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Newspaper
Oshkosh Democrat
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1851
Page
1
A Rochester Self Culture piece recounts a humorous river voyage tale of Dodge the vocalist and a clever plot to woo a widow on a Mississippi steamer. Dodge collaborates with a Boston rival to dup captain and wife, then exposes the prank, ending with marriage ring taunt and farewell cheers from the crew.
Capitan Miles Standish led sixteen men to explore before Porjang settlement in New England. They found buried blocks they believed burial places of Indians, but unearthed corn. Some feared it, others saw value. They saved seed for spring and learned cultivation from Squanto. This knowledge likely saved settlers from famine. Second thoughts are the adopted children of experience.
Mr Gildings in a speech criticised northern critics by comparing two men of the same name. One allegedly murdered a person. the other helped pass a law he said would condemn many to early graves. He warned he would rather face a judge than those in the Cabinet.
A distorted excerpt blends a mock indictment of Thomas for violent assault on Richard with sly courtroom wit and old prosaic quips. The text references a lawyerly framing of a case, then shifts to humorous exchanges about love, expense, and propriety as if from a bygone newspaper page.
In Nacogdoches Texas a young man recently engaged to a girl told his cousin, who also pursued the same woman, that he would shoot her if she refused to marry him. She declined and days later he shot a gown as he entered the church.
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