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Newspaper
Van Wert Weekly Bulletin
Location
Van Wert, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1868
Page
4
A poetic fragment contemplates surrender of fate and future to a beloved. The speaker seeks color and form for their life through the beloved, urging caution and soul searching before risking everything for love.
The Minnie Gordon brought the captor and two seamen from the wrecked Moses Waring of New York. The crew, frostbitten and starving after seven days adrift, were saved by Captain Leslie and his crew who treated them in a warm cabin and provided food and stimulants. The Moses Waring foundered December 11 off Absecom after taking on water in a northeast gale.
Deacon Ingalls of Swampscot Massachusetts encounters Pat an Irish newcomer seeking his brother in western New York. Pat challenges the Protestant service miscalling it heresy and, after a loud whisper altercation, belts a deacon, dragging him from the pew and out the church with a kick as the pastor pleads for order.
Letters discuss Gideon Welles and 400 marines guarding the President, with calls to join “Gideon’s Band.” The page includes social commentary on minstrelsy, sugar production, a near-fatal crime in Ohio, a pun about a widow, a war appointments note, a historic watch gift to Sherman, and a whisky forfeiture decree in Ohio.
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