence he has, hoping to earn more to pay for the pane. The grocer Mr Bebee, softened by Charles's remorse, offers him work in the store until the debt is covered.
Charles, a bright boy, helps Mrs Mann and Mrs Morgan in a poor family through a moral tale. Mr Bebee, a widower, entrusts chores to Charles while helping a sick boy and a sewing widow, teaching honesty and gratefulness with small acts of kindness.
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