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Newspaper
Ripon Weekly Times
Location
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1862
Page
1
A crowded Ripon Wisconsin page lists businesses from dry goods to groceries and hardware with local names such as Bowen A A Beynon, Kiners Bonny, and Jacob Wwaie. It blends ads for medicines and millwork with a patriotic Civil War era broadside and a lengthy address praising national unity and Washingtons legacy.
A fragmented account outlines early steam navigation experiments by Miller of Dalston and Symington at Wenlock Head. It describes a combined two-funnel vessel using wheels to drive a steam engine, claiming one of the first attempts to power a boat by steam with an atmospheric pressurized engine and notes the engine’s later movements between libraries, Strand firms, and Edinburgh before its restoration.
The Rochester Union reports workmen under Mr Creighton built the Pacific telegraph line westward from the Missouri to Fort Bridger and Salt Lake City. Diggers and wire trains moved over plains and mountains, poles cut and erected, cattle hauled gear, and provisions provided, with no hostile Indians encountered.
The article describes telegraph operators and repairers stationed fifty to one hundred miles apart. It stresses hardy, courageous individuals who must endure snow storms and solitude in vast wild regions. It notes that the right men will be found in time and underscores the experience of those who built the network.
A New York Evening Post report describes a Washington birthday scene at the Capitol with numerous figures present. It names Seward Blair Caleb Smith and Chase among others, notes McClellan and Totten viewing the proceedings, and recalls the era’s political and military figures, including Van Vliet Butterfield and Heintzelman, as observers and participants in the day’s events.
Dr Mayes presented a detailed summary to the American Geographical Society and others in New York and Philadelphia. The survey covers 3,300 miles of coast from Bastia's Bay to Kennedy Channel, including a new westward channel, 600 miles of Whale Sound shoreline, glacier movement estimates, pendulum and magnetic experiments, tidal hydrography, meteorological records, and a vast natural history collection, with a claim of reaching a higher northern latitude and supporting open Polar Sea theories.
A fragmentary collage of humorous sketches and quotes from various figures and contexts. It riffs on public spirit private jokes and misheard lines with Punchlike whimsy, mentioning Wordsworth theatres of court and a dean in college, plus a quip about a horse’s one ear and a contrived cannon weight as trivia. The piece blends light satire with character vignettes and mixed prose.
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