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Newspaper
Ripon Weekly Times
Location
Ripon, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 07, 1862
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR item references Sumner’s Store and city hall rates including yearly, quarterly, and monthly price terms. Mentions a fire and insurance context with unclear dates and figures. Contains garbled place names and monetary values.
A narrator recalls picking berries with Willie in a grandfatherly pasture as the memory merges with a country call to service. Willie speaks of saying goodbye to his mother and facing a future of war, with the speaker torn between love and duty. The scene ends with Willie waiting in Heaven on a spring afternoon, a tragic juxtaposition of romance and sacrifice.
Quizzical musings mix sailor slang and flirtatious witticisms about knots, painting, and flirtations. A curious blend of social satire, moral ambivalence, and old time banter appears, including jokes about a captain’s lectures and a sailor’s bravado in love and duty.
A veteran tale recounts a young man sharing religious tracts with the Dev on militia during a looming disembodiment of a regiment. One sailor mocked the tract, but the speaker urged him to consider its plea, and the crowd later saw a father and son moved to tears at a revival in Afracombe.
An eccentric Washington asylum scene centers on a striking patient, the daughter of a famed author, who writes and reads incoherently while a guest observer notes her beauty and lamentable fragility. The text shifts to moral reflections on thought, then practical advice on posture and lighting for reading and writing, ending with a quip about religiously temperate living and marriage.
A journal obituary notes the passing of Duncan Dunbar a leading ship owner and merchant. It details his vast fortune of around £2 000 000 his risky investments including twenty five large ships during the Crimean War and his failure to charitable efforts. It portrays him as wealth focused and solitary despite worldly influence and stock exchange standing.
Reports from New Uo describe a village almost emptied by Indian raids. Homes burned, property losses about 1.5 million dollars, hundreds displaced, and survivors recount brutal massacres, abductions, and horrors as scouts report widespread ruin from five to twenty five miles away. Cor. St Paul Press.
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