10 Mar 1870
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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Times
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1870
Page
1
A mosaic of prose and recollection weaving poetry lines about words and heart, then memories of a brotherly feud and a Padua street scene. The speaker recalls a dramatic past, a warehouse of matches, a count and a murder plot, and a chance encounter with a schoolmate, ending with a humorous sales patter in Toronto.
A Providence resident recounts a voyage from Panama to New York where he repeatedly woke on deck fully dressed, mistaking it for somnambulism. He declined to continue toward Panama, dreamed of March home, and later learned pirates seized the ship near Magellan Strait. all hands but one reached Valparaiso. The tale renamed his fearful parents and somn i pious friends who prayed for his safety.
The fragment covers space and water, jokes about planets and a Mark Twain anecdote. It references the earth’s rotation, sailing convenience since whiskey shops saved water, and a court scene with Choate and Bartlett debating a Massachusetts statute’s interpretation.
A fragment debate in New England on the richest boy measuring character over wealth, praising honesty kindness and parental respect while criticizing wedding gift extravagances and social pretensions. Observations contrast a ideal boy with a real rich boy and note public commentary from Washington and New York.
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