14 Oct 1865
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Newspaper
Seattle Weekly Gazette
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1865
Page
1
An eclectic essay blends home beauty guidance with verse on gardens and domestic solace. It urges neat simple cottages amid trees and flowers, and interleaves sentimental poetry about willows and nature with humorous local anecdotes from a railway station mishap.
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The text describes the Great Western Express to Exeter speed at 60 mph and 35 yards per second, with passing train scenarios and engine details including wheel diameter and puff frequency. It shifts to Ruskin on pines in alpine cliffs, then reports Ochotsk Sea cod trade growth and a hurricane impact on Pacific islands, followed by Maximilian Mexican policy notes and a kitchen door joke.
A Mississippi private letter reports militia members refuse any muster under a flag but the state banner. It also notes an ex-rebel gang formed in Vicksburg to hinder federal officers.
Fragmentary anecdotes from a 19th century page recount a cadet’s secret marriage, a stern professor, a court action, and a dismissal. The tale blends humor with moral consequence as a cadet faces sanction while other snippets touch on farming tips, medical quackery, and social commentary of the era.
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