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Newspaper
Wisconsin Argus
Location
Madison, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1844
Page
4
The article explains how air and moisture weather rocks surface formations, creating valleys and varied rock shapes. It covers chemical weathering, the role of oxygen and acids, and then surveys volcanoes and earthquakes, detailing global distribution from Europe’s Sicily to the Americas and Asia with notable peaks and regions.
The article surveys global volcanoes with Peru home to the tallest peaks Pichincha Cotopaxi and Antisana, and notes many volcanoes cluster near coasts plus submarine vents. It then recounts a dangerous fire damp explosion at Pottsville mines, a rescue, and a long Brooklyn fire incident with Edward Canning. It also covers rail and political pieces, including antipathy toward Whig rhetoric and a Brooklyn high life theft tale.
Subscribers of the proposed Democratic newspaper at the Territory seat urge the Democracy to back a central organ. They argue a unified press aids party prosperity, informs legislators, and binds the territory with sound principles, promising the paper will live with fodder or no fodder and seeking advance subscriptions.
The Argus will be published weekly on Thursdays with the first issue on August 22. Subscriptions cost two dollars to mail and office subscribers, two dollars and fifty cents for village subscribers, and three dollars if not paid in advance. Simeon Mills, John Y. Smith, Benjamin Holl. August 12, 1644.
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