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Newspaper
Oshkosh Democrat
Location
Oshkosh, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1850
Page
1
A vivid, rhythmic meditation on labor as life and virtue. It reframes toil as sacred duty, urging steady effort, resilience, and hope. The speaker contrasts idle rest with productive work, praising farmers, craftsmen, and nature, and ends with the idea that great deeds become prayers to God.
Five years earlier Massachusetts appointed a Commissioner to study idiosyncrasies among the disabled, led by Dr. Samuel G Howe. A 1848 report to the Governor documented 475 idiotic individuals in 100 towns, detailing bodily and mental causes and linking progenitors to hereditary or moral factors.
A lengthy summary of Dr. Howe and James B. Richards at the Massachusetts Asylum for the Blind recounts a 1848 three year plan to educate ten idiotic children. It details severe earlier abuses, gradual improvements in a boy once burned with hot gum, and the social and moral implications of hereditary disability and women’s dress debates.
The Plaindealer comments on the Griffith catastrophe urging harsh law to force fireproof boat construction. It argues ships should use incombustible deck coverings and avoids dangerous inflammable materials, warning that without legal action more lives will be lost. It cites a survivor near the wreck and notes oil ignition as the likely fire source.
A destitute wife in Clyman appeals to editors and the press for information about her husband Cyrus L Newens and his brother George M Newall who left St. Lawrence County for Wisconsin around April 15 with horses and a complex cart. They planned to join by mid May and mail a letter from Milwaukee, but no letter arrived and no information is found. The wife fears a fatal accident and begs newspapers to publish the notice. The brothers are about 30, 5 feet 11, brown hair, well built, and the wife awaits any lead to his whereabouts.
The item notes Clarissa Newell of Clyman dated May 27, 1850 and quotes a Boston area Negro pastor London from New Hampshire on religion and hell. It also mentions a Connecticut Legislature committee reporting in favor of abolishing capital punishment.
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