24 Apr 1851
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Newspaper
Sauk County Standard
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1851
Page
1
A jumble of passages from a 19th century periodical includes a dramatic tale of opera and disguise, moral sketches about sanity and reform, language lessons in a dialogic sketch, and scattered notes on gardening and river rapids. The piece mingles fiction, sermons, travel notes, and domestic anecdotes with didactic asides.
The readable fragments mix inexact phrases about hereditary bonds and a theater undertaker reproving a mourner for laughter. A garbled shoe treatment recipe urges tar grease applications to a foot to restore strength and smoothness, with daily use until improvement.
The census compares white and slave populations in Long Island and South Carolina. Whites: South Carolina 283,727. Long Island 211,300, with a 72,000 gap. Slave population in South Carolina 377,034. Under a ten year apportionment, Long Island gains four to five representatives, while South Carolina gets seven. Projections suggest Long Island reaches 400,000, widening the gap. The note argues slavery expansion would unjustly alter the republic. Wisconsin.
The text notes anger in Congress over changes to the press through a postage bill. It cites anti press sentiment linked to alleged persecution in the East and recalls the National Era's rebuke that "The less congressmen have to any of the press, the better." It criticizes government waste and favoritism.
The text laments neglect of flax cultivation and urges farmers to plant and nurture flax as a profitable crop. It notes flax grows in moist, loamy soil after seed is sown and can be dressed by machinery, contrasting worn soils with healthier, richer lands. It stresses farmers’ sons and daughters could earn money to buy cottons if flax is tended.
The text mixes farming guidance on spring seeding and fertilization with a humorous patient anecdote. It notes that using seeds freely enriches soil and suppresses weeds, then shifts to a medical spoof about a man tasting unusual flavors after soup and fish, a physician diagnosing “ancharine particles” in blood and prescribing a mysterious cure.
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