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About
the South Danvers Wizard
Overview:
Jan.- July 1864
About
South Danvers (Peabody), Massachusetts
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South Danvers Wizard, 4/13/1864,
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SLEIGHING IN APRIL – “We would say for the information of our readers
in other latitudes (we don’t pretend their number is very great) that there
was very tolerable sleighing in our streets yesterday morning, though it
lasted only a few hours. But a few hours’ sleighing, however, at
this season, after our farmers have begun to plant pease and potatoes,
is not unworthy of mention and of ungrateful remembrance.”
South Danvers Wizard, 4/13/1864, p. 2/3
WILD GEESE – “These periodical emigrants seem to have been sadly misled
by their generals this Spring. There must be some confusion in their
counsels. They commenced their Spring campaign too early, and have
had to make a hasty passage back to their Southern retreats, or perish
in the cold weather that has prevailed for the past few weeks on our Northern
borders. We have seen several flocks mournfully wending their way
back to warmer climes to await more settled weather. As they passed
over our heads by moonlight, we observed that they gabbled most earnestly,
and we thought they seemed to be finding fault with their leaders who had
led them so foolishly into enemy’s country without providing for their
subsistence - but perhaps we imagined this!”
South Danvers Wizard, 5/11/1864, p. 2/1
WARM DAY – “Last Friday the mercury ranged from 70 to 80 in the shade,
and from 80 to 90 in the sun, - the warmest day of the season thus far.”
South Danvers Wizard, 6/29/1864, p. 2/7
“On Saturday and Sunday the mercury was up to 100 degrees in the shade.
The editor of the Newburyport Herald was refreshed by seeing how
cool a boy kept himself by reading Dr. Kane’s account of the immense icebergs
in the Arctic seas.” |
