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Newspaper
Jefferson Era
Location
Jefferson, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1866
Page
3
A poetic voice invites readers to join Iowa in a hopeful vision of spring and liberty. The verse extols rural plenty and unity, urging people to abandon tyranny and return to the fields to celebrate Iowa as a thriving, welcoming realm with strong communal bonds.
A narrator visits a women’s ward in an asylum, guided by a supervisor, and meets patients including a poetess with a vanished dawn in her head and a mother who grieves for a dead son. The tour grows tense as prisoners lash out, a nurse warns harm but the writer fears, and a nighttime visited by threats culminates with a parrot repeating murder cries.
The piece argues material force shifts from brute armies to mechanical talent and invention. It credits engineers and craftworkers with supplying weapons like the Rodman gun, Sharps, Spencer, and needle guns, asserting mechanics determine a nation’s power, guiding both war outcomes and diplomatic leverage.
A funny young man drives a horse that halts at every roadside house. At a tavern a dozen locals watch as the horse balks before the door while the rider whips to move on. A man on the porch jokes about buying the horse. The rider says the horse once belonged to a butcher and stops whenever calves bleat. The crowd goes quiet.
The Island of Melos in the Grecian Archipelago is said to be purchased by the United States, awaiting Senate confirmation of the Greece treaty. Melos, 65 square miles with about 4000 people, has a notable harbor, volcanic soil, hot springs, and mineral deposits. Miloanna is its capital, near ruins of the ancient metropolis of Meloanna. The Venus of Milo statue, found nearby in 1820, is now in the Louvre.
The memoriam for Mrs Carlyle, cited by Sir James Macintosh, lauds his wife as a prudent mother and steadfast partner. He credits her with guiding his life, correcting flaws, preserving order, and urging useful effort, declaring, To her I owe whatever I am.
The Union Pacific Railroad advances with timber being cut in Wisconsin for a bridge over the Missouri at Omaha and work starting immediately. Track laying surges with Chicago and North Western progressing one mile per day and Union Pacific pushing west of Fort Kearney at two and a quarter miles daily, aiming for rail connection to Chicago about four hundred miles west of Omaha.
A rustic youth admires a douxom country girl at a husking party and hints of affection. He steals glances and touches Patty's foot under the table while she endures his advances. She finally breaks the scene demanding he stop and stop dirtying her stockings.
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