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Newspaper
Wisconsin Argus
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1850
Page
2
An extended, garbled OCR of a period newspaper page mixes names, places, dates, and events. It references speeches, votes, officials, legal actions, and various social notes, but the text is fragmented and difficult to parse into a single coherent story. The readable elements hint at parliamentary items, local notices, and society mentions without clear resolutions.
A massive early morning fire devastated Steward's factory and spread across Main Street in Buffalo. Winds drove flames across Clinton Street destroying 12 to 14 tenements and threatening nearby properties, with Lafayette Street church also ablaze amid great alarm. Fire department efforts were heroic as water shortages and high winds hampered containment while several ships arrived to aid and local markets noted a revival in trade.
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