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Newspaper
Galesville Transcript
Location
Galesville, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1860
Page
5
Eyewitness accounts from Evanston describe the sinking of the Lady Elgin after a collision with a schooner near Milwaukee. Survivors recount heroic rope rescues, women and children lost, wreckage strewn along the beach, and bodies recovered as Chicago reels from the maritime catastrophe.
Survivors fled to small boats as passengers clung to wreckage while more than a hundred drowned. About 150 cattle lay among debris along the shore. A cargo trunk marked Misa A. Garth was taken to the Institute. Police from Chicago guard bodies and property.
A fragmentary poetic passage describes shad and light interactions in nature. It evokes silent games of beauty as a tree witnesses a hidden self, with golden rod and meadow flowers casting dim tremulous shadows across a level meadow. Clouds drop shadow like an unhurried loom over animals and travelers.
A Germantown Telegraph writer reports an experiment on charcoal feeding for domestic fowls. Turkeys and another brood were kept in pens and fed standard foods, while a third group received finely pulverized charcoal mixed with meat and potatoes plus charcoal in the pen. The charcoal-fed birds gained about one and a half pounds more each and yielded meat noted for tenderness and flavor.
A brief note reports that a ninety cent stamp has been issued with a new postage stamp release described in concise terms.
An old advertisement touts Scampans and Serofulong Affic Town cures claiming cureable blood impurities from entamization and contamination. It promotes Fare saparille and Snillingix or Blood and Liver Syrup to cleanse the blood, render it pure, and excise the foul contamination, urging readers to obtain Scovill’s Ginipound.
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