29 Mar 1856
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Newspaper
Geneva Express
Location
Geneva, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1856
Page
1
A fragmentary poem appears to reflect on memories from long ago, merging a lament for youth with biblical imagery. The speaker recalls tender thoughts, dreams of time past, and questions about aging, faith, and guidance from sacred lines.
The excerpt journeys to Kalom Waite where three brothers hear distant music from the palace and towers. A responder explains the music’s power lies in its harmony beyond earthly cares, while vivid reflections on motherhood, art, and time mingle with musings on a future comet that may destroy the world, provoking speculative fixes on time.
A late nineteenth century overview discusses westward settlement driven by emigrants and the New York Emigrant Aid Society. It notes crowded routes, growing frontier towns in Eastern Kansas, and the Society’s expanding reach, sending hundreds to thousands of settlers, helping form free-state communities and shaping political tensions over slavery. The piece also reflects on social bonds, neighborly aid, and personal reminiscences intertwined with the era’s migration.
The excerpt shows a mangled quotation about Shakespeare and a reference to medicines or compounds, mentioning doctors, blisters, blends, and minerals. It appears as a damaged line from a historical newspaper page with unclear context and garbled spelling.
The Postmaster notes an April start for an 8 Daily Mail service between Milwaukee and Stevens Point via the Milwaukee and Horicon Rail Road to Waupan and then by stage to Stevens Point.
The piece explains how news travels from steamers to shore via pigeons trained to fly to offices, with signal sheets and wire transmission to major cities, showing the reach of early telegraph networks and press. It also notes a California Christian Advocate anecdote about a mother washing a swearing child with suds to curb profanity, joking at the soap price.
A newspaper office contemplates hiring a 14 year old seeking work. The boy can only sweep and run errands, demands three dollars for service, and notes that sweeping is not genteel. The editor ponders a solution as demand for boys grows.
A Northern Paper quotes Smeyer Provect saying he would raise three million dollars to lay ten thousand miles of iron mains and install a vast piping system from White Mountains to Boston. He envisions steam engines of immense horsepower to move heated air into every house, claim ing July would be cool and January mild, as nature’s jig would be up.
A Chicago observer notes a woman walking homeward carrying a heavy bundle including six six-foot planks, lath, shingles, ham, pork slab, and two pails of swill, while remarking on Yankee frailty and a pang of alphabetic verse about Harley.
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