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Newspaper
Meigs County Telegraph
Location
Pomeroy, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1858
Page
4
A garbled 19th century column of jokes, regional jests, and social asides. It includes puns on naval life and marriage, snippets about Queen Victoria's fashion, Biblical descendants from Ohio, Lord Palmerston, Lord Brougham’s son, and odd anecdotes from the Wheeling Intelligencer. The tone is light, with disjointed vignettes and brief social commentary.
A historical account recalls Sam Puteh leaping from a 120 foot cliff at Gereesoo Falls in Rochester on November 13, 1829. A large crowd gathered as he mounted the ledge and, after a ceremonial display, jumped uninjured yet vanished in the water below. The body was reported not found, amid reflections on fate and moral lessons from the perilous stunt.
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