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Newspaper
Weekly Wisconsin
Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1847
Page
3
An extended fragmentary verse voice laments lost love and distance. It shifts through dreamlike landscapes and lyrical musings while invoking distant places and emotional states. The text blends archaic and modern diction, with interruptions and garbled phrases reflecting a damaged source.
In a theater lobby a Yankee named Dickenson and French officer M. O Lorme quarrel over a woman. The duel, fought with swords, ends when O Lorme is mortally wounded by Dickenson who then vows to avoid further duels. Dickenson later reflects on the death and renounces such confrontations.
An 1847 JaLara journal entry praises Jalapa and surrounding Mexico. It contrasts abundant farm produce and lush scenery with idle urban life, notes courteous Mexican women toward Americans, and details architecture, churches, and a vibrant market. It also records a Mexican officer's funeral, street beggars, and daily street life amid U S military presence.
A fragmented 1847 dispatch outlines Minnesota territory boundaries and compares its size to Maine Great Britain France New York and Pennsylvania. It notes Lake Superior navigation benefits and the Red River of the North border. The tale shifts to anecdotes on benevolence and a Baltimore merchant's revival, plus Civil War era militia exploits and a Mexico campaign report detailing Col Doniphan and Capt Reed defeating Lipans near Par us Rancho del Poco and the Mississippi regiment farewell to Gen Taylor with emotional parting scenes.
The Allgemeine Zeitung notes a grim wave of German emigration passing Cologne on April 9. Families cry at the quay while mothers seek to comfort crying children and many abandon their possessions to fit aboard crowded steamers. Caravans from Hesse Baden and Württemberg grow, goods increase, and emigrants head to New York and Milwaukee with courage and cheer.
Five Missouri volunteers ordered to establish military posts on the Oregon route near Grand Island and Fort Laritche with lands bought from Indians and forts stocked for the stations. Also notices on telegraph line damage in Albany, a probate order in Milwaukee, stray cattle, real estate ads, mail contracts, and a general call for Wisconsin road-route passenger service bids and land warrants for Mexican War veterans.
London letter reports Mincemer Aisis performing feats with drawing, road work, canal digging and more as the populace fills derelict areas and builds villages. A curious revenue scheme is alleged to emerge from fine fines wrapped in ancient copper. calculations claim twenty one fashions of dress. Also noted is a $15,000 judgment in Philadelphia against the Bank of Kentucky favoring Lastae Costas for assisting in obtaining the varden of the absconding cash in the Sceluuelkill bank affair.
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