Lincoln Douglas Debates Freeport Question Driven by Lincoln
A historic overview of the Lincoln Douglas debates centering on the Freeport question asked by Abraham Lincoln and answered by Stephen A. Douglas on August 27, 1858 in Freeport Illinois. The piece traces the stakes the rivals faced and how the exchange shaped national events including the rise of Lincoln and the path to the Civil War.
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Stephen A. Douglas
Freeport
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Supreme Court
Illinois
Lincoln
Quincy
Douglas
Senate
Sinois
Ottawa
Union
Kansas
Abe
Congress
Territories
United States Supreme Court
Republican Party
Bloomington
Springfield
Dred Scott
Chicago
Jonesboro
Charleston
Galesburg
Alton
General Assembly
Freeport, Ill
The Perilous Fire From Metallic Sodium on a Stranded Freighter
A French freighter named Hardy departed Le Treport with mineral water and wooden cases marked metallic sodium. In rough seas the cases ruptured and sodium ignited on contact with water. Explosions multiplied as more cases opened, forcing the crew to abandon ship before a final detonation split the vessel and sank it.
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le Treport
France
Japan Adopts Baseball as National Pastime Gains in Island Nation
A traveling Japanese mechanic notes baseball’s rise in Japan where the sport has flourished and become widespread. He observed Japanese balls are handmade with no advanced manufacturing machinery yet and recalls two university teams once touring the United States to play American nines.
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Japan
United States
America
Car dealer brag turns into a joke on appearance
Joe Hawkins of the Auto Sales company shows a six cylinder car to a couple on Meridian street. An engine misfire prompts Hawkins to joke that a spark plug is broken. The wife replies that the cylinders are under the hood anyway and missing one will never show.
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Joe Hawkins
Meridian Street
Hawkins
Indianapolis News
Catalogue without prices spurs museum debate
A man complains the art museum catalogue is useless as it lacks prices. His wife asks if he plans to buy, and the man insists appreciation requires knowing prices. The exchange appears in the Boston Transcript.
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Boston Transcript
Parental Diffidence in Farmhouse Parlor
In a humorous exchange Farmer Corntessel admits his son seems so certain of his own knowledge that the parent body hesitates to speak up. The remark illustrates a playful generational gap in a rural setting.
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Farmer Corntessel
Alimony Advice Comes With Simple Truths
A friend asks how a man can avoid alimony. The lawyer answers with a blunt joke: he can stay single or stay married, highlighting the humor in legal gray areas around alimony.
Giles Learns Hard Truth About Life
Giles, living with an ill grandmother, returns home dirty and neglected. She laments her inability to care for him while the boy declares obstinately that she should see "the other guys" to understand the world.
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Giles
Army tennis championship at Cannes prompts quip
American officers arriving for the Cannes army tennis championship were asked to report to organizer Colonel Johnson. One competitor, when greeted, asked if he was a tennis player and replied that he believed so since orders compelled him to prove it.
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Cannes
Johnson
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