01 Nov 1854
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Newspaper
Sauk County Standard
Location
Baraboo, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1854
Page
1
A dated verse laments the death of a dog named Towser. It describes the carcass found on Court Street and censures poisoning. The speaker condemns the cowardly act and recalls the town’s reaction at the dock with somber imagery.
A rambling Albany State Register piece extols cheer amid misfortune and recalls rural pastimes. It jokes about fortune, labor, cider making, and apple parings, contrasting hard life with hopeful humor and nostalgic country scenes featuring Margins and Steuben.
A circus near a town staged a drunken rider bit that drew the county sheriff into the ring. The sheriff ordered the intruder ejected but found the performer was a bona fide actor, prompting a playful retreat and a comic apology from the ring master. Audience roars followed as the act collapsed into farce and laughter. The piece ends noting Ireland's famine emigration lowering its population from seven to five million.
Whitling Evans shows off as a neighbor when Platt Evans confronts him on a counter top. A man with a knife nicked the mahogany plank and cut the tail from Whitling’s coat. Platt jokes that the piece may be sewn back, while Evans departs in high dudgeon.
A grand review extols a forthcoming immense history of the Western Hemisphere edited by a leading author. The work promises rich illustrations by Darley Billings Wallin and Despler and coloring via a patent process, binding in morocco with marble edges. Publishers Ayton & Wentworth of Boston claim it will have the widest sale of any US historical volume.
Washington Sentinel reports chaotic San Francisco streets with rapid motion and danger as pedestrians and animals flood the avenues. A pile driver incident injures a pedestrian while stores and amusements appear bustling amid a blur of activity and stray advertising.
A chaotic snippet describes a Boston woman refusing to travel to Tennessee for love or money, a fiery confrontation in an editor’s office, a car fire, and questions about who would guard duty and attend church after a drunken argument. The fragment hints at a scandalous tale of romance and danger in a newspaper town.
A Cincinnati Commercial recounts an odd hunting tale on the Miaminy riverbank. An old hunter fires at a deer across the water and a fish leaps up, catching the ball in its gills. the fish dies, and the hunter’s shot supposedly sails through to strike the deer, with the ball allegedly piercing a vase and glowing like gold in the water.
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