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Newspaper
The Weekly Comet
Location
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1854
Page
4
A collage of 19th century dispatches and notices includes agricultural fair reports, river news, politics, aerials on Cuban purchase fears, local elections, industrial machinery, and scattered world updates. It mixes gossip with alleged letters, thefts, and curiosities, reflecting a bustling, fragmentary post on Dec 91 1964.
The article explains Fahrenheit's temperature scale origins from a snow salt mix and notes a 180 degree range from freezing to boiling. It then reports a major fire consuming all Richmond Virginia penitentiary workshops on the 7th with an estimated 50 000 dollar loss and prisoner evacuations under guard. the penitentiary had burned previously on August 9 1823.
A garbled page blends rhapsodic phrases with anti Mormon rhetoric about Brigham Young and Utah. It shifts to a Missouri dispatch on slave captors, a Bank of Columbus suit, a New York petition for Beale’s pardon, and a San Francisco Chinese language issue.
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