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Newspaper
Weekly Times
Location
Dubuque, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1859
Page
6
The article blends a whimsical wheelbarrow contest with health advice from Hall’s Journal of Health. It recounts racers near Phalanx New Blindsidel and a Beadle Beadle staging anecdote, then shifts to cautions on ice water and fevers, and ends with travel and societal reflections.
Eyewitness account by Mewar J. Haltivtion from the New York Times describes the battlefield aftermath near Castiglione. The wounded crowd the streets and church, with officers carried on donkeys and carts as surgeons tend horrific injuries and battle chaos over many hours.
A young man James Steavens astonished a respectable audience with dangerous acts at the Melodeon on Thursday. He stuck pins into his skin, drove an awl through his wrist, and appeared to pass a blade through his leg and cheek without serious harm. Promoters claimed no deception, offered $1000 for causing pain, and invited audience members to inspect his knives.
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