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Newspaper
Weekly Jeffersonian
Location
Jefferson, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1860
Page
1
A nostalgic verse portrays a mother hearing her children approach at night. The three daughters Alice Allegra and Edith are described as entering like an army, climbing to the narrator s fortress and showering kisses. The speaker imagines guarding them inside a fortress dungeon forever and then a final line about dust and time.
A woman's wish for leisure sparks Mrs. Arden’s window view of spring. Mr. Arden muses on tenderness, domestic strain, and the garden as respite amid marital friction. The scene shifts to reflections on urban life, marriage duties, and a long historical note on Ohio’s growth and colonial era questions.
An old man counsels that true friendship grows like crops not quickened by expedients. A London mechanic built a three foot burning glass melting steel and platina by concentrating sun rays, drawing notice from science and art circles. Star: we are commanded to love the whole world, though couples sometimes split affection by gender.
A perilous voyage in sultry seas unfolds as the ship stalked by a shark. Tensions erupt between the Portingallo and Zanga the cook, culminating in a brutal scene as the navigator is slain, the voyage darkened by murder and the sharks closing in under a moonlit tropic night.
An American shipboard scene unfolds as a black sailor named Zanga strangles the white man’s efforts to save a boy who falls overboard. Sharks close in as the crew cries out in fury and despair. The boat sinks, a lone survivor recounts four days of hurricane and the ship’s foundering.
A fragmentary scene of a young couple preparing for a Christmas party opens with a plea about restraint the husband ignores. The text shifts to legal notices and property descriptions in Jefferson County from Wisconsin, with scattered quips and moral lines about manners, mischief, and travel.
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