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Newspaper
Sauk County Standard
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1852
Page
1
The page fragment lists lawyers agents and shops in Baraboo Sauk County Wisconsin. Names include SPENCER, OSTRANDER, WITALAM IL CANTLY, PURDY, CLARK, REMINGTON & STEAR D, ORBISON, NEWCOMI KALES. Also references to patent smut machines and AMERICAN HOTEL Madison area and Old Ocean medicine practice. A verse extols moral and religious themes.
An account of the siege of Murany in Transylvania where Maria, the young Protestant widow commanding the castle, defies Transylvanian forces until parley and cunning strategy by General Wesselenyi lead to a dramatic fall, illustrating chivalry era intrigue and royal ambitions.
In a midnight test of love and duty, Wesselenyi enters the northern tower to woo a formidable commandress. Captured and offered freedom plus vast wealth if he deserts, he refuses, declaring death preferable to betrayal. Maria reveals herself, granting him her hand and possessions as reward for constancy.
A narrator visits Mary in her new Indy home and admires the wife and baby. Yet Mary confesses struggles with housekeeping while the narrator recalls her own past neglect and finds resolve in cleaning two stew pans as a turning point toward diligent, prompt domestic work.
In Blakewood for November a German professor Stahl’s account portrays Louis Napoleon with a dull gray brown look and unmeaning face. The figure is depicted as vain yet morally wavering, shifting identities, lacking fixed principles, and shaped by fortune. He appears modest yet egotistical, with opium use and a restrained, unreadable gaze.
Kostrin writes to a committee claiming a 30 000 dollar Hungary grant and a 40 000 muskets contract at two dollars each He opposes lavish banquet and parade spending saying funds could have advanced his mission The Brace Swan is gaining fame as a singing progress in Albany crowds continue to cheer in public venues
A fragmented, antiquated excerpt surveys Voltaire as polished yet ignorant on ancient learning, with Mahamedel Talmond claiming a philosopher should ease mankind’s misery. It lilts into admonitions against gossip, moral conduct, and disdain for scandal, via aphorisms and stray quotations from observers and poets.
The audience of about twenty two hundred packed the Brougham Lyceum last evening for Mrs Porvess first appearance in the play The School for Scandal. She entered to cheers and her performance showed both courage and emotion, earning wide admiration despite rough crowding and some stage tension.
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