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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1861
Page
1
A rambling miscellany lampoons war weary life and gender roles. A letter-writer mocks officers volunteers and domestic arts jokes while critiquing public sentiment and etiquette. The piece blends humor with sharp social commentary on home front life.
The article relates Solomon Sturges at a depot near Urbana exchanging a gold pencil with a polite stranger for four dollars after claiming it cost three. He boasts the item equates to a twenty dollar pencil and pockets eleven dollars in supposed profit. Solomon suspects the pawned pencil was misvalued and warns against trading with polite strangers stakes.
Reports from Nganking describe a brutal siege by imperial forces. Starvation and cannibalism followed as defenders held out, while surrendering rebel regiments were executed en route to prison.
The narrator recounts a voyage to Cape Town on a ship Mary Jane and encounters Captain Horne of the Tynes and a Yankee skipper hiding six horses aboard a brigantine bound for the Bonny via Benin. A court case unfolds after a search finds the illegal cargo and slaves, leading to the vessel's condemnation.
Fragmentary report recounts a royal court scene in Berlin where a princess and a future emperor exchange hints of marriage. A ring pressed into bread reveals a hidden inscription, linking the empress to a future union. Colonel Boone remarks on poorly equipped troops at Bull Run, tracing the chaos to bad gear and a comment on canal projects.
A fragmentary historical meditation traces oysters from ancient Rome and Greece to Britain and Scotland, noting luxury status, cultivation, beds in rivers and bays, economic and social facets, and a humorous aside on editors and drinking culture of the era.
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