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Newspaper
Shawano County Journal
Location
Shawano, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Feb 28, 1867
Page
1
Fragment of a humorous verse tale in a Californian’s epistolary voice. It imitates Poeish rhyme as a teller recounts a comedic mishap after a kiss provokes a wild fall and a muddy escape, ending with a hurried marriage. The piece blends whimsy and slang in a playful narrative.
Authentic history recounts Pocahontas intervening to save Captain John Smith from execution by Powhatan. Smith, early Virginia settler and Jamestown founder, faced death as Indians gathered with a punitive club. A dramatic moment erupts as Pocahontas shields him and halts the offering, altering his fate and the colony’s perception.
Fragment from a Springfield Farmers Club record recalls Powhatan urging mercy for Captain Smith during a heated Virginia confrontation. The piece notes Smith’s founding of Virginia’s first families, Pocahontas’s voyage, and later reflections on women’s duties and household labor in colonial America. It weaves in essays from Mrs. Daniel Rice about daily tasks and the enduring value of women’s labor.
The Idaho Statesman recounts a December 26 engagement between Gen. Crook’s column and Sioux and allied Indians. Crook crossed to the Owyhee country starting December 21, advancing through fog and ravines, then charged a ridge fight resulting in 25 to 30 enemy killed, 29 horses and mules captured, and 25 wickiups burned. Sergeant O'Toole was mortally wounded. Capt. Perry led charges and pursuit as Crook organizes a Malheur expedition.
A Honolulu Advertiser report recounts Captain Adams aboard the bark Marina Sea docking a massive boiler to float near a reef off Lahaina. After a struggle over whether it was anchored, the captain cast the boiler away, hoping to reach Lahaina, but the boiler vanished, with searches yielding nothing as a new boiler valued at 2500 dollars disappeared at sea. A separate California tale describes a pistol duel staged for a lady, where a revived gunman marries after the ruse.
An eighteenth year-old newspaper from Colima reports a brutal case where a curate forced a payment. A man discovers the woman who is his mother, embraces her, and an arrest follows. The husband is imprisoned for allegedly murdering his wife.
An old clipping mixes notes on North Carolina tea culture with a fraud report from New York. It recalls a woman drying and pressing tea leaves using a cast iron evaporator and charcoal fire, then pivots to a New York swindle where a jewel thief deceives shopkeepers by substituting a package and escaping with valuable pieces.
The Nashville Times reports a brutal armed incident in Pat County where a husband and wife attempted to drive a Union family from their home. Twenty pistol shots were fired, the sheriff and deputies could not enforce laws, and calls grow for local militia to prevent a slide into widespread violence amid racial tensions and threats by groups allied with the poorer whites.
A disjointed report describes a conspiracy by rebel citizens including Cannon White and Warren to assassinate leading Union officers in the Third Congressional District. Rewards totaling thousands of dollars are listed for the capture or killing of named targets, with an additional $1,000 offered by a rebel resident near Alexandria for Captain Vannatta. The passage also notes unrest and labor distress in London and broader sympathy with harsh weather impacts.
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