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Newspaper
Galesville Transcript
Location
Galesville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1860
Page
1
A garbled OCR poem fragment questions identity and the value of wealth and fame. It imitates Miltonic diction with phrases about home and renown, ending with a faded lament on dignity. The text is unreadable in parts but preserves the theme of external judgment and internal conflict.
A comic tale recounts a gullible narrator who buys a Western land deed for 75 dollars to aid mermaids with rubber boots. He resells later, faces a loan scheme, and fights a drawn out suit where he pays 7000 dollars in costs but wins the judgment yet loses the execution, ending with the line My eye teeth are out.
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