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Newspaper
Whitewater Register
Location
Whitewater, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1857
Page
1
A historic verse about Frances, an English factory girl, praising her beauty and virtue. The poem image centers on Frances's radiance, gentle wisdom, and loving nature, contrasted with shadows and fate as time passes. A sentimental tribute to a beloved figure.
A wide excerpt surveys seventeenth and eighteenth century English elections with vivid detail. It highlights riotous campaigns in Westminster, sailing crowds, bribery, and court influence. It also notes the Duchess of Devonshire and Queen Anne’s court, and recounts later reminiscences on Shakespearean history and political bias.
In Portland area a large mansion yielded a surprising discovery as bees swarmed from unused chimney flues. A naturalist reported honey dripping from one flue and uncovered bone-filled combs reaching to the top, with bees industriously at work. Police estimate 40,000 bees and several thousand pounds in honey, kept warm by adjacent flues for years.
The piece questions the ideal wife by listing traits that disqualify a woman from marriage. It ridicules vanity, luxury, neglect of domestic duties, flirtation, snobbery, and lack of devotion while contrasting a good wife with a life focused on family, husband, and children. It functions as moral instruction from a period voice.
An editorial passage cites Everett praising dead heroes who shaped the nation and refuse to die, then notes the sale of swamp lands in Manitowoc County with thousands of acres sold at two to six dollars per acre and warnings that investors must soon double their money. The piece ends with a garbled line about ROW Geisrsld being dangerously ql.
A New Bedford joke unfolds with a visiting young woman from Massachusetts and a merchant. She buys fifty pounds of spermaceti candles in a playful bargain and exits, carrying the box as if it were a baby. The column also notes a fatal shooting involving a child, a brutal domestic assault, fake one dollar bills circulating, Kansas population estimates, and a satirical closing remark about Canaries and parrots.
A verbose Civil War era narrative recalls a slave servant protecting a young master among Mexican War dead, then shifts to a petty theft confession. The piece blends heroic recollection with social satire on liquor licenses and moral judgments, via several short anecdotes and portraits.
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