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Newspaper
Fremont Journal
Location
Fremont, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1854
Page
5
Poem fragment recalls the visitation of departed loved ones at dusk. Vivid imagery shows shadows on the parlor wall as the beloved mother returns in quiet procession. The speaker longs for memory and comfort, confessing loneliness yet cherishing the presence of those who lived and died.
A Victorian era anecdote portrays Oliver Cromwell testing a noble’s loyalty by demanding a reunion with Charles II. The exchange ends with Cromwell seizing the hat and letters, questioning who ended the candle, while noting English nobles’ supposed honor. A second item reports a brutal lash scene in Winnsborough, N C, where a naked enslaved man endures 277 lashes over a long arrest, drawing chilling echoes of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Also mentions locks maker Mobbs visiting Liverpool and bank security tests. Reports a surge of sudden deaths in St Louis area from heat.
A dated pamphlet offers practical cholera guidance for self care when a physician is distant. It prescribes warm baths, skin rubbing, laudanum with small purgation, and hot blankets to bring blood to the skin, plus mustard poultices and brandy mixtures. It warns on diet, warns of rapid dehydration, and argues for external heat and voracious use of laudanum to halt vomiting and purging.
Professor Stoddard describes wind pressure during the Knox county Illinois hurricane with calculations on a three to two and a half foot tree and a sixty foot hurricane track. The Cincinnati Gazette reports a cross hoisted over the Catholic Church in Piqua on Sunday caused public alarm and threats to tear the church down if the civic leader did not remove it.
The United States and the Empire of Japan agree to lasting friendship and set rules for future intercourse. Ports Simoda and Hakodade are opened to American ships for wood water provisions coal and other necessities with tariffs to be set by Japanese, and shipwrecked Americans and Japanese to be treated with mutual aid and lawful rights.
The text blends a Kanagawa treaty excerpt from 1854 with later narrative scraps. It cites provisions on Japan US relations, voyage limits, consular posts, and ratifications. Interwoven prose recounts a Spanish bride and a Mississippi slave case, highlighting harsh antebellum legal and social realities.
A Kensington resident, returning from town by omnibus, reported a missing purse containing several pounds. Her husband questioned the kindly gentleman who sat beside her, and upon inspection the purse was found replaced by the man’s ring valued at about 40 pounds. The ring was taken to a jeweller for appraisal, confirming its authenticity and value.
This excerpt summarizes Swedenborgian views on life after death, noting sex laws and conjugal love persist, how couples recognize and live together, and how they may separate or remain consorts based on mutual love, with further points on heavenly or hellish outcomes and spiritual continuance. The text also reports related local items about a dangerous lightning-rod replacement in New London and various brief anecdotes from 19th century life.
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