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Detroit Free Press
Thursday, 18 August 1859

         Dead -
         
         JOE BLOSSOM is dead. He died miserably, the victim
       of an ungovernable appetite. JOE'S life in this county
       for at least a quarter of a century is well known. Let
       it be a study to those who may profit by it. When he
       was a boy, his father kept the best hotel in Tecumseh.
       JOE was married and had a large family of children.
       Within the past year he made a resolute effort to master
       his passion for stimulating drinks, and was able for
       several months to keep himself from them, but his habit
       - his second nature - again asserted its supremacy, and
       last Thursday it was found necessary to place him under
       restraint, - he was taken to jail, and there, on Friday
       evening, after a scene scarcely less heartrending than
       if he had died of hydrophobia, death came and relieved
       him from his thralldom.
        - Adrian Watchtower, Aug. 15
        
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