10 Feb 1854
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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1854
Page
1
A fragmentary Victorian style sonnet in uneven text laments a fair, waxen cheeked beauty whose charm enchants listeners. The verse blends affectionate imagery with disjointed phrases about voice, devotion, and tender sentiment, amid garbled/illegible lines.
A distraught mother in a Cincinnati Police Court sought to place her four children with the House of Refuge after tearful pleas. Her two older boys resisted, pleading with her to reconsider as they were sent to the refuge and the mother was allowed to visit monthly.
A long, discursive piece mixes reflections on death in the phrase When I am dead with a vivid dream of a Glass Railroad, where coffins line the track and passengers ride toward an abyss. It threads in poems, anecdotes, and moral warnings about habit, mortality, and the fate of youth.
Gerrit Smith critiques the definition of a statesman in Congress while a Springfield plot unfolds. A Wentz prison escape plan prompts arrest and a court case. Wheeling licenses, Whig nominations, and a Bendini Washington note mingle with a railway tower proposal for a four rail Atlantic to Pacific route.
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