31 May 1856
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Newspaper
Geneva Express
Location
Geneva, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1856
Page
1
A long reflective feature from Geneva Express on the wind as memory and imagination. It weaves excerpts about childhood, memory’s pull, and the danger of ambition. Notable allusions include Mather Southey Goethe Trumbull and themes of memory guiding the spirit through hopeful and sorrowful tides.
Horice Mann argues that traditional reading in common district schools focused on mechanical word recognition rather than real understanding. He contrasts mechanical reading with the intellectual and rhetorical aspects, praising skilled orators, expressive delivery, and the power of language to illuminate ideas. He warns that without mastering the intellectual part, reading becomes mere noise and rhetoric loses impact.
Gutenberg era style notice for a Wisconsin printer job. It lists Trenwon Witworth County and HY LELAND UTTER as proprietors with rates for one square columns and three month terms. It mentions printing services and early insertion details, with a long, garbled listing of rates and offerings.
A fragmentary poem to an old friend recalling youth and shared love, noting time’s passage, aging, and the desire to preserve friendship and honest names. The verse moves through memories of sunshine and shade, admonitions of time’s toll, and a wish that affection endure beyond mortal life.
A fragmented business directory entry lists PALME and BOYCKH with various goods and services. The note mentions location clues, a date of 27 ly, and references to Millen and Mot.
The quarter ending March 31, 1856 reports receipts of 18,579,010 from customs sales of public lands and incidental sources. Expenditures total 16,992,967 across civil, interior, war, navy and debt redemption. Also notes strong Mississippi River freight and origination, a Lisbon schoolmistress seven feet tall, and a claim of higher Mississippi River levels than since 1842.
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